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Clean Water and Energy

Clean Water and Energy

One early morning, in a small village of Potreritos, Nicaragua, I watched as the women and girls put on their flip-flops, picked up empty buckets and started their daily trek…

The Simple Things Said It All

The Simple Things Said It All

When I arrived at the University of Virginia in the fall of 1970, I was naively unaware of the challenges I would face as part of the first class of…

We hate to see our kids suffer and be in pain, but pain is a feature to learn from. What young people need is the chance to struggle with challenges. We need to let them be adults.

— Joseph Allen (Col '80), professor of psychology and director of clinical training at U.Va. He and his wife, Claudia Worrell Allen (Grad '96), are coauthors of a new book, “Escaping the Endless Adolescence.’’MORE QUOTES »