January 2006

Dear alumni and friends
Changing America

Letters et cetera
Readers respond to “What lies beneath”

Follow-up
Fringe Festival, South Lawn, Ultimate Frisbee and Biro

Hurricane Katrina
The University moved fast to register students temporarily displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Community unites to condemn intolerance

A&S alumni will lead U.Va.’s next capital campaign
Three College alumni have accepted top posts in the University’s capital campaign.

The South Lawn Project
New architects are hired for the first phase.

Julian Bond
Teaching — and living — a broader American civil rights narrative.

Defining ‘American’
A new major crosses boundaries to explore nationhood and identity.

African-American and African Studies

Asian Pacific American Studies

Science insiders
College scholars look deep.

Shared experience
No one would want to meet the entrance requirements, but membership in Kate Atwood’s club is a celebration.

Innocent children
Gandharv Telhan puts his knowledge to work.

Wonderful wildness
Frederick Nichols paints the natural surroundings that draw so many to Central Virginia.

’Hoodunnit
Emyl Jenkins takes the mystery out of antiques but also adds it in.

Last Look
Supreme difference