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.
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.
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.