Summer 2007 Table of Contents
Features
Sounding Off
A small outfit with a big reputation, this U.Va. program dispels the notion that computer music is nothing but monotonous bleeps and bloops.
Altered States
For the past 30 years, U.Va. psychiatrist Bruce Greyson has tried to reach a scientific understanding of the phenomenon known as the near-death experience.
Promises Kept
After two tours of combat and a suicide bomber's attack that left him badly injured, Dan Glanz is walking the Lawn this spring.
The Accidental Altruist
He meant to take a year's vacation from his stressful job, but instead he found a new mission in the streets of Katmandu.
University Digest
Great Dishonors
“Santa Claus, Philly cheese steak sandwiches, Native Americans, Detective Andy Sipowicz of the television show NYPD Blue and evil Teddy Bears all play a role in this year’s awards,” says…
A Foot in the Door
This spring, 5,154 students received the good news that they had been admitted to U.Va., chosen from a record-breaking applicant pool. U.Va. received 18,013 applications for 3,170 spots in the…
Off to the Races
A sellout crowd of close to 23,000 revelers attended the 30th annual spring running of the Foxfield Races on April 28. The Charlottesville tradition draws attendees from around the country,…
Opening Up the Web
The University’s Web pages are becoming much friendlier for those with disabilities. An automated software service enables pages to be automatically converted into a format optimized for disabled users. The…
News Briefs
Following up on its well-publicized publication of a lost Robert Frost poem last year, the Virginia Quarterly Review includes a previously unpublished Mark Twain essay in its spring issue that…
Wind Chill?
Rick Webb (Grad ’88) has spent much of his professional life addressing environmental problems related to coal. Before coming to U.Va. for graduate study in environmental sciences, he was an…
RESEARCH & DISCOVERY
Watching Walruses
Watching Walruses “Think of an earthworm that weighs two tons,” says G. Carleton Ray. “That’s a walrus.” A research professor…
Taking the Temperature
Global warming may have picked up steam with the dawn of the Industrial Age 200 years ago, but humans began…
SPORTS
The Big Rebound
Senior Day for J.R. Reynolds and Jason CainThe tournament proved to be shock therapy. When the team reconvened, assistant coach…
What’s Cooking?
Brandon Carter (Col ’10) was having a hard time adjusting to college-level track and field workouts. A lean-bodied sprinter, he…
ALUMNI NEWS
Tune In
Reunions Weekend will have a way-back, play-back soundtrack.As part of student-run radio station WTJU’s 50th anniversary celebration, show hosts from…
Wanted: Recruiters
It’s one of those ideas that makes so much sense that it’s surprising that it hasn’t been tried before.Efforts to…
Granting Excellence
Nursing and medical students working to prevent the spread of AIDS in southern Africa are among the beneficiaries of grants…
Bridging Generation Gaps
For the first time in history, there are four different generations in the U.S. workplace—each shaped and defined by specific…
ARTS
Bestsellers at the U.Va. Bookstore: January through March 2007
1. The Bridge by Doug Marlette2. White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Donald Hall3. A…
Klezmer Calling
Some people have rhythm. Joel Rubin has klezmer.“I have Yiddish music in my background,” says the bearded, soft-spoken Los Angeles…
DEPARTMENTS
Letters to the Editor
U.Va., especially on this day, Virginia Tech is family. Many of us have parents, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers,…
Student Life: The Producers
Stills from Hoos News, Episode No. 8. Welcome to The Hoos News Show, a comical newscast created by Josh Cincinnati…
Short Course: You Kin Do It
Revolutionary War pension and bounty files: To qualify for pensions and bounty land-for-service, Revolutionary War veterans had to provide proof…
Retrospect: The Queen
A portrait of Mrs. Walker hung for many years in the student lounge of Newcomb Hall.Best known as the Queen,…
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