A&S Online Archive 2004

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December 2004

November 2004

  • Afropop
    Even if you didn’t make it to the African Popular Music Festival, this first-person account will make you feel as if you were there. The five-day event provided a forum for exposure to, and open dialogue about, the culture, history and traditions surrounding African popular music.
    Posted 11/01/04

  • Liberal Arts
    What is it good for? Absolutely everything.
    Posted 11/01/04

  • Searching for peace in Sudan
    Ross Kane (Forgein Affairs ’02)
    Posted 11/01/04

  • Clean water
    To find low-cost, sustainable ways to purify water, Julie Guyenet looked at solutions made out of whole cloth.
    Posted 11/01/04

  • A second year in Scotland
    Fall brings diminishing daylight and an epidemic of mumps.
    Posted 11/01/04

October 2004

  • The puzzle of participation
    Politics professor Charles A. Kromkowski says we’ve been looking at the numbers all wrong and concludes that voter participation is actually at an all-time high. Could our country be more democratic now than ever before?
    Posted 10/01/04

  • Finding the female voter
    Alumna Torrey Strohmeier, founder of she19, wants to see more people like her head to the polls next month.
    Posted 10/01/04

  • Supporting Democrats
    From Al Sharpton to Wesley Clark: third-year Matt Sonneborn’s experience as a delegate to the DNC.
    Posted 10/01/04

  • Supporting Republicans
    Kate Obenshain Griffin (English ’91) juggles home and politics as head of Virginia’s Republican Party.
    Posted 10/01/04

  • A second year in Scotland
    Ever wondered what a presidential election looks like to an American watching from abroad?
    Posted 10/01/04

September 2004

August 2004

July 2004

June 2004

  • Helping humans hear
    What do fish, amphibians and birds have in common?
    Posted 06/01/04

  • Jonathan Finch, tornado man
    Meteorologist Jonathan Finch has made a name for himself as a student and chaser of severe storms.
    Posted 06/01/04

  • Greek vases
    Where art and archaeology meet.
    Posted 06/01/04

  • Hairy contributor
    Brian Barthelmes gives all he’s got to U.Va. and Locks for Love
    Posted 06/01/04

  • A Year in Scotland
    As her year in Scotland draws to a close, Kirsten Beattie looks back and faces a big decision.
    Posted 06/01/04

May 2004

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February 2004

January 2004

  • Digital Tibet
    Joining cultures and scholars online.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Habla Usted inglés?
    Samra studies education for Latino immigrants.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Blum gets her feet wet
    Linda Blum, a self-described flatlander, had never even seen a salt marsh before 1984, when she took a one-year teaching assignment in environmental sciences at U.Va.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Want great movies? You need the right Keys
    A couple of years after graduation, Bill Keys (Rhetoric and Communications ’90) had an unglamorous job. He carried stuff, made phone calls and wheeled around suitcases for an important guy.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Schmidt pursues a sense of place
    The average person interested in exploring the history of the Chesapeake Bay buys a book on the subject and settles in on the sofa.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Ayers adds a book to his schedule
    He travels about 50 days a year on fund-raising and academic missions, attends on-Grounds functions an average of three nights a week, starts each day around 7 a.m. answering a barrage of administrative e-mail and teaches at least one class per semester while also advising graduate students.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Ayers wins national teaching award
    Arts & Sciences Dean Edward L. Ayers has been named the 2003 national Professor of the Year at American doctoral and research universities.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Health care aware
    Tom Scully (Government ’79), administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), lived it up as a U.Va. student.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Kisliuk seizes African dance, and drumming, too
    From her early days learning folk songs and dances with her parents, Michelle Kisliuk has been interested in the fusion of daily life and aesthetic experience.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Smith gets an early start
    Any butterflies that 14-year-old Greg Smith might have had about fitting in as a graduate student at U.Va. have stopped fluttering.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Jones creates from history
    The world of Edward P. Jones’ (MFA, Creative Writing ’81) childhood was not the world of the literati. His mother was a hotel maid and dishwasher who never learned to read. Jones attended Washington, D.C., public schools and was the only one in his family to graduate from college.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Kids cope; Rosenberg cares
    It was a camp like any other, with games, crafts and field trips. The campers, though, are living lives unlike those of their peers. Hospital stays, pain, difficult questions and a special emphasis on every birthday give the Kids Can Cope campers a different kind of normal.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • College Foundation welcomes new trustees
    During its October meeting, the College Foundation welcomed 11 new trustees: Paul B. Barringer II (College ’52) of Hilton Head Island, S.C., chairman and CEO of Coastal Lumber Company of Weldon, N.C.; Margaret Saer Beer (History ’80) of New Orleans, a parent and community volunteer; Marvin P. Bush (English ’79) of Alexandria, founder and managing partner of Winston Partners Group, an investment firm based in McLean; Frank K. Bynum Jr. (History ’85) of New York City, managing director of Kelso & Company, a private equity firm; Phyllis “Penny” Coulter (Psychology ’82) of San Francisco; and Everette L. Doffermyre Jr. (Economics ’70, Law ’73), managing partner of an Atlanta-based law firm specializing in complex litigation.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Application rejected, papers accepted
    The papers of Alice Carlotta Jackson, who made and changed history as the first African-American to apply to graduate school at the University, have been donated to Alderman Library.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Looking back at years of Bananas, Ravens
    Two University groups, the Eli Banana and the Raven Society, have significant anniversaries this academic year.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Donors support South Lawn and the arts
    The South Lawn Project is gaining momentum. This ambitious plan for Arts & Sciences will transfrom 50-year-old New Cabell Hall and a nearby parking lot into a landmark ensemble of buildings designed to foster the sort of intellectual community Jefferson envisioned at the University’s founding.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Hungry for politics
    If the newspapers, the 24/7 cable channels and the talking heads don’t satisfy your appetite for political news this Presidential election year, where do you go? Why, to Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, of course. The Web site, part of the Center for Politics at U.Va., tells you what you need to know about national and state elections and politicians from Arnold to Zell.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • A man, a plan, a band
    Bill Pease wouldn’t be here if not for his mother.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Crozier captures change
    A local painter and professor has captured three decades of a changing community in and around Charlottesville.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Material world
    McInnis studies the stuff of everyday life.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Delicious journey
    Holmberg goes from French major to French cooking to Fine Cooking.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Family life
    What makes a marriage last?
    Posted 01/01/04

  • New answers, new questions
    U.Va.’s Human Biology program
    Posted 01/01/04

  • D-I-V-O-R-C-E
    How does a broken marriage affect children?
    Posted 01/01/04

  • IATH’s digital decade
    Putting scholars online
    Posted 01/01/04

  • Budget improves; College renews
    After two years of severe budget cuts, Arts & Sciences has pushed through the worst period of fiscal strain and has begun to implement a comprehensive plan for renewal.
    Posted 01/01/04

  • A Closer Look
    How do you feel? How do you know?
    Posted 01/01/04