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Landmark faculty vote ensures innovative new curriculum for future A&S undergraduates

RESEARCHERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND OTHER A&S INITIATIVES ARE BRINGING NEW HOPE TO ENDANGERED COASTAL COMMUNITIES

By Russ Bahorsky
Photos by Molly Angevine

The history of Victoria Long’s family in North America reaches back to the founding of the Colony of Virginia in the early 1600s. A UVA graduate student pursuing her Ph.D. in environmental sciences, she represents the thirteenth generation of a family that has farmed the same land on Virginia’s Eastern Shore for over 400 years.

YOUNG A&S ALUMS MAKING THEIR MARK

The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences prides itself for not only providing its students a challenging and wide-ranging liberal arts curriculum but also for its long track record of arming them with the flexibility and critical-thinking skills needed to excel in a variety of career fields. There is no shortage of young alumni and recent College graduates who are already standing out in the arts, academia, the nonprofit world, corporate America and other ventures.