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Butler studied the history of African American culture in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. He came to UVA in 1991, and became the second director of the Woodson Institute.

Caplin loved UVA, where many of his formative years were spent. As an undergraduate, he was an intercollegiate boxer and dabbled in acting. Later, he was editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review and graduated first in his law class.

The Topology and Geometry group in the Department of Mathematics is happy to announce that they are the recipient of a five year $2.5 million Research Training Group grant from the National Science Foundation.

College presidents have been described as the ‘narrators-in-chief’ of their institutions,” said Bilger, who this summer will become president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and the first woman to serve in that role.

Three College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences students received $5,000 National Geographic On Campus Scholarships for the 2019-20 academic year as part of UVA's partnership with the National Geographic Society.

Are celebrities increasingly acting as our moral compass? That’s the question posed in religious studies professor John Portmann’s new book, “Celebrity Morals and the Loss of Religious Authority.”

Yahya Abou-Ghazala and Robby Keough have won the first student Emmy Award given to a UVA student. It began last year as a one-day, deadline assignment for their “Advanced Multimedia Reporting” course.

Dean Ian Baucom will be taking leave for the Fall 2019 semester. Brie Gertler, Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and interim Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities, has accepted the role of acting dean until Baucom’s return.

Where do you fall statistically on a cross tabulation of “Friends” characters and Hogwarts houses? The annual Stats Live! Symposium drew hundreds of UVA students with a series of presentations by data journalists from FiveThirtyEight and Business Insider about the professional – and whimsical – applications of statistics in the professional world.

Arts & Sciences faculty members Todd Sechser and Siva Vaidhyanathan will direct the two newest labs for interdisciplinary research sponsored by the UVA’s Democracy Initiative.