Undergrad Duo’s Research Seeks Answers to the World Trash Crisis
With the World Bank predicting a 70 percent increase in urban garbage by 2025, two UVA undergraduates ventured to Brazil to study the phenomenon of “trash-pickers,” who make a living recycling garbage...
View ArticleSaving Virginia’s Coasts: Faculty Research Takes On Sea-Level Rise
Some areas of the state rank among the globe’s highest-risk areas for sea-level rise over the next century. UVA faculty members are working to prepare these coastal communities for the environmental,...
View ArticleUVA Professor Teaches Sustainability Through Soccer
Before Leidy Klotz entered academia, he played professional soccer. Now he’s a professor of engineering and architecture at UVA, and recently wrote a book that draws parallels between his academic and...
View ArticleUVA Physicists, Engineers Paving Way for Wider Use of New Solar Cell Materials
UVA researchers are revolutionizing solar cell technology by speeding the design process for materials that are efficient and stable over a wide range of temperatures, while remaining inexpensive to...
View ArticleStudent Project Puts Solar Power on the Table
A student-driven project brings renewable energy to the University of Virginia’s Lile-Maupin first-year residence hall in the form of a solar table.
View ArticleProminent Environmental Scientists Join UVA’s Resilience Initiative
The hirings of Scott C. Doney and Lawrence E. Band will boost the new UVA Environmental Resilience Institute, a cross-disciplinary initiative to study the scientific and policy implications of various...
View ArticleUVA Inoculates Ash Trees Against Emerald Borer
As the emerald ash borer sweeps across the state, the University of Virginia seeks to preserve its ash trees, which are a dominant species on Grounds.
View ArticleUVA Student Donations Increase 40 Percent for 2017 ‘Hoos ReUse’ Campaign
The program diverts usable items from the landfill to community groups during the student move-out process, including clothes, food, furniture, appliances, carpets and household items.
View ArticleSaving Sea Turtles, One Six-Pack at a Time
Darden alumnus Marco Vega’s agency has created edible, biodegradable six-pack rings that could help prevent those heartbreaking images of sea turtles, dolphins and other marine life trapped in our...
View ArticleGhost Nets to Art: Exhibition Raises Awareness of Ocean Litter
A new Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum exhibit on display at the Charles L. Brown Science and Engineering Library dramatizes the damage done by abandoned fishing nets.
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