Ampersand

“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."

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.

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.

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.