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As a sophomore, electrical engineering major Sai Srivatsav Gutala started a student club called the Inventors and Innovations Team (IIT) with one of his classmates, computer engineering major Nicholas Paschke.

It has been busy year at the �鶹��Ƶ Innovation Exchange (MIX). Since the �鶹��Ƶ makerspace opened in its new space in Horizon Hall in September 2021, it has seen a lot of traffic—more than 9,000 visitors in spring 2022—and has some successes to report.

�鶹��Ƶ School of Dance students collaborate with Doug Varone and Dancers in upcoming performances

A �鶹��Ƶ PhD candidate’s cybersecurity business won $50,000 from Pharell Williams’ Black Ambition prize contest. The contest being hosted in her hometown “put the icing on the cake.” 

The NSF Research Traineeship Program program was established in 2019 with a five-year grant of nearly $3 million from the National Science Foundation and is preparing an interdisciplinary, community-engaged STEM workforce with the expertise necessary for cross-disciplinary collaboration.

For cultural studies PhD student Maillim “May” Santiago, the horror genre presents a way to find the strength to fight life’s difficult battles and accept her true self.

�鶹��Ƶ’s Native American and Indigenous Alliance (NAIA) works each semester to foster a sense of community for �鶹��Ƶ’s Native and non-Native students. But the month of November is an especially busy time for this student organization.

Paul Deller and Michael Harris are part of a cohort of 11 Marine Corps officers attending �鶹��Ƶ through the Congressional Fellowship Program, which gives Marines opportunities for professional development that include working on Capitol Hill for one year and enrollment in �鶹��Ƶ’s graduate public policy program.

Seven-term U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly visited the Schar School’s Democracy Lab. Here’s what the students learned.

�鶹��Ƶ freshmen Pranay Yella and Pranav Reddippali were on the team that took second place at the �鶹��Ƶ/Amazon 2022 Bring Down Counterfeiting Public Policy Hackathon.

The passage of Title IX in 1972 also marked the beginning of athletic opportunities for women at �鶹��Ƶ. �鶹��Ƶ's first women's sport—tennis—started its inaugural season in 1972-73.

A team of �鶹��Ƶ students held a bat box-building workshop as their capstone project in the Sustainability in Action class.