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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.

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.