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Cantor’s knowledge extended beyond literature, and he used his expertise in popular culture, music and sports as gateways for his students to grasp complex theories and scholarship.

The promise of quantum computing is still unfulfilled, but a math professor with UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences has won a major NSF grant that could help make that promise a reality.

This year’s Virginia Festival of the Book returns with a mix of in-person and virtual events showcasing the work of both UVA faculty and notable College alumni.

The new Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute will bring together scholars, artists and organizers working at the intersection of these research areas.

Math professor Ken Ono, who has dabbled in film and television over the years, spent two days in New Jersey to answer the profound question: Is 64 less than 80?

Could climate change quicken the pace of evolution? Scientists still don’t fully understand the impact of the environment on the evolutionary process, but NSF CAREER award winner Alan Bergland’s work with regional gardeners and the common fruit fly may be the key.

UVA's third annual Research Achievement Awards honored faculty pursuing research in areas that range from nanocrystals to international law to muscle signaling, and included 21 honorees from Arts & Sciences.

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.