Healthy Streets Healthy People
7/5/2023
This free, family-friendly event will focus on improving safety and environmental health in the Charlottesville area. Learn how you can help make Charlottesville a healthier place to live. Explore more…
Date: Jul 8, 2023 - Jul 8, 2023
Start Time: 10:00 am
End Time: 2:00 pm
BIMS 2023 Graduate Arby Abood, PhD: Journey from Iraq to Virginia to Become a Scientist
7/5/2023
Growing up in Iraq, Arby Abood dreamed of becoming a scientist his whole life. In 2003, at the age of 15, he and his mother fled Iraq to Jordan due…
Bizz Glover Shares UVA Health’s Efforts to Support the LGBTQ+ Population
6/28/2023
Bizz Glover is a clinical risk manager in the Department of Patient Safety & Risk Management and co-chair of UVA Health’s LGBTQ & Transgender Advisory Committee with David Repaske, MD.…
Freedom House Ambulance: The First Responders
6/27/2023
Multi-Emmy Award winning producer and director Annette Bank’s documentary traces the rise and fall of Freedom House Ambulance, an EMT service made up of Black men and women — pioneers in…
Date: Jul 8, 2023 - Jul 8, 2023
Start Time: 7:00 pm
End Time: 9:00 pm
Two PhD Candidates Create Society of Black Biomedical Scientists and Engineers
6/21/2023
Two PhD students at the University of Virginia School of Medicine recently established a pioneering organization called the Society for Black Biomedical Scientists and Engineers. Born from the imperative necessity…
6/14/2023
The UVA Health Office of Diversity and Community Engagement and UVA School of Medicine's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are co-sponsoring a Safe Zone Training Workshop on Wednesday, June…
Date: Jun 28, 2023 - Jun 28, 2023
Start Time: 9:00 am
End Time: 12:00 pm
2nd Annual Diversity in Neuroscience and Immunology Symposium Celebrates DEI and Science
6/13/2023
On Thursday, June 8, 2023, the School of Medicine held the 2nd Annual Diversity in Neuroscience and Immunology Symposium. This Symposia has grown in recent years, starting as a…
Celebrating Juneteenth — A Day of Freedom and Liberation
6/13/2023
In the coming week, we celebrate Juneteenth, a significant milestone in American history and a day that offered hope for a better tomorrow when the Union army announced the freedom…
