Building Bridges
When UVA basketball coach Tony Bennett recruited star Sam Hauser, he saw many of the qualities that associate professor Paul Harris has observed in the classroom over the last two years.
With the help of volunteers, environmental scientists at UVA are gearing up for a large-scale study of the impacts of clean air legislation and climate change on the commonwealth’s mountain streams.
The new endowed fund, called the Piedmont Scholars Program, will provide scholarships to students transferring to UVA who have been selected as recipients of UVA’s University Achievement Award.
With seven speakers in all, the event, featuring stories that make you think twice, will continue the bridge-building theme begun during UVA President Jim Ryan’s 2018 inauguration.
Student volunteers from Madison House have been instrumental in running a UVA Health program that makes the daily lives of cardiology nurses easier.
Two computer science students are working to create a supportive network for women in STEM at the University.
After more than a half-century of teaching tennis, running tournaments and making the Charlottesville community a better place, Boar’s Head Sports Club Director of Tennis Ron Manilla is retiring.
When a free clinic he volunteered with sent out a plea for telehealth volunteers, Zuhayr Shaikh saw a bigger problem that needed solving. He set out to solve it – and won the support of the Clinton Foundation.