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 […]
I’m working on a lot of websites, which seems like a trend for me recently, gearing towards interactive stuff, web-based stuff.
I am currently working on a series of still-figure paintings and drawings that feature lather
Right now I’m working on the first draft of a play tentatively called “Seven Variations,”
What are you working on right now? We’re in Charlottesville about a third of the year, and when we’re here my wife [Ann Beattie] is teaching and I’m working exclusively on the mural at Old Cabell Hall. I’ve still got another staircase-and-a-half to paint. It’s expected to take about four more years. It’s a full-time […]