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After finishing his freshman year at a regional university in Korea, Young Ho Ji worked at a construction site for seven months to save enough tuition money to continue his degree and dreamed of one day studying abroad.

When criminology, law and society major Ari Williams came to �鶹��Ƶ as a first-generation student and a member of the Honors College, she wanted to work in the federal government.

Maïlys Faur used her exchange year at the Sorbonne to play tennis at �鶹��Ƶ and is �鶹��Ƶ's first exchange student-athlete.

The Leading Niche CEO Tamara Nall and her husband, Clement Ezeanii, have created the Susanna Ezeanii and Mayfred Jolinda Nall Health Informatics Scholarship Endowment to honor the memories of their mothers while making educational aspirations tangible for College of Public Health students.

Led by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) within the Costello College of Business at �鶹��Ƶ, the Patriot Pitch Competition supports early-stage business ventures and ideas from �鶹��Ƶ students and recent alumni. On April 11, the finalists made their final pitches on the Fairfax Campus. 

Members of the Schar School’s Democracy Lab learning community visited the best-known, best-fortified private residence in the world: the White House.

�鶹��Ƶ will confer its third posthumous degree to a Schar School student on May 10.

�鶹��Ƶ Korea student Juyoung Cha is just weeks away from reaching the finish line in Fairfax—earning her BFA in computer game design. In May she plans to walk proudly across the graduation stage in EagleBank Arena along with her younger sister, Subin Cha, who is a �鶹��Ƶ Korea student in accounting.

Sinoxolo “Susan” Favor was doing public health work in her native South Africa long before she enrolled in the College of Public Health at �鶹��Ƶ. Now Favor is graduating from this spring with a BS in community health from the first college of public health in Virginia.

In November 2023, �鶹��Ƶ students, faculty, and staff gathered to help transplant 1,700 plants of more than 50 native species into two groves near the stream behind Student Union Building I between Aquia Creek Lane and Patriot Circle.