A&S Online Archive 2008

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December 2008

• Professor of Life
  “Mr. Mead’s Liberal Arts Seminar” is the stuff of legend.
  Posted 11/20/08

• Weak Economy?
  Put a positive spin on a downturn with solid planning.
  Posted 11/20/08

• The Trees of Knowledge
  Trees reveal history at Monticello and Mount Vernon.
  Posted 11/20/08

• Pakistani Tragedies Paint an Unfair Picture
  U.Va. professor, native Pakistani weighs in on women’s roles.
  Posted 11/20/08

• Regaining Humanity
  Dissident Tibetan monk finds new life in Charlottesville.
  Posted 11/20/08

• Question from the Dean
  Your favorite events
  Posted 11/20/08

November 2008

• Fey’s Palin parodies change political landscape
  Is “SNL’s” Sarah Palin shaping how we view the real thing? You betcha!
  Posted 10/23/08

• Obama’s In-Box
  Choosing a “random senator’s” name as an e-mail address brings unexpected consequences.
  Posted 10/23/08

• Canvassing for Change
  Face-to-face just might beat Facebook.
  Posted 10/23/08

• Looking for America
  Electioncycle.com cyclist rides 2,000 miles to explore America’s issues and character.
  Posted 10/23/08

• U.S. Is Facing an Identity Crisis, New Report Suggests
  New report finds U.S. national identity is weakening.
  Posted 10/23/08

• Minds Made Up?

• Letter from El Salvador
  A summer providing clean water provides valuable education, too.
  Posted 10/23/08

• Question from the Dean: You Spoke
  Your fall memories
  Posted 10/23/08

October 2008

• Doctors and Depression
  Lynchburg doctor Stuart Harris (College ’53, MD ’57) reaches out to help his peers.
  Posted 09/24/08

• Masterpiece for the Masses
  Public librarian Kent Moore (College ’59) built one of the nation’s finest film collections.
  Posted 09/24/08

• Doh!
  English Professor Paul Cantor takes popular culture seriously.
  Posted 09/24/08

• The Gold Standard
  Divorce expert Mavis Hetherington helped boost U.Va.’s Psychology Dept. to national distinction.
  Posted 09/24/08

• Wind, Water and Machines
  ‘Hum-drum’ sounds aren’t ‘ho-hum’ to Drama professor Rasbury.
  Posted 09/24/08

• “Hello Teacher Li!”
  Fourth-year Stephen Leonelli immerses himself in China’s education system.
  Posted 09/24/08

• Question from the Dean: You Spoke
  Selections from your responses about the technology you brought to College—and more to come!
  Posted 09/24/08

September 2008

• What Would Mr. Jefferson Do?
  At the University of Missouri, Rick McGuire (PhD GSAS ’83) brings Jeffersonian ideals to cultivating character for peak athletic performance.
  Posted 08/27/08

• In Gecko We Trust
  Ted Ward (College ’73) leads Geico’s innovative marketers.
  Posted 08/27/08

• Political pluck, power dovetailed in state-U.S. Sugar deal
  Paul Tudor Jones (Economics ’76) works behind the scenes for Florida’s largest conservation land deal.
  Posted 08/27/08

• Dissent As Patriotism
  Victoria Hughes’ (English Language and Literature ’81) documentary film captures the personal stories of the pre-2003 Iraq war opposition.
  Posted 08/27/08

• Prisoners of Peacetime
  Cultural anthropology student Kelly McMunigal researches incarceration in the U.S.
  Posted 08/27/08

• Letter from the Civil Rights Movement
  A summer in the trenches determines one alumnus’ life’s work.
  Posted 08/26/08

• Question from the Dean: You Spoke
  Summer experiences made memories and changed lives.
  Posted 08/27/08

August 2008

• It’s the Pits
  Bryan White’s athleticism earns him a NASCAR career.
  Posted 07/23/08

• The Tattler
  Amy Argetsinger dishes about dishing at “The Washington Post” and her time at “The Declaration.”
  Posted 07/23/08

• From Cav to Cap—Hill, That Is
  Brad Butler spends the off-season working for Jack Kemp.
  Posted 07/23/08

• Tumbling Through Life
  “Dryer Vent Wizard” cleans up in D.C.
  Posted 07/23/08

• Cruising for the Right Job
  Micha Berman’s “persistence” lands him a job on the high seas.
  Posted 07/23/08

• Question from the Dean: You Spoke
  Your ideas regarding what the College should emphasize at this moment.
  Posted 07/23/08

July 2008

• Remote-Control Classrooms
  The clicker changes pace, testing and participation in class.
  Posted 06/25/08

• Mommy Dearest
  Research by U.Va. sociologists shows that fathers aren’t the predominant child abusers.
  Posted 06/25/08

• The History Boys
  U.Va. historians put current events in perspective on talk-radio series.
  Posted 06/25/08

• We’ve forgotten 26,000 dead American soldiers
  Professor Edward Lengel reclaims a heroic battle that determined history’s course.
  Posted 06/25/08

• It Ain’t Necessarily So
  Research shows concerns that early sex leads to delinquency may not be warranted.
  Posted 06/25/08

• She Works Harder for the Money
  Researchers find women have to work harder to win their bosses’ approval.
  Posted 06/25/08

• On Thin Ice

• Question From the Dean: You Spoke
  Your experiences with interdisciplinary study.
  Posted 06/25/08

June 2008

• Letter from a New York Filmmaker
  Steven Hahn trades law for award-winning movies.
  Posted 05/21/08

