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In a recent conversation with UVA Today, Baucom discussed his forthcoming book, reflected on his first term as dean, and shared some details about his plans for his second term in the College.

Hoos First Look raised thousands of dollars to pay for first-gen high school students’ travel, lodging and food for a weekend packed with programming, including tips on how to fill out financial aid forms and write college essays.

Fourth-year honors politics and English major Eileen Zijia Ying of Clarksville, Md., will continue her studies at Oxford University next fall as a Rhodes Scholar, the selection committee announced on Nov. 28.

A new lab, part of UVA’s Democracy Initiative, is examining the cause and cost of corruption throughout the world.

Through the CVC, state employees can provide financial support to a wide variety of charities, with 100 percent of the designated gifts going directly to the selected charities.

Fernando Valverde is a Spanish poet and visiting distinguished professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

The Democracy Initiative’s Corruption Lab for Ethics, Accountability, and the Rule of Law, or CLEAR, will hold a major event featuring Harvard professor and CNN analyst David Gergen and William Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005 when he was expelled from the country for exposing corruption.

The latest evidence that gene may not be destiny comes from Kathleen Krol’s study of maternal-infant interactions and how they affect the expression of genes that are important to babies’ development of oxytocin systems.

To celebrate the changing of the season, UVA’s Instagram account challenged followers’ photography skills with this year’s fall photo contest.

UVA’s High-Energy Lab physicists are building large components for one of the largest physics experiments ever conducted in the U.S. The results may rival the discovery of the Higgs boson.