Two University of Virginia astronomers are leading two of the first research projects selected by NASA for the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch this fall.

The biology professor was an internationally renowned researcher and generous mentor whose work placed UVA at the center of the circadian rhythms universe.

A UVA astronomy professor is part of a team that determined that matter makes up 31% of the total amount of matter and energy in the universe, with the remainder consisting of dark energy.

Members of UVA’s newly formed Arctic Research Center will work directly with residents of Utqiaġvik, Alaska, as they face the effects of climate change.

Jim Galloway and Timothy Wilson last week became the fourth and fifth UVA faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences for their pathbreaking research.

Lawrie Balfour, professor of politics, and Brian Teare, associate professor in the Creative Writing Program, are among 175 scholars, writers, artists and scientists receiving the prestigious fellowships this year.

A new lab, part of UVA’s Democracy Initiative, is examining the cause and cost of corruption throughout the world. It kicked off its activities Tuesday by hearing from an anti-corruption activist.

The latest evidence that gene may not be destiny comes from Kathleen Krol’s study of maternal-infant interactions and how they affect the expression of genes that are important to babies’ development of oxytocin systems.

Few university astronomy departments have more than one faculty member who has been awarded a prestigious Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. UVA has three, among seven total on Grounds.

Beattie, whose latest novel is “A Wonderful Stroke of Luck,” will give a reading Oct. 17 and two subsequent lectures as part of the Kapnick residency.