Gabrielle Adams, an assistant professor in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy who has researched what makes apologies effective, breaks down the recent Facebook and Starbucks mea culpas.

An avocado-based ice cream, a homemade skin- and hair-care product line and a program that teaches students how to become innovators were the winning entrepreneurial ideas at the Tom Tom Founders Festival’s Crowdfunded Pitch Night.

Kim Johnson, who dropped out of a college in California more than a quarter-century ago and joined the Marines, will earn her diploma from the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in May.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, former astronaut Leland Melvin, and Bradford and Bryan Manning, blind cofounders of a clothing company, discussed challenges they’ve overcome during a Tom Tom Founders Festival event on Friday.

Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team, spoke at McLeod Hall Thursday night as part of the year-long Excellence Through Diversity Distinguished Learning Series.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of an upcoming book examining Facebook, discusses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

A University of Virginia team won first place and the People’s Choice award at Friday night’s ACC InVenture Prize, an entrepreneurship competition between ACC schools.

Erik Weihenmayer, who in 2001 became the first blind person to climb Mount Everest, spoke to a group of Batten School students Thursday in the Dome Room of the Rotunda.

As president of the student organization Towards a Better Latin America, fourth-year McIntire School of Commerce student Mateo Semerene has helped raise money for several disaster relief efforts.

With 500 speakers and dozens of concerts, parties and other events, this year’s Tom Tom Founders Festival is bigger and more diverse than ever.