High school friends Kelsey Miller and Arthur Wu founded their own advertising firm as first-year students at UVA, and have taken on clients well beyond the University’s Grounds.

The Cavalier Outdoor Adventure Retreat invited three groups of 10 incoming first-year students to travel into the Shenandoah National Park for two days of hiking, staying in a primitive cabin and – hopefully – bonding with one another.

A current U.Va. student and two alumni -- all from the same family -- have founded GYRO, a social media startup that allows users to express their opinions about Web content with more variety than typically seen online.

Several construction projects on Grounds are in the home stretch before students arrive, including the McCormick Road utilities tunnel, renovation of Wilson Hall, housing renovations and a new pedestrian bridge near Alderman Road.

Three global development studies students recently got back from a trip around Cambodia to work with an NGO that promotes farmer-led innovation in rural areas of Cambodia.

WXTJ – U.Va.’s all-student-run radio station – is slated to begin broadcasting on the frequency of 100.1 FM sometime within the coming months.

As part of the Engineering School’s Service Learning Practicum, groups of fourth-year students gain real-world experience by creating software to benefit local charities.

On Wednesday, Trevor Kemp and Darius Nabors set out on a 59-week tour through all 59 national parks in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Park Service.