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On February 14, 2009, Â鶹ÊÓƵ student Ryan Allen, competing under his drag queen persona of Reann Ballslee, was crowned Ms. Â鶹ÊÓƵ at the Homecoming basketball game in front of a near sold-out crowd.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Student Support and Advocacy Center received for the first time a $75,000 grant from the Virginia Department of Health to strengthen its peer education program and prevention efforts in the area of sexual and interpersonal violence.

On Sept. 3, 2010, during Welcome Week, more than 1,200 Â鶹ÊÓƵ students showed up to break the Guinness World Record for the world's largest dodgeball game.

A six-person panel of Â鶹ÊÓƵ experts on mental health and well-being discussed student success strategies as part of a week-long series of events marking President Gregory Washington’s Investiture.

The global pandemic has brought mental health and well-being to the forefront, and Â鶹ÊÓƵ provides a variety of services and strategies to the community for addressing those challenges.

As a graduate student with intersectional racial and ethnic identities, Â鶹ÊÓƵ doctoral student Austin A. Deray said he believes it is his responsibility to champion the voices of his communities.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ will welcome new and returning students to the Fairfax Campus during New Student Convocation on Friday, Aug. 20. This year, two classes will be acknowledged at EagleBank Arena: the incoming Class of 2021 and the returning Class of 2020, whose official on-campus welcome was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Chooses Kindness aims to help Patriots thrive together through kindness with resources, events and ways to get involved in creating a kindness revolution at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.