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…

Standing Guard

How U.Va. helps protect America

How U.Va. helps protect America by shaping the soldiers, law enforcement officers, policymakers and scientists of tomorrow.

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…

Sowing the Seeds of Peace

Diplomat Judith Raine Baroody (Grad ’85) brings together divided Cypriots

Diplomats in blue jeans, we gazed up anxiously at the September skies of Cyprus as we assembled chairs and sound equipment for the festival to bring together Greek- and Turkish…

Our National Time Bomb

A guide to the U.S. fiscal outlook

U.Va. experts explain the debt and deficit and their possible consequences for America.

Witness to Revolution

Surviving the April 2010 coup in Kyrgyzstan

Jia Tolentino (Col '09), member of the Peace Corps, survives the April 2010 coup in Kyrgystan

Where do you get your vegetables?

Cuccinelli: U.Va. may not bar concealed weapons

The Consequences of Dinner

How food shapes the U.S. economy and environment

Ever wonder how the food we eat gets to the supermarket?

Clearing the Air

University website details response to climate-change inquiries

For nearly 18 months, University officials have been responding to requests for information from individuals and groups in a climate-change controversy that has found its way to the Supreme Court…

Who Are We Becoming?

Demographers interpret America’s changing population

Demographers at the Center for Public Service study America's changing population.

Balancing Priorities

Although we are still feeling winter’s effects in Charlottesville, the spring semester is well under way. Students and teachers have returned to their classrooms and laboratories, while those of us…

Required Reading: John M. Owen IV

John M. Owen IV, associate professor of politics, recently published The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change 1510-2010. Is there a book that inspired…

Green Light for Free Speech

Changes at U.Va. promote constitutional rights

Last year, U.Va. got a “red light” rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for policies that limited students’ freedom of speech. In October, U.Va. was upgraded…

Letters to the Editor

Quoting one of the University’s distinguished scientists, atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer (professor emeritus of environmental sciences and founding director of the National Weather Satellite Service) in an article in…