The new endowed fund, called the Piedmont Scholars Program, will provide scholarships to students transferring to UVA who have been selected as recipients of UVA’s University Achievement Award.
With seven speakers in all, the event, featuring stories that make you think twice, will continue the bridge-building theme begun during UVA President Jim Ryan’s 2018 inauguration.
Rosie the Robot operates six days a week in UVA’s “Be SAFE” Lab, with two shifts of lab workers processing as many as 3,500 saliva samples a day.
For two years, Dr. James H. Harrison Jr. and his team studied the current state and future use of artificial intelligence in pathology. Their article describes amazing possibilities and offers a roadmap for realizing this bright future.
Student volunteers from Madison House have been instrumental in running a UVA Health program that makes the daily lives of cardiology nurses easier.
One project will study how nature-based activities can boost seniors’ mental and physical health, especially after the isolation of the pandemic; another will improve access to Medicaid for non-citizen children.
In consultation with the Class of 2021, UVA is looking at two choices: holding events in May for students only or postponing Final Exercises to a time when UVA can host families and friends as well.
Two computer science students are working to create a supportive network for women in STEM at the University.