Where Am I? (February 2018)

Molly Grieco

Congratulations to Kayla Berry (Col ’11 L/M) who won a $25 gift card to the UVA Bookstore by correctly answering that this is Madison House on Rugby Road.

Highlights

Madison House celebrates 50 years of serving Charlottesville, empowering students

Madison House volunteers have worked to make Charlottesville a better place while learning leadership skills for life.

How Walt Whitman disguised his poems about male love—and how a UVA professor put it all together

Fredson Bowers discovered the original sequence of poems to reveal a more vulnerable side to America’s poet.

UVA grants full alumni status to black nurses who earned it decades ago

The hidden nurses who helped integrate UVA Hospital received certificates when they graduated in the 1950s, but weren’t recognized as alumni until recently.

Ryan’s new strategic plan is bigger than its list of 10 key initiatives

There’s a lot more to UVA’s just-approved 2030 strategy than the list of 10 “key initiatives.” A lot more.