Building Bridges
A virtual town hall for community members, which will address COVID-19 questions heading into the fall semester, is scheduled for Monday evening on Zoom.
With Community Based Undergraduate Research Grants, University of Virginia students turn their academic attention to real-world situations, locally, in South Dakota and in Central America.
Now in its 19th year, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UVA is offering all of its courses online, so you need not be in Charlottesville to take advantage of learning from some of the University’s finest instructors.
The idea came out of last month’s “White Coats for Black Lives” rally, as attendees asked how they could help local children at risk of falling behind on STEM education during the pandemic.
One in an occasional series about the findings of the president’s commissions on Slavery and on the University in the Age of Segregation. This installment examines the false narratives of statues, including the George Rogers Clark statue.
With COVID-19 shuttering schools across the state, members of the Virginia College Advising Corps used their ingenuity to create YouTube videos and mobile telephone applications to complete their missions.
UVA Engineering students with dashed summer plans are now teaching STEM classes to local children on topics ranging from Harry Potter to crime scene forensics.
Rising third-year student Alizé Dreyer and her mother, Ayşegül, are two of the nearly 200 volunteers speaking 30 languages who have signed up to help translate since April.