March 4, 2022On Sept. 3, 2010, during Welcome Week, more than 1,200 Â鶹ÊÓƵ students showed up to break the Guinness World Record for the world's largest dodgeball game.
March 2, 2022After 18 months of renovations, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Harris Theatre is once again open for performances.
March 1, 2022Â鶹ÊÓƵ has submitted its Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), "Transformative Education through Anti-Racist Community Engagement," to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), as part of its upcoming reaffirmation of accreditation.
March 1, 2022Â鶹ÊÓƵ honors its COVID-19 surveillance testing team for its efforts during the pandemic.
February 28, 2022There’s no shortage of creativity at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, and from March 11-13, students will accelerate innovation at the university’s annual hackathon. This year, two events will take place simultaneously: PatriotHacks, the signature hackathon focused on software programming, and HackOverFlow, a new hackathon with a focus on hardware engineering.
February 28, 2022Fairfax County Police are scheduled to land a helicopter on the Fairfax Campus at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 2.
February 28, 2022Robinson Professor of Physics James Trefil is a huge proponent of science literacy and has written extensively about science for a lay audience. With his colleague, Robinson Professor of Earth Science Robert Hazen, he created and taught Great Ideas in Science, a popular course for nonscience majors.
February 25, 2022In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Homecoming at Â鶹ÊÓƵ centered around soccer and was held in the fall. Here you see Homecoming King Archie Kao, BA Speech Communication '92, with Homecoming Queen Christina Bartlow and President George Johnson.
February 23, 2022The conflict in Ukraine the world is observing now is nothing new to Anton Liagusha.
When gun-brandishing, Russia-backed separatists took over the Donetsk National University in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2014, the country’s prime minister hastily relocated the school to a new campus in Vinnytsia, 20 hours away by train. Now the disused former diamond cutting factory is the site of a university that is, technically, in exile.
February 23, 2022Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s positivity rate – the percentage of those being tested who are positive for COVID-19 –remains consistently far below the 4 percent threshold, at 0.38 percent. This success, combined with Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s 95-percent overall vaccination rate, as well as the continued overall drop in COVID-19 spread throughout the region and nation, now make the pivot to optional mask-wearing more viable.
