Arts & Sciences Magazine Archive

June 2008

March 2008

January 2008

October 2007

July 2007

April 2007

  • A new chapter
    Posted 02/16/07

  • Letters et cetera
    Readers respond to past issues of Arts & Sciences magazine.
    Posted 02/16/07

  • Good news for grad students
    Posted 02/16/07

  • The circus comes to Grounds
    Posted 02/16/06

  • Dean Ayers to head U of R
    Posted 02/16/07

  • The Annual Fund supports student career services
    Career services for Arts & Sciences students are among the many programs that receive Annual Fund support.
    Posted 02/16/07

  • Honoring the past
    Landscape plans for the South Lawn include preservation of an 18th-century home site and a cemetery.
    Posted 02/16/07

  • The Virginia Film Festival
    This annual celebration has been bringing the people behind and in front of the cameras together with scholars and fans alike for 20 years now.
    Posted 02/16/07

  • School of rock
    A documentary by U.Va. alumni takes a loving look at the Charlottesville music scene of the ’70s and ’80s.
    Posted 02/16/07

  • Speed
    Fueled by caffeine, pizza and adrenaline, competitors make quick work of creating films.
    Posted 02/16/07

  • 9 to 5
    Kevin Everson’s films focus on work.
    Posted 02/16/07

  • That's entertainment
    U.Va. alumni produce, direct, write, act in and promote the movies.
    Posted 02/16/07

  • Good chemistry
    Ian Harrison wants to move a sustainable energy future closer to reality.
    Posted 02/16/06

  • Wisdom from walls
    Overwhelmed by a new culture, Elizabeth Dyer found a way to make the abstract concrete.
    Posted 02/16/06

  • Computer fix
    Gary McGraw’s work helps protect the software that makes the world go ’round.
    Posted 02/16/07

  • Last Look
    Visual thinking
    Posted 02/16/07

January 2007

October 2006

July 2006

April 2006

  • Dear alumni and friends
    All music, all the time
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Letters et cetera
    Readers respond to past issues of Arts & Sciences magazine.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Extending Jefferson’s vision
    A new conceptual drawing shows a plan that will extend the geometry of the Lawn.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Fayerweather forecast
    The art history program and art department offices are scheduled to move into a renovated Fayerweather Hall by early summer.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Research funding reaches a milestone
    U.Va. researchers topped $300 million in grants and contracts for the first time during the 2004-05 fiscal year.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • More Mitchells
    This is the fourth consecutive year that a U.Va. student or graduate has been honored as a Mitchell Scholar.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Study aboard
    The University will become the academic home for the Semester at Sea Program.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Cavs marching
    The new band follows in the footsteps of U.Va. tradition.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • All together now
    Musicians take many paths to this symphony orchestra.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Musical community
    For U-Singers, change is constant.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Gospel truths
    Ethnomusicologist Melvin Butler studies the music of his childhood.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Certified organic
    Computer music makes nature the star.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Fiddlin’ Beethoven
    From Brahms to B.B. King, Bill Monroe and Blind Lemon Jefferson.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Jazz
    John Mason captures the joy, the hard work, the exhilaration.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Piano man
    Michael Mizrahi resisted, but then he saw the signs.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Hip-hop hopes
    Wes Jackson wants to take the music back to its wholesome roots.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Improvisation
    The sounds of jazz intrigued Kait Dunton. Then they won her heart.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Commercial success
    Ravi Krishnaswami writes music that sells.
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Last Look
    Starving artist
    Posted 02/17/06

  • Afropop
    A photo by John Mason.
    Posted 02/17/06

January 2006

October 2005

July 2005

  • Dear alumni and friends
    Celebrating the liberal arts
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Letters et cetera
    Reader comments from April 2005 Arts & Sciences magazine.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • What’s the score? U.S. News ranks graduate programs
    A springtime U.S. News & World Report ranking of U.S. graduate programs placed six Arts & Sciences programs in the top 10.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Varsity Hall
    Varsity Hall took a slow journey — almost nine hours’ worth — downhill to its new location just 185 feet away on Hospital Drive.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • The College Carnival
    The College Carnival, sponsored by the Arts & Sciences Council, provided an afternoon of fun for College students and faculty.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • A good break
    What makes a wonderful spring break?
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Honors for Arts & Sciences
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Book value
    The staff of the University of Virginia Library has won the Excellence in Academic Libraries Award
    Posted 07/01/05

