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A message to the University community from President Teresa Sullivan and Provost Tom Katsouleas regarding the recent White House executive order prohibiting people from seven countries from entering the United States.

A new cohort of Arts & Sciences faculty members has accepted appointments to take up the work begun last semester by the inaugural class of College Fellows. The second class of Fellows, featuring a dozen faculty representing the arts and humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences, will join their colleagues from the first cohort in preparing the new undergraduate curriculum pilot.

The University of Virginia’s new multidisciplinary Brain Institute, established last spring, already has begun establishing the University as a national and state hub for basic and clinical brain research and education, and as a treatment center f

The UVA community will  commemorate the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during a series of events taking place from January 16-31. The theme for this year's celebration is “Silence as Betrayal.” 

Acclaimed writer Junot Díaz begins his three-week stay on Grounds as the Creative Writing Program’s fourth Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence on Jan. 23, with three public events scheduled for the award-winning novelist.

Blair, a devoted colleague and teacher who guided the English department’s Creative Writing Program to national prominence and taught writing for almost 30 years, died on Dec. 12.

Chemistry department chair W. Dean Harman says his goal as a chemist, teacher and departmental leader is to “make a difference in people’s lives.”

Biologist George Bloom, cell biologist David Brautigan and physicist Brad Cox are 2016 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon association members by their peers.

Based at Regent’s University London in the heart of the United Kingdom's capital’s royal Regent’s Park, the new program will offer first-year undergraduates the opportunity to start their college education overseas as both UVA students and citizens of the world.

When University of Virginia sociology professor Jeffrey K. Olick visited the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial a few years ago, he saw something unexpected: a second monument had been erected there.