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  • Dynamic Support

    UVA Creates Julian Bond Professorship for Civil Rights Education

    The late Julian Bond was one of the most prominent social justice advocates to emerge from the Civil Rights Movement. To honor his legacy and his service to the University of Virginia, where he taught for two decades, a new professorship is being established in his name.

  • Engaged Learning

    Graduate Art Student Calls Attention to Plight of Afghan Women

    Zuhal Feraidon, who was born in Afghanistan, has earned international recognition for artwork bringing attention to the daily dangers facing women in modern Afghanistan.

  • Engaged Learning

    Untangling the Legacy of Slavery

    Some of the best minds in the nation on the history of America’s founding, the roles of slavery and civil rights, and where the country stands today, gathered recently at Monticello to discuss scholarship, heartfelt thoughts and activism.

  • Dynamic Support

    Celebration of 50th Anniversary of NEH’s Founding Begins Sept. 14

    The local festival, which runs through Saturday, Sept. 17, will offer discussions, performances, film screenings, interviews, and art exhibits featuring some of the world's leading scholars, writers, artists, and cultural experts.

  • Focused Research

    Algal Blooms

    Working with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, A&S environmental scientists have created an online calculator for people to realize how their individual choices affect the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

  • Engaged Learning

    Adding Color to the Corner

    Anchored by a single powerful verse from Rita Dove’s poem, “Testimonial,” the new mural is the latest addition to this lively stretch of University Avenue, offering a bright, colorful welcome to new and returning students.

  • Focused Research

    UVA Biologist Developing 3-D Computer Model of a Full Animal, Cell by Cell

    Eyleen O’Rourke and colleagues are creating the first computer simulation of an entire living organism to better understand genetics, environment and disease.

  • Engaged Learning

    College to Pilot Groundbreaking Curriculum Changes

    The new pilot program will emphasize open inquiry and reflection, shared intellectual experiences and synthesis and connection across disciplines and fields of knowledge.

  • Engaged Learning

    UVA Students Find Wisdom, Motivation in Visit by Acclaimed Writer

    Caryl Phillips comes to UVA as the second Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

  • Engaged Learning

    Discovering the Juxtaposition

    Studying the social context and legacies of urban landscape design

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