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Dilafruz Khonikboyeva and her family won the Green Card Lottery while living through Tajikistan’s civil war, but they didn’t know about it until the years-long blockade was lifted in 1995. They crossed multiple battle lines to reach the U.S. consulate in Moscow. Luckily, even though their green cards had expired by the time they arrived, the U.S. government honored them, Khonikboyeva said.

More than 100 PhD students from electrical and bioengineering, data science, computer science, neuroscience and the social sciences, including some with disabilities, will be trained to use state-of-the-art data analytic methods and wearable computing technologies based on novel transdisciplinary competencies, applications and practice curriculum.

Karen Escobar took a seat in Fenwick Library on Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Fairfax Campus, cracked open a book and powered up her laptop.

Early enrollment figures for the 2019-20 academic year showing a record freshman class at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and better-than-expected results with both the ADVANCE and Wiley graduate programs.

How do you combat an overabundance of algae? Create a floating biological island. That’s what freshman Kennedy Ream did after attending the Washington Youth Summit on the Environment (WYSE) hosted by Â鶹ÊÓƵ, the National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo as a high schooler in 2018.

Northern Virginia is considered a dynamic tech-centric ecosystem critical to the state’s economy, and Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been tapped to play a key role to ensure it remains so.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ made a significant leap in the just-released 2020 World University Rankings by Times Higher Education.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ placed in the top 200 U.S. universities for the 2020 College Rankings by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Times Higher Ed (THE).

Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor Thomas Lovejoy was among five people honored by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Wednesday as 2019 Outstanding STEM Award recipients.

The presidential search committee held a listening session for students to engage with the process on September 3, 2019.

What began as a vacation to the United States became a permanent stay for Amini Bonane and her family when war broke out in their home country of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

There are multiple sides to every story. But when it comes to Eritrea, a country that’s been isolated due to 20 years of war and nine years of sanctions, much of their story hasn’t been told, said Carol Pineau, a former CNN journalist who reported live on the Eritrean-Ethiopian war and is a visiting scholar at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.