News

Preparations continue across the University for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation review, scheduled to begin this fall and to end in the fall of 2017.

Jeffery Renard Allen’s habit of traveling to other countries for writing and teaching began in St. Petersburg, Russia about a dozen years ago.

Longtime English professor Ralph Cohen, who founded the internationally known scholarly journal New Literary History, died Feb. 23 – his 99th birthday – in Charlottesville.

Species-diverse unmanaged forests may be less susceptible to the damaging effects of ground-level ozone – toxic to many species of vegetation and to humans – than previously understood.

The Institute of Humanities and Global Cultures recently introduced its new director, Debjani Ganguly, at a town hall meeting dedicated to the IHGC’s vision for its role in advancing the humanities, the interpretive social sciences and interdisciplinary work at UVA.

Professor Alison Booth, a Department of English faculty member and a preeminent scholar of digital humanities, has been appointed Academic Director of the UVA Scholars’ Lab.

Public policy and psychology professor Ben Converse discusses his research on the impact of rivalries on human behavior – and how that relates to the sports rivalry between UVA and Virginia Tech.

Pulitzer-prize winning author Marilynne Robinson, who has written extensively on faith and religion in public life, will give a series of public lectures at UVA.

A new program to support A&S faculty’s creative and scholarly projects in the arts and to develop new forms of experiential learning has selected its first class of Arts Fellows.

Fourth-year Benjamin Harris, and 2010 alumnus Mostafa Allam have been tapped for the inaugural class of Schwarzman Scholars in Beijing.