In Your Words

From Parking Lot to Landmark 0

Alum helps design Rice Hall

Aug 26, 2010by David Clark (Engr ’08)

Many students graduate from the University with dreams of one day giving back to the school, once careers have developed or resources are available. Since I graduated two years ago, I’ve seen how my entry-level engineering job in Charlottesville has offered me such an opportunity immediately, before I ever expected it.As a fourth-year civil engineering student in the spring of 2008, I spent a few late nights at the Thornton Hall computer lab. I would park in the small parking lot adjacent to Olsson, and shuffle down Engineer’s Way to the lab to plug away at my thesis. Engineering and…

Commerce in China 0

Alum educates McIntire students about manufacturing in China

Aug 25, 2010by Robert Daley (Com ’92)

I’m a proud McIntire alum who now has more than 18 years of business experience, but I’ve always been something of a closet engineer. That’s why one of the most interesting parts of my job as CEO of a small company is the time I spend at our manufacturing facility in Guangzhou, China, and why I jumped at the chance to show a group of McIntire students around the factory while they were visiting China for their Global Immersion Experience.My friend Henry Thorne and I founded our company five years ago. It’s called 4moms, and we design and build innovative…

The SAT Gauntlet 1

Father-daughter challenge scores high on bonding

Jul 20, 2010by Richard Solli (Com ’69)

“Hey Dad, it’s time to wake up!” rang out from my daughter Alex about 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning in October 2008. Was it time to head out to a volleyball tournament? No, the season didn’t start for another two months. Or were we headed off to college visit No. 10? No, that was the next weekend.Then, I remembered: That Saturday was the first and last Father-Daughter SAT Challenge.It all started over the dinner table the previous June when Alex, our youngest daughter and a high school senior, told us her strategy for taking the College Board SAT Reasoning…

Lending a hand 1

Alumnus works for microfinance organization, Kiva, in Africa

Jun 02, 2010by James Allman-Gulino (Col '08, Batten '09)

A first-hand account of an alumnus working for Kiva in Africa.

Building Haiti 26

A student's efforts to build schools after the earthquake

May 14, 2010by Ania Turnier (Col ’13)

Fear paralyzed me. Although questions about my family’s safety clawed at me, I felt nothing. I sat in front of the television watching headlines projecting the devastation of the 7.0 earthquake that rocked my hometown of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Every word failed to penetrate my terror-induced stupor. For two days I was unable to reach my family and was left with only the hope that they were all still alive.Trapped in Nicaragua on a Study Abroad Program through the University of Virginia, I felt so close to the destruction and yet I was stuck, 900 miles from my family, my friends…

Saying It with Flowers, My Way 0

Alumna writes a novel about the language of flowers

Apr 29, 2010by Amy Brecount White (Grad ’87)

At the time, I was freelance writing for The Washington Post and magazines, raising my three kids and generally quite busy; however, I mulled over Morrison’s words while mopping up stray Cheerios and playing Candyland. What did I care most deeply about? For whom did I truly want to write? And what did I have in me that was worth sharing? Between finishing my M.A. in English at U.Va. and having my own kids, I had spent time teaching English at St. Gertrude’s, an all-girls high school in Richmond, Va., and I loved those girls. Granted, teenage girls can be…

The Emperor’s New Shoes 0

The U.Va. wrestling team ascends to ACC No. 1

Apr 07, 2010by Tim Foley (Col '03, Educ '05)

The University of Virginia’s men’s wrestling program, behind the conference titles of Chris Henrich and Mike Salopek, won the ACC wrestling tournament last month in Raleigh. While conference championships are an accomplishment for any program, they can sometimes go unnoticed in an athletic department recently silly with success (men’s soccer won NCAA’s and men’s lacrosse, men’s tennis, and baseball have each been ranked No. 1 in the nation). The wrestling team’s conference championship was more significant because it was the first team title in 33 years.So why 2010? How did a team that was picked by journalists (that’s me) to…

Making a new family home 1

An alumna’s winding path to Charlottesville and U.Va.

Apr 06, 2010by Amanda Welch (Arch '93)

When I first moved to Charlottesville in 1988, it was not to go to U.Va. I was escaping my life in New York City, where I had been working in the entertainment industry after leaving my studies in theater history at NYU. I had also been held up at gunpoint, my apartment robbed and my car broken into. It was time for a change, and Charlottesville was a world away from Brooklyn, where I had lived since I was 19 years old. It seemed the perfect place for me to create a real home, the kind my younger siblings—Liz, Dan,…

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