Students curated an exhibit, “Extinction in the Archive,” to accompany the symposium, “Burning the Library of Life: Species Extinction and the Humanities,” held as part of UVA’s Environmental Humanities Week.

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.

The idea for a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers garnered widespread support not only from UVA students, faculty, staff and administrators, but also from people in the community, some of whom serve on the Community Engagement Committee.

Michael Bérubé, who earned his Ph.D. in English from UVA, looks at what literature and popular culture reveal about our society’s ideas and treatment of disability.

A new exhibition celebrates political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant’s work and shows how and why he became the most widely syndicated, most influential political cartoonist in America.

Anthropologist Roberto Armengol and engineering doctoral student Courtney Hill have been awarded Ford Foundation Fellowships, which aim to increase the diversity of the nation’s faculties and the educational benefits of diversity and inclusion.

The new book, “Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University,” published by University of Virginia Press, presents a detailed case study of how slavery functioned in the institution’s first 50 years.

Dunn, one of the University’s longest-serving employees, was known for her friendly manner and impeccable service in UVA’s Accounts Payable and Procurement offices.

The Academy of American Poets selected Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English, for its Wallace Stevens Award, and Kyle Dargan, a 2002 alumnus of the Area Program in Poetry Writing, for its Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

The books are all right. A hardy band of workers is moving 1.7 million books and other items from Alderman Library, which will close in May for much-needed renovation, into the Ivy Stacks Building and Clemons Library.