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A Sense of Belonging
From Darden to Airbnb and back again, Melissa Thomas-Hunt creates connections that bring people together.
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University Breaks Ground for Cutting-Edge Data Science School
University officials began a new era on Thursday with the groundbreaking for the School of Data Science, the first of several new buildings planned for the Ivy Road entrance corridor.
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Expertise & A Gentle Nature
Joanne Walsh’s positive experience at UVA Cancer Center inspired her to fund future research on brain cancer.
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The Last Frontier
Lawn Society members Sandra Stern (Ed ’85) and her husband, Evan, are also longtime supporters of the School of Education and Human Development. With Evan battling Parkinson’s-related dementia, the Sterns felt they had to act. So they created the Stern Bicentennial Professorship in Education and Neuroscience to leverage the School of Education and Human Development's existing strengths with the increasing prominence of pan-University efforts in neuroscience research.
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Gift Advances COVID-19 Research
The Manning family made a $1 million gift creating a fund for research efforts addressing COVID-19 challenges.
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Sea Change
Pete Ten Eyck and UVA’s researchers join forces to save oyster reefs on the Eastern Shore.
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Reimagining Appalachia
UVA students see firsthand how impact investing is restoring hope to this changing region.
UVA Health System
Update  •  April 21, 2020
Timely $1 Million Grant to UVA Health Boosts Ability to Produce COVID Tests
Since UVA Health began testing for COVID-19, faculty, administrators and staff have been working around the clock to expand testing capabilities.
Michael Wiener
Update  •  February 15, 2019
Keck Foundation Provides UVA $1M to Open New Portal to the Submicroscopic World
A scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has received a three-year, $1 million award from the William M. Keck Foundation to develop a new and better way to map out the submicroscopic world.