Topic: Academics
The Wired Mind
James Coan probes how the mind reacts to emotional situations, from holding hands to being homesick. Barry Condron blazes trails with computer images of fruit flies.
Winter 2007
Explaining the World
Lou Bloomfield, who teaches the popular introductory physics course "How Things Work," explains the science behind objects that students see every day.
Fall 2007
Getting Out of a Jam
Worsening traffic on Virginia roads demands high-tech solutions. The Smart Travel Lab uses advanced computer models to develop them.
Fall 2007
Lab-grown Ligaments
Fall 2007
Murder, She Writes
Linda Fairstein (Law class of ’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.
Fall 2007
Engineering Change
Summer 2007
Leading the Way
Summer 2007
Sounding Off
A small outfit with a big reputation, this UVA program dispels the notion that computer music is nothing but monotonous bleeps and bloops.
Summer 2007
Altered States
For the past 30 years, UVA psychiatrist Bruce Greyson has tried to reach a scientific understanding of the phenomenon known as the near-death experience.
Summer 2007
Saving the Life of a Dummy
The UVA School of Medicine employs sophisticated simulations to train third-year medical students for trauma scenarios.
Summer 2007
Crime-Fighters
Spring 2007
Civil Liberties in the War on Terror
Spring 2007
Running on Respect
In an era in which mudslinging has become a science, UVA offers a voice in the wilderness, calling for civility.
Spring 2007
Almost All Air
UVA scientists led by Professor Pamela M. Norris research aerogels, solids that are 98 percent air.
Winter 2006
The Cerenkov Blue
In 1960, UVA was on the vanguard of the emerging field of nuclear energy. Then came Three Mile Island.
Summer 2006
Queen of Slag
Hailed as the toxic beauty queen of brownfield remediation, landscape architect Julie Bargmann is helping to regenerate forsaken sites and bring them back into the community fold.
Summer 2006