James N. Galloway of the University of Virginia, a prescient explorer of nitrogen’s wide-ranging effects on local and global ecosystems, is one of two recipients of the 2008 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

August 2009
To complete the DMP after approval of your proposal by the UGARC, you will need to

Have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.40 across all courses taken since matriculating in the University.
Complete the research work.
Complete a report of the work (the [...]

August 2009
Distinguished Majors Program, 2009-2010
Your research proposals are due by Friday October 23, 2009. Five (5) copies of the complete proposal package should be delivered to the Director of the Distinguished Majors Program, Patricia Wiberg. You may place the proposal package in Prof. Wiberg’s departmental mailbox.
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Air pollution from power plants and automobiles is destroying the fragrance of flowers and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects to follow scent trails to their source, a new University of Virginia study indicates.

Todd M. Scanlon, assistant professor of environmental sciences at U.Va., and colleagues used high-resolution satellite imagery to study the prevalence of self-organized vegetation patterns across a regional rainfall gradient in southern Africa.

Graduate student Ami Riscassi was recently awarded a 2008 EPA STAR fellowship for her proposed work on mercury distribution, transport, and transormation in forested headwater catchments.