Summer 2016
Features
Modern Honor
In 2013, students voted in an “informed retraction” measure to the Honor System. This past spring, the single sanction barely survived a vote. Now what?
Time Capsule
Over the last 100 years, UVA engineering students have traded drafting tables and wood shops for modeling software, 3-D printers and flight simulators. See what the future holds for engineering on Grounds.
Law Stars
UVA Law’s fingerprints are all over true-crime sensations Serial and Making a Murderer.
Corps Challenges
From the UVA rugby pitch to the global battlefield, a conversation with Marine Corps commandant General Robert Neller (Col ’75).
New Role for a Familiar Corner Spot
The Corner’s Lloyd Building, most recently the home of the Student Book Store, will undergo renovations to become a multipurpose student space.
New center examines connections between media and citizenship
Students take a closer look at the national and local news cycles in UVA’s new Center for Media and Citizenship, and the Virginia Quarterly Review moves to a new home.
News Briefs
A young engineer wins highest government honor, Larycia Hawkins joins the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and the Library and the A-School appoint new deans.
UVA Honors Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright receives the inaugural Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Prize for Global Leadership and discusses FDR’s legacy at UVA’s Global Leadership Forum.
National Title and Accolades
Track star Henry Wynne (Col ’17) had a record-breaking year.
’Hoos got the medals
Turns out that the road to the Olympics isn’t the only hard one—where do you go from there? Eight alumni medalists offer their advice.
Major League Gift
The Washington Nationals’ Ryan Zimmerman (Col ’06) maintains a strong connection to Virginia Baseball.
Radio Music Society
Students in UVA’s Radio Music Society arrange pop songs for string quartets. From arrangement to final performance, see one group interpret Major Lazer’s “Be Together.”
The Crazy Human Heart
Literature critics Daniel Mendelsohn (Col ’82) and Mythili Rao (Col ’05) discuss the critic’s role in society.
New and Noteworthy
Six new books from UVA alumni and faculty.
Page 1
Excerpts from the first pages of eight new books by alumni of UVA’s Creative Writing program.
Start Me Up
UVA offers students many opportunities for entrepreneurship, from a new interdisciplinary minor to HackCville and the i.Lab.
Letters to the Editor
Readers offer their thoughts on the Spring 2016 issue of Virginia Magazine.
All Together Now
The ins and outs of starting—and running—a UVA alumni interest group.
The Hidden Landscape
Vice provost Maurie McInnis (Col ’88) reflects on the University’s complicated racial history and its implications for the present.
Going Home to Give Back
Jasmine Drake (Col ’13) entered UVA expecting to apply to medical school. After an Alternative Spring Break trip, she decided to give back to her community in the South Bronx.
Soul Power
Professor Claudrena Harold’s From Motown to Hip-Hop course traces the African-American experience through popular music.
Rotunda’s Rebirth
President Sullivan discusses changes to the Rotunda, as well as the building’s evolving function in University life.
Good Science
In a series of experiments in a lab on Grounds in 1977, pharmacology professor Alfred G. Gilman made a breakthrough that won him a Nobel Prize.
The Nuances of Building a Better Congress
Batten professor Craig Volden’s Legislative Effectiveness Project rates members of Congress according to their success in turning their ideas into laws.
