The former Cavalier women’s basketball coach is bringing her unrelenting drive and elite recruiting skills to the fight against cancer and other worthy causes.

Briar is the central character of a traveling Storytime Program that over the past 2½ years has brought more than 200 free books to children in the UVA Medical Center.

Meghan Lewis, who says her life’s calling is preventing the debilitating consequences of severe burns, used more than a month of her vacation to volunteer in a part of the world where children often fall into floor-level cooking fires.

There is only one safe way to look directly at the sun: through special-purpose solar filters. These solar filters are used in “eclipse glasses” or in hand-held solar viewers.