For Zainab Khan, a finance junior at The University of Texas at Dallas, the all-virtual Viva Volunteer day of service was not only an opportunity to support nonprofit organizations, but it also helped Comets studying remotely this semester reconnect with one another. Khan was among the more than 350 UT Dallas students who worked together on a single day to perform virtual service projects for nonprofit organizations. Organized by the Office of Student Volunteerism (OSV), Viva Volunteer participants from 21 student organizations and scholarship groups invested in a day of service for 18 agencies. It was the first all-virtual Viva Volunteer event, and the participants’ combined 1,050 hours of donated labor saved nonprofit organizations more than $28,500. One of our Viva Volunteer goals is to have our scholars meet at least one new scholar, and the ‘breakout’ rooms allowed for that to happen naturally,” Kavanaugh said.