Building Bridges
How can courses with community engagement continue when students are not supposed to be out in the community due to the coronavirus? It’s not easy, but not impossible.
Also in this roundup: An English professor lectures at Cambridge, a faculty member will lead the nation’s largest astronomy society, UVA Health receives a national award, and more.
The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and other departments are responsible for two new recent graduate programs, one that focuses on Caribbean culture and a separate one on Africana studies.
The online degree completion program in UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies brings a UVA education to working adults from across Virginia and beyond.
Since November, a UVA Health team, led by Dr. Jeffrey Gander, has run a program that brings regular deliveries of fresh produce to pediatric patients and families in need.
People told Batten instructor Brooke Lehmann she would never find bipartisan support for school-based health centers. She didn’t listen.
A team of faculty and students from the School of Education and Human Development worked with practicing educators to launch a new online resource hub, “Educating for Democracy.”
The outreach is just one of many the Jefferson Trust has helped create over the years. The trust’s flash-funding grant cycle is currently taking place.