In its latest effort to ease access to applicants from all backgrounds, the University of Virginia is among the latest schools to sign on to the Common Application, a single document that allows students to apply for admission at any of 346 public and private universities across the United States.

U.Va. Health System researcher Pierrick G. Fournier is the first recipient of the Bone and Cancer Foundation’s Noa Schwartz Siris Research Award for his study of the interactions between cancer cells in bone metastases and the immune system.