A&S Online Archive 2008

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April 2008

Reel Change
Perrin Chiles combines film and business to showcase social issues.
Posted 03/26/08
Cavaliers Care
Alumni honor Thomas Jefferson with service in April and year-’round.
Posted 03/26/08
Sweat Philanthropy
Development Office and College staff administrators give back.
Posted 03/26/08
Saving lives is goal of consulting firm
Langdon Greenhalgh (Foreign Affairs, Spanish ’97) helps nonprofits become more efficient.
Posted 03/26/08
Musician on Call
Anna Oppenheimer (BA English Language and Literature, Music ’06, MA English Language and Literature ’07) plays cello for patients in U.Va.’s Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit.
Posted 03/26/08
Honoring Selfless Service
2007 Sullivan Award Winners
Posted 03/26/08
Letter from Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda
Alumna starts nonprofit Mosaic to help victims of war-torn region.
Posted 03/26/08
Question from the Dean: You Spoke
You shared your ideas regarding the most important issues of our time.
Posted 03/26/08

Her Father’s Hidden Past
Bliss Broyard (MFA Creative Writing ’96) explores the meaning of race and heritage in a book she never expected to write.
Posted 02/27/08
“War Is Not The Answer.”
Following Martin Luther King’s words, U.Va. panelists call for anti-war activism.
Posted 02/27/08
Lights Out!
Jennifer Barlow (Spanish ’09) founds and promotes National Dark Sky Week April 6–12.
Posted 02/27/08
The Big 5-0
On April 4-5, the University Singers celebrate 50 years of making music and building community.
Posted 02/27/08
Why I Teach
Monica Groves (English Language and Literature, Spanish ’04) discusses her emotional, first-year roller-coaster.
Posted 02/27/08
Discovery!
Graduate Decides to Wing it Out West
Aaron “Sly” Sylvester (Economics ’97) motorbikes across the country.
Posted 02/27/08
Question from the Dean: You Spoke
Your ideas about how the College can continue to serve the educational growth of its alumni and friends.
Posted 02/27/08

Letter from Russia
Exclusive Valdai Club participant talks policy with Putin and Russia’s political elite.
Posted 01/23/08
Trapped
Melvyn Leffler examines the Cold War through leaders and ideologies at critical moments in the U.S.-Soviet relationship.
Posted 01/23/08
Russia is Bomb, Da?
Demureness disappears in the hot economy.
Posted 01/23/08
Boomtown
Entrepreneurial alum turns U.Va. major to major profit in the new Russia.
Posted 01/23/08
HIV/AIDS, Drug Abuse and Street Youth in Russia
A U.Va. Center for Global Health student finds successful solutions on-site.
Posted 01/23/08
Tapping Across the Tundra
Wherein Drama Professor Robert Chapel and his boffo Broadway X Three troupe take Russia (including the Arctic Circle and Siberia) by storm.
Posted 01/23/08
Question from the Dean
Graduate teaching assistants make an impact.
Posted 01/23/08

Build a career? Build a life.
Alumnus shares how integrity informs acting, living.
Posted 12/19/07
Make Yourself Happy
Associate Professor of Psychology Jonathan Haidt’s proven ways to boost your happiness quotient for good.
Posted 12/19/07
Real Perspective
Belief in yourself will take you further than a 10-year plan.
Posted 12/19/07
Want to Go to the Olympics?
U.Va. tourism blends learning, alumni and fun.
Posted 12/19/07
Letter from the World
In life, it’s the things you don’t do that you regret.
Posted 12/19/07
Question from the Dean
Courses you wish you’d taken at U.Va.
Posted 12/19/07