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�鶹��Ƶ’s School of Theater and the �鶹��Ƶ Players are presenting “The Originals” this week—a collection of new work featuring the school’s talented student playwrights.

With thousands of people and countless opportunities, there’s a lot to take in at Virginia’s largest public research university. To help �鶹��Ƶ students find community and boost their on-campus experience, Housing and Residence Life created Learning Communities (LC), where students with common interests live and learn together during the academic year. Democracy Lab is one of the newest LCs. More than 60 freshmen from the Schar School of Policy and Government are enrolled for its inaugural year.

During Hunter Kelly’s final semester at �鶹��Ƶ last spring, he took a 12-credit internship at the Nationals, which led to many long but productive days through spring training and beyond.

�鶹��Ƶ graduate student Christopher Frost decided to focus his independent study on helping the Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation Facility (WARF) to determine the needs of its community during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

�鶹��Ƶ Lighting the Way: Shelby Adams

�鶹��Ƶ women's soccer standout Dacheka Kolcum lends a helping hand to her native Haiti.

Freshman point guard Mike Gray is ready to achieve his goals on the basketball court and in the classroom.

University Scholars from �鶹��Ƶ explored the issues around online radicalization as part of the annual University Scholars Institute, a week-long in-depth seminar into a topic chosen by rising sophomores in the program.

We put out a call on social media for �鶹��Ƶ faculty, staff, and students to share their memories of Sept. 11, 2001. This is what they shared.

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America left an indelible mark on An Nguyen with the death of his father at the Pentagon, but the �鶹��Ƶ graduate student has overcome considerable hurdles to ensure that he honors his father every day by becoming the kind of young man his beloved father would have wanted.

�鶹��Ƶ alumna Shelley A. Marshall was in her office at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. A budget analyst in the comptroller's office of the Defense Intelligence Agency, she was scheduled to move to a new office on the other side of the building later that week.