Dept: Features
Standing Guard2
How U.Va. helps protect America
Winter 2011
How U.Va. helps protect America by shaping the soldiers, law enforcement officers, policymakers and scientists of tomorrow.
The Golden Age of the Rooming House Matrons4
Shaping student life, one boarder at a time
Winter 2011
If you were to walk into the Booker House on University Avenue across the street from the Rotunda, you would find yourself in an office. It’s a nice office with columns and intricate moldings, but an office nonetheless. It would be hard, while looking at the cubicles and the inboxes, to imagine a grand piano toward the back, a crackling fire in the fireplace and, harder still, the soaring voice of a world-famous opera singer. The opera singer was Miss Betty Burwell Booker. Before the Booker House was an office building, she ran it as a rooming house, offering students…
Voices of a Class3
Admission essays from the Class of 2015
Winter 2011
Admission essays from the Class of 2015
Following the Flow1
U.Va. scientists and educators assess and improve water quality
Winter 2011
Suzanne Maben, gray-green waders hugging her legs, forges into the middle of Paine Run and, like a nurse monitoring a patient, records the vital signs of the stream. The air is still and ripe with recent rain, and the sky is gray on this late-September day; the first blush of fall shows on the dogwoods and maples in the Shenandoah National Forest. As the water flows under the forest canopy, Paine Run seems transparent and pristine, the bedrock of pale quartzite visible below the surface. Small fish—sculpin and blacknose dace—occasionally dart among the submerged rocks and leaves.Maben runs a white…
At Home in History3
Pavilion residents bring personal touches to revered buildings
Fall 2011
What's it like to live in one of America's most historic places?
Our National Time Bomb5
A guide to the U.S. fiscal outlook
Fall 2011
U.Va. experts explain the debt and deficit and their possible consequences for America.
Raising Children0
U.Va. professors share advice about the hardest job in the world
Fall 2011
U.Va. professors share parenting advice backed up by research.
Football’s Founding Fathers11
Today’s college game shaped by U.Va.
Fall 2011
At the dawn of the early 20th century, U.Va. championed fairness in football, changing the game forever
HIGHLIGHTS
Look Book
A brief history of fashion at U.Va.
175 Years of Engineering
A few of the U.Va. engineers whose projects have touched our daily lives.
A Funeral Procession for the Marquis
An alumna explores La Fayette’s connection to the University
14 Reasons to Love Charlottesville in Winter
Life Lessons on the Green
David Cook’s golf novel adapted to the big screen
The Simple Things Said It All
On being in the first class of women.
Stacked Up
Doubling the capacity of the Ivy Stacks.
Fighting Fire at the University
In 1828, the Board of Visitors created the University Fire Company.
In the Age of Slavery
U.Va. examines role of enslaved laborers in tribute to bell-ringer Henry Martin
Costly Cartoons?
Fast-paced shows hurts executive function in children
Scientific Six Pack
Improve your putting, earn more money, increase your odds of survival and other topics U.Va. researchers are exploring.
Body Builder
Mike Curtis helps athletes recover from injuries and maintain peak form
