Stephanie Randolph took a group of finance and public policy students on a bus tour of Appalachia. She notes, “This opportunity gets them into rural communities so they can see how impact investing can work, in reality.” 

Over 830 students participated in 42 U.S.-based courses, spanning topics from printmaking to neuroscience research.

Tens of millions of Americans, adults and children, have a prescription for one or more psychiatric drugs. Something like one in six adult women, for instance, takes an antidepressant. 

Check out these images from UVA Today photographers, who spent the early part of January Term exploring some of the intriguing courses on the schedule.

The University will send 12 University students to Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing this January for a table tennis and diplomacy course during the January Term period. The class, titled “Game Change: Bridging the U.S.-China Divide Through Sport,” will focus on historical tensions between the two countries, the current challenges facing relations today and will provide students with the opportunity to engage with Chinese students through table tennis competitions. 

Study Abroad January Term courses — of which there are 19 — will take place over the coming weeks, stretching across five continents. The courses, which students had to apply to take, will cover a range of topics, from technology consulting to modern architecture and sustainability. 

With paddles in their carry-ons, a dozen UVA students are traveling throughout China for a second historic table tennis tour.

Students in a January term podcasting class took on music theory, the value of the humanities and a student DJ for their projects.

UVA’s global engagement got off to a flying start in 2024 with a record number of 18 J-Term study abroad programs in multiple disciplines that took more than 380 students to every continent except Antarctica.