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October 2003

  • Documenting Dari
    Annahita Farudi (Linguistics, Comparative Literature ’03) and Maziar Toosarvandani (Linguistics, Biology ’03)
    Posted 09/25/03

  • The origins of diversity
    Atima Omara-Alwala (American Studies ’03)
    Posted 09/25/03

  • Star light, star bright
    Every first and third Friday night of every month, McCormick Observatory opens its doors — and its telescope lens — to the public for heavenly viewing.
    Posted 09/25/03

  • Reading the trees
    When most people look at an old oak, they see a pretty tree. Dan Druckenbrod sees a living testament to the history of the region.
    Posted 09/25/03

  • A year in Scotland
    Watching a year unfold for a UK Fellow
    Posted 09/25/03

September 2003

  • Humanities.com
    IATH takes scholarship into the 21st century
    Posted 08/25/03

  • Faith in action
    Is religious faith relevant in modern life? Professor Charles Marsh believes it is, and he’s putting his beliefs to work through the Project on Lived Theology.
    Posted 08/25/03

  • Think locally
    While U.Va. has no plans to privatize, University leaders are working to gain more control over the business aspects of running the top-ranked public institution in the country.
    Posted 08/25/03

  • Tree music
    If a tree falls in a forest and nobody’s around to hear it, does it make a sound? It does if Judith Shatin was there with her recorder. Shatin’s interactive sound installation, “Tree Music,” is now playing at the University of Virginia Art Museum.
    Posted 08/25/03

  • A Year in Scotland
    Watching a year unfold for a UK Fellow
    Posted 08/25/03

August 2003

  • Labor of love
    Alumnae create a magazine for thinking mothers.
    Posted 07/28/03

  • Crunching numbers
    The new Institute for Mathematics and Science is bringing together professors from different disciplines to explore the common denominators of math and science.
    Posted 07/28/03

  • All that jazz
    Robert Jospe, jazz drummer and U.Va. performance faculty member, is getting rave reviews for his new CD, Time to Play.
    Posted 07/28/03

  • Beauty, strangeness and wit
    Rodney Smith, whose photos are now on display at the University of Virginia Art Museum, views the world in black and white.
    Posted 07/28/03

  • A year in Scotland
    Watching a year unfold for a UK Fellow
    Posted 09/01/03

June 2003

  • Writing for the real world
    For most students, the perfectly polished thesis is the ultimate written achievement. But the Little Red Schoolhouse program teaches students to do the kind of writing and editing that comes in handy in the real world.
    Posted 05/22/03

  • Generous spirit
    Meghan Butasek (Foreign Affairs ’02)
    Posted 05/22/03

  • Digging deep
    What do 17th century Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza and new College graduate Helen Mesard have in common? They’re both known as deep thinkers.
    Posted 05/22/03

  • Renaissance man
    New College graduate Kyle Gabler can’t decide between a career in computer engineering, music, art or film. So he’s going to do it all.
    Posted 05/22/03

  • Seeing through an artist’s eyes
    Watching a year unfold for an Aunspaugh Fellow in Studio Art
    Posted 05/28/03

May 2003

  • Hoodunit?
    Last summer, five innocent students entered a college psychology project. Their lives would never be the same. No, it’s not a psych department experiment gone bad — it’s “Stratagem,” the new mystery TV series created by U.Va. students.
    Posted 04/22/03

  • Get smart
    Students with an eye for intelligence are studying the ins and outs of international intrigue in “Espionage, Intelligence and Policy Making in the 20th Century.”
    Posted 04/25/03

  • Got metaphor?
    Commerce professor David Mick has made a career of studying how the rhetorical tradition of rhyme, pun and metaphor plays out in advertising.
    Posted 04/22/03

  • Hello, Dolley
    Historian Holly Shulman is digging deep into the past to create a digital archive of the complete papers of Dolley Madison.
    Posted 04/22/03

  • War story
    Navy pilot and U.Va. alum Chad Vincelette survived a brush with death in the Iraqi desert. His wife (and fellow alum) thinks a guardian angel was on duty.
    Posted 04/25/03

  • Seeing through an artist’s eyes
    Watching a year unfold for an Aunspaugh Fellow in Studio Art
    Posted 04/22/03

April 2003

  • Art with a conscience
    Sarah Morrison (English, Studio Art ’98)
    Posted 03/25/03

  • Historically speaking
    David Reese (English ’74; MA, English ’78; MA, Architectural History ’81)
    Posted 03/25/03

  • U.Va. library goes Hollywood
    Created “for students, by students,” the new library video is a hit — and it can show you how to navigate the University’s complex library system.
    Posted 03/25/03

  • Star power
    Nikki Kimbrough (English ’97)
    Posted 03/25/03

  • Doctoral music
    U.Va. is luring top scholars and music-makers from across the country to the tune of a new Music Ph.D. program.
    Posted 03/25/03

  • Seeing through an artist’s eyes
    Watching a year unfold for an Aunspaugh Fellow in Studio Art
    Posted 03/25/03

March 2003

  • Sign of the times
    U.Va. students can now take a four-semester course in American Sign Language to fulfill their foreign language requirement. The course also opens the door to the tightly-knit community of the Deaf.
    Posted 02/26/03

  • Defiant art
    Visual artist Tim Rollins started the “Kids of Survival” program for at-risk youth in the Bronx. Now, as a U.Va. visiting artist, he’s bringing the same program to Charlottesville.
    Posted 02/26/03

  • Down on the farm
    Julie March (Environmental Science ’96)
    Posted 02/26/03

  • London calling
    With its new semester-in-London program, U.Va. has teamed up with New York University to take students across the pond.
    Posted 02/26/03

  • Food for thought
    Looking for a lunchtime activity you can sink your teeth into? The Center for Undergraduate Excellence is serving up extra helpings of “Brain Food” — a series of brown bag lunches where undergraduates share their research.
    Posted 02/26/03

  • Girl Power
    Professor Kim Roberts is helping local high school girls get ahead through the Young Women Leaders program she co-founded.
    Posted 03/01/03

  • Seeing through an artist’s eyes
    Watching a year unfold for an Aunspaugh Fellow in Studio Art
    Posted 03/03/03

  • A message from the Dean
    Arts & Sciences fights racism with knowledge
    Posted 03/03/03

February 2003