The award-winning Virginia Quarterly Review, published at the University of Virginia since 1925, has in recent years adapted its traditional features of current affairs, literature, history and criticism for the digital age.

Over the past 12 months, the VQR website has attracted almost a million page views from more than 500,000 readers in 206 countries and territories, according to publisher Jon Parrish Peede. In social media, Twitter shows that nearly 13,000 users follow VQR, making it among the most popular accounts on Grounds, he said. 

Recently, journalist Jason Motlagh won the South Asian Journalism Association’s Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting about South Asia for his multimedia report examining the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory, “Ghosts of Rana Plaza,” which appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review’s spring 2014 issue.

As VQR celebrates its 90^th anniversary, its editor, W. Ralph Eubanks, the former director of publishing at the Library of Congress who joined the staff last year, talks about what makes the journal distinctive, as well as a little bit about his own work and interests – including Southern food.

Q: What interested you in taking the job of VQR editor?

A: Coming to VQR presented a great opportunity to work with a magazine that’s been around for a long time, as well as to work on the content side of the publishing equation. In my work at the Library of Congress, I toggled between content and business, but the business side had come to keep me more occupied.

My job as editor is to be the person who works to keep the fires stoked that bring in new material for the magazine. That means I need to think several issues out, as well as focus on the next one we’ve got coming. Here, I get to be a lead editor and actually do a lot of the hands-on editing work rather than delegating it. It’s really getting back to the reason I wanted to be in the business, which is to acquire, shape and publish content that matters.  

Q: What does “acquiring content” involve?

A: Finding authors – poetry, fiction and nonfiction – essayists and reviewers who have something unique to say. Recently, I was doing some solicitations of people for a future issue, and the attraction that a lot of people have in working with VQR is knowing, “I’m going to get to say something on the page and work with you editorially in a way that in very few places these days I can actually do that. You’re going to be generous in the amount of space you’ll give me. You’re going to give me a lot of room to explore things without too much constraint.” That is what keeps my job interesting.

And the reach we have with our website – all of these things are really important to people who come to us.

Q. What are the challenges in producing a literary journal, maybe the top two or three?

A. We haven’t been doing as many themed issues, but very often you’ve got a sense that “Here are the people who would be the best to write on a particular topic,” and I think the real challenge is finding them at the right point where they can actually deliver something to you. I’m at a point where I don’t want to take “no” for an answer – someone might say, “I can’t do something now,” but if it’s someone I know that I want to write for us, I always say, “Well, if you can’t do it now, in another year? Let me get on your dance card.”

Another challenge is making sure you have content that is going to stand out and bring readers to you, and at the same time, stand the test of time. VQR has always been looking for unique voices over the years. There are people that VQR has published that at the time, they weren’t really well-known writers, but eventually they became a writer of some stature. I think it’s finding those voices – there are a lot of people out there – but it’s finding someone who’s got the right voice and the level of sophistication in their prose that’s something you want to publish. It’s getting the top tier – not necessarily the superstars, although I want them, too – but it’s also the talent that’s rising up, identifying them and finding the right platform for that person.

Q. Can you give an example?

A. I think a great example of someone we brought in is Leslie Jamison, whose essay, “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain,” we published in the spring 2014 issue. Associate editor Allison Wright had been following Leslie’s work and brought the essay to me. When I read it, I thought she had one of the most unique voices as an essayist that I’d seen in a long time. Plus, she wrote on a topic that often goes unspoken: how women deal with the dimension of pain in their lives. And then as her book came out, lots of other people saw the piece and connected with her voice and her message, so that attracted a lot of people to our site.

As an editor, you want to find people when they are at the right moment in their career. Leslie Jamison was really just starting to break through in her career. And also someone who over time will have some loyalty. As inevitably or sometimes happens in this business, they might have something that they want to write about that another publication wouldn’t want to take on, but we would.

Q. What about the challenges with readership and digital publishing?

A. One of the challenges there is the idea that all content wants to be free. We do have the porous paywall for VQR now, so that after 10 free articles, then you have to pay.

The great thing is our online readership is way up – and not just readership, but the level of reader engagement, so people are spending time on the site reading the pieces. It’s not that people are just going through a link and spending 30 seconds there. We have on the site how much time it takes to read each piece. So with Leslie Jamison’s, people actually read it.

We designed our website so it works well to read on any device, and not every site works that way. That’s one of the things we were thinking about, that’s why we’ve seen the level of engagement is so high – because the way the site works, it’s easy to read on any device.

The challenge is getting people to pay for it. It’s not in attracting them. Through social media channels we have lots of ways of bringing readers to us. What I hope is that there are going to be people who read so much for free, but then eventually will want to buy the print magazine.

(Note: Anyone with a U.Va. IP Web address can view all of VQR’s content for free.)

Q. How does VQR collaborate with the U.Va. community?

A. The conference (VQR’s inaugural writers’ conference, held in August) was a big thing for us. There were several U.Va. faculty members who were part of our writer’s conference, so that’s one way of bringing in the U.Va. community.

I think it’s important for VQR and our editorial staff to have a presence and a connection with the faculty. Very often what I hear is, “I’m working on a piece, but I don’t want to do it for a professional journal – I really want to do this without the layer of academic prose on it.” There are limited places to do that, but there are also things that I know about and can actually advise them on. It may be something that would work for another publisher or another journal. Since I know that world, I’ve met with several faculty members to talk through an idea or to say, “If you were to pitch an idea to me, here’s what I would be looking for. I’m looking for this type of voice. If you can give me this type of voice, I would want to publish that.”

