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As the weather turns colder, students who are participating in for-credit activities in drama, dance, and instrumental music will be permitted to rehearse and perform indoors, provided they are following certain public health requirements. As a result of these changes, the Cavalier Marching Band, which is a for-credit activity, will be able to play in the stands at Scott Stadium.

The 34th-annual Virginia Film Festival opens on October 28 with five days of in-theater screenings and drive-in movie presentations at Morven Farm, along with some virtual discussion events.

Building on 35 years of research on Virginia’s Eastern Shore and funded by a new $5 million NSF grant, a UVA-led team is partnering with local communities to develop options for managing the impacts of a changing climate.

Among the many problems COVID-19 is causing, the pandemic may also be increasing the rate at which endangered languages are being lost around the globe. A unique partnership between UVA’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the University’s School of Data Sciences may offer a solution, however.

The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences created a new Rising Scholars fellowship program, with support from the University’s Mellon-funded Race, Place and Equity grant and additional funds.

Two fourth-year students are teaching Native American youth in South Dakota about science – and the possibilities of higher education.

Our climate is changing rapidly, and our oceans are changing with it. A new center will bring together researchers from a variety of fields to give science a better understanding of what that will mean for life on Earth.

Through her work directing the Office of African-American Affairs’ Peer Advisor Program, she has “built stairways” for UVA students, leading to a sense of shared achievement.

UVA astronomer Steven Majewski just won a research prize that will help him build a prototype for a new kind of camera that might not work, but if it does, it could revolutionize how we look at the universe.

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.