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Harrison Recipient Explores the Problems Latino Elementary Students Encounter

Astrid Escobar wants to solve the problems that affected her childhood experiences in the U.S. public education system.
Focused Research

Generosity Breeds Generosity: 4-Year-Olds Who Receive a Kindness Pay it Forward

When do acts of unexpected kindness first emerge in humans? New research at UVA found that the phenomenon is first seen in 4-year-olds.
Focused Research

Environmental Scientist Scott Doney on What Societies Can Do to Help the Planet

The decade that just ended, the 2010s, was the warmest experienced by the planet since people started collecting widespread, instrumental temperature data almost 200 years ago.
Focused Research

Varon: Union Forces Sought South’s Salvation in U.S. Civil War

Was the American Civil War a conflict of deliverance, in which Union forces were not only seeking to preserve the nation, but also, as they saw it, trying to save the misled Southern masses?
Focused Research

UVA Anthropologist Digitizes a Changing Culture From Half a World Away

Bernard Narokobi, who helped compose Papua New Guinea’s constitution, trusted UVA anthropologist Lise Dobrin with a manuscript telling the history of his village – a unique resource that previously existed only as a Word document.
Focused Research

When You Eat Might Be As Important As What You Eat

Biology professor Ali Güler’s research links “highly processed foods readily and cheaply available at any time of the day or night” to obesity and its many complications via disrupted circadian rhythms.
Engaged Learning

‘Woman of La Mancha’ Finds Her Calling Through Indigenous Literature, Service

Students hone their grammatical and writing skills while reading and discussing works by authors who have used writing as a tool for social justice and change.
Focused Research

Faculty Spotlight: George Bloom Seeks to Untangle Alzheimer’s Riddle

Bloom, a professor of biology, cell biology and neuroscience, chair of the Department of Biology and member of the UVA Brain Institute, leads a research program dedicated to bringing new insights to one of humanity’s most devastating brain afflictions: Alzheimer’s disease, which now affects nearly 6 million Americans.
Engaged Learning

Student’s Project Hits Close to Home as Human Rights Concerns Rise in China

For Misran Dolan, an economics and computer science major from Northern Virginia, the threat can feel far away at times as he and his family practice their culture freely in the U.S.
Focused Research

Ph.D. Students Transform Rotunda Into Planetarium, Realizing Jefferson’s Vision

The night sky is being recreated in the Rotunda’s Dome Room for a limited time, thanks to a trio of University of Virginia Ph.D. candidates – not from astronomy or computer science, but from the English department.

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