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Join us as we unite our diverse Arts & Sciences community and show the University how passionate and committed College alumni and friends are to the future success of UVA.

This year’s Humanities Week, created and produced by students, is organized around the theme “Civil Resistance.” 

National Geographic magazine editors asked history professor John Edwin Mason to examine 130 years of coverage for racist writing and images. See how he did it and what he found. 

An interdisciplinary UVA research team is focusing on creating high-speed, high-density computer memory at the nano scale.

The National Science Foundation has awarded research grants to China Scherz (Anthropology), Fiona Greenland (Sociology) and Allison Pugh (Sociology).

The 2018-19 Mellon Arts Fellows include Allison Bigelow (Spanish), Federico Cuatlacuatl (Art), James Igoe (Anthropology) and Noel Lobley (Music). Phoebe Crisman (Architecture) and Karenne Wood (Virginia Humanities) also were awarded fellowships.

Since their most recent book’s publication in October by University of Virginia Press, the Parkers have been popular interview subjects across North America for media outlets seeking their humorous, and scholarly, insight on the time-honored practice of insincere flattery that “bootlickers,” “brownnosers” and, well, “suck ups,” employ.

The UVA Board of Visitors has approved $15.8 million of funding from the Strategic Investment Fund to support doctoral education in Arts & Sciences.  The funding will be awarded over five years and support two major initiatives in the Graduate School; $13.5 million was allotted for Grand Challenge Fellowships for 2019-22, and $2.3 million to pilot a PhD Plus career development program for 2018-20.

The 24th annual Virginia Festival of the Book opens on March 21 and will feature five days of readings and panel discussions featuring authors ranging from bestselling authors to debut writers. Arts & Sciences faculty will participate in a series of Festival readings and discussions this year, both as featured authors and as panel moderators.

The neural circuitry of the developing brain is shaped by sight. Jianhua “J.C.” Cang is looking deep for insights.