After meeting a team of UVA doctors in her native Dominican Republic in 2006, Eliany Mejia-Lopez was determined to come to UVA. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)

Incoming first-year students gathered on the Lawn Thursday during the first of many Summer Orientation sessions. (Photo by Caroline Newman, University Communications)

J. Julius Zhu said the main idea behind the research was “actually very simple,” but “it took us a lot of years to make this thing work.” (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)