The University of Virginia announced designer, urbanist and spatial justice advocate Liz Ogbu as one of two inaugural University Fellows this semester. The new program brings expert practitioners to Grounds to engage with the UVA community on today’s most challenging problems and inspiring opportunities.
UVA School of Architecture's Master of Urban Design candidate Vishal Jayan (MUD '23) was recognized at the 10th Annual Tamayouz Excellence Award Ceremony, hosted by the Oman Society of Engineers in Oman's capital city of Muscat earlier this month.
ARTS ON THE HILL: Beethoven Up Close with Members of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia and Music Director Benjamin Rous • Tuesday, February 14 • 5-6pm (doors open at 4:30pm) • Carr’s Hill • FREE by Lottery
Something about WTJU appeals to the radio station’s DJs. Really appeals to them. Such that some have spent decades hosting weekly shows on the station, licensed to the University of Virginia and on the air since 1957. In October, the station’s longest-volunteering DJ hosted his last regular show. Dave Rogers, known through his WTJU show and across the regional music community as “Professor Bebop,” ended a run of nearly 50 years as leader of a jazz-centric weekly show.
Assistant professor of hip-hop and the Global South A.D. Carson’s University of Virginia courses provide students a musical and cultural experience enriched by creativity, connections and curiosity.
Reflecting on the time he spent working in artistic isolation as a court musician for Hungary’s Esterházy family, Joseph Haydn once remarked: “I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.” In many ways, the same is true for award-winning composer and Eleanor Shea Professor of Music, Matthew Burtner. Born and raised in Alaska, Burtner knows what it means to live remotely. Growing up in Nuiqsut, an Arctic city accessible only by airplane or ice road, he spent much of his young life helping his family prepare adequate food, heat, and clothing.
Tanya Holland has made numerous appearances on NBC’s “Today” show, “Good Morning America” and The Food Network; was a contestant on Bravo TV’s “Top Chef”; and hosted her own show, “Tanya’s Kitchen Table,” on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. But this celebrated Black celebrity chef and 1987 University of Virginia graduate started her food service career not in the grand kitchens of Europe, but on the Corner, working at two long-gone restaurants in the 1980s.
Matthew McLendon, J. Sanford Miller Family Director and chief curator of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, will leave at the end of the month to become director and CEO of San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, the first modern art museum in Texas. McLendon will begin his appointment at the McNay on Feb. 13.
From David Baldacci’s latest thriller to the history of nurses, University of Virginia faculty and alumni published a range of books last semester. Here’s a selection of what they’ve written or edited that might appeal to a range of readers, with information from publishers and reviewers.
In Andrea Trimble’s drawings, worlds merge. The built environment stakes its claim and nature presses its inevitability. Sometimes structure morphs into nature through the slender black lines that capture what she’s seen and where she’s been. “I use pen and ink mostly to depict different locations that I see in my travels, usually something that captures my eye,” Trimble said.
Molly Joyce was in sixth grade when she started composing music and experimenting with musical notation software. “It was like a game,” she said, “combining the music in my head with the software and playing it back.” She could change the notes, the timing, and make other special effects.
