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¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ today is launching the "Do Your Part Campaign" to reinforce the message that safety is a shared responsibility and that our safe return to campus depends on everyone modifying their behavior in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Preparation is underway for what may be the greatest campus-wide challenge the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ community has ever taken on – our safe return to campus.

This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that it would discontinue visa exceptions for international students on F-1 visas who take all of their courses for the semester online. This decision could force hundreds of thousands of international students to leave the United States and threatens to interrupt the academic work of more than 3,000 students here at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ.

Outside their dorms, students at the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (SMSC) have visual access to rare and endangered species. On any given day, you can find them doing field and laboratory work with influential conservation mentors. Midway through the spring semester, the school known for its hands-on conservation training, had to quickly transition their courses online due to COVID-19.

In a move to emphasize its core values, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution announced on Tuesday that it is dedicating itself to peace and social justice with the adoption of a name dedicated to the Carter legacy: the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s School of Music will be renamed the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music, in honor of the Dewberrys’ lifetime legacy of giving and generous support of the school. The decision was approved unanimously at the Feb. 27 Board of Visitors meeting.

Many people are familiar with ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Arlington Campus, but fewer know its unique history, including how it became the only law school with an escalator when the university moved into the old Kann’s department store in the early 1970s.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s School of Business announced today that software company UiPath is donating $16.4 million in software licenses to help business students learn about robotic technology in classroom assignments and activities.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ ranks the highest among all Virginia colleges for the second year in a row for the social mobility of its students, according to a recently released 2019 survey by CollegeNet.

What does it take to transform a cool idea into a business? Students at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Antonin Scalia Law School are finding out, by helping real-life entrepreneurs in the school’s new Innovation Law Clinic.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ placed three programs in the top 25 nationally among public institutions in the most recent rankings by Times Higher Education: World University Rankings by Subject.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Thomas Lovejoy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences this week, joining an elite group of 120 scholars recognized this year for their contributions to science and research.