  • House plans
    Historic home could become a science education center.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • ’Hoos finding jobs
    University Career Services (UCS) has plenty of advice for students who are looking for jobs.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • ’Hoos on the job
    Graduates of the College find interesting jobs in interesting places.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Collaborators
    Graduate students in the sciences help get the job done.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Finding the right grad school
    Jennifer Fick & Michael Timko
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Choosing a topic
    Amanda Floyd & Linda Blum
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Kim Bassett & Dean Harman
    A group practice
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Raphael Pooser & Olivier Pfister
    Coming of age as a scientist
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Striking images
    Andrews wins awards for photography and leadership.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Writing Raymond
    Cawley’s work takes him into millions of American households.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Film femininity
    Malay casts her lens on female identity and relationships.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Weed watcher
    Roach thinks a pesky plant might answer some questions about aging.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Frank talk
    The view from the left produces a best-seller
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Slaves at U.Va.
    Student research documents the details for the first time.
    Posted 07/01/05

  • Last Look
    A career path can take an unexpected turn.
    Posted 07/01/05

April 2005

  • Dear alumni and friends
    A mental note
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Letters et cetera
    Two readers respond to the article on Steven Rhoads and his book, “Taking Sex Differences Seriously.”
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Follow up
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Funnies finalist
    “It’s a pretty formulaic, ‘Odd Couple’ kind of strip,” Greg Scanlon said of “Metro Center,” the comic he pens for The Cavalier Daily. “But we tried to do it fairly well.”
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Finding a baby galaxy in a grown-up universe
    With the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, University of Virginia astronomer Trinh Thuan has identified what may be the youngest galaxy ever seen in the universe. By cosmological standards it is a mere toddler.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Center for the Arts: building complex proposed
    A proposed Center for the Arts will make a dramatic change to the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Come back, catch up, connect
    Join your classmates in Charlottesville June 3 though 5 for undergraduate Reunions 2005.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • ’Hoos giving guidance
    New U.Va. graduates will go back to high school this fall to help other students follow in their footsteps.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Study-abroad students return the favor
    Moved by their experiences during a summer studying in Africa, U.Va. students have found ways to thank the communities that embraced them.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Honors for Arts & Sciences
    E. Mavis Hetherington, professor emeritus of psychology, has received two of the highest honors in her field.

  • Brain power
    Knowing how the mind works can help the mind work better.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Screen test
    Papers don’t rustle in Charles Grisham’s Chemistry 441 class. None of his nearly 130 students have bothered to haul the 1,216-page, 9-pound textbook to class and, during the lecture, no one furiously copies the schematic structures of lipid-anchored proteins from Grisham’s PowerPoint slides into a spiral notebook.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Shall we dance?
    A program long in the making takes its first steps.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • War zone
    Dozier’s work takes her to the world’s hot spots
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Picture postcards
    Owen weaves travel and favorite places into her art
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Music maker
    Paco finds future stars
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Saving cranes
    Zimorski nurtures an endangered species.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Giving freely
    Zunz studies the roots of American philanthropy.
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Last Look
    Sustained Dialogue: a personal perspective on race
    Posted 04/01/05

  • Two for the Rhodes
    A current student and an alumnus of the College will head to Oxford as Rhodes Scholars this fall.
    Posted 04/01/05

January 2005

  • Dear alumni and friends
    Happy New Year
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Trading spaces
    Students returned to school this fall to find offices, classrooms and studio spaces scattered across temporary spaces both on and off Grounds.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • New trustees join College Foundation
    During its October meeting, the College Foundation welcomed nine new trustees.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • South Lawn design nearly complete
    The conceptual design phase of the College’s South Lawn Project is nearly complete.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Honors for Arts & Sciences
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Star speaks up for Access UVa
    Actor Sean Patrick Thomas (Drama, English ’92) is the voice and face of the Univer-sity’s new Access UVa financial aid program.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Bequests fund graduate fellowships
    Recent bequests from two friends of the University will add more than $3 million of endowment funding for graduate student fellowships in Arts & Sciences.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • A winter’s tale: January Term begins
    A new January Term will open up world of possibilities.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Men of steel
    Stronger than the strongest steel, their supralloy could start a revolution.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Cause for celebration
    For 40 years, the Echols Scholars program has given top students the freedom to follow their academic pursuits.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • First-time teachers
    Before they set foot in the classroom, graduate students take some tips from the masters.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Teaching teachers
    Teaching Resource Center
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Biro
    A one-man show is but one of one man’s talents.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • China calling
    Page takes to back roads to study a new democracy.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Home/Work
    Rhoads finds men and women travel to the beat of a different drum.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • We can work it out
    Senft's mediation style stresses perspective and understanding.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Two Brothers
    Sneed builds a foundation for a Brazilian slum.
    Posted 01/01/05

