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Bookmarked: Faulkner at Virginia

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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner wrote in Requiem for a Nun. The author’s two terms as writer-in-residence in 1957 and 1958 have taken on…

Online, In Touch

Web site ‘a good place to explore’

Need career guidance?Eager to stay in touch with your former roommate?Want to peruse recent research on heart disease—or hedge funds?

A Wink Is as Good as a Nod

Head movements trump gender in conversation

Watch a video that shows how researchers change perceived gender with video conferencing software.

No More Backpacks

Darden School to test Kindle’s potential

Students at the Darden School of Business may be getting a glimpse of the future of education this year. Online retailer Amazon selected Darden as one of seven schools that…

Dolley Madison Goes Digital

New version of former first lady's papers fuels scholarship

Dolley Madison was famous for being the ultimate hostess, and now a project headed by Holly Shulman uses the tools of the digital age to open new windows onto the life and times of the former first lady.

Required Reading: Deborah Johnson

Deborah Johnson teaches applied ethics in the Department of Science, Technology and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at U.Va. She co-edited Technology and Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Future.

Hacked

Student uncovers far-reaching security threat

A trio of hackers led by a University doctoral student in computer engineering has cracked the security code of a popular smart card that uses radio-frequency identification, or RFID.Karsten Nohl,…

Required Reading: W. Bernard Carlson

W. Bernard CarlsonA U.Va. professor of science, technology and society, W. Bernard Carlson’s seven-volume Technology in World History was published in 2005. He’s now finishing a biography of the famous…