Why a California Couple Gave Millions to Rare Book School
Book-loving adventures over five decades inspired a California couple to make a $3.1 million donation to Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, the largest donation in its history.
Book-loving adventures over five decades inspired a California couple to make a $3.1 million donation to Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, the largest donation in its history.
Why aren’t we listening to more love songs?
Hala Matar was an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia in the early 2000s, studying theater and drama.
Not unlike the students around him, Michael Duane, the 66-year-old father of a University of Virginia alumna, arrived on Grounds with a backpack, school supplies and a nose for adventure.
The sun has set on this year’s Virginia Film Festival.
The documentary premiered just days before the presidential election.
The University of Virginia Department of Drama is opening its new season with a retelling of the tale of Theseus and the Minotaur through the wit and complexity of the Spanish comedia tradition and the talent of a woman whose face is on Mexico’s 100-peso bill.
The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences celebrated the promotions of 151 faculty members to higher ranks among our tenured and academic general faculty with a Sept. 17 reception at UVA’s Colonnade Club in Pavilion VII on the Lawn.
When asked how he balances what a colleague once described as “the preposterous level of activity” in his life, trumpeter John D’earth simply laughed.