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Rising fourth-year is researching genetic variation in the sun-loving plant with the aim of mapping the ability of the sunflower to absorb heavy metals across its genome.

Distracted? Having problems focusing? Overwhelmed by emails, texts and tweets? Expected to do too many things at once?

July 2nd marked the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act, which outlawed segregation in public places based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and made employment discrimination illegal.

Jehovah. Allah. Brahma. Ra. Atma. Zeus. God. Names given by people across time and culture to represent a divine creator, a source of ultimate power and will.

Most people are just not comfortable in their own heads, according to a new psychological investigation led by the University of Virginia.

“Postwar British Prints” reveals the diversity and strength of printmaking in Great Britain after World War II.

Four graduate students and four graduates have received Fulbright Scholarships to study and work abroad for the 2014-15 academic year.

Associate Dean for Humanities and the Arts Cristina Della Coletta has accepted a dean’s position at the University of California, San Diego.

A professor emeritus of the Department of English's Creative Writing Program in U.Va.'s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, poet Charles Wright planned to spend his summer in Montana before stepping "into the void" of his new public role.