Q. How about working with students?

A. We always have student interns, so that’s another way we’re connected with the University. We get people both from undergraduate and M.F.A. programs.

We teach our interns all about how the magazine actually runs. We make sure they can be here on Tuesdays for editorial meetings, so they get to see how the “sausage” is made. They get to do some proofreading, learn the basics of fact checking, do some research in the archives for us. Maybe doing some photo research – we may need a photograph to accompany a piece, or a piece of artwork – trying to find out where we can get that piece of artwork, or what permissions are required for using something. They are actually doing some of the routine tasks that go into putting out a magazine.

Q. Are you able to keep up with your own writing?

A. I’m just starting to get back to my own writing. I was giving myself a year here to do that. I’ve begun to do some book reviewing, and I’m back working on a book proposal I started about a year ago.

I’m also doing a couple of speaking engagements, both at the Southern Foodways Alliance. It all relates to the topic of food and the South, topics that are close to my heart. One of the outgrowths of that is I’m looking at doing a food issue for VQR, but one that’s a little bit different – not about connoisseurship, but more about ideas and food, and the way that ideas about food are changing and evolving in American culture.

Q. Tell me more about that, your upbringing and why you’re interested in food.

A. Food’s a really big part of Southern culture, and it’s a big part of when I go home. Going back to Mississippi, I have my food rituals that are part of that trip. I’m writing about what it is like to come home, thinking about the foods that call me home and why that place in particular calls me back.

What I see as a homecoming – for me, it’s not about nostalgia, it’s about learning and experiencing something new each time I go home. So it’s really not as much a focus on the past as it is on the present; it’s really living in the moment. The idea that “you can’t go home again” I think is very true, because the place you go back to will never be the way you remembered it. It’s always going to change. But if you live in the present, going home is not as painful of an experience as if you’re looking for that place to be exactly as it was when you were a child, because it never can be.

Q. You must read a lot. What are you currently reading that you don’t necessarily have to read?

A. From one of our contributors – he does a lot of criticism for us – I’m really loving “Hold the Dark” by William Giraldi. He’s a fine novelist. I also just finished reading “The Great Glass Sea” by Josh Weil, who contributed a short story to our summer issue.

And I’m also reading this book, “The Americans,” a book of poetry by David Roderick. As you can imagine, we get lots of books here, so I’m also going through them, and I started reading these poems and I got completely caught up in them.

I’m reading very often for pleasure but I’m also reading, thinking, “I should go to this person. I’d love to maybe publish some of their work.”

I’m reading a book that I started working on before I left the Library of Congress that’s just been published, “Mark Twain’s America.” One of the former curators wanted to do a visual timeline of Mark Twain’s life, and I said, “Well, it’s really not his life that is important. It’s what he read that shaped what he wrote,” and we started going into the library’s collections and went in and found the first newspaper piece he ever published, and we’re thinking, what else was in the paper that day? What else would he have been reading about? What other historical events would’ve shaped him? Only a couple of chapters were done when I left, and now it’s fun sitting down and looking at the whole book and seeing what actually happened in the end.

University of Virginia neurosurgeons Dr. Chris Shaffrey and Dr. Justin Smith have been named among the 18 best spine surgeons in North America.

The distinction comes from Orthopedics This Week, and is based on a survey of what the publication calls “thought leaders in the field.”

Shaffrey and Smith were the only spine surgeons in Virginia honored by the publication. The report declares the 18 are “arguably the finest spine physicians, teachers, investigators or administrators in the country.”

Calling him an “internationally regarded spine surgeon,” one survey respondent said that Shaffrey had “particular expertise in complex deformity surgery and is known for handling the tough cases.”

In 2013, Orthopedics This Week called Shaffrey one of the North America’s top 28 spine surgeons, as well.

“It is always a great honor to be recognized by our peers,” Shaffrey said. “Considering that two surgeons from U.Va. were recognized, I feel it is really a reflection of the great spine care and research efforts by all the providers at the U.Va. Spine Center.”

Shaffrey is board-certified in both neurological surgery and orthopedic surgery and serves as the Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgery at U.Va. He is also the director of U.Va.’s neurosurgery spine division.

Smith, co-director of the U.Va. Spine Center, was lauded as a rising star by his peers.

“He is one of the top young spinal researchers in the U.S.,” said one survey respondent. “He is a prolific writer who is widely published and making an impact in spine. At the rate he is going, he is destined to become one of the top leaders in spine surgery in five to 10 years.”

Smith is also an associate professor of neurosurgery and co-director of the neurosurgery spine division at U.Va.

“I am truly honored to be recognized by my peers and to be listed among many of the giants in spine surgery,” Smith said. “I look forward to continuing to advance the care of patients with spinal disorders through practice and research.”

Shaffrey and Smith are both part of the multidisciplinary team at the U.Va. Spine Center. The specialists at the center provide patients with comprehensive treatment options, including physical therapy, braces and a full range of surgical procedures. The care team includes neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, pain management specialists, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists and radiologists.

The University of Virginia will host its annual “Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn” on Halloween, Oct. 31, from 4 to 6 p.m. This year, Halloween falls during U.Va.’s Family Weekend.

U.Va.’s trick-or-treating tradition, established by students in the late 1980s, is open to the local community. Children are invited to wear costumes and participate in trick-or-treating at each of the 54 Lawn rooms. All candy is donated and distributed by 70 student groups and other organizations.

