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Green isn’t just a school color at �鶹��Ƶ. At �鶹��Ƶ, “green” is way of life, and sustainability is central to the university’s mission.

University Sustainability and the Greenhouse and Garden’s Program are contributing to �鶹��Ƶ's efforts to eradicate food insecurity by providing access to campus-grown fruits and vegetables.

�鶹��Ƶ graduate student’s cherry blossom monitoring research uses �鶹��Ƶ as a living lab to assess how climate change affects the bloom date of cherry blossom trees on the Fairfax Campus.

Dee Arrington is the site coordinator at �鶹��Ƶ's Potomac Science Center.

A team of �鶹��Ƶ students held a bat box-building workshop as their capstone project in the Sustainability in Action class.

Micah Hodges works as a success coach in University Life at �鶹��Ƶ. In this role, Hodges works one-on-one with students to help them discover what success looks like to them. Outside of work, Hodges helps sustain and develop something else: our local environment and community spaces. As a volunteer with NOVA and District Cleanups, Hodges works alongside cadres of volunteers who remove trash from public spaces.

As an undergraduate, Doni Nolan, BA Biology ’14, had no visions of a future profession until she visited the greenhouse on �鶹��Ƶ’s Fairfax Campus.

On October 1, Artist Katie Kehoe and a group of volunteers planted 100 native trees on parts of the Fairfax Campus.

It’s common to think of Indigenous peoples as living in the past. We may think of them around Thanksgiving or in old films and books. But Native Americans are very much here and now, said Jeremy Campbell, and after decades of struggle, that’s starting to be recognized.

In 2018, U.S. legislation granted federal recognition to six tribes in Virginia. A �鶹��Ƶ team has been partnering with two of them, the Upper Mattaponi and Chickahominy nations, as they embark on being sovereign nations.

Work has begun on the “Necklace Phase One and Stream Restoration” project on �鶹��Ƶ’s Fairfax Campus, �鶹��Ƶ Facilities announced.