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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…

At first, I thought it was a train--then I realized there was no train that would make that much noise.

— U.Va. engineering student Charles Eckman, reacting to the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that rattled the area on Aug. 23MORE QUOTES »