The event is hosted by the Lawn residents and receives additional support from the offices of Housing and Residence Life, Emergency Preparedness, Facilities Management, Parking & Transportation and the University Police Department. EMTs from Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad will be available during the event, and a lost child station, marked by balloons and signage, will be located on the south steps of Old Cabell Hall.

Due to renovations at the Rotunda, the entry and exit point for this year’s event is the South Lawn by Old Cabell Hall. Volunteers will direct families to the South Lawn.

Allergen-free treats will be available for children and students with severe allergies in Room 1 West, said Schuyler “Sky” Miller, head Lawn resident and a fourth-year student in the College of Arts & Sciences.

In addition to trick-or-treating, families will have the opportunity to enjoy a Trick-or-Treat Festival in the McIntire Amphitheater, also running from 4 to 6 p.m. The festival will feature a mix of recreational activities, students stationed at tables providing information related to their organizations, and performances by U.Va. student groups.

Public restrooms will be available at Old Cabell Hall, Alderman Library and Newcomb Hall.

Free parking for families attending the event will be available beginning at 3:30 p.m. in the E3, T4 and S6 lots at Scott Stadium and at University Hall, and beginning at 4 p.m. in the garage on Culbreth Road. Paid hourly parking is available in the Central Grounds Parking Garage on Emmet Street.

Lawn residents look forward to hundreds of children participating in the festivities and encourage University students to attend, too. “Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn is not only a unique tradition of the University, it is a special Halloween experience,” Miller said. “Every year, residents are thrilled to welcome families to this beautiful and communal space for an evening of fun, smiles and costumes.”

University of Virginia English professor and poet Rita Dove and historian Elizabeth R. Varon are among several winners of the 17th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards. At an Oct. 18 awards celebration in Richmond, Dove received the 2014 Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry, and Varon received the 2014 Literary Award for Nonfiction for her book, “Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War.”

The Weinstein Prize, established in 2005, is awarded each year to a poet with strong connections to Virginia. The $10,000 prize recognizes significant recent contributions to the art of poetry and is awarded on the basis of a range of achievement in the field. The other literary award categories were fiction, poetry and literary lifetime achievement, as well as nonfiction. Those winners also receive an engraved crystal book.

Dove, who served as U.S. poet laureate from 1993 to 1995 and as poet laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006, previously won the Library of Virginia’s 2008 Literary Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to editing “The Penguin Anthology of 20^th-Century American Poetry,” she has published nine volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, a play and a collection of poet laureate lectures.

Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English, was awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book, “Thomas & Beulah.” Many other accolades and honorary degrees have followed, including the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama, the 2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award and the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Bill Clinton.

Previous U.Va. recipients of the Weinstein Prize include George Garrett, Charles Wright, Lisa Russ Spaar and alumna Kelly Cherry.

The judges of the 2014 Literary Award for Nonfiction said they felt that in “Appomattox,” Varon “expertly traces the shock as news of the surrender spread and spawned a three-way American debate over the meaning of the war that still reverberates today.” 

Varon, the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, will give a talk at the U.Va. Miller Center on “Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment and the Legacy of the Civil War” on Oct. 28 at 3:30 p.m.

Varon has also published “Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859”; “We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia”; and “Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy.”

The other two nonfiction finalists also were U.Va. faculty members: Barbara Perry, co-chair of the Miller Center Oral History Program and author of “Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch,” and Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor in the Corcoran Department of History in the College of Arts & Sciences and author of “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832,” for which he won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year.

Moving to the University of Virginia this fall was the next logical step in George Christ’s evolution as a researcher. He holds joint appointments in the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in the School of Medicine, where he is director of basic science and translational research.

Trained as a physiologist and pharmacologist, Christ spent the early years of his career at Mount Sinai Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he focused on molecular mechanisms that cause tissue to lose function over time.

A tissue is a group of cells that have a similar shape and function, forming different organs from the skin to cartilage to the liver.

Christ became interested not simply in preventing the often-asymptomatic decline of function, but also recovering it as it is lost, expanding his scope to include congenital defects, such as cleft lip, and the effects of trauma. This led him to Wake Forest’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine. “I wanted to raise the bar for therapeutic applications from being palliative to being curative,” he said. 

At Wake Forest, Christ’s research took him in a number of related directions. He has been inspired by the remarkable regenerative response that other creatures exhibit. “You can remove 80 percent of an adult rodent’s bladder, and it will grow back in 12 weeks and be bioequivalent,” Christ said. “If I could find out how a normal adult bladder regenerates, I might eventually have a roadmap for creating new functional tissue for the bladder as well as more complicated organs and tissues.” 

Christ’s research also led him to the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which is dedicated to advanced treatment options for severely wounded servicemen and women. Christ is part of its craniomaxillofacial reconstruction program, which draws on the combined expertise of specialists in different tissues to develop complex, multitissue composites for restoring function to wounded warriors. 

He has developed a series of muscle repair technologies to address volumetric muscle loss injuries – instances in which muscle loss is so significant that the body cannot heal itself. He is also designing a treatment for cleft lip in adults that has the potential to serve as a meaningful prototype for more extensive facial repairs. Clinical trials of this technique may begin as early as 2015. 

“We’re not making muscle in a dish at this point,” he said. “We’re using muscle progenitor cells to create a muscle repair technology that accelerates functional recovery of muscle contraction in vivo.” 

At U.Va., Christ sees the chance to work with collaborators who could complement and extend his expertise. For instance, if he were to advance beyond the small volume of tissue required to repair cleft lip, he would need expertise in such fields as multiscale modeling, muscle mechanics, angiogenesis, molecular-level analysis and vascular imaging. U.Va. has world-class programs in all of these areas.

