When it opens in 2023, the Contemplative Commons will take advantage of its idyllic location alongside the Dell pond with outdoor spaces including contemplative gardens and a tree-lined courtyard.
The UVA Democracy Initiative and StoryCorps’ “One Small Step” will launch a new partnership, focused on facilitating difficult conversations in the local community, at a Wednesday event.
The series is one of several outreach efforts designed to generate more engagement with and among students and to advance efforts to find common ground within the UVA community.
Small’s support of UVA projects includes an Engineering School building that bears his name, and the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, which opened in 2004, named in honor of Small and his wife.
“Voice of the Cavaliers” Dave Koehn, who announced on Tuesday that he will be leaving his job to become the radio voice of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, reflects on his top five memories from his time at UVA.
Through “Birdies for Hope,” former UVA golfer Jimmy Stanger – now working toward earning his PGA Tour card – has helped build four churches and a “Hope Center” in Colombia.
Whittington W. Clement’s undergraduate years at UVA were punctuated by the Vietnam War, a time when the University was about a third of the size it is today.
The director of the National Institutes of Health and former head of the International Human Genome Project graduated from UVA in 1970 with a chemistry degree.