In honor of nurses, President Jim Ryan ran the Boston Marathon for the 10th consecutive time on Monday, raising more than $13,000 for nursing student scholarships.
Also in this roundup: an engineering professor gets a big promotion, WTJU picks up more trophies, UVA Health honored for heart care, and the governor leans on faculty expertise.
The tenets that the UVA football team plays by were on full display in the dramatic, come-from-behind victory over the University of Louisville on Saturday night.
When it opens in 2023, the Contemplative Commons will take advantage of its idyllic location alongside the Dell pond with outdoor spaces including contemplative gardens and a tree-lined courtyard.
The UVA Democracy Initiative and StoryCorps’ “One Small Step” will launch a new partnership, focused on facilitating difficult conversations in the local community, at a Wednesday event.
The series is one of several outreach efforts designed to generate more engagement with and among students and to advance efforts to find common ground within the UVA community.
Small’s support of UVA projects includes an Engineering School building that bears his name, and the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, which opened in 2004, named in honor of Small and his wife.