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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…

Teaching allows me to explore reading that inspires me with my students, with a group of young people. I treasure the way the students engage with the world through language.

— U.Va. English professor Lisa Russ Spaar (Col '78, Grad '82), who received a 2010 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Dominion FoundationMORE QUOTES »