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�鶹��Ƶ 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 �鶹��Ƶ as its dean of admissions in November 2020.

When graduating psychology major Dorothea J. Tyree attends �鶹��Ƶ’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, �鶹��Ƶ 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 �鶹��Ƶ’s Visiting Writers Series.

�鶹��Ƶ 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, �鶹��Ƶ celebrates the successes of its first-generation students and alumni.

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

It’s the stuff of nightmares and horror movies: Tiny estuarine mud crabs become infected with an invasive parasite that takes over their bodies and brains. But it isn’t fiction, and �鶹��Ƶ’s team of researchers is learning more about these invaders and how they impact the ecology of our region.

International graffiti artist TakerOne is working on a mural, “Fauna of Belmont Bay,” at �鶹��Ƶ’s Potomac Science Center in Woodbridge, Virginia.