In a world where brawny sports like football and hockey rule the airwaves, one sport is waging a quiet revolution—quiet, except for the whirr of a plastic disc spinning through the air. America’s best ultimate frisbee team, where teams score points by catching the disc in the opposing team’s end zone, is based here. A […]
Nichols’ full photograph of a 300′ tall, 1,500-year-old redwood demanded that he meticulously plan 84 separate digital photographs. The seamless composite is the only high-definition image of a full redwood ever taken. Few of us can claim to be the person who took the definitive photograph of anything but our children. Globetrotting photographer Michael “Nick” […]
SEE MORE Click here to watch a film by Kevin Everson, commissioned by CineVegas, that explores the Nevada city. Introductory filmmaking class is a rite of passage for the arts community at UVA. In the class, students shoot original works, and edit their own cuts of a “mondo” film based on the techniques of bawdy filmmaker John […]
When the landscape architecture profession is handing out awards, Charlottesville firm Nelson Byrd Woltz often goes home with a new accolade. (Its design for the Dell at UVA, for example, earned the 25-year-old company a national award just last year.) More importantly, NBW is designing spaces that will have national significance—places that, over time, millions […]
SEE MORE Click here to watch Paul Perrone introduce Tommy Jr., the autonomous vehicle designed to compete in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. How many robotics specialists do you know, here or anywhere, who are on a first name basis with Neil Young? There’s probably only one: Paul Perrone, a Crozet-based engineer who was recruited by […]
Allison Ewing says the design process is like solving a Rubik’s Cube. “You learn early in architectural education,” echoes her partner, Christopher Hays, “that design problems are just challenges waiting for you to discover the design solution.” Christopher Hays, right, says that after all his and Allison Ewing’s years in the business, he’s still amazed […]
SEE MORE Click here to read about Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who, for the first time, identified a case of the disease. Click here for a tour of the brain. Steven DeKosky doesn’t always sport black Ray-Bans in the halls of the UVA Medical Center, but his full get-up on the cover of GQ Magazine—standing […]
SEE MORE Click here to see photos from Donovan Webster’s travels. Sometimes, when Donovan Webster returns from reporting a story, he needs to sleep on the floor for a few days to reacclimate. He reminds himself that a broken washing machine isn’t a new expedition, but a domestic responsibility. When his kids were younger, he’d need time […]
A horse is a horse, of course, but “Mancha” is more than a horse—kept comfortable, like so many of her kin, in Albemarle County. She’s a leopard Appaloosa with nearly as many awards as she has spots. And, along with 75 other hoofed hulks, she’s a reigning national polo champion. Kylie Sheehan, a freshman starter […]
All it took was one phone call for Margo Smith to change gears. Having been to Central Australia as an anthropology graduate student in the early 1990s, Smith’s name came to the attention of a certain billionaire philanthropist whom we’ll call John Kluge. He was looking for someone to catalogue an outstanding collection of Aboriginal […]