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Emma Rathbone does miss rainstorms, but she has no regrets leaving cozy Charlottesville after 10 years for sprawling Los Angeles – both places she chose for her creative writing career.

Elizabeth Parker and Zaakir Tameez were instrumental in creating the task force, which seeks to increase participation among college students across the commonwealth in civic activities, especially in voting, and becoming more involved in their local communities. 

UVA is making every effort to ensure that students can thrive in a safe and secure environment.

Ranking among the pioneers who worked to diversify UVA’s faculty, a colleague remembers Sedgwick as “among those colleagues who for me have always defined the best of the University of Virginia.” 

UVA astronomer Ed Murphy was preparing to witness his first total eclipse of the sun, and he had a timeline.

Lindsay Hinz’s costume design career is on a roll. She has already designed Broadway costumes for three years, and she’s a top 10 finalist in one of America’s quirkiest contests – the 2017 Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest. 

Dove was honored with the inaugural U.S. Presidential Scholars Award, along with one-time Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland and Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, for their accomplishments and contributions to a civil society.

Malaria remains a deadly problem in equatorial regions of the world as the chameleon-like parasite that causes the disease develops resistance to multiple drugs.

The hirings of Scott Doney and Lawrence Band will boost the new UVA Environmental Resilience Institute, a cross-disciplinary initiative to study the scientific and policy implications of various environmental issues.

UVA biologist Alan Bergland studies rapidly reproducing insects to gain insights into how species adapt to their environments over generations.