Summer 2006

Features

The Art of Giving It Away
A leading designer and purveyor of Judaica, this Darden grad follows an equally creative business plan.

The Master Builder
For the past 18 years, this construction wizard has steered UVA's highest-profile projects on time and on budget, smiling all the way.

The Cerenkov Blue
In 1960, UVA was on the vanguard of the emerging field of nuclear energy. Then came Three Mile Island.

Queen of Slag
Hailed as the toxic beauty queen of brownfield remediation, landscape architect Julie Bargmann is helping to regenerate forsaken sites and bring them back into the community fold.

Ultimate Questions
Two centuries after the founding of Thomas Jefferson's university, students and faculty are still exploring the interplay among science, religion and the state.