Topic: Academics
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
Snap Judgments
The Implicit Association Test, developed by a team including UVA psychology professor Brian Nosek, shows the influence of unconscious attitudes on behavior.
Winter 2006
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.
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
Plunder
In 1984, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a dazzling new acquisition of silver vessels from the third century B.C. But one question wouldn't go away: was it looted?
Spring 2006