EventSHELF LIFE—Bird Watching: Spring Migrations with Kenn Kaufman & Pete Myers
Join author and extreme birder Kenn Kaufman as he discusses his newest book, A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration, with Pete Myers, in a conversation …
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COVID-19 brought the world to a halt. Now, everyone’s waiting on a vaccine.
NewsPredicting Hotspots
What if we could predict civil conflict 5 years in advance with machine learning? What might we do differently?
NewsThe Voyage of the USS Albatross
Many of us spent the summer fishing. But could overfishing be changing fish genetics?
NewsNo One Cares Alone
Sammy was just a month old when he started experiencing symptoms of heart failure. Hear about the doctor who performed the groundbreaking surgery that saved the boy’s life, and the resource he created to help doctors avoid burnout.
NewsReplay: Future Farming of America
Does “genetic modification” scare you? We get to the root of it and explore hemp as the new cash crop.
NewsGoing Viral
UVA doctors got to work immediately to create COVID-19 testing kits in a race against time. And another battle is being waged against the spread of misinformation on social media.
NewsThe Art of Space
Skip to show segment MOXIE Bob Ash (Old Dominion University) In the blockbuster hit, The Martian, Matt Damon escapes Mars by using a spacecraft based on real-life technology created years …
NewsBay to Belly
By Nora Pehrson Thanks to a grant from Virginia Humanities, the Watermen’s Museum in Yorktown, Virginia is developing a traveling exhibit devoted to the food systems of the Chesapeake Bay …
NewsSea Change
As Tangier disappears, Virginia Humanities thinks about how to preserve the island and why that’s important.