“The biomedical engineering department is a great fit for me,” he said.

His initial focus will be on orthopedic applications. “Much of the expertise that could help take the technology to the next level is right here. And with the whole entrepreneurial mindset of the U.Va. community, there is an opportunity to create a transformational research enterprise in muscle repair that has a natural flow to it,” he said.

-- by Charlie Feigenoff

Elizabeth Leet, a doctoral candidate in French at the University of Virginia and an English lecturer at the Université Paris-Est Créteil in France, has been chosen the recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2014 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship in French Studies.

The fellowship, which carries a $20,000 stipend, is awarded to women conducting original research in either Greek or French.

“Lise Leet’s sparks of brilliant creativity, her openness to engaging with alternative viewpoints, and her energetic dedication to her studies mark her as an extremely promising scholar,” said Amy Odgen, Leet’s adviser and associate professor of French medieval studies and gender studies at U.Va.

Leet intends to apply the stipend to her research of feminist theory as she edits and digitizes medieval French literary works alongside veterinary manuals and training journals.  

By using evidence found in medieval texts, Leet hopes to explain how women’s high capabilities in horsemanship allowed them greater social freedoms and challenged notions of female docility and the “damsel in distress” identity typically assigned to medieval women. Their relationships with horses were “symbiotic,” Leet says, and allowed for interspecies communication as opposed to aggressive domination. 

The research will contribute to Leet’s dissertation, “Women, Horses, and the Coming-Together of Species in High Medieval Literature,” in addition to a journal article that Leet plans to produce.

“Although horses in medieval works have received some attention in the past, Lise’s dissertation will make a significant contribution by looking at literary works alongside veterinary and training manuals, and by considering both in the light of the most recent theories of how human and non-human animals not only communicate, but even shape each others’ identities,” Ogden said. “Her preliminary findings suggest quite surprising similarities between medieval and modern conceptions of horse-human relationships and also point to some exciting new interpretations of well-studied works.”

Leet was previously awarded the Mellon Dissertation Fellowship and the First-Year Full Fellowship by U.Va.’s Department of French Language and Literature. She also received a Bourse Jeanne Marandon fellowship for French scholarship from the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique.

Working on her dissertation in Paris, Leet is currently a doctoral candidate in a bi-national doctorate program between U.Va. and the Université d’Orléans.

She also participates in the teacher exchange program at the Université Paris-Est Créteil while studying books as physical objects written in codex form and historical handwriting at the École Nationale des Chartes and the Institut de Recherche et D’histoire des Textes. 

Leet received her master’s degree in French literature from Middlebury College and her bachelor’s degree in French from Wellesley College.  

At. U.Va, Leet is a member of the Graduate Advisory Board for the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures and is also a judge for the University Judiciary Committee.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the nation’s oldest and most recognized academic honor society. It has chapters at 283 colleges and universities in the United States and more than half a million members throughout the country.

While an ensemble of the Cavalier Marching Band played lively music, University of Virginia faculty, administrators and about 400 students in academic regalia followed Grand Marshal Gweneth L. West in processing to the stage at Friday’s Fall Convocation ceremony, held at the John Paul Jones Arena.

Fall Convocation, which kicks off Family Weekend events, honors third-year undergraduates for their academic success, reveals the Thomas Jefferson Award winners and recognizes faculty who have received teaching awards earlier in the year.

History professor Melvyn P. Leffler and business professor Alexander B. Horniman received the highest recognition given to faculty members at the University – the Thomas Jefferson Awards – at the ceremony. Leffler was honored for excellence in scholarship, and Horniman was recognized for excellence in public service.

Intermediate Honors were awarded to third-year students who are in the top 20 percent of their school’s classes while carrying a full courseload during their first four semesters at the University.

The deans of the College of Arts & Sciences and the schools of Architecture, Education, Engineering and Applied Science and Nursing presented the 418 candidates in their disciplines, and U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan conferred the Intermediate Honors upon them.

“These students have committed themselves to the pursuit of scholarship in the manner envisioned by Thomas Jefferson when he opened the University in 1825,” Sullivan said.

Gary Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War, gave the keynote address.

In introducing Gallagher, Sullivan told an anecdote showing the esteem his students have for him. He announced to one of his classes that he would be leading a tour at the Fredericksburg battlefield that Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m., and invited them to join him, stressing that it was not a required assignment.

The audience that morning at the battlefield was much bigger than usual – not only did many of the students show up, but they also told their parents, many of whom attended.

In his remarks, Gallagher gave four suggestions that he said would be helpful to anyone, no matter what age, with his advice often filtered through his historical perspective.

“I urge you never to settle for less than what you, from an honest assessment of your capabilities and of the nature of a project or assignment, know to be a full effort,” he advised the students. “I believe you have the internal sense to hold yourselves to a personal standard higher than those set by others – including, at times, by those who measure and grade your efforts.”

His second suggestion elaborated on the excess of hyperbole in our culture. He urged the audience to “be alert to exaggeration in what passes for news coverage.”

“The ‘news’ – and I put that in quotes – frequently emerges ... almost never framed with an appreciation for historical context that would reveal that almost nothing is really new and that our nation, at various points, has dealt with far greater crises than any currently unfolding,” he said.

He commented on three topics that “suffer especially from a lack of attention to proper historical framing”: discussion of immigration issues, coverage of the possible spread of the Ebola virus and the alarming message that the U.S. is witnessing the worst-ever political discord.

