Two promising young writers from Africa — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helon Habila — will give a reading at the University of Virginia Bookstore tomorrow at
4 p.m. Both Adichie and Habila were featured among the “Fiction’s New Luminaries” in the Summer 2004 special issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Adichie’s first novel, “Purple Hibiscus,” won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Habila’s debut novel, “Waiting for an Angel,” won the Commonwealth Literature Prize for the Best First Novel by an African writer. He won the Caine Prize in 2001. The reading is free and open to the public.

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Harvard physics professor and University of Virginia physics department alumnus Chris Stubbs (left) will deliver the 36th Annual Llewellyn G. Hoxton Public Lecture titled “The Accelerating Universe: Why You Should Worry” tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Chemistry Building Auditorium, Room 402. A reception will follow. Stubbs, an experimental physicist working at the interface between particle physics, cosmology and gravitation, is one of the principal investigators on an ambitious survey that will use hundreds of supernovae to map out the recent expansion history of the universe. He also contributed signficantly in the revolutionary discovery that the universe is accelerating rather than decelerating in its expansion. Full story.

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