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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

 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 […]

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 […]