


Sounding Off
The Virginia Center for Computer Music is Making Noise
A small outfit with a big reputation, this UVA program dispels the notion that computer music is nothing but monotonous bleeps and bloops.

Required Reading: Francesca Fiorani

Required Reading: W. Bernard Carlson

Running on Respect
UVA's Sorensen Institute wants to clean up politics
In an era in which mudslinging has become a science, UVA offers a voice in the wilderness, calling for civility.

Into Africa
Lessons in cultural immersion
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.

Queen of Slag
Transforming Industrial Wastelands
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.