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More than 150 faculty and graduate students from �鶹��Ƶ’s 10 schools and colleges got together in the Hub on Friday, February 3, to chat about artificial intelligence (AI).

Faculty, staff, and students from three units across �鶹��Ƶ have worked together to create a new VR experience so elementary students can take a “field trip” to the �鶹��Ƶ apiary and learn from an expert beekeeper.

For almost 10 years, Melissa Cannarozzi has worked in �鶹��Ƶ’s Office of University Branding. She has spent half that time taking classes part-time and working on a master of arts in history.

Student entrepreneurs Arastalis B. Choudhury and Fariha Askar and their company NECX are part of the MIX's incubator program.

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

When �鶹��Ƶ alum Miriam Van Scott was working as a freelance writer in the mid-1990s, she was researching an article about the afterlife and realized what she needed was a compendium of all things related to the hell—so she wrote one.

On Friday, October 7, �鶹��Ƶ dedicated a Virginia historic site and celebrated the university–community partnership that helped preserved it.

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.