Second-year student Lucia Hoerr started a nonprofit organization when she was 9 years old to provide backpacks and school supplies to needy kindergarten through 12th-grade students in Charlottesville and throughout much of Virginia.
Recent graduate Jeannie Taylor has been leading a team of students that has raised more than $24,000 for eight service projects in the Charlottesville community.
After two months of waiting, graduate student Minghui Sun had given up all hope of receiving a special care package from China. Then he got an email and an incredible story was born.
Karl Westendorff, a rising fourth-year chemical engineering major, built model rockets in high school and takes advanced physical chemistry courses for fun.
With U.S.-China relations under strain, two recent graduates have received scholarships to Yenching Academy in Beijing.
May graduate Kavya Ravikanti started a personal finance newsletter for fellow students. Ravikanti and Christina Wei share what they have learned, and their top tips for grads.
It’s a three-peat! UVA’s Cyber Defense Team again took top honors in this year’s National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, with the added twist of competing virtually during a pandemic.
Charles Snowden, a member of the football team, recently encouraged the UVA community to pay homage to frontline workers by using a social media hashtag.