When considering immigration, he said, “Often lost is awareness that percentages of foreign-born residents are not remarkably high right now. ... For the entire period between 1860 and 1920, the percentage of foreign-born residents exceeded that of today,” he pointed out.

Although Ebola presents “a challenge, both medical and administrative,” he said in the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, almost 30 percent of Americans were infected out of a population of 106 million at the time. Between 500,000 and 675,000 people in the U.S. died from that flu.

In terms of political division, he said, “As for our never having been so divided, historians of the Civil War can counter with at least one obvious example that puts the lie to that idea.

“Avoiding hyperbole – hysterical excess might be a better phrase – in our political discussions would render us far better able to deal with the kinds of crises that have come up before, and which, as a nation, we always have managed to overcome.”

In his third suggestion, he encouraged the students to choose a career to which they could passionately dedicate themselves.

“You will spend untold thousands of hours at work, and few things can give you as much chance for long-term satisfaction as choosing a profession that gives you a sense of enjoyment, of challenge and of accomplishment,” he said.

He used himself as an example, saying when he graduated with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982, the academic job market was much worse then than now. He worked at a well-paying job, which he did not name, for 10 years before he looked for a teaching job and found one at Pennsylvania State University. Although he had to take a substantial pay cut, he said it was the best thing he could have done.

“I would not trade places with anyone in the United States,” he said, adding that he still “savors his working situation.” He wished the same to all the students there.

“I like to think of you getting things right in your own work and experiencing the singular delight and satisfaction of succeeding at something that matters to you.”

For his last suggestion, he said he was directing it especially to “the young men in the audience who might be resistant to this advice.” That advice: to read the novels of Jane Austen, starting with “Pride and Prejudice.”

“Each of you will be a better person, and we will be a better society” from getting to know her wonderful and instructive characters, he said.

The bestowing of the Thomas Jefferson Awards offered another opportunity to illustrate “instructive characters.”

Leffler, Edward Stettinius Professor of History, joined the Corcoran Department of History in 1986. He specializes in U.S. foreign relations during the Cold War period, and has received several top prizes for his work. He also served as dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences from 1997 to 2001.

“It’s a great honor to receive this award,” Leffler said after the ceremony, citing other “very distinguished” recipients he has known who were deans, Hugh Kelly and Raymond Nelson, who had a tremendous influence on him, he said.

“Alec” Horniman, Kilgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration in the Darden School, was recognized for his concentration on leadership and applied ethics, as well as his collaboration with members of the University across all its schools and departments.

“It is a distinctive honor to be recognized by the university I’ve chosen to devote myself for 47 years,” he said, also after the ceremony. Horniman said his career was not a planned journey, as he started out working for an aerospace firm. He didn’t intend to become a professor, but a friend challenged him to get his doctorate, and he came to the Darden School soon after that.

He thought he might teach for three years, he said, but he enjoyed it so much, he has stayed at U.Va.

At the conclusion of Fall Convocation, Sullivan invited the parents, students and their families to enjoy the variety of events planned for Family Weekend.

Sabrina Stierwalt, a University of Virginia post-doctoral astrophysicist, has been named a 2014 L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellow – one of five female scientists selected from a national pool of more than 650 applicants who have made outstanding contributions in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

She is the only astronomer to be selected as a fellow during the program’s 11-year history in the United States.

Recipients each receive $60,000 to support their postdoctoral research and related public outreach activities. Next week, Stierwalt and her cohorts will join L’Oréal representatives for a White House roundtable, congressional visit and an event and ceremony at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. They also will tour L’Oréal’s research and innovation labs in Clark, New Jersey. L’Oréal is a beauty products company.

The U.S. fellowship program included a new requirement this year focused on ensuring the fellows have a commitment to serving as role models for younger generations. The 2014 fellowship candidates were evaluated based on their intellectual merit, research potential, scientific excellence and their commitment to supporting women and girls in science. Experienced scientists in the candidates’ respective fields reviewed applications with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which manages the application process.

Stierwalt plans to use the funding to further her research into how small galaxies form.

“Large galaxies are well-studied, but we know much less about dwarf galaxies, how they interact with each other and with larger galaxies and how their stars form,” Stierwalt said. “It’s an area of astronomy that needs further investigation to more fully understand this part of the formation of the larger universe.”

During the coming year she will visit the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to observe with the Magellan Telescopes. Part of her work is to gain observatory time on premier telescopes worldwide for herself and U.Va. astronomers.

Stierwalt came to U.Va. in the fall of 2012 from a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. She previously earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University, where she co-founded an organization for graduate women in the physical sciences.

In addition to her research, Stierwalt also is engaged in public outreach, working as a coordinator and teacher for the U.Va. Department of Astronomy’s Dark Skies, Bright Kids program, which brings hands-on astronomy to rural elementary schools.

“Kids already know astronomy is cool, and they have so many questions,” Stierwalt said. “My goal is to encourage that interest and inspire them to do more with it.”

The L’Oréal For Women in Science program is a global program that recognizes and rewards women scientists around the world at critical stages of their careers. Since the program began in 1998, more than 2,000 scientists in more than 100 countries have been recognized for their work. Over its 11 years in the U.S., the For Women in Science program has awarded 55 post-doctoral female scientists more than $2 million in grants.

“With a scientific workforce made up of more than 70 percent women, L’Oréal relies on the contributions women make in the STEM fields every single day,” said Kristina Schake, chief communications officer at L’Oréal USA. “We are proud to celebrate the incredible accomplishments of these women and hope to inspire younger generations of girls to embrace STEM as a viable and attractive career option.”

