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Road Fraught With Danger for Female Migrants, UVA Student Research Finds

“People are migrating because they need to and the process of trying to resettle somewhere includes dangers, challenges and obstacles that many Americans do not understand or realize."
Dynamic Support

UVA Plans New School of Data Science; $120 Million Gift is Largest in University History

The School of Data Science – UVA’s 12th school – will seek to improve society through teaching and research based on the powerful, emerging field of data science.
Focused Research

NSF Renews Three-Decade Coastal Research Program

For the sixth straight time – and for what will be 36 years running – UVA's Long-Term Ecological Research Project on Virginia’s Eastern Shore has received significant funding from its primary sponsor, the National Science Foundation.
Dynamic Support

University Creates 20 Rotating Professorships for Democracy and Equity

The positions will examine underlying causes that fueled the violent white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville in 2017.
Engaged Learning

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,

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