SEE MORE Click here to see footage of the tree from Tree of Life being relocated. “Nobody makes canvas tents anymore,” says Jack Fisk, but that’s not exactly true. The Academy Award-nominated production designer is in Los Angeles—at work on a new film titled Water For Elephants, starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon—creating a circa-1931 big top. A […]
It’s uncommon enough to be really good at throwing ceramics on a potter’s wheel. How does a person become an expert in throwing pots that are the size of a first-grader? In Kevin Crowe’s case, it was a simple matter of economics. Kevin Crowe says it took a lot of trial and error to learn […]
Sudhanva Gurumurthi, UVA Computer Science professor, received a million-dollar research award from Google this February. During the first round of Google’s $5.7 million Focused Research Awards, split among 31 professors at 10 universities, Sudhanva Gurumurthi won a bit of green for his green-mindedness. Gurumurthi, an assistant professor in UVA’s Department of Computer Science who teaches […]
“My first thought when I realized we were doing pretty good with this wine,” Pelton says of the 2009 Veritas Viognier that has earned her heaps of praise, “is ‘Thank goodness I have a lot of it!’” If, when she was studying infectious diseases in the far reaches of India, Emily Pelton couldn’t imagine becoming […]
As if marriage and money weren’t complicated enough, Brad Wilcox will tell you that a recession can cut to the heart of a couple’s stability. That’s because money, apparently, leads to happiness. HEAR MORE Click here to listen to an NPR interview with Brad Wilcox on postponing parenthood. Wilcox is the Director of the National Marriage Project. […]
READ MORE What the heck is a hedge fund? Click here to find out. Some people are connoisseurs of wine, others of music. Jaffray Woodriff is a connoisseur of algorithms. Woodriff entered the market-prediction game in 1991 as a recent McIntire School of Commerce grad armed with only a series of algorithms and a hunch, bouncing […]
For years, Debbie Stockton has been a visible part of the local movement for farmers’ rights. As an active member of Virginia Independent Consumer and Farmers Association (VICFA), she’s fought in the legislative trenches against what she sees as overzealous government regulation of small farms. In 2007, though, she went national with her message when […]
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. […]