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�鶹��Ƶ graduate students helped the environment, nonprofit organizations and the local community with summer projects through the Sustainability Summer Graduate Research Fellowships. This summer marked the first time �鶹��Ƶ’s Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) has offered the fellowship program.

�鶹��Ƶ is among the top 10 most diverse and innovative public universities in the country, as well as top 10 in undergraduate cybersecurity, according to U.S. News & World Report’s “2023 Best Colleges List” rankings.

It’s common to think of Indigenous peoples as living in the past. We may think of them around Thanksgiving or in old films and books. But Native Americans are very much here and now, said Jeremy Campbell, and after decades of struggle, that’s starting to be recognized. In 2018, U.S. legislation granted federal recognition to six tribes in Virginia. A �鶹��Ƶ team has been partnering with two of them, the Upper Mattaponi and Chickahominy nations, as they embark on being sovereign nations.

�鶹��Ƶ Korea launched in Songdo, South Korea, in March 2014, as part of the Incheon Global Campus, a national project established by the Korean government and Incheon Metropolitan City to innovate the Korean education system and nurture the next generation of global leaders.

�鶹��Ƶ's Sang Nam has been working with game designers and developers in Tunis, Tunisia, as a Fulbright Specialist.

In an effort to expose students to some of the social and political problems of the vast Spanish-speaking world, �鶹��Ƶ’s Department of Modern and Classical Languages is hosting a Spanish Film Festival that is free and open to the public.

Schar School professor David K. Rehr is appointed to the board of Virginia Humanities.

As part of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, �鶹��Ƶ mental health leaders want to educate the campus community about the issues surrounding suicide and mental health, enabling Patriots to take part in suicide prevention, help others in crisis, and change the conversation around suicide.

This summer, as a Summer Impact project, a group of �鶹��Ƶ students designed and developed a pilot web-based archival application to organize documents relating to the victims of China’s Anti-“Rightist” Campaign in the 1950s.

High school girls lacrosse players who wear headgear are significantly less likely to sustain concussions, according to a landmark research project. �鶹��Ƶ professor Shane V. Caswell, along with other researchers, presented the three-year study earlier this semester at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ National Conference.

�鶹��Ƶ psychology professor Thalia Goldstein's Social Skills, Imagination, and Theater Lab primarily focuses on how children’s social and emotional development is impacted by their engagement in fictional worlds, including television and books.

A new study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will explore the intricacies and prevalence of the trafficking of human kidneys by illicit networks around the world, with the goal of disrupting the flow of the trafficking.