• Get the Popcorn!
  A&S Online’s first film festival offers up movies from students, faculty and alumni.
  Posted 05/21/08

• A Potpourri of Student Film
  The Salmagundi Film Festival lives up to its name.
  Posted 05/21/08

• He Seid, She Said
  Weiman Seid and Jenny Lawhorn bring their U.Va. friendship to movie PR.
  Posted 05/21/08

• Bearing Witness
  Iraq-veteran filmmaker brings “uncanny” rigor and compassion to documentaries on a war-wounded culture.
  Posted 05/21/08

• It’s a Wrap
  Hollywood veteran Martha Elcan shoots her first feature.
  Posted 05/21/08

• Isn’t It Romantic?
  University of Virginia students create feature-length romantic comedy.
  Posted 05/21/08

• Question from the Dean: You Spoke
  Readers recount their College research projects.
  Posted 05/21/08

May 2008

• G.I. Jo: Back to School for Iraq Vet
  Front-line combat changes perspective of returning English major.
  Posted 04/24/08

• New Dean
  Meredith Jung-En Woo, expert on international political economy, appointed Arts & Sciences dean
  Posted 04/24/08

• Chef d’honneur
  Alumnus leaves a banking career to invest himself in cooking.
  Posted 04/24/08

• Girls and Attention Deficit Disorder

• Getting Paid to Eat
  A Ph.D. in Baroque Spanish theater leads to a career as a food critic.
  Posted 04/24/08

• Global Reality Check
  U.Va.’s Panama Initiative brings students on-site to study sustainability.
  Posted 04/24/08

• After Valencia
  You’re Invited: Valencia Program Silver Celebration festivities in Valencia Oct. 9–11
  Posted 04/24/08

• Question from the Dean: You Spoke
  How public service at U.Va. and since has affected lives.
  Posted 04/24/08

April 2008

• Reel Change
  Perrin Chiles combines film and business to showcase social issues.
  Posted 03/26/08

• Cavaliers Care
  Alumni honor Thomas Jefferson with service in April and year-’round.
  Posted 03/26/08

• Sweat Philanthropy
  Development Office and College staff administrators give back.
  Posted 03/26/08

• Saving lives is goal of consulting firm
  Langdon Greenhalgh (Foreign Affairs, Spanish ’97) helps nonprofits become more efficient.
  Posted 03/26/08

• Musician on Call
  Anna Oppenheimer (BA English Language and Literature, Music ’06, MA English Language and Literature ’07) plays cello for patients in U.Va.’s Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit.
  Posted 03/26/08

• Honoring Selfless Service
  2007 Sullivan Award Winners
  Posted 03/26/08

• Letter from Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda
  Alumna starts nonprofit Mosaic to help victims of war-torn region.
  Posted 03/26/08

• Question from the Dean: You Spoke
  You shared your ideas regarding the most important issues of our time.
  Posted 03/26/08

March 2008

• Her Father’s Hidden Past
  Bliss Broyard (MFA Creative Writing ’96) explores the meaning of race and heritage in a book she never expected to write.
  Posted 02/27/08

• “War Is Not The Answer.”
  Following Martin Luther King’s words, U.Va. panelists call for anti-war activism.
  Posted 02/27/08

• Lights Out!
  Jennifer Barlow (Spanish ’09) founds and promotes National Dark Sky Week April 6–12.
  Posted 02/27/08

• The Big 5-0
  On April 4-5, the University Singers celebrate 50 years of making music and building community.
  Posted 02/27/08

• Why I Teach
  Monica Groves (English Language and Literature, Spanish ’04) discusses her emotional, first-year roller-coaster.
  Posted 02/27/08

• Discovery!

• Graduate Decides to Wing it Out West
  Aaron “Sly” Sylvester (Economics ’97) motorbikes across the country.
  Posted 02/27/08

• Question from the Dean: You Spoke
  Your ideas about how the College can continue to serve the educational growth of its alumni and friends.
  Posted 02/27/08

February 2008

• Letter from Russia
  Exclusive Valdai Club participant talks policy with Putin and Russia’s political elite.
  Posted 01/23/08

• Trapped
  Melvyn Leffler examines the Cold War through leaders and ideologies at critical moments in the U.S.-Soviet relationship.
  Posted 01/23/08

• Russia is Bomb, Da?
  Demureness disappears in the hot economy.
  Posted 01/23/08

• Boomtown
  Entrepreneurial alum turns U.Va. major to major profit in the new Russia.
  Posted 01/23/08

• HIV/AIDS, Drug Abuse and Street Youth in Russia
  A U.Va. Center for Global Health student finds successful solutions on-site.
  Posted 01/23/08

• Tapping Across the Tundra
  Wherein Drama Professor Robert Chapel and his boffo Broadway X Three troupe take Russia (including the Arctic Circle and Siberia) by storm.
  Posted 01/23/08

• Question from the Dean
  Graduate teaching assistants make an impact.
  Posted 01/23/08

January 2008

• Build a career? Build a life.
  Alumnus shares how integrity informs acting, living.
  Posted 12/19/07

• Make Yourself Happy
  Associate Professor of Psychology Jonathan Haidt’s proven ways to boost your happiness quotient for good.
  Posted 12/19/07

• Real Perspective
  Belief in yourself will take you further than a 10-year plan.
  Posted 12/19/07

• Want to Go to the Olympics?
  U.Va. tourism blends learning, alumni and fun.
  Posted 12/19/07

• Letter from the World
  In life, it’s the things you don’t do that you regret.
  Posted 12/19/07

• Question from the Dean
  Courses you wish you’d taken at U.Va.
  Posted 12/19/07

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