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UVA’s High-Energy Lab physicists are building large components for one of the largest physics experiments ever conducted in the U.S. The results may rival the discovery of the Higgs boson.

UVA’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences will play an important part in making the 32nd annual Virginia Film Festival possible.

Cleeves is considered one of the world’s leading experts in theoretical astrochemistry and its applications to newly forming and formed planets.

The annual festival, which is a program of the University and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts, is set for Oct. 23-27.

Ann Beattie, an award-winning short story writer and former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UVA, will return to Grounds this fall as the Creative Writing Program’s sixth Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence.

UVA has been selected to participate in the pilot cohort of the AAU Ph.D. Education Initiative. The initiative aims “to promote more student-centered doctoral education at AAU universities by making diverse Ph.D. career pathways visible, valued and viable.”

As part of the College Football Playoff Foundation’s “Extra Yard for Teacher’s Week” – an annual celebration honoring great teachers across the country – UVA quarterback Bryce Perkins had a special message.

The Democracy Initiative’s Corruption Laboratory for Ethics, Accountability, and the Rule of Law (CLEAR) is debuting a new speaker series, opening with a lunchtime talk on Sept. 12, by one of the lab’s co-directors, Sandip Sukhtankar.

The podcast is hosted by Religious Studies professors Martien Halvorson-Taylor and Kurtis Schaeffer.

The College offered a five-day writers’ retreat in July, and 16 faculty members took advantage to advance their work on summer writing projects.