Architecture student Taylor Thompson began volunteering with Habitat for Humanity at age 16, to honor his late mother. He has gotten more deeply involved, and is spending his summer with the organization’s Washington, D.C. advocacy office.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Nevah Jones served as an aircraft maintenance officer for 20 years. Now a UVA law student, she wants to help her fellow veterans get the medical and mental health care they deserve.
Wyant, who played three seasons in the Florida Marlins organization, is now a household name in the Charlottesville insurance industry.
Jazz musician John D’earth dissects the work of jazz masters for summer students who are more than casual listeners, in an effort to get them inside the music.
The UVA Cancer Center will soon survey 2,000 people in 94 localities to learn more about factors that affect cancer prevention, detection and care.
Lisa Russ Spaar, an accomplished poet and director of creative writing and the Area Program in Poetry Writing, tackles the word “meme” in a new, occasional UVA Today series that will highlight faculty essays on some of their favorite words.
ESPN recognized the former Cavalier football star as the winner of its Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for his efforts to boost literacy and provide clean drinking water in East Africa.
UVA’s Center for Biomechanics finds that seat-belted females are more vulnerable to injury in front-end car crashes than males.