William Antholis, the managing director of the Brookings Institution who has held key positions at the White House and State Department, has been named the new executive director of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy and political history.

Antholis, a U.Va. alumnus, will succeed Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, who is retiring at the end of the year.

“We are fortunate to have a person of Mr. Antholis’ national stature and vast experience assuming leadership of the Miller Center,” U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan said. “Because of the visionary work of Gov. Baliles and other directors who preceded him, Mr. Antholis will have a strong foundation upon which to build.”

“I am delighted at Bill’s selection as the next executive director of the Miller Center,” said Gene Fife, chair of the Miller Center’s Governing Council. “His years of experience in Washington, both at Brookings and in government, make him the ideal person to lead the center in the coming years. We welcome him and look forward to moving ahead under his leadership.”

Antholis said, “I’m honored to build on the legacy of past directors, Gov. Baliles, Phil Zelikow and Ken Thompson. I’ve benefited from the center for more than three decades – as an undergraduate, graduate student, government official and think tank professional. The center is a national treasure, and I look forward to further deepening its ties to the University and to expanding the national audience for its critically important work.”

Antholis has decades of government, non-profit and academic experience. Most recently, he served as managing director of the Brookings Institution, a non-profit research organization where he managed five research programs, more than 400 employees, four offices and multiple university partnerships. During his tenure, Brookings was named “Top Think Tank in the World” and “Top Think Tank in the United States” seven years in a row by the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tank and Civil Society Program.

While at Brookings, Antholis wrote numerous articles, essays and lectures, as well as two books. He is the author of “Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global” and the co-author, with Brookings President Strobe Talbott, of “Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming.” Antholis will remain a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings.

“Bill has been an indispensable member of the management team at Brookings during an eventful decade,” said Talbott, who has been Brookings’s president since 2002. “He helped drive a number of innovations in the life of the institution, including our strategic planning, our outreach to the nation and the world, and the nurturing of interdisciplinary research, projects and partnerships. He has brought vision and discipline to the task of living up to our motto, ‘quality, independence, impact.’

“He has also embodied those values in his own intellectual pursuits as a senior fellow in governance studies and as an author of two Brookings Institution Press books. While he will be sorely missed at Brookings, all of his colleagues look forward to working closely with the Miller Center, which no doubt will go from strength to strength under Bill’s leadership.”

Talbott, a former deputy secretary of state, served as a member of the Miller Center’s National War Powers Commission from 2007 to 2008, which was co-chaired by former Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher. Talbott also contributed to the center’s oral history of the Clinton Administration, which was just released to the public in November. 

Previously, Antholis served as director of studies and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, focusing on international trade and development issues.

Earlier, he worked at the White House, where he was director of international economic affairs of the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. His responsibilities included planning and negotiating for the 1997 and 1998 Group of Eight Summits. He also served as deputy director of the White House Climate Change Task Force and helped coordinate the Clinton administration team at the Kyoto and Buenos Aires negotiations of the United Nations Intergovernmental Convention on Climate Change.

He worked at the State Department on the policy planning staff and in the Bureau of Economic Affairs, where he was a member of the team responsible for developing responses to world financial crises.

Antholis earned a Ph.D. in politics from Yale University in 1994 and a B.A. with honors in government and foreign affairs from U.Va. in 1986. At Virginia, he was an Echols Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, and his thesis in the Politics Honors Program (co-written with fellow 1986 College graduate Stephen Grand), won the Stevenson Award. He also was a disc jokey at WUVA, a finalist in the U.Va. intramural boxing tournament and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

He has lived in Charlottesville since 1999 with his wife, Kristen Suokko, executive director of the Charlottesville Local Food Hub, and daughters Annika and Kyri. Antholis belongs to the Charlottesville Track Club and is a member of the Boston Bound running group.

Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research presented Susie R. Hoffman, director of the University of Virginia Institutional Review Board for Health Sciences Research, with its ARENA Legacy Award at the global organization’s Advancing Ethical Research conference, held Friday through Sunday in Baltimore. 

Hoffman, a registered nurse, has been a member of Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research since 1999 and has held several leadership roles in the association, whose purpose is to advance the highest ethical standards in the conduct of biomedical, behavioral and social science research.

The award recognizes members who have made an exemplary contribution to the organization’s goals and mission by actively promoting ethics in research through mentorship, teaching and leadership. Hoffman was cited for her contributions to the field of human subject protections.

Hoffman’s nominator called her “awe-inspiring” for her volunteer dedication to educating researchers, study coordinators, government representatives, subject advocates and others. She co-chaired the Advancing Ethnical Research conference’s Workshop/Didactic Subcommittee in 2005 and 2006 and from 2012 through 2014.

As 2006 president of the Applied Research Ethics National Association – the organization’s membership division from 1986 to 2006 – Hoffman worked to increase the group’s membership. One of that association’s important contributions was to encourage the advancement of those individuals working in the field, in order to promote professional excellence and ultimately contribute to a more ethical research enterprise.

As a member of the subsequent membership committee, she championed the Regional Connections program, especially in Virginia, which provides small grants to support networking and continuing education for Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research members.

Thomas Skalak, vice president for research at the University of Virginia, has been named the inaugural executive director for science and technology programs at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation in Seattle, officials announced today. The appointment is effective Feb. 1.

“Tom Skalak has elevated the University’s research enterprise in ways that will benefit U.Va. for many years," U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan said. “Under his leadership, the University’s sponsored research grew 3 percent last year, and we have revitalized our patent program and expanded our partnerships with industry partners such as Pfizer and Astra Zeneca.

