In the Age of Slavery

U.Va. examines role of enslaved laborers in tribute to bell ringer Henry Martin

U.Va. examines role of enslaved laborers in tribute to bell-ringer Henry Martin

Board votes for “strategic” salary increases

Rotunda Guitar

Engineers create an unusual instrument

U.Va. Mechatronics builds musical instruments

Shaping the Future

One of the energizing aspects of daily life at U.Va. is the constant exposure to astonishing research, scholarship and other creative activities. Our faculty members are working at the leading…

Drawing From Nature

Mountain Lake Biological Station inspires art

Students carried five-gallon buckets that held their art supplies through the hardwood forest of the Appalachian Mountains. When they found something to draw, they turned the buckets over and used…

Take a Ride on the Wild Side

U.Va. sculptors build interactive art

Art doesn’t just hang on a wall. Art professor Bill Bennett—with help from members of the local sculpture community, including Edward Miller and Joseph Schepps—transformed an old hay wagon into…

Required Reading

Creative writing professor Ann Beattie recently published Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, an exploration of the elusive first lady, Pat Nixon.You’ve been repeatedly credited—despite your protests—with being a…

Interaction is the Bee’s Knees

When math professor Christian Gromoll takes students to visit his beehives this spring, learning about colony behavior will be only part of the equation. Discovering more about each other—part of…

Fighting Fire at the University

In 1828, the Board of Visitors created the University Fire Company.

175 Years of Engineering

A few of the U.Va. engineers whose projects have touched our daily lives.

Built to Last

The Engineering School celebrates 175th anniversary

Much has changed since 1836, when America needed engineers to build machinery for factories, bridges for roads and locks for canals, and the U.Va. Board of Visitors created a school…

The Game Plan

Goals include greater efficiency, growth

President Teresa Sullivan recently outlined a number of goals for the University, one of which will be “to get money aligned with the mission.” “It’s not to create winners and…

Taking the Reins

New provost completes President Sullivan's leadership team

Education: B.A. in chemistry, Williams College, 1979; Ph.D., Harvard, 1983Faculty positions: Chemistry professor at University of California at San Diego, 1985, and Duke, 1998 (chair, 1999-2004)Administrative background: Vice provost for…

Letters to the Editor

I was delighted to find in the Fall 2011 issue the admirable account of the debt troubles caused by Uncle Sam’s fiscal recklessness (“Our National ‘Time Bomb’”).Were the article published…

Following the Flow

U.Va. scientists and educators assess and improve water quality

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…