News Briefs
Great Big Schoolhouse
New Curry School building
Lab-grown Ligaments
Murder, She Writes
From New York crime fighter to New York Times best seller
Linda Fairstein (Law ’72) earned the nickname "Hell on Heels" during her 25 years as chief prosecutor for Manhattan's Sex Crimes Unit. Having helped reform a judicial system myopic about violence towards women, she's turned her talents to crime fiction.
Engineering Change
Jill Tietjen named distinguished alumna
Leading the Way
$100 million gift will create new school
Saving the Life of a Dummy
How medical students learn to deal with trauma
The UVA School of Medicine employs sophisticated simulations to train third-year medical students for trauma scenarios.
Crime-Fighters
E-School’s Web tool helps police catch crooks
Civil Liberties in the War on Terror
The Cerenkov Blue
When UVA went nuclear
In 1960, UVA was on the vanguard of the emerging field of nuclear energy. Then came Three Mile Island.
