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The scholars recently gathered on Grounds for an international conference examining how big data and the new frontiers of media technology introduced by Facebook, Google and other global companies have penetrated our daily lives.

15 of the 16 UVA recipients are from the College or Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. 

Brian Seymour’s passion for physics and mathematics paid off recently with an Astronaut Scholarship, created in 1984 by the six surviving Mercury 7 astronauts to encourage U.S. scholars in STEM fields.

Lauchlan Davis took a leave of absence from UVA to explore the Appalachian Trail, came away with greater self-assurance – and still managed to graduate with her entering class.

Branden Cogswell is banking on his baseball smarts – and his new psychology degree – to keep him on the ballfield as a college baseball coach.

John Bonvillian, a pioneer in the field of augmentative and alternative communication, passed away on May 8 in Charlottesville. He was instrumental in getting the American Sign Language program established at UVA.

UVA’s Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures is hosting the annual conference of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, a global professional body with more than 200 humanities centers from around the world.

Hector Amaya (Media Studies), and Murad Idris, (Politics), have been awarded fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, for the 2018-19 academic year.

The Democracy Initiative’s next lab will focus on combatting corruption, and will be led by scholars from disciplines across Arts & Sciences and the School of Law. The lab will run for approximately three years and feature new classes, conferences, and research in the field of corruption studies.

Grace Elizabeth Hale, Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History, and Talitha LeFlouria, the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor in African and African-American Studies, are among the 31 distinguished scholars and writers who had their research proposals selected by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.