Environmental scientists at the University of Virginia are restoring seagrass meadows to coastal lagoons on the Eastern Shore. Such meadows can store twice the carbon dioxide of terrestrial forests, offering one option for reducing global warming, but are under global threat.
John L. Nau III believed that the University of Virginia should be the foremost school in the nation for the study of mid-19th-century American history. With the unveiling of the Nau Center for Civil War History, the University is realizing that vision.
Take a look at a snow day on Grounds at the University of Virginia in January 2016.
