UVA associate professor Andrew Pennock, smiling writes on a blackboard: The basic components of personal finance.
Student Experience
Batten Professor Helps Soon-to-Be Grads Get Their Finances in Order
Andrew Pennock, associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, offers students an annual financial wellness workshop.
Dozens of students sit on the steps of the UVA Rotunda, as Robyn Hadley addresses them from a podium on the Lawn
Student Experience
‘Days on the Lawn’ Information Sessions for Admitted Students Are Back
This month, UVA will host six open houses for admitted students who are still deciding where they want to go to college.
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Student Experience
‘Steel Yourself,’ WWII Bomber Pilot, 101, Tells Air Force ROTC Cadets
Air Force ROTC cadets received a World War II history lesson from a pilot who was there.
A blindfolded young man looks uncomfortable while shadowy male figures with plastic cups place hands on his shoulder. People dance in the background.
Student Experience
There’s a New Bill in Virginia Aimed at Hazing. Here’s What UVA Is Already Doing.
Susie Bruce, director of the Gordie Center, shares what the center is doing to prevent hazing and substance misuse, as well as prevention tips for parents and students.
A man carrying a drip torch ignites a field of thatch
Student Experience
Burned Again: Landscape Architecture Students Torch Field to Restore Habitat
Landscape architecture students learned about the role fire plays in sustaining native prairies and savannas, which ecologists say co-dominated with forests prior to colonialism.

Student Spotlight: Lauren Schmidt

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Illustration of 1980s computer monitor with a pixelated ox pulling a wagon
Student Experience
How to Avoid Dying of Dysentery Is Far From Only Thing The Oregon Trail Can Teach
Media studies assistant professor Kevin Driscoll uses The Oregon Trail – a popular computer game developed in the 1970s – in two of his courses.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan wearing headphones and talking into a microphone
Student Experience
‘Inside UVA’: He Came for Lacrosse and Stayed for Batten, Fraternal Leadership
At first, he dismissed the idea of joining a fraternity as “silly.” Now, Kayvon Samadani is president of UVA’s Inter-Fraternity Council and explains his role on President Jim Ryan’s podcast.