“We will miss Tom, and we will remember him for his energy, his creativity, and his ability to draw upon a variety of disciplines in the constant pursuit of innovation.”

Skalak, who is also professor of biomedical engineering with appointments in both the School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and is a faculty affiliate of the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Darden School of Business, has been at the University of Virginia for the past 28 years.

“I have greatly enjoyed my work here with a very talented group of faculty, students and external partners, seeing many pan-University efforts produce significant impact on how the University works, on new knowledge creation and on the translation of new knowledge to society via innovation that makes a difference for people, the economy and the world,” Skalak said.

As vice president for research, Skalak has been responsible for the integration and enhancement of research activities across the University’s 11 schools and multiple research centers. The office leads University-wide strategic growth activities, including multidisciplinary groups in environmental sustainability, innovation, energy systems and biosciences. The office also coordinates the various University units that make up the research infrastructure, including the acquisition of research funding, research commercialization, proof-of-concept funding for translating new knowledge to new companies, federal compliance, health and safety, and public outreach.

Under Skalak’s leadership since 2008, the Office of the Vice President for Research has catalyzed many efforts across Grounds, spanning sustainability and watershed health, clean energy, computing, innovation and entrepreneurship – including the nation’s largest university-based gathering of venture capital, a new big data institute and interactions among the arts, design-based fields and life sciences. The OpenGrounds program for collaborative ideation and creativity is changing the way universities and communities interact and produce impact together.

Prior to his role as vice president for research, Skalak served as chair of the department of biomedical engineering from 2001 to 2008. As chair, Skalak helped to create a thought-leading department that was ranked second in the world – behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – in citation index, and was recognized for its innovation output with medical partners by a $20 million Coulter Foundation endowment. The department was housed in a new building with support from the Whitaker Foundation, and over the years it has attracted many new faculty who embody a shared collaborative culture of excellence in life sciences and engineering.

In his new role at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Skalak will work with the team at the foundation to explore new frontiers of science and technology, particularly in life sciences, re-invent entire fields of endeavor and create meaningful impact on society and the world.

Sullivan said a national search for Skalak’s successor would begin soon.

An international authority on bioengineering, Skalak is past president of both the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Society. He currently leads a U.S. Department of Commerce i6 program, the Virginia Innovation Partnership, a first-in-class innovation network spanning an entire state. Skalak has served as a reviewer for NIH, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Science Foundation Ireland and more than 30 scientific journals, and consults on innovation strategies with Fortune 500 companies and small ventures.

This month, Skalak was named a fellow in the National Academy of Inventors, becoming one of just two U.Va. scientists to receive the honor.

Skalak received his bachelor's degree from The Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of California at San Diego.

Thomas R. Pickering, former under secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has been named the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Throughout 2015, Pickering will take part in several Miller Center initiatives, speaking, writing and advising on foreign policy and national security matters.

“With his decades of experience as a U.S. diplomat, Ambassador Pickering has much to teach us about the world, especially in this time of international turmoil,” said Gerald L. Baliles, retiring director and CEO of the Miller Center. “I am pleased that he will be sharing his expertise at the Miller Center. He will help inform the center’s work and thus greatly benefit policymakers, scholars and students.”

Pickering said, “I am pleased and honored to be asked to take this prestigious position at the Miller Center and look very much forward to working with the students and faculty and the entire University of Virginia community. I want in whatever way I can to be helpful in this time of increased interest in foreign and security policy in the U.S. and around the world.”

From 1997 to 2000, Pickering was under secretary of state for political affairs, the third-highest position in the State Department. From 1989 to 1992, he was U.S. ambassador to the U.N., where he played a key role in responding to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Pickering also served as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 1993 to 1996; to India from 1992 to 1993; to Israel from 1985 to 1988; to El Salvador from 1983 to 1985; to Nigeria from 1981 to 1983; and to Jordan from 1974 to 1978. He holds the rank of career ambassador, the U.S. Foreign Service’s highest rank.

In 2012, he helped lead a State Department panel investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi.

Early in his career, Pickering was a special assistant to Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger.

Following his retirement from the Foreign Service, Pickering served as senior vice president for international relations at Boeing and as vice chairman at Hills & Company, an international consulting firm.

Pickering graduated from Bowdoin College with high honors in history. He holds master’s degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the University of Melbourne.

The James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professorship was created in 2007. It provides a unique opportunity for public servants with experience in foreign policy and national security to participate as visiting faculty in Miller Center programs, interact with students at U.Va. and engage in writing with support from the Miller Center.

Past Schlesinger professors include Admiral Joseph W. Prueher, former U.S. ambassador to China under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, and Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and several other Middle Eastern nations.

Schlesinger served as secretary of defense from 1973 to 1975 and as the nation’s first energy secretary from 1977 to 1979. He also held leadership roles with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Atomic Energy Commission during a distinguished career in public service. Schlesinger taught economics at U.Va. from 1955 to 1963.

Jeff Baker has figured out how to write poetry in just about any situation, whether it’s riding the bus to work or walking home. He either writes or recites into his cell phone.

The process works for Baker, student services and IT generalist for the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Graduate Programs Office. His first book, “Whoop and Shush,” recently won the Idaho Prize for Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press.

Given the complexity of creating a good poem, Baker said organizing a database of 60,000 entries is not as daunting.

“Writing a poem starts with making choices, and it’s the same with constructing a database,” said Baker, who has worked at his U.Va. job for about 10 years. You decide what to put in and what to leave out, for instance.

“A poem has moving parts. William Carlos Williams [a poet who was also a physician] called a poem a ‘little machine made out of words,’” Baker said.

