Combined with matching funds, the gift delivers $82 million in total impact. That includes the $68 million new gift and $14 million in matching funds from UVA’s Bicentennial Professors Fund.
The final season of “Games of Thrones,” based on George R.R. Martin’s series, “A Song of Ice and Fire,” premiered Sunday. UVA Today asked English professor Lisa Woolfork, who teaches a summer course about it, for an update.
Lauren Mims, who is earning a Ph.D. from the Curry School of Education and Human Development, was so moved by Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” that she has created a curriculum around the book.
At 34, Matt Stromberg is still shaping his life, leaving a career in restaurants to become an engineer, and falling in love with blacksmithing along the way. Next stop: raising salmon in the Rockies?
School of Medicine student Franck Azobou Tonleu, set to walk the Lawn next week, has excelled in the classroom and in the community since moving to the U.S. from Cameroon when he was in high school.
Adriana Giorgis, who grew up in Rome and Milan, spent two years studying and digitally preserving first-century Roman ruins while also studying Arctic environments and pursuing a very demanding interdisciplinary double major.
The Hoos Building Bridges Award will recognize Academic Division staff and Medical Center team members who have gone above and beyond their professional mandates to build strong and lasting relationships across the University.
An Army veteran who joined the UVA Police Department in 1992 as a security officer, Fielding has steadily worked her way through the ranks to become one of only a few women nationwide to hold senior leadership roles in campus police departments.
