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Â鶹ÊÓƵ is celebrating its first half-century as an independent institution and setting the tone for the next 50 years with a yearlong celebration that includes a week of festivities in April.

In December 2021, before the close of the fall semester, Â鶹ÊÓƵ students participating in the College of Science’s Biology Undergraduate Research Semester presented their research in the Hub Ballroom.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ alum and author Kelli Jo Ford, MFA Creative Writing '07, is the recipient of one of this year's National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships in Creative Writing.

Alan Byrd joined Â鶹ÊÓƵ as its dean of admissions in November 2020.

When graduating psychology major Dorothea J. Tyree attends Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Winter Graduation on Dec. 16, she will be wearing a stole that shows the flags of her native Romania and Germany, where she lived as a teen.

With the support of a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers Vivian Motti and Anya Evmenova have developed a smartwatch application that will help improve the daily lives of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Award-winning novelist Priyanka Champaneri is returning to the classroom this week as part of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Visiting Writers Series.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ doctoral students LeNaya Crandall Hezel and Lt. Col. Michelle Ruehl are part of the 2021 class of Tillman Scholars, named in honor of Pat Tillman, the former NFL star who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 while serving with the U.S. Army Rangers.

In recognition of the National First-Generation College Celebration on Nov. 8, Â鶹ÊÓƵ celebrates the successes of its first-generation students and alumni.

Robinson Professor James Trefil, who is the third Â鶹ÊÓƵ faculty member to reach the milestone of 50 years of service, taught at the University of Virginia for more than a decade before joining Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s then brand-new Robinson Professor Program in 1987.