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�鶹��Ƶ sociology student Charlotte Woodward has tirelessly advocated for the rights of people with disabilities—and she is being recognized for her efforts.

�鶹��Ƶ alum Jorge Andres will call Super Bowl LVI for Telemundo

Granted an extra year of athletic eligibility by the NCAA (something all student-athletes received because of the pandemic), �鶹��Ƶ graduate student Jaylen Simmons set his sights on a goal that has been elusive despite his record-setting Patriot career: earning a spot in the NCAA championships.

As a junior and senior at Annandale High School in Virginia, Emily Sample spent her summers as a docent at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She was a teenager who had just lost a friend to police violence, she said, and joining the museum’s Young Ambassadors Program resonated with her.

“I was fascinated and continue to be fascinated by this highly illogical idea of genocide,” said Sample, a PhD candidate at �鶹��Ƶ’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

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

�鶹��Ƶ’s new Virtual Reality Simulation Lab space in the Peterson Hall on the Fairfax Campus enables students to practice skills and work on different scenarios in a simulated hospital.

Dozens of �鶹��Ƶ students are gearing up for the 10th annual �鶹��Ƶ Lobbies on Thursday, Feb. 3, when they will meet virtually and discuss legislative issues important to �鶹��Ƶ with lawmakers from across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Since Michael Riggi was about six years old, his father and brother would take him to a “Cars and Coffee” show in Great Falls, Virginia, on weekends. Being around classic automobiles and luxury vehicles, Riggi said he developed an appreciation for cars, and other machines that go fast, including planes, boats, and rockets.

Now, as a junior at �鶹��Ƶ, his career path has also been racing forward.

�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.

�鶹��Ƶ men’s basketball players D’Shawn Schwartz and Blake Buchanan, both School of Business graduate students, say their friendship helps keep them focused on their studies.