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Senior Seung Gyo Kim recently spearheaded the inaugural Korean ArtPop Storytelling Workshop, bringing together more than 100 students from diverse backgrounds during Peace Week.

James W. “Jimmy” Hazel, JD ’84, has led a life of service to the Commonwealth of Virginia—and to �鶹��Ƶ. He recently added to his considerable legacy with a gift of $1 million for the Smithsonian-�鶹��Ƶ School of Conservation.

More than 250 people are working on the construction of the Fuse building at �鶹��Ƶ Square, including �鶹��Ƶ rising senior Leslie Hernandez. “It’s my way of giving back to my school and community,” said Hernandez, who is majoring in civil and infrastructure engineering in the College of Engineering and Computing.

George �鶹��Ƶ's Board of Visitors discussed the potential for a dedicated university center devoted to expanding academic programs and supports for former or current servicemembers and their families.

�鶹��Ƶ Police’s Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) teams supported the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) deployment to Appalachian Power in Ivanhoe, Virginia, over the weekend. The primary mission at Ivanhoe—between Carroll and Wythe counties—was to inspect two dams, built in 1912 and 1913, as well as the power distribution lines affiliated with them.

�鶹��Ƶ's College of Visual and Performing Arts celebrates a successful 2024 ARTS by George! raising more than $250,000 to support �鶹��Ƶ Arts. The evening featured Tony and Olivier Award winner Lea Salonga.

�鶹��Ƶ and �鶹��Ƶ Innovation Partners (MIP), a development consortium led by Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate, announce the first commercial tenant for Fuse at �鶹��Ƶ Square in Arlington, Virginia. The new tenant, Cybastion, is an American technology company that delivers world-class cybersecurity and digital enhancement solutions to accelerate digital transformation in emerging markets, especially Africa.

In July, Charles “Cully” Stimson, JD ‘92, was elected as rector of the �鶹��Ƶ Board of Visitors. A businessman and attorney, Stimson is the deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Senior Legal Fellow, manager of the National Security Law Program, and senior advisor to the president at The Heritage Foundation.

�鶹��Ƶ School of Education professor Jennifer Suh was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in support of her project “Framework for Integrating Technology for Equity (FIT for Equity).” Working with Suh as coprincipal investigator is Theresa Wills, also of the College of Education and Human Development.

In recognition of former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday on Oct. 1, �鶹��Ƶ’s Board of Visitors (BOV) voted to award President Carter an honorary doctor of humane letters.

Recent media reports about the Scalia Law School running budget deficits do not take into account the full measure of what is required to operate a highly competitive, top-ranked law school under current conditions.

Sometimes the most elegant solutions are the simplest, like using one waste product to eliminate another, such as used coffee grounds, called CoffeeBots, engineered in a �鶹��Ƶ laboratory.