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�鶹��Ƶ Facilities has installed 23 Bigbelly zero waste stations on the Fairfax and �鶹��Ƶ Square campuses. These solar-powered stations support �鶹��Ƶ’s recycling and composting goals through their user-friendly design, technology upgrades, and capacity-based alerts. 

A collaboration between �鶹��Ƶ and the Inova Health System is yielding new approaches to determine the likelihood of organ rejection in young heart transplant recipients.

�鶹��Ƶ School of Dance professor Lawrence Jackson and students attended the International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance in January 2024.

Did you meet the love of your life while at �鶹��Ƶ? In honor of Valentine’s Day, we are featuring couples who met during their time on �鶹��Ƶ’s campus. Take a look at the romance stories of �鶹��Ƶ alumni, faculty and staff.

�鶹��Ƶ Competitive Cyber continues a winning tradition with a series of wins at CyberForge conference.

�鶹��Ƶ has joined more than 200 of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) stakeholders to participate in a Department of Commerce initiative to support the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI.

Six whirlwind months as a visiting professor on a Fulbright fellowship at the Schar School helped sinologist Gundumella Venkat Raman teach, learn, and make connections in Washington, D.C.

Two �鶹��Ƶ faculty members received year-long grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), part of 260 grants worth $33.8 million from the NEH this year for humanities projects across the country.

Audiences at the Hylton Center will soon see a unique name adorning the halls of the Education and Rehearsal Wing. An anonymous donor has recently included the Hylton Center in their estate plans, and as such, the Hylton Center has recognized their outstanding generosity by naming the first of two classrooms in the Education and Rehearsal Hall the “Koko H. Beetle Classroom.”

The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Northern Virginia Node (CCI NoVa Node) is preparing for the third iteration of its Cybersecurity Traineeship Program, which offers a seven-week course to Virginia residents interested in pivoting into the cybersecurity sector followed by career support from �鶹��Ƶ and Northern Virginia Community College professionals.

A newfound passion convinced Ruthu Josyula to pursue a government and international politics major at the Schar School.

Carter School Dean Alpaslan Özerdem recently returned from a peacebuilding initiative in South Sudan, where he was a guest of the Minister of Peacebuilding Stephen Par Kuol and NewGen Peacebuilders’ Executive Director Patricia Shafer.