Please join students, staff and faculty from NOVA’s Loudoun Campus for a series of special events celebrating Loudoun’s Multicultural Awareness Week. MONDAY, APRIL 4 Sand Coloring 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. HEC Entrance Cultural Context of Ukraine/Russia Conflict 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. HEC Room 203 Chinese Culture Presentation 3 p.m. until 4 … Continued
Don’t forget about our Internship Fair next Wednesday, March 30 from 12 p.m. until 3 p.m. at the Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center on the Annandale Campus. This is a great opportunity for students to connect, face-to-face, with employers; learn more about available internships for Summer 2022 and beyond and hone their networking skills. … Continued
The NOVA Radical InNOVAtion Fund is distributed through a competitive grant process to provide limited funding for NOVA faculty, staff and administrators to plan and implement “new and creative initiatives” that enhance the education of NOVA students. The InNOVAtion Fund can be thought of as being similar in its approach to a corporation’s research and development (R&D) … Continued
We all deal with people who are angry, frustrated, stressed out, frightened by the uncertainties of COVID, etc., and some may be dealing with mental health challenges as well (20% of American adults have mental health issues). As difficult as it may be to deal with these people, we must remember that we too have … Continued
As part of the upcoming system conversion, the eVA Procurement System will enter a blackout period between April 2 and May 9. This blackout period was created by the Shared Services Center based on the mandated blackout deadlines established by the Department of General Services. Purchase requisitions and change orders cannot be submitted in eVA … Continued
NOVA’s Commencement Committee, chaired by Dr. Michelle Brown-Nevers, VP for enrollment management and student success, invites you attend NOVA’s 56th Commencement Ceremony. The Spring Commencement will be held Sunday, May 15 at 3 p.m. at George Mason University’s Eagle Bank Arena, 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax. Faculty and Staff participation is vital to the success of commencement. … Continued
In the fall of 2018 NOVA’s Information and Engineering Technologies (IET) Division launched its redesign of the Engineering Technology Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree, which included a specialization in Data Center Operations. One student, Deborah “Deby” Martinez, has seen the benefits of the program and is now breaking barriers in the data center industry. … Continued
For its next book, the History Reading Group will be discussing Bullied at Work by NOVA’s very own Dr. Sabrina Ricks. Dr. Ricks is an adjunct instructor of business at NOVA, and Bullied at Work chronicles her own experiences with workplace inequities. We will meet on Friday, March 25, at 10 a.m. The History Reading Group … Continued
On April 21, the NOVA Foundation will host its first ever Giving Day, a 24-hour fundraising challenge for all members of the #oneNOVA community. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, friends, family and the broader community are invited to participate in what the Foundation hopes will become NOVA’s biggest annual day of giving. To build momentum … Continued
Check out the following DEI-related events this week at NOVA: Thursday, March 24, 1:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. “Rediscovering Womanpower: American Servicewomen in the Cold War,” featuring Dr. Tanya Roth When World War II ended, women gave up their jobs so returning soldiers could go back to work, but that’s only part of the story. … Continued
