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 […]
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 […]
If money is power in the realm of political campaigns, Robert Hurt is mighty powerful.
On April 12, an affidavit arrived in the clerk’s office at Augusta County Circuit Court with a confession from Ralph Leon Jackson, the 56-year-old Stuarts Draft resident charged with first-degree and attempted capital murder in connection with the April 5 Blue Ridge Parkway shootings. The same day, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli attended a pro-gun […]
The arrival of new UVA President Teresa Sullivan in early August has led students to resurrect the Living Wage Campaign