In high school, Alexis Allen experienced education inequity firsthand. At UVA, she turned her frustration into action.
Paige Madden, who led the UVA swimming team to its first NCAA title last month and has her eye on Tokyo, has brought the same work ethic and intensity to her life as a student.
Graduate and undergraduate students undergo special training to provide tax assistance to about 500 low-income community members through a program called CASH.
Abel Liu, who worked to aid students caught in the COVID-19 pandemic, was surprised by President Jim Ryan with news of the Truman Scholarship late last week.
Hajjar Baban, a graduate poetry student and the recipient of a Soros Fellowship for New Americans, reflects on her immigrant experience in her writing.
For these University of Virginia faculty members, the pandemic has magnified the joy of in-person teaching and underscored the importance of helping online students feel connected.
In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, UVA students Milania Harris and Zahra Alisa started Advocates for Medical Equality to confront the history of discrimination in health care.
Mary Dixon, who will earn a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree this spring, mentored nursing students and frontline nurses through the pandemic.