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February 6, 2023In late September, 18 undergraduates from the Smithsonian-Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Conservation‘s (SMSC) Wildlife Ecology and Conservation program tagged monarch butterflies on their journey south to help researchers better understand their grand migration.
December 1, 2022Ric Chollar helped give shape to Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s story of LGBTQ advocacy, one in which he insists there are many unsung heroes.
November 7, 2022Â鶹ÊÓƵ freshmen Pranay Yella and Pranav Reddippali were on the team that took second place at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ/Amazon 2022 Bring Down Counterfeiting Public Policy Hackathon.
November 4, 2022The passage of Title IX in 1972 also marked the beginning of athletic opportunities for women at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. Â鶹ÊÓƵ's first women's sport—tennis—started its inaugural season in 1972-73.
October 21, 2022Sylvia Schreiner is on a mission to record and help maintain the Yupik language on St. Lawrence Island, and she has the support of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant to do it.
October 18, 2022Assistant Professor Vijay Shah from the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at Â鶹ÊÓƵ's College of Engineering and Computing, teamed up with colleagues in Arlington, Virginia, to build drones that monitor and improve the safety of firefighters in action.
October 18, 2022After a perilous journey through war-torn Ukraine, a freshman Schar School student looks forward to a new life. But she’s concerned for her parents who remained behind.
December 14, 2022Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers Jeffrey Moran in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rémi Veneziano in the Department of Bioengineering, and Monique van Hoek, a microbiologist in the School of Systems Biology, won the NBIB R21 Trailblazer award. The team will research methods to dissolve harmful biofilms.
October 11, 2022Nena Rogers, Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Senior Associate Athletic Director of Intercollegiate Athletics for Academic Services, will serve as the university’s Interim Assistant Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics while a national search for a permanent director is conducted.
October 10, 2022On Friday, October 7, Â鶹ÊÓƵ dedicated a Virginia historic site and celebrated the university–community partnership that helped preserved it.