Class Year: 2024

Major: Cognitive Science and Women and Gender Studies

Hometown: Ashburn, VA

Program: Gender Equity 

Class Year: 2025

Major: Behavioral Neuroscience

Hometown: Lynchburg, VA

Program: Body Positive

UVA Barbie header photo credit: Erin Edgerton and Johnny Utterback, University Communications

In my house, we embrace nostalgia. My teen is fascinated by the 80s culture that shaped my own teen years. Last summer, we watched Top Gun together in preparation for Top Gun: Maverick.

Our programming for the Spring 2023 semester was bookended by public talks that poignantly spoke to each other, reinforcing the two Women’s Center messages that matter most deeply to me: the necessity of finding your personal approach to activism and t

I may have lost my words this year, but our students didn't. In late April, we hosted our annual senior thesis presentation.

Over the past few years, rising fourth-year student Wendy Gao submitted dozens of applications to intern on Capitol Hill. Her persistence finally paid off this year in the form of an offer to serve as an intern for US Senator Tammy Duckworth.

In honor of Sharon Davie, the founding director of the Women’s Center, our Davie Fellowship supports the professional development of a PhD student at UVA who is exploring a non-traditional career path.

I recently finished reading Katherine May’s Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Age of Anxiety. This mediation, published in February 2023, was written “after years of pandemic life – paren

On Thursday, March 23, Rangina Hamidi joined UVA staff, students, and Charlottesville community members to share her experience advocating for Afghan women and girls.