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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.

When Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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, Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ information technology students.

The summer program, co-sponsored by Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Quantum Science and Engineering Center (QSEC) and the nonprofit Potomac Quantum Innovation Center, brought together rising high school seniors from around the region to learn about quantum and STEM-related careers from researchers at leading universities and in the industry.

In her latest book, Victoria Grady delves into 20 years of research on how people—and their brains—react to change in the workplace and beyond.

On June 8, 2022, officers from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Police and Public Safety Department and the City of Fairfax Police Department ran a two-mile loop on Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Fairfax Campus as a part of the Law Enforcement Torch Run® for Special Olympics Virginia.

The 15 students in the special topics class Facial Reconstruction started the semester with a generic plastic skull. Week by week, they sculpted different parts of their own faces, creating a portrait of themselves in clay and learning the forensic skills needed to put a face on a skull.

In April, Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor Mohamed Gebril took a team of students to Commonwealth Cyber Initiative's BattleDrones Competition.

Dominique Dowling's passion to advocate for young minds both inside and outside the classroom led Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Alumni Association to name her the 2022 Senior of the Year.