A&S Online Archive 2005

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December 2005

November 2005

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  • Model students
    Members of the student-run International Relations Organization drew on their experience in planning this year’s Virginia Model United Nations conference at U.Va. High school students from across the country converged on Grounds for a weekend of debate and crisis management.
    Posted 11/01/05

  • Chief Chambers
    Research into slavery in Virginia leads to honor in Africa.
    Posted 11/01/05

  • Observing Ramadan
    Month of fasting strengthens community and builds awareness of Islam on Grounds.
    Posted 10/28/05

  • Prize writers
    Sharing her late husband’s love of literature, Elizabeth Rea brings today’s best writers to U.Va.
    Posted 10/28/05

  • Letter from Guam
    Rebecca Cummings (History ’04)
    Posted 10/28/05

October 2005

  • Storm surge
    U.Va. welcomes students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
    Posted 09/27/05

  • Lawn party
    Visitors get a U.Va.-style welcome.
    Posted 09/27/05

  • Medicinal chemistry
    Milton Brown’s lab synthesizes compounds that could someday manage pain or treat prostate cancer.
    Posted 09/27/05

  • Fleeing ‘The O.C.’
    Benjamin McKenzie (Foreign Affairs, Economics ’01) escapes typecasting.
    Posted 09/27/05

  • Letter from a summer research trip to the Gulf of Mexico
    U.Va. grad student Bill Gilhooly joined scientists from around the world to study the ocean floor and better understand the processes that cause earthquakes and form petroleum deposits.
    Posted 09/27/05

September 2005

  • Getting back to Madison
    Michael Quinn (Art History ’74) leads a $29 million restoration of Montpelier that is setting a new standard for accuracy and authenticity.
    Posted 08/29/05

  • Fancy food
    Alumna Kate Collier takes Charlottesville beyond sliced American.
    Posted 08/29/05

  • Pavilion gardens
    The University’s uncommon space
    Posted 08/29/05

  • Academic dream deferred
    AccessUVa helps give Rodney Mills, 26, a bright new future.
    Posted 08/29/05

  • Letter from the Outer Banks
    Sword and scabbard, ruff and pinky ring — Adam Segaller dressed and played the part of Sir Walter Raleigh in “The Lost Colony,” the longest-running outdoor drama in the United States.
    Posted 08/29/05

August 2005

  • Doody Calls
    It’s a poopy job, but somebody’s gotta do it.
    Posted 07/28/05

  • Boundless Yoga
    You have to be flexible if you want to move from the boardroom to the mat.
    Posted 07/28/05

  • Bear Naked
    Natural and healthy and available in four flavors.
    Posted 07/28/05

  • Impression Obsession
    Mitra Friant has stamped an impressive path.
    Posted 07/28/05

  • Letter from a Wahoo in the Balkans
    On a Fulbright grant in Bulgaria, John Dyer is collecting stories, encountering a new attitude in retailing and learning what happens when capitalist spirit and traditional attitudes combine.
    Posted 07/28/05

July 2005

  • What do Dave Matthews and the Philippines have in common? A guitar.
    Peace Corps volunteer Tommy Schultz is here to tell you all about it. His story begins a monthly feature that will bring you first-person accounts of people of Arts & Sciences who are working and living outside the borders of the United States.
    Posted 06/29/05

  • Trash to treasure
    John Hong and Erik Carlson turn materials scavenged from Boston’s Big Dig into nice digs.
    Posted 06/29/05

  • Play things
    A renewed Spectrum Theater gets in on the act.
    Posted 06/29/05

  • Rambling man
    Matt Bulloch’s circuitous path took him to three schools, burning forests and Guantanamo Bay.
    Posted 06/29/05

  • Story telling
    Actors bring to life narratives of cancer survivors and their families, friends and caregivers.
    Posted 06/29/05

June 2005

  • The play’s the thing
    A creative team that formed in Culbreth Theatre more than 10 years ago is still going strong — and being noticed.
    Posted 05/27/05

  • Unacceptable
    That’s what first-year student Katherine Klem has to say about the state of tobacco regulation. Read what she’s doing about it.
    Posted 05/27/05

  • Number natural
    After earning her master’s degree in math at age 19, Isabelle Stanton is taking a break from school.
    Posted 05/27/05

  • Nature or nurture?
    Eric Turkheimer’s IQ study shows that if you’re poor, it’s not easy to bloom where you’re planted.
    Posted 05/27/05

  • A second year in Scotland — June 2005
    In her final column, Kirsten Beattie lists the things she’ll miss the most.
    Posted 05/27/05

May 2005

  • Social Security
    As an issue they were studying became the center of a heated national debate, Eric Patashnik’s students saw the complex mechanisms of American policymaking in action.
    Posted 04/28/05

  • Mission accomplished
    For Rob Levit, music is more than just notes.
    Posted 04/28/05

  • Pioneer feminist
    Ann Lane still encounters misconceptions about the women’s movement.
    Posted 04/28/05

  • Athletically gifted
    Band, graduate research benefit from bowl proceeds.
    Posted 04/28/05

  • A second year in Scotland — May 2005
    On an Eastern European holiday, Kirsten and friends find both beauty and evil.
    Posted 05/01/05

April 2005

  • Discouraging words
    “The Underminer” chronicles those subtle non-jab jabs that make you feel like dirt.
    Posted 03/31/05

  • White House semester
    Coveted spot is just one way this student has been involved with politics and government.
    Posted 03/31/05

  • Committed to diversity
    At work, at home and in the community, a history professor is passionate about breaking down barriers.
    Posted 03/31/05

  • Community justice
    Stressing reconciliation, not retribution, in Northern Ireland.
    Posted 03/31/05

  • A second year in Scotland
    Kirsten looks ahead to life after Fettes.
    Posted 03/31/05

March 2005

  • Tsunami survivors
    Andrea Pfeiffer (Anthropology ’04) and her boyfriend, Mike Doveton, took a year-end holiday in Thailand. They arrived in Bangkok on Dec. 23 and flew south the next day. When the tsunami hit, chance, booked-up resorts and luck kept them safe and able to help with the horrific aftermath.
    Posted 02/23/05

  • War surgeon
    Dr. Jim Balserak (Chemistry ’86) used his medical skills to treat troops, contractors and Iraqi citizens — soldiers and detainees alike.
    Posted 02/23/05

  • Swivel
    In her new magazine, Brangien Davis puts the focus on the female and the funny. Even when the subject is facial hair.
    Posted 02/23/05

  • Expert analysis
    Doctoral candidate Stephen Marrin (MA, Politics ’02) takes on post-9/11 intelligence reform.
    Posted 02/23/05

  • A second year in Scotland
    At the Burns’ Supper, Kirsten welcomes the haggis and toasts the laddies.
    Posted 02/23/05

February 2005

  • Got shots?
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention turned to U.Va. philosophy professor John Arras and other experts for advice on how to distribute influenza vaccines when supplies were limited.
    Posted 01/27/05

  • Local history
    Tommy L. Bogger (PhD, History ’76) delves into the history and lives of African-Americans in Tidewater Virginia.
    Posted 01/26/05

  • Poets and printmakers
    Visual and verbal images come together in a cross-disciplinary class.
    Posted 01/27/05

  • Magazine makeover
    Editor Ted Genoways (MFA, Creative Writing) has made some changes at the Virginia Quarterly Review.
    Posted 01/27/05

  • A second year in Scotland
    Kirsten Beattie takes a new year’s look at her life in Edinburgh and beyond.
    Posted 01/27/04

January 2005