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An annual Strawberry Festival and Heirloom Plant Sale hosted by a "Garden Studio" course proved popular with the campus community on the final Friday of classes for the 2015 spring semester.

The campus community took part Thursday in the "Reading of the Names," a daylong program on the front steps of Moseley Center organized by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Hillel and the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life as part of Holocaust Remembrance Week.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ community will come together this week in various ways to remember the over 6 million people who were killed in the Holocaust.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Hillel is hosting a Passover Seder on Monday evening, April 3, the first night of Passover.  The Seder begins at 5:30pm in McKinnon.   

An annual Â鶹ÊÓƵ tradition brought thousands of students, families and friends to the heart of campus on Dec. 1, 2014, to celebrate the holiday season with song, cider and Santa Claus.

A community event organized by students in the fall semester “Garden Studio” course featured pumpkin carving, fall-themed baked goods, music and more in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Community Garden.

Students in a fall semester Garden Studio course are leading an event that is free and open to the community from 2:30-5:30 p.m. with fall-themed baked goods, musical entertainment and pumpkin carving for children.

Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) will speak about the friendship and shared vision of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, at 7:30 p.m. in the Numen Lumen Pavilion.

INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine has recognized Â鶹ÊÓƵ with a 2014 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, an accolade that reflects ongoing university efforts to celebrate and support students, staff, faculty and alumni of all backgrounds and beliefs.

An ordained rabbi and founder of an award-winning seasonal and organic kosher catering company in San Francisco, Joseph comes to Â鶹ÊÓƵ with deep experience in community building and fostering multi-faith leadership.