The University is making the move to ease applicants’ anxiety as COVID-19 continues to potentially disrupt administration of both the SAT and ACT.

From helping your isolated teens feel like they are having an impact to creating new life routines that lead to happiness, UVA Today asked several members of the faculty and a vice president to share their advice for a better 2021.

President Jim Ryan is urging people from all backgrounds in the UVA community to share digital submissions of how they built bridges for this year’s virtual event.

The first student participants in Hoos Connected report feeling markedly more connected to their new UVA community than others. The program is inviting applicants for the spring semester.

Stephen Farmer, vice provost for enrollment, said, “I hope the changes will help students remember there are more ways to demonstrate their strength than just earning a strong test score.”

UVA law professor Micah Schwartzman answers these and other questions about Wednesday’s violent attack on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers had begun to certify the election of the United States’ 46th president, Joseph Biden.

UVA Health software expert Sarah Osborn Barwick helps run Feel Better Farm, a rescue operation that is nurturing more than 100 animals recently removed from abysmal conditions.

Naomi Cahn, the new head of UVA’s Family Law Center, sifts through data from sources as diverse as a dating website and the New York Times to reveal social patterns.

UVA Dine put on a Thanksgiving feast last week for students, most of whom head home Tuesday for an extended winter break.

Enjoy this image of the illuminated Lawn as well as Thursday evening’s annual Lighting of the Lawn holiday celebration, made virtual this year by student organizers because of COVID-19.