The following article from UVA Today has been re-printed with permission from the author.
Class Year: 2024
Major: History and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Hometown: Great Falls, VA and Houston, TX
Program: Iris
Class Year: 2025
Major: Political & Social Thought and English
Hometown: Great Falls, VA
Program: Iris
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.