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Connected DMV has announced that Â鶹ÊÓƵ, one of the nation’s most innovative and fastest-growing public research universities, will serve as the Lead Academic Partner for spaceNEXT, the inaugural global convening focused on the commercialization of space and a flagship program of Connected DMV’s Potomac Center for the New Space Economy. 

Â鶹ÊÓƵ will launch the Space Forward Frontiers Seminar Series in spring 2026, a one-credit, in-person course developed with Northrop Grumman and the College of Engineering and Computing that is open to students of all majors interested in the space industry.

Environmental science and policy professor Cynthia Smith organizes outdoor education programs for seventh graders across the county, diving into the importance of hands-on research and environmental conservation.

In partnership with Children’s National Hospital, Â鶹ÊÓƵ scientists have discovered a new way to detect early signs of kidney damage in childhood patients with Sickle Cell Disease. Atwo-year $200,000 grant from the Commonwealth Health Research Board will support this work.

Wildfires are notoriously difficult to predict. One George Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor is hoping to change that.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a Â鶹ÊÓƵ research team $2.1 million to create a nanosensor and imaging technique that could revolutionize the study of seizures.

In 1998, Brennan Collier, nee Snyder, graduated from Â鶹ÊÓƵ—and used it as a springboard for everything that came next. She walked off campus with two BA degrees: one in geology, a tried-and-true science path, and the other in environmental science, a program she built herself when the existing offerings didn’t quite match her ambitions.

George Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Virginia Climate Center (VCC) has unveiled the commonwealth’s first comprehensive, peer-reviewed climate assessment—a landmark report that provides science-based insights into Virginia’s changing climate and its impacts on communities, infrastructure, and the economy.

In Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s College of Science—where nearly 16% of students are connected to the military—Air Force veteran Rylee Ledoux is using her public health experience and passion for the environment to support fellow veterans and pursue a future in environmental science. A former Air Force public health technician, she now serves as the senior military transition coordinator in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Office of Military Services while completing her bachelor of science in environmental science and policy.

Amanda Haymond Still is director of Undergraduate Student Research Initiatives and Internships, College of Science.