January 2001

Eight Cavaliers go for gold
Current students and alumni represented four countries in the Summer Games.

Youth Leadership Initiative sponsors mock election
November 2000 saw the largest Internet mock election ever — nearly 37,000 Virginia students participated.

’Hoos Online
Who’s online?

Leffler accepts visiting professorship at Oxford
Dean Melvyn P. Leffler begins a one-year post in the fall of 2002.

Wegman in C’ville
U.Va. isn’t going to the dogs — the dogs are coming to U.Va.

Interviews on high
University Career Services, now located at Scott Stadium, offers plush skyboxes for visiting employers to meet students.

Explorations in Black Leadership
A U.Va. program works to identify effective leadership traits and factors in the success of African-American leaders.

Honors Philosophy
U.Va.’s is the nation’s only tutorial program.

Clark Hall construction adds lab space
The environmental sciences department gains modern facilities in a 45,000-square-foot addition.

Guy Lombardo and the Good Old Song
U.Va.’s link to the Big Band star

Media Studies major admits first undergrad students
This comprehensive program studies the fundamental role of media in our culture.

Handler and Grasso take new associate dean posts
Appointments focus on undergraduate programs, planning and operations.

Honors for Arts & Sciences
Students and faculty win awards and grants.

Glowing frogs and the Rockies
Notes from an undergraduate researcher

Levy mixes jazz and faith
Sabbath services and music mingle in his memories.

Hair today may not be gone tomorrow
Macko finds clues in tresses.

Sweat Equality
Ackerman advances women's sports

Medicine man
McConnell caps career with volunteer clinic.

Drame blends literature and human rights
A French professor heads a scholarly organization that protects African writers and promotes their work.

Salthouse launches aging initiative
Timothy Salthouse is jump-starting the Virginia Aging Initiative, a project that will bring together U.Va. researchers from several areas of psychology to explore topics related to aging.

Greene’s series lifts great ideas off the page
A Sunday afternoon lecture series recreates the eclectic luxury of the Echols Scholar program.

The play’s his thing
Giving classic scripts a modern twist provokes thought, discussions and new connections.

Bringing computers to light
Lighting design, online, in three dimensions

U.Va. plans a new hub of creative life
A complex of new, renovated and expanded arts facilities is projected on and around Carr’s Hill.

A Closer Look
Digital Media and Future Education