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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 […]

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 […]