  • Last Look
    Take my advice ... please.
    Posted 01/01/05

July 2004

January 2004

July 2003

January 2003

July 2002

  • Dear alumni and friends
    Contemplating change and opportunity
    Posted 05/28/02

  • Letters
    Readers comment on the January 2002 issue of Arts & Sciences.
    Posted 05/28/02

  • A touching Faulkner find
    A letter sheds light on an important influence from the writer’s childhood.
    Posted 05/28/02

  • A syllabus online?
    Toolkit makes it happen
    Posted 05/28/02

  • The Bloomfield cases
    “How Things Work” honor cases are heading for resolution.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Mirror
    Looking back at the Rotunda fire
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Got chads?
    Sabato snags souvenirs.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Love, Theft, Lott, Dylan
    What’s the connection?
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Powerful emotions
    Revealing the dance of thought and feeling.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Revisiting the South Lawn
    Stanford White’s Cabell Hall gave a strong nod to Jefferson yet forever changed his Lawn. A century later, a new team of architects is confronting the powerful presence of Jefferson — and the controversial White.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • A place to write
    Workshops and practice let creativity surface.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Gittleman takes Web view of animal survival
    Where on Earth are all the animals? A U.Va. biologist uses 100 years’ worth of data to find out.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Ninetto studies Siberian scientists
    She chose a small Siberian village for language study and ended up with a dissertation topic.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • SoHo Hoos
    Buccini and Easley have success in store
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Collis follows her own path
    Virginia’s new First Lady is a U.Va. graduate.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Thuan balances the quantum and the lotus
    U.Va. astronomer travels the intersection of Buddhism and science.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Honor commitment
    Hall finds challenge in two terms as chair.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Arriaga takes freedom seriously
    After growing up in Chile, Alexandra Arriaga appreciates America’s privileges. Now she is working to end human rights violations worldwide.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Herby spins the wheels
    He chooses cycling for his sport.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Mixing in Morocco
    Bargach introduces students to her native land.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Fraser seeks natural secrets
    The Biomaterials Workshop goes beyond basic science to explore the interconnectedness of the world.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • Whiting returns to artistic beginnings
    The College’s first fine arts graduate made painting not his life’s work but his life’s pleasure.
    Posted 05/29/02

  • A Closer Look
    Promoting regionalism in nationalistic times
    Posted 05/28/02

  • New deans appointed
    A reorganization of the dean’s office has placed three of the College’s most respected faculty members into major new roles.
    Posted 07/01/02

  • More choices offered for undergraduates
    New majors in Human Biology and American Studies, a new poetry concentration and a new way to an MA in English are now available to students in the College.
    Posted 07/01/02

  • History helpers
    Teachers in Virginia high schools and community colleges are getting online help with lesson plans and primary sources from two U.Va. projects.
    Posted 07/01/02

  • U.Va. students find new lives for old books
    Vivek Jain (Chemistry-Biochemistry ’03) knew that students at his high school in Tazewell County, Va., were using textbooks from 1989 in their AP biology course.
    Posted 07/01/02

  • Centers on America
    Two new centers with an American focus are devoted to increasing understanding of the nation and the Southeast region.
    Posted 07/01/02

  • Trading spaces
    The College will gain the use of Monroe Hall, the McIntire School of Commerce will move to a building planned for the space behind Rouss Hall and both schools will participate in new interdisciplinary programs under and agreement approved this spring.
    Posted 07/01/02

  • Time Distance Memory
    In unexpected ways, stories and pictures capture moments in time, and in so doing create distance from, and evoke memories of, the events they portray.
    Posted 07/01/02

  • State funding decline strains faculty budget
    The early spring session of the 2002 Virginia General Assembly was dominated by the sobering need to reconcile a projected $3.8 billion deficit in the state’s budget during the following two and a half years. The University of Virginia’s general fund monies were trimmed by $25 million for the fiscal year that begins July 1. For Arts & Sciences the cut is roughly $3.2 million.
    Posted 07/01/02

