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Food insecurity is something that Drew Bonner, a second-year sociology PhD student at �鶹��Ƶ, experienced before he knew what to call it.

Faculty and staff from the College of Engineering and Computing and the �鶹��Ƶ Innovation Exchange (MIX) hosted a toy-building event for Innovation Week that promotes engineering activities for a good cause.

In writing the Virginia Declaration of Rights, U.S. Founding Father George �鶹��Ƶ IV took a stand for individual rights. His ardent defense would later inform the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution’s Bill of Rights—documents critical for securing liberties. But a challenging irony rests in �鶹��Ƶ’s words versus his actions.

The first time Katherine Ashby saw her artwork installed at Gunston Hall, the historic home of U.S. Founding Father George �鶹��Ƶ IV, it was surreal. “I had never done something that felt that important or that had been installed physically,” the senior painting major from �鶹��Ƶ said.

�鶹��Ƶ’s new Youth Research Council (YRC) is a research partnership between the Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and �鶹��Ƶ’s Early Identification Program (EIP), which invites ninth through twelfth graders into the field of social science research.

When �鶹��Ƶ students sign up for Video Production for Social Change, they won’t just learn in a traditional classroom setting, they’ll make an impact in their community.

�鶹��Ƶ alumna remembers special gift from esteemed journalist Barbara Walters.

During winter break, fifty-three George �鶹��Ƶ students participated in three-week micro-internships via Break Through Tech DC’s Sprinternship program. 

In late September, 18 undergraduates from the Smithsonian-�鶹��Ƶ School of Conservation‘s (SMSC) Wildlife Ecology and Conservation program tagged monarch butterflies on their journey south to help researchers better understand their grand migration.

The combat veteran is director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Exercise Division (NED), an important position. But MPA student Shawn Lenore wants to learn how to do it better at the Schar School.

�鶹��Ƶ's Center for Culture, Equity and Empowerment put out a call for illustrators, painters, and graphic designers of all backgrounds to submit art on the theme of this year’s MLK Remembrance events of “Lighting the Pathway: Renewing, Reviving, Restoring and Remembering the Dream.”

The 40 �鶹��Ƶ students who traveled to Richmond for �鶹��Ƶ Lobbies on Jan. 26 shared their college experience with legislators and highlighted the need for increasing financial aid for �鶹��Ƶ students, increased funding per student, and increased staff and faculty salaries for the university to be more competitive in the Washington, D.C., metro area.