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UVA politics professors Jennifer Lawless, left, and Mary Kate Cary found common ground through the bipartisan election course they co-taught in 2020. (Contributed photos)

Lessons From Co-Taught Course Continue To Spread for Conservative, Liberal Professors

George Bloom, far left, wants to better understand Alzheimer’s disease, while Anne Keworthy, far right, will study cholera with the new microscope. Ammasi Periasamy, center, coordinated the grant proposal that led to the microscope’s acquisition. (Photos by Dan Addison, Sanjay Suchak, UVA Health)

Hope Under a Microscope: Check Out UVA’s New $1.25 Million Set of Eyes

Cornel West encouraged students to live fully examined lives and to act with integrity and courage. (Photos by Sanjay Suchak, University Communications)

Cornel West Encourages Students To ‘Major in a Courageous Life’

The Charlottesville Civil Rights Tour visits the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the first memorial in the United States dedicated to the legacy of enslaved Black people, lynching victims and African Americans harmed by racial segregation. Photo credit: Eze Amos

Bearing Witness to History

Pipeline: How UVA Is Becoming a Launch Pad for Women in Sports Media

Christa Davis Acampora said the liberal arts and sciences are crucial components of society’s efforts to solve the most complex challenges, ranging from threats to democracy to climate change. (Photo by Evan Kutsko)

Q&A: Getting To Know New Arts & Sciences Dean Christa Davis Acampora

Rebecca Pompano Wins A Moore Inventor Fellowship

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Portrait Project Opens Windows on Black Citizens and Connections to Descendants

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UVA Science and Engineering Faculty Win a Record-Breaking 13 NSF CAREER Awards

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The Long Echo of "Silent Spring"

A Kodiak-style boat provides some perspective as to the scale of the Thwaites Glacier. (Photo by Linda Welzenbach, Rice University)

Peeking Under ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ a Dripping Timebomb

Students Liyue Zhang and Shen-Wei Yu, foreground, lean in for a closer look in a UVA lab aiming to make hydrogen energy a viable alternative.

Behind the Scenes of the $3.7 Million Hydrogen Energy ‘Earthshot’ at UVA

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm meets with UVA President Jim Ryan during an informal conversation with Chemistry Department faculty prior to a lab tour and press announcement.

US Energy Secretary Awards Clean Energy Grant to UVA-Based Research Team

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The New Sound of History

UVA media studies professor Kevin Driscoll’s new books dives into the evolution of online communication.

A World Without Facebook? Professor’s New Book Explores Social Media’s ‘Prehistory’

Sarah Kucenas and Ashtyn Wiltbank

School of Fish: UVA Grad Students Expand the Field of Neuroscience in Mentor’s Lab

Christa Acampora brings to UVA a depth and breadth of academic and administrative experiences from leadership roles at Emory University and other institutions.

Christa Acampora Named Dean of UVA College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Gov. Glenn Youngkin, right, addresses office staff members. UVA student Cooper Cramer, seated to Youngkin’s right, interned in the Office of Transformation this summer. (Photo by Christian Martinez, Office of Gov. Glenn Youngkin)

What I Learned During My Summer Internship

Can you just delete social media from your device and not have to depend on pure willpower to break the habit? It’s not that straightforward, according to new research.Photo illustration by Emily Faith Morgan, University Communications

How Important Is Willpower to Breaking Your Bad Habits?

Theo O’Neill focuses on the relationship between young stars and the clouds of molecular gas that they form within.

UVA Astronomy Student Joins Ranks of Astronaut Scholars

UVA researchers researching loneliness found that the kind of friends you have makes a big difference in whether you will experience loneliness.

Loneliness Is Epidemic. This UVA Professor Is Searching for a Cure

John Campbell, a molecular neuroscientist and biology professor with the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (left), doctoral candidate Tatiana Coverdell (center) and Stephen Abbott, a pharmacology professor with UVA’s School of Medicine (right), have discovered a neural pathway from the brain to the esophagus that opens a new avenue of approach to the treatment of esophageal motility disorders.

Study Could Lead to New Treatments for Swallowing Disorders

UVA students in the "How to think about weird things" course.

Thinking About the Outside of the Box

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope in Chile. (Photo by Y. Beletsky, LCO/ESO)

UVA Astrochemist Helps Explore the Chemistry of Outer Space