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ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL March 08, 2021 Last year, Alex Pinckney found herself struggling to pick a graduate school. The pandemic wasn’t helping matters. “I felt very overwhelmed, trying to make this decision without the ability to visit the schools I was considering,” Pinckney said. Then she got an email from Dan Player, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy – one of the schools that had offered her admission. During a phone call soon after, he told her that at UVA, she could likely participate in a ...

“To the general public, it might seem like a buried history, but the Caribbean is so much more than tourism,” said Marlene Daut, professor of African American and African Studies and an expert on Haiti who helped create the new program on Caribbean literatures, arts and cultures. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, he hit these islands first. Over the years and the subsequent trips that  Columbus and other Europeans made, the indigenous populations were almost entirely exterminated on many islands, due to a deadly combination of resistance through warfare with the conqui...

Date Time Researchers Explore Laser-Beaming Energy for Lunar and Terrestrial Needs Artemis will join Pink Floyd on the dark side of the moon – and the University of Virginia has contributed to getting it there. Artemis is a NASA program to return humans (including the first woman) to the moon, seeking to further explore its polar regions and the regions that remain in perpetual darkness. (Pink Floyd, on the other hand, is a rock band that made the haunting single “The Dark Side of the Moon” one of its signature hits.) NASA finds one dark spot on the lunar surface particularly intriguing...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL February 01, 2021 Just over one month into 2021, political polarization and tensions in America have reached a new high. In this environment, is it possible to have constructive conversations with family, friends and neighbors on the “other side”? What is the point of even trying to have these conversations? Rachel Wahl, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, studies dialogue between people with opposing beliefs, seeking to shed light on both its benefits and its limitations. Imp...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL December 09, 2020 A top exercise researcher and colleagues at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have launched an ambitious effort to understand the whole-body benefits of exercise, so that doctors can use that information to prevent and treat disease. Zhen Yan and his collaborators aim to identify the sources, functions and targets of the molecules that provide exercise’s well-documented health benefits. By understanding this, doctors will better understand how exercise helps fend off disease, and they may be able to design dru...