Scripting History

How do sites like Colonial Williamsburg, Monticello&em;even U.Va.&em;strike a balance between entertaining tourists and educating them? Anthropology professor Richard Handler and other scholars weigh in.

Reflections of a Survivor

We Are Marshall, based on a 1960 plane crash that claimed the lives of Marshall University's football team, brings many emotions to the surface again for Mary Jane Tolley (Educ '66), whose husband, Rick Tolley (Educ '64), was the team's head football coach.

The Experts

From training dogs to picking stocks, U.Va. graduates share advice on a variety of topics.

Into Africa

Seduced long ago by a lion's roar, environmental sciences professor Bob Swap introduces a new generation of students to a complex and changing Africa.

Homecoming

Cirque du Soleil

Verbatim

“If you want to find out who Tiki and I are, we are a 100-percent reflection of our mother and what she’s done and the values that she’s placed on…

Lessons in Democracy

The opening ceremony of the International Youth Democracy Summit—among the first events celebrating the 400th anniversary of the settling of Jamestown—had been rousing. Nearly 300 top students from 42 states…

Open to Anomalies

Whenever astronomy professor Charles Tolbert gets a chance to debunk astrology, that field with the all-too-similar name, he takes it. On a morning in September, in a lecture hall packed…

News Briefs

An ambitious initiative to enhance U.Va.’s science and technology research is gaining steam with the appointment of two new faculty. Stephen S. Rich, one of the world’s leading epidemiologists and…

Ready or Not

Finding Frost

In 1918, Robert Frost wrote a poem titled “War Thoughts at Home” shortly after the death of his friend, Edward Thomas, a fellow poet killed in World War I. Frost…

Circle of Life

Taking it to the Streets

Home by the Sea

U.Va. environmental scientists have been doing critical research on Virginia’s Eastern Shore for two decades. But until the August dedication of a new $2.5 million Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center, their…

Q&A: Kate Tamarkin

The World of Dante

Tempest in an Ink Well

In August, third-year Grant Woolard submitted his first two “Quirksmith” comic strips for publication in the Cavalier Daily. One, titled “Christ on a Cartesian Coordinate Plane,” depicted Jesus crucified on…

Khatami Visits Grounds

Early No More

U.Va. is ending its longstanding practice of early-decision admisssions, a move intended to level the playing field for all qualified applicants and improve the economic diversity of its student body.…

Almost All Air

R&D In Brief

Naming Evil

At a time when the term “evil” gets bandied about by politicians as a convenient rhetorical device, one U.Va. researcher…

Snap Judgments

On this test, you can’t really cheat or lie. In fact, it’s impossible to even know how you’re answering the…

Heartfelt Gesture

Eight Straight … and Counting

The rest of the ACC’s men’s swimming teams may have missed their best chance of ending “The Streak.”Virginia won the…

World Class

Virginia Basketball: 2007 Season Preview: The Women

Fourth-year guard Brenna McGuireHoos New? Virginia lost only one player to graduation (Tiffany Sardin) and one who opted to transfer…

Virginia Basketball: 2007 Season Preview: The Men

The John Paul Jones Arena“To me, the difference maker was the team and the coaches, and the family atmosphere,” says…

Going to the Mat

In Memoriam

Letters to the Editor

The letter against intelligent design [in reference to “Ultimate Questions,” Summer 2006] signed by 49 U.Va. science faculty is revealing:…

Student Life: Dorm Chic

Retrospect: Tight Quarters

Book from the collection of Paul Mott (Col ’82)