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The University of the Virgin Islands will welcome new and transfer students with a week of orientation activities beginning Tuesday, Aug. 15, on both the Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix and the St. Thomas Campus.

This summer, 20 middle school and high school students spent four weeks having fun learning about the marine ecosystem and marine careers in the Youth Ocean Explorers (YOE) Summer Program.

The University of the Virgin Islands’ Virgin Islands Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (VI-EPSCoR) welcomes Dr. Kim Waddell as incoming director.

Seventh and eighth-grade students from the Bertha C. Boschulte Middle School (BCBMS) and fourth and fifth-grade students from Lockhart Elementary School were honored for their participation in campus-wide recycling initiatives to remove thousands of single-use water bottles, plastic bags and hundreds of aluminum cans from their schools and neighborhoods during the latter part of spring 2017.

The University of the Virgin Islands accreditation has been reaffirmed by the Middles States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), the accrediting body for institutions of higher education in the Middle States region.

Members of the media are invited to photograph and cover a University of the Virgin Islands press conference from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 27, in the Neil Weiss Education and Seminar Suit in West Residence Hall on the St. Thomas Campus and in North West Wing, room 103, on the Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix.

The Virgin Islands has experienced a rise in the rate of violence.

The University of the Virgin Islands Athletics Program welcomed three new full-time coaches on Monday, June 19, at a press conference held in the Sports and Fitness Center on the St. Thomas Campus.

Members of the media are invited to photograph and cover the Athletics department press conference from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on June 19, in the lobby of the Sports and Fitness Center on the St. Thomas Campus.

The Eastern Caribbean Center (ECC) of the University of the Virgin Islands is conducting its annual Virgin Islands Community Survey (VICS). The goal of the VICS is to provide a clearer understanding of the changing population and housing statistics in the U.S. Virgin Islands.