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Pandemic, war and environmental disaster push scientists to deliver quick answers. A UVA sociologist recently investigated how researchers maintain rigorous standards in difficult situations.

In the popular course “How Things Work,” physics professor Chris Neu has developed “Physics Idol!,” a new method for students to demonstrate their learning, modeled after the popular performance competition TV show, “American Idol.”

Art history major Ansleigh Graeff focuses on the 1980s to champion the work of three female painters whose work she thinks was overlooked by the art world.

The award-winning astrophysicist greatly advanced the world’s understanding of black holes.

Industrial production of petroleum-based products introduces massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Chemist Brent Gunnoe’s research could make those processes cleaner and much less expensive.

Sundberg co-wrote what is considered the preeminent graduate textbook in organic chemistry and served in many administrative capacities in addition to his teaching and mentoring.

Professor Simone Polillo explores the uneasy relationship humans have with money, markets and morality through his professional lens of “the sociology of money.”