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Abel Liu, who worked to aid students caught in the COVID-19 pandemic, was surprised by President Jim Ryan with news of the Truman Scholarship late last week.

Yao-Lun Yang, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Astronomy, is lead author of a new study examining the formation of organic molecules at the dawn of planet formation.

Innovations in the science that creates the colors we see on our cellphones and computer screens have won Assistant Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilliard an award given to the country’s most promising young researchers and educators.

Conventional painkillers only mask symptoms caused by inflammation. Tim Ware’s research targets inflammation’s source and has won him one of the NIH’s top honors for graduate researchers.

After missing a year due to COVID-19, the Virginia Festival of the Book is back with two weeks of virtual readings and discussions, many featuring Arts & Sciences faculty, staff and alumni.

With the help of volunteers, environmental scientists at UVA are gearing up for a large-scale study of the impacts of clean air legislation and climate change on the commonwealth’s mountain streams.

Fiorani is UVA’s resident expert on da Vinci. She writes and teaches about the intersection of art, science and technology in the Renaissance, and led a project digitizing da Vinci’s “Treatise on Painting,” a tool that scholars all over the world now access and use.

A giant in the field of circadian rhythms, Menaker was widely considered one of the pioneers in the physiological analysis and identification of circadian pacemakers in the vertebrate nervous and endocrine systems.

In honor of Black History Month, the State Department’s “ShareAmerica” platform is featuring Dove alongside artist Amy Sherald, sculptor Simone Leigh, the late singer Ella Fitzgerald and the late author Toni Morrison.

The Caribbean islands might sound like the ideal beautiful, balmy vacation spot, but for scholars who study the region, it is so much more – a place of important history and flourishing arts that has much to show its neighbors and past conquerors,