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- A new study shows that seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and can store up to twice as much carbon as the world\'s temperate and tropical forests.
- Four courses in the School of Architecture this spring led U.Va. students on a journey to explore the link between design and health, and to put their new knowledge to improve people's lives.
- The University of Virginia is celebrating National Bicycle Week by hosting a "Bike Commuting 101" Lunch-and-Learn session Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. in room 1120 of the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building.
- U.Va. is No. 1 with a Gorilla. The University has achieved the coveted "Gorilla Prize" for overall recycling in the RecycleMania competition, besting all comers across the Commonwealth and finishing fourth among ACC schools.
- Students departing the University of Virginia Grounds for the summer have the opportunity to donate and recycle unwanted furniture, household items, clothing and nonperishable food in support of area charities. Chuck It for Charity, the annual donation drive, runs from May 4 through 12.
- Public school art teachers learned the ecology and beauty of salt marshes during a workshop at U.Va.'s Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center on the Eastern Shore. The workshop sought to encourage teachers to incorporate science with art in their classrooms.
- Do-it-yourself aerial photography sounds like a potentially dangerous thing to dabble in, but the staff of the University of Virginia\'s Scholars\' Lab is showing faculty and staff a way to tackle it with both feet planted firmly on the ground.
- The Department of Environmental Sciences in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences is sponsoring a Global Environmental Challenges Symposium Thursday and Friday.
- A team of University of Virginia students aiming to improve water quality and the local economy in a rural South African province won the $20,000 grand prize at the Walmart Better Living Business Plan Challenge, held April 13 in Bentonville, Ark.
- Virginia's natural resource management leaders will meet April 25-27 at Hungry Mother State Park in Southwest Virginia for the fifth of six three-day Virginia Natural Resource Leadership Institute-sponsored workshops.
- By offering alternatives to single-passenger vehicles and considering the environmental impacts of its operations, the University of Virginia's Department of Parking and Transportation has been honored, twice, by the commonwealth.
- The University of Virginia and IBM's World Community Grid today launched the Computing for Sustainable Water Project.
- Immigration, diversity and the League of Human Rights in France will be the topic of a free seminar today at the University of Virginia's Center for International Studies.
- Daniel Reifsnyder, deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state in the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science and chair of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, will speak April 17 at 4 p.m. in Clark Hall, room 108.
- The third annual, student-initiated Innovation in Public Service Conference, to be held Friday, will bring together University of Virginia students, faculty and local community partners to collaborate and share knowledge on service and community engagement within and beyond the Grounds.
- Earth Week 2012 will be the liveliest observance yet at the University of Virginia, with presentations, exhibits, classes, food and music the week of April 16-22.
- University of Virginia engineering student Rowan Sprague wants to make agriculture more sustainable, and now has a Udall Scholarship to help her.
- U.Va. geology professor John Porter and other scientists are deploying high technology to create extremely accurate elevation maps of the Eastern Shore and barrier islands, which could have profound implications for land use, emergency flood planning and habitat regeneration in years to come.
- The Virginia Food Heritage Project is sponsoring its first Central Virginia Gathering on March 26, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., at the Albemarle County Building in Charlottesville, 401 McIntire Rd.
- The Grounds are getting greener, and it\'s not because of springtime. Thanks to support from Alcoa Foundation and partners, the University of Virginia will launch a new recycling effort in its residence halls.
- Virginia's natural resource management leaders will meet March 14-16 in Staunton for the fourth of six Virginia Natural Resource Leadership Institute-sponsored workshops.
- The Supreme Court of Virginia today affirmed a circuit court's decision quashing two civil investigative demands – or CIDs – by the Virginia Attorney General that sought extensive information relating to climate research conducted by Michael Mann, a former assistant professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.
- Students, small-business owners and professors convened Wednesday to watch a screening of the film, "The End of the Line," a film about the decline of world fisheries. This community wanted to talk about the problems facing the world fishing industry – and what they can do about them.
- Environmental activist Vandana Shiva will speak at the University of Virginia on March 20 as part of the Brown College Visiting Environmental Writers and Scholars Series.
- Helping residents of Southside Virginia lower their utility costs and improving primary and preventative health care in St. Kitts are just a sampling of the 14 Jefferson Public Citizen projects that 59 University of Virginia undergraduates will be leading during the 2012-13 academic year.
- A seagrass restoration project in the coastal bays of Virginia\'s Eastern Shore is demonstrating remarkable success, according to researchers at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.