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Faculty-initiated micro-projects

Photo of Route 76 at the Montgomery-Roanoke county line.

In 2025, we helped over a dozen faculty explore Vibrant Virginia project ideas and identified four projects for $10,000 seed funding awards:

  • Identifying and reducing barriers to rural Emergency Medical Service (EMS) care delivery in Virginia;
  • Facilitating community visioning and planning with Amonate, an unincorporated former coal-company town in Tazewell County;
  • Providing STEM kits and decision science instruction through neighborhood outreach to underserved communities in Northern Virginia;
  • Supporting the creation of community-focused exhibits and events along Route 76 in Virginia, to promote recreation tourism along a historic cycling route