MILE was founded in 2018 by former fourth-year students Al Ahmed and Zaakir Tameez to prepare first-year, second-year and transfer Muslims students for leadership roles and jobs in the University community and beyond.
Students and families received the opportunity to learn about various cultural dance and music groups at Culturefest, a gathering of culturally-affiliated groups on Grounds.
The Sikh Students Association hosted their annual Punjabi Culture Night Thursday.
A relatively new organization, WAALI is open to second- and third-year Asian American women seeking an inclusive and welcoming place to actively engage with others who share their same experiences.
The goal of Indigenous Peoples’ Day — which is held on the same day as Columbus Day — is to push back against history that paints Columbus as a conquering hero.
One could hardly miss the enchanting images of bright pink fans bursting with energy — the swirls of color and movement radiating throughout Ern Commons Saturday afternoon
The event was held Friday night in a multi-purpose room in the lower floor of the AFC.
If you’re scoping for a genuinely good smoothie bowl with an incredible mission, The Juice Laundry is definitely one of the next spots you have to check out.
This is not just a team with a shared passion for urban dance. AKAdeMIX also provides a community and imbues a sense of family.
The goal of the campaign is to promote discussion and bring visibility to Grounds surrounding the issue of "model minority" stereotypes against the APIDA community.
Even after 25 years, Blue Whales Books remains a popular shop for many local Charlottesville residents who want to browse through their collection of used books or even just greet the adorable Gizmo.
The HSC held this annual event Sunday afternoon to celebrate Navratri, the most celebrated Hindu festival with roots in the Indian subcontinent.
Although Hereford, Brown and the International Residential College differ in central focus, all three are intended to carry out Thomas Jefferson’s ideal of the academical village by extending learning beyond the classroom and into the home.
Planning for Meditation on the Lawn began this past summer when a group of students decided that the University needed more events centered around thoughtfulness and unity.
Third-year College students Sai Samayamanthula, Aditya Sorot, Jasmanet Chahal, Pramod Grama and Mihir Tandon first became friends while surviving organic chemistry together, but at the end of last semester, they became business partners and the founders of UVA Thrift.
The India Student Association hosted its second wide-scale zero waste event on Sept. 1, which aimed to promote a sustainable and eco-friendly lifestyle.
Gender equality, marriage equality and wage equality — the notion of human equality permeates today’s social justice rhetoric. But, to the average American, “blood equality” may be a foreign term. It is this lack of awareness that Homoglobin, a Virginia-based nonprofit founded this year, hopes to ameliorate.
VISAS is made up of eight programs aimed at fostering dialogue between domestic volunteers and international members of the University community.
As a new semester peers around the corner, the few days leading up to its start provides U.Va. students critical time to reflect on past semesters and brainstorm any changes — or “New Year’s resolutions” — they would like to make in their college lifestyles.
Officers of ISO encouraged international students to bring their roommates or students they have met over their first week at the University, culminating in an informal meet-and-greet.
