When the white supremacist rally in Virginia erupted in violence this summer, Dr. Robert E. O’Connor ’78, director of the University of Virginia Medical Center Hospital's Emergency Department, faced the largest multiple-casualty incident of his career.
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The psychology major, who also minored in environmental studies, used her thesis to explore the role hope plays in environmental activism.
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James Weissinger '06, associate director of the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and operations manager for VCAM, discusses the newest campus building and his hopes for its future.
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A student-curated exhibit drawn from the archives of Phialdelphia’s Friend’s Asylum explores Quakerism and the “curability” of mental illness.
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The recent chemistry major, who is now pursuing a Ph.D. at Harvard University, is one of only 5 percent of applicants chosen for the selective DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science, which was published in April by W.W. Norton, outlines 12 common tactics that politicians regularly employ to butcher science, including “the Cherry-Pick,” “the Literal Nitpick,” and “the Oversimplification.”
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The jazz pianist has a new band and album, named for a four-paneled painting.
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Her folk group, Daisy House, is a collaboration with her father, Doug.
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The political science major and education major wanted to understand how to fix the problem of persistent school segregation, so she conducted a policy analysis of two different socioeconomic-status-based school integration methods.
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For her thesis, the mathematics major explored how statistics are used (and can potentially be misused) in legal proceedings.
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In addition to a 20-year career in land conservation, the history buff is president of a Revolutionary War reenacting group.
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The classical culture and society major sought to understand a modern comic masterpiece through the lens of Homeric epics.
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The new artistic and managing director at Allentown Public Theater aims to make theater for the people of Allentown and stage performances all over the small Pennsylvanian city.
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The anthropology major is working on the Quality of Care program at the AIDS Institute in New York City.
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Inspired by endangered species from her home state, the fine arts major made paper lithographs of animals on colorful graphic backgrounds for her thesis exhibition.