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While most students were taking a break from their studies this summer, the student managers of Patriot Real Estate Funds raised $1.25 million for the second student-managed real estate investment fund at �鶹��Ƶ. The Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship (CREE) at the School of Business established the initial student-managed real estate investment fund in 2018 to provide students of the Masters in Real Estate Development (MRED) program  a unique experiential learning opportunity. With real money raised from outside investors, this is one of only a few similar programs offered at universities across the country, and allows students the chance to study, recommend, and manage investments in commercial real estate properties in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area.

�鶹��Ƶ really wasn't on the radar for University Scholar Charly Dutton until she took a campus tour.

For Sophia Nguyen and Celine Apenteng, �鶹��Ƶ’s new student body president and vice president, respectively, accountability to their fellow students is paramount.

This summer �鶹��Ƶ seniors Mirella Guzman-Escobar and Jacques Lykes are interning in the office of the House Creative Services, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) at the U.S. House of Representatives.

Incoming University Scholar Dayana Cespedes-Mendoza has been familiar with �鶹��Ƶ for more than five years through her participation in �鶹��Ƶ’s Early Identification Program (EIP) for first-generation college-bound students, which she joined as an eighth grader.

�鶹��Ƶ incoming freshmen Jacie Hernandez, Linh Vu, and Neyda Gonzalez spent six weeks on campus this summer as a part of the Student Transition Empowerment Program (STEP)

Some Northern Virginia families will have free laptops in time for classes this fall, thanks to an enterprising group of �鶹��Ƶ information technology students.

Incoming freshman and nursing major Jennifer Owen, who works as an EMT with Purcellville Volunteer Rescue Squad, aspires to become a critical care nurse.

For all of her hard work with �鶹��Ƶ's NAACP chapter, rising senior Alaina Ruffin has been recognized with two national NAACP awards.

Colleen Forsee and �鶹��Ƶ alumna Carla Rocha are two out of 12 winners of Generation Hope’s “Our Campus, Our Voice” initiative, which challenged people to come up with ways to create more family-friendly college campuses.

Twenty �鶹��Ƶ students traveled to Spain this summer as part of a field study summer course called “Leadership Across Difference: Lessons from Medieval Spain.”

As town manager, �鶹��Ƶ alum India Adams-Jacobs oversees the day-to-day operations of Colonial Beach, Virginia.