HEAR MORE Click here to hear the sound of a pulsar, spinning 600 times per second, as heard at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. As a kid, Scott Ransom played with toy telescopes and visited space camp. He thought he wanted to be one thing: an astronaut. It wasn’t long before bad vision swept that dream from […]
HEAR MORE Click here to listen to Eisenberg read from Twilight of the Superheroes. Hand Deborah Eisenberg a stack of money—say, $500,000—and the author and UVA creative writing instructor will buy time. At least, that’s what she told the New York Daily News shortly after she was awarded one of 24 MacArthur “genius” grants last September. The prize—a […]
SEE MORE Click here to watch a video explaining an echocardiogram. When hundreds of students sit in their first cardiology class, they turn to one definitive book: Clinical Nuclear Cardiology: State of the Art and Future Direction. Now in its fourth edition, it was co-written by George Beller. Beller is a heart expert. Not of the Dr. […]
Ted Genoways says that there’s “no question” his own writing time is more structured now than when he first took the position as VQR editor. Being arguably the best literary magazine in the country means more than outliving the rest of ’em, and Ted Genoways knows it. After he became the editor of the Virginia […]
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 […]