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On-screen text: We pursue honor, knowledge, solutions.
Narrator 1: The students that we train at UVA are the ones that are out making the impact. That is really where it starts.
On-screen text: We pursue insights from data to discover treatments
Narrator 2: With everything that we’re doing, it’s inspiring.
Narrator 3: So what we’ve actually tried to do is improve our odds from the very beginning.
On-screen text: data to strengthen democracy, data to improve our supply chain, data to improve car safety, data to understand ecosystems, data to understand hurricanes
Narrator 4: Can we make even better methods, more types of data, bigger data sets?
On-screen text: data to create new treatments with new technologies, data to create new kinds of rubber, data to create new kinds of houses
Narrator 5: We’re trying to improve people’s quality of life, with the new knowledge to make new things.
On-screen text: create a nanofoam for athletes, create a freeze ray for jets, create an artificial pancreas for diabetics; use AI to power an artificial pancreas, use AI to predict heart failure
Narrator 6: By developing AI technologies, we can identify not just which drugs, but how they work
On-screen text: use AI to protect rivers in Appalachia, bring literacy to students in Appalachia, bring literacy to Grayson, Chatham, Norfolk, Orange
Narrator 7: And the kids are excited about reading because they can read because they’ve been taught well. It just impacts a lot more kids.
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[Students chanting]
On-screen text: wear orange and blue, live for the orange and blue, beneath a blue sky, against a blue flag, watching the sun set of the Blue ridge. Set a path for those who couldn’t before
Narrator 8: I’m the first person in my family to even sit in a lecture hall.
On-screen text: those who haven’t before and who have served before
Narrator 9: UVA really set me up perfectly to have a dream career.
On-screen text: We explore ideas that haven’t been explored before, ideas about carbon, ideas about waste, ideas about fireflies,
Narrator 10: Everybody is working together and making communities healthier and stronger.
On-screen text: ideas about seagrass, ideas about climate, ideas about athletes, ideas about space and our place within it
Narrator 11: What we have done here is made some amazing discoveries, improve the odds.
Narrator 12: There are so many things that have not been done.
On-screen text: ideas about access, impact, rights, technology, legacy, the future
Narrator 13: There’s an opportunity for UVA to be a bridge builder.
On-screen text: ideas about how we grow. We grow, we explore, we build. We are driven by our pursuits
Narrator 14: Can we do it? That’s my driving question. I have to have faith that we can. So the question is how do we do it?
Narrator 15: There is no greater joy than helping our fellow man and woman. That’s what we do here.
On-screen text: and our pursuit is endless. University of Virginia. Virginia.edu
Our Pursuit Is Endless
The University Communications team guided this expression of how the University of Virginia impacts our communities, the commonwealth and the world through relentless discovery and innovation.
This anthem video was comprised of individual stories, many of which were edited into free-standing elements, all laddering up to UVA’s original, animating purpose: to serve.