January 2002

July 2001

  • Dear alumni and friends
    Public actions speak volumes
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Letters
    Readers respond to the January 2001 edition.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Mirror
    Looking back on the versatile tradition of Easters
    Posted 06/07/01

  • College alumni launch institute to educate area seniors
    Topics in the Jefferson Institute for Lifelong Learning range from the history of the circus, to post-war Southeast Asia, to the New Testament and contemporary ethical problems.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • The mural of the story
    Allyn Cox’s 1934 art chronicles the history of law, leaving a little history behind for today’s Clark Hall occupants.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Globetrotting students to become the norm, not the exception
    Foreign-study programs will change their lives.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Wise Guy tells all
    Justin Simoncini (Anthropology, Spanish ’03) clued teen girls in on the adolescent male mind.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Roberts named President of College Foundation
    Instrumental in its establishment, he is an active volunteer in many areas.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • 10,000 volumes join Buddhist collection
    A future bequest is called the best privately held collection of East Asian Buddhist materials in the West.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Endowment value soars
    Investment strategies put U.Va. in the top quartile of all universities in returns.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Follow-up
    Levy mixes jazz and faith
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Honors for Arts & Sciences
    Students and faculty win awards and grants.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Faculty retirements
    Twelve left Arts & Sciences at the end of the 2000-01 academic year.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • College tops in recently ended U.Va. capital campaign
    Arts & Sciences more than doubled its goal.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • New master’s degree and center build digital expertise
    The Center for Digital Initiatives brings students and faculty together to study and demonstrate how computers and the humanities intersect.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Aspirations and achievements
    Dean Melvyn P. Leffler on the State of Arts & Sciences
    Posted 06/05/01

  • Faith in action
    College scholars examine religious dimensions of public life.
    Posted 06/05/01

  • Weighing the Milky Way
    U.Va. astronomers prepare to measure space.
    Posted 06/05/01

  • Holt drops calculus drop rate
    Professor Jeff Holt integrates technology with alternative teaching methods to make students stick with calculus.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Dirks wins British Marshall Scholarship
    Alumna Katie Dirks (Government and Foreign Affairs ’01) is bound for Oxford to study European immigration policy — with all expenses paid.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Batten and Darden make college attainable
    Through the Tidewater Scholarship Foundation’s ACCESS program, two Arts & Sciences alumni have helped more than 15,000 students go to college.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Kawasaki examines electricity in water
    With a $400,000 grant from Japan’s PRESTO, biology professor Masashi Kawasaki is studying the African freshwater fish Gymnarchus niloticus, with its ultra-sensitive electro-receptors.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Devolites knocked on doors to reach Assembly
    U.Va.’s first female undergraduate alum to serve in the state’s General Assembly, Jeannemarie Devolites describes her unusual political journey.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Braxton trains new doctors of the soul
    Brad Braxton (Religious Studies ’91) always knew God was calling him to be a preacher. But it wasn’t till he came to U.Va. as a Jefferson Scholar that he knew just what kind of preacher he was supposed to be.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Ochs supports women at the Western Wall
    Vanessa Ochs, lecturer in Religious Studies, joins Jewish feminisits from all over the world in fighting for women’s right to pray.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Farrell takes tip about O’Neill
    During an arduous wait for admittance to a White House Christmas party, journalist John Farrell (Government ’75) had a revelation — and went on to write a bestselling biography on Tip O’Neill.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Kim heads Korean environmental ministry
    As a young graduate of the Seoul National University, Myung-Ja Kim looked toward the United States for more education and enrolled at the University of Virginia. After receiving her Ph.D. from U.Va. in chemistry in 1971 and 25 years in academia back in her homeland of Korea, she went on to serve her country as Minister of Environment.
    Posted 06/05/01

  • Lawson lives life richly
    Elienne Lawson’s (Art History ’01) struggle with a hearing disability gave her a new perspective on life — and a unique experience at the University.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Amyx finds success in Japan
    Scholar-athlete Jennifer Amyx (Asian Studies, Foreign Affairs ’91) travelled across the world on a Rotary fellowship to find her true love — a promising academic career in Asian studies.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • O’Brien’s career with NASA is a blast
    In the mid-’70s, U.S. Navy pilot Mike O’Brien (Physics ’67) had dreams of space flight. Yet two decades passed before his NASA career took off — and still he was not an astronaut.
    Posted 06/07/01

  • Beauty, strangeness and wit
    The remarkable photographs of Rodney Smith
    Posted 06/07/01

January 2001

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