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 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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]