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Artist Nick Cave Shares His Vision of Celebrations with New Curriculum Students

Chicago artist Nick Cave, the first keynote speaker of this academic year’s Engagement Lecture Series, was joined by art professor William Wylie for a wide-ranging conversation about the inspirations behind Cave’s large-scale works and an artist’s role in democratic society.
Focused Research

6 Questions About UVA’s Timely New Democracy Initiative

Co-director and White House veteran Melody Barnes, Miller Center director William Antholis and College of Arts & Sciences Dean Ian Baucom discuss UVA’s ambitious goal to answer the most essential questions facing democracy today.
Engaged Learning

Behind the Wall

History professor Kyrill Kunakhovich worked with students from his Fall of Communism and Life in Dictatorships classes to recreate an East German living room from 1988, one year before the German Democratic Republic (GDR) collapsed.
Focused Research

Volunteers Gather in Classrooms and Coffeeshops to Transcribe Julian Bond’s Work

Bond joined the UVA Arts & Sciences faculty in 1992 and taught in the Corcoran Department of History for two decades, teaching the popular lecture course, “History of the Civil Rights Movement.”
Safety and Security Messages Related to the August 10-12 Weekend
Focused Research

Zebrafish Lab Provides Insights Into Diseases of the Nervous System

Sarah Kucenas’s fish facility now includes its own water-treatment plant and can house up to 50,000 fish and hundreds of tanks in a 1,300-square-foot area,
Engaged Learning

Paying Attention

More than 65 million people have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war. Human Flow, a 2017 documentary by Ai Weiwei that brings viewers face-to-face with some who have been affected, was simultaneously screened at 53 schools, museums and other organizations, including UVA.
Engaged Learning

‘Fight’ Club: Drama Professor Leads 16 Students in Stage Combat Training

Trust is key to any partnership, but especially when your partner is slashing toward you with a drawn rapier or raised fist.
Engaged Learning

Looking Backward and Forward, First-Year Students Celebrate New Curriculum

About 600 first-year UVA students chose the new Arts & Sciences curriculum, which included a common course on “Engaging Democracy at UVA.”
Engaged Learning

Poet Paul Guest Shows ‘Because Everything is Terrible,’ It’s a Good time to Embrace Life

How does one deal with pain, loneliness, love, happiness, quirky occurrences, mysteries, nature’s fragile beauty or remorseless violence – all the myriad experiences of daily life? Some write poetry, like assistant professor Paul Guest.

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