Jane Kelly

Exam time means long hours, with students wrapping up projects, turning in papers and cramming for final tests (and faculty members doing all that grading). These local coffee and tea shops will help Wahoos get over the finish line in fine fashion.

This year’s celebration straddled feelings of festivity and reflection, drawing the University’s largest student-run holiday celebration.

Gwendolyn Cassady was expecting a few Afghan refugee women to pick up some clothes and fabric remnants she was donating. When dozens showed up, a new business was born.

Josh Pritchett was in and out of jail so often during his troubled youth that he lost count of how many times he was incarcerated. Then he learned about a dynamic UVA class that is based in the prison system, reached out to the professor and forged a new path to success.