Faculty Global Research with Undergraduates

This project explores whether Chinese investment in Gwadar Port in Pakistan, located at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical lifeline in global trade, can contribute to a significant reordering of Central Asian trade flows in the backdrop of the war in Ukraine.

This project seeks to unveil the mysteries of the recent detection of table salt in space.

Concrete is one of the most important materials in modern civilization but its production generates 8% of global CO2 emissions so there is growing urgency to develop alternative low-carbon alternatives.

In the fall of 1982, Jaquelin Robertson, Dean of the UVA School of Architecture, hosted an international conference dedicated to the state of architectural practices.

Moral values, some of the most deeply held beliefs an individual or a culture can hold, are particularly difficult to change.

This semester, Profs. Cheryl Krueger and Ari Blatt, both in the Department of French, are co-facilitating a new, 1-credit reading seminar.

In this “Community-Engaged” education abroad program UVA undergraduates will gain applied research experience focused on the proposed redevelopment of a 40-km stretch of the Hồng (Red) River in Vietnam’s capital.

The Vietnam Polymath REU is a research program for undergraduates targeted at promising Vietnamese mathematics undergraduates.

Mary-Dryden Maio translates into English the first book of poetry, Jardín Transparente (Transparent Garden), by the Ecuadorian poet Camila Peña.

This project will partner a UVA global health student with a Cambodian community mental health team to develop a research project focused on family and community supports for people with severe mental illness in Cambodia.