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The Trouble with Civilization

Ancient cities reveal the vulnerabilities of modern societies

Civilizations rise and fall. Why do they disintegrate? Is it better to live a "civilized" life?

A Message from the Rector

Welcome to Virginia, President Teresa Sullivan

Join me in welcoming Teresa A. Sullivan to the University of Virginia as our eighth president. The University achieved a great deal during the last two decades under John Casteen’s…

Required Reading: Karenne Wood

Karenne Wood is director of the Virginia Indian Heritage Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and a lecturer at U.Va. She published a book of poetry, Markings on…

Good Counsel

Derick Williams teaches change

Derick Williams was a biology undergraduate on his way to med school when he had an unnerving realization. “I didn’t really have a passion there,” he says. Luckily, around the…

An Almost Forgotten Oil Spill

Remembering the Ixtoc I Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

As a graduate student working on Padre Island during the summer of 1979, I was among the first to witness the oil from the Ixtoc I spill coming ashore on…

News Briefs

An Emotional Farewell

Casteen leads one last Final Exercises

During Final Exercises on May 23, John T. Casteen III delivered the commencement address to the Class of 2010 in one of his last official acts as University president. The…

Letters to the Editor

It goes without saying that many of us alumni were devastated by the news that a young female student at our university was allegedly killed by someone who was also…

Summer Reading

Books to read at the beach

Books to read at the beach by U.Va. faculty and alumni.

U.Va. Profs that Provide a Brush with Celebrity

Going to class can be a red carpet event

Teaching about the U.S. South is but one of Professor Bond’s assorted pursuits. The Chairman Emeritus of the NAACP, civil rights activist, economic justice activist, and recipient of the National…

Required Reading

E.D. Hirsch Jr. is an academic literary critic and a professor emeritus of education at the University of Virginia. Hirsch is best known for his writings about cultural literacy and…

Saving Shots Is a Snap

Proper storage and backup give long life to photographs

Nothing, according to Bradley Daigle, is as potent as a picture. Nothing. Photographs, paintings, engravings and prints evoke in all of us strong emotions, from joy and delight to fear…