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A Â鶹ÊÓƵ team led by Alessandra Luchini and Lance Liotta has been named one of 10 Phase 1 winners of the LymeX Diagnostics Prize by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation.

It has been busy year at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Innovation Exchange (MIX). Since the Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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.

When Alissa Karton began working at Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 1996, the university looked like a very different place, with fewer residence halls, fewer students, and a reputation for being a commuter school.

For 35 years, Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Early Identification Program has been helping Northern Virginia middle and high school students prepare for their future college careers.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s first-generation students are no strangers to overcoming bias or barriers to attend college. Their remarkable tenacity keeps them striving for more.

As an undergraduate, Doni Nolan, BA Biology ’14, had no visions of a future profession until she visited the greenhouse on Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Fairfax Campus.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ alum Andrew Joseph White, who graduated with an MFA in creative writing in May, published his first young adult (YA) book, Hell Followed with Us, an LGBTQ post-apocalyptic horror story, less than a month later in June 2022.

As the director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Early Identification Program, Khaseem Davis works to ensure students have the tools they need to be successful—even in a pandemic.

Amy Sullivan loves her job as the head of preservation services at Â鶹ÊÓƵ's University Libraries, where she works to ensure the safety of items in the university’s libraries and collections.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Korea launched in Songdo, South Korea, in March 2014, as part of the Incheon Global Campus, a national project established by the Korean government and Incheon Metropolitan City to innovate the Korean education system and nurture the next generation of global leaders.