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Gilliard, a UVA chemistry professor (and currently a visiting professor at MIT), manipulates chemistry to create compounds from fundamental reactions, then seeks practical applications for them.

A new summer science camp launched by UVA psychology graduate students introduces the basics of the brain to area middle-school students from underrepresented populations.

What does a performance artist do in the middle of a pandemic? Student and faculty musicians in UVA's jazz program went into the studio.

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation commemorates the legacy of America’s pioneering astronauts by awarding grants of up to $15,000 to students studying science, technology, engineering or mathematics.

U.S. Gen. Gordon Granger marched into Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865 – two months after the Civil War ended – and read aloud the Emancipation Proclamation, effectively ending slavery in that region.

UVA President Jim Ryan and Karsh Institute of Democracy Executive Director Melody Barnes wrote this commentary, published on June 5 in USA Today.

Family trips to Beijing had a profound impact on two sisters from Northern Virginia studying science at UVA, setting them on two different paths to the same goal.

Three A&S faculty members — Louis Bloomfield (Physics); Mrinalini Chakravorty (English); and Carmen Lamas (English, American Studies) — received All-University Faculty Teaching Awards, and 22 other faculty members and graduate students were recognized this academic year.

UVA has awarded 21 Double Hoo Awards to new pairings of undergraduates and graduate student mentors, with the teams receiving up to $6,000.

Take a look back at some special moments from Sunday’s celebrations, as the University of Virginia’s Class of 2020 reunited to walk the Lawn and celebrate after a long pandemic year.