Baker grew up on a small tobacco farm in Smokey Branch, Tennessee – a past that sometimes provides material, though he said he avoided it for a long time. Some memories are not particularly pleasant, he said.

College opened new options. Baker went to Tennessee Technological University, where he supported himself by working in factories: chocolate, meat processing, airbags, windshields. Along the way as he majored in psychology and took creative writing classes. His teachers and fellow students were so encouraging, he continued writing poetry and opted to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Iowa gave him time to write, he said.

This was toward the end of the 1990s, when high-tech companies were still booming. Baker decided to build his technology skills to return to work.

After he and his wife, who grew up in Charlottesville and went to Iowa’s fine arts program for painting, moved to this area, he worked at Boxer Learning, and then took the job at U.Va.

One of his main projects in the Graduate Programs Officeis coordinating theSummer Research Internship Program, which has grown to become a large and complex endeavor encompassing more than 700 applications per year for about 35 positions in a 10-week summer biomedical research experience with more than 175 participating U.Va. faculty. For his efforts, Baker received a Leonard W. Sandridge Outstanding Contribution Award last year.

Carol Ann Tomlinson, William Clay Parrish Jr. Professor and chair of Educational Leadership, Foundations and Policy in the Curry School of Education, has never met Baker, but noticed his poetry.

“[I] have read the book and am fascinated by the multi-facetedness of someone who excels in a highly technical field by day and writes really complex poetry in the margins of his time,” she wrote in an email.

Baker’s poems have been published widely in literary journals and in several anthologies, including “Best New Poets of 2010” and “The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. VI: Tennessee.”

The Idaho Prize is an annual, national competition for a winning poetry manuscript that comes with a $1,000 award and publication by Lost Horse Press, an independent publisher located in Sandpoint, Idaho.

The poet Dorianne Laux, this year’s judge for the Idaho Prize, wrote: “Under the spell of the language and its restless repetitions and rhythms, these poems surprise with unexpected turns and shifts, associations and speculations. Jeff Baker reminds us that it is words that beget the whoop and shush of worlds, and sing us back into the strangeness of being.”

An excerpt from “Season”

“Whoop and shush, whoop and shush.

He’d whipped the pregnant mare into

crossing low ground where three hills

shunted their runoff and she’d keeled

onto her side trapping his leg beneath her

in the bog. The whoop, which frightened

the mare, for someone to find him.

She’d then try to lift her head and right

herself, causing her rounded barrel


to torque against the trapped leg.

Therefore, the shush, which calmed

her head back down to the mud.”

William and Isabella Gibbons were husband and wife, enslaved by different professors and living in different pavilions in the mid-19^th century University of Virginia. Once emancipated, Isabella became a teacher at the Freedman’s School – now the Jefferson School – and William became a minister at Charlottesville’s oldest black church, First Baptist. 

The U.Va. Board of Visitors passed a resolution on Wednesday naming the University’s newest dormitory building after the couple. Construction of the five-story “Gibbons House” is scheduled for completion this summer in time to house more than 200 first-year students this fall.

“One of the recommendations of the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University was to name one or more U.Va. buildings after enslaved persons who were connected to the life of the University,” U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan said. “This is part of a broad, ongoing effort to recognize the role of slavery in the University’s history and to educate the members of our community about the role of enslaved persons at U.Va. as we approach our bicentennial.”

Dr. Marcus Martin, vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity, provided Sullivan with information about the Gibbonses that she presented to her cabinet. Sullivan and Martin then approached the U.Va. Committee on Names, which approved bringing a resolution to the Board of Visitors.

William Gibbons was born into slavery in 1825 or 1826 on an Albemarle County plantation and possibly belonged to Arthur Gibbons, a member of the Cabell family and a University student. In the 1840s, William was sold to Dr. Henry Howard, Arthur Gibbons’ professor of anatomy and surgery. Then he was hired out as a butler to professor William McGuffey, who had married Howard’s daughter, Laura. McGuffey, who taught moral philosophy and became well-known for the reading primers he edited, resided with his family in Pavilion IX.

“William Gibbons was an integral part of the McGuffey household in his role as the family’s butler,” research administrative assistant Leslie Walker wrote in a summary about the Gibbonses for the Commission on Slavery and the University. “Evidence suggests that members of the family aided William in his quest to become literate.” Walker’s report summarized research papers of Gayle M. Shulman and Scott Nesbit.

William married Isabella, who had also learned to read while a slave, in the early 1850s. Physics professor Francis Smith owned Isabella from 1853 until 1863, when she cooked for his family in the kitchens of Pavilions V and VI.

“Slaves who were husband and wife were usually owned by different families and rarely lived under the same roof. Isabella and William Gibbons were fortunate to live near each other on Grounds,” according to the report.

After freedom came with the end of the Civil War, William was minister to the Charlottesville congregation now known as the First Baptist Church, and several years later was called to the Zion Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., where he became a well-known leader. Isabella and their children remained in Charlottesville, and he visited them there.

He began formal theological study in the fall of 1884 at age 59, enrolling at Howard University as a part-time divinity student. After two years of classes at Howard, William Gibbons died of a stroke. Ten thousand mourners are said to have attended his funeral in Washington, and his death was reported in a front-page obituary in the Washington Post, according to independent scholar Gayle M. Schulman’s research, “Slaves at the University of Virginia,” housed in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.

Isabella Gibbons taught in the Charlottesville Freedmen’s primary school from 1865 until sometime between 1886 and her death in 1889. It was also known that she taught her children to read during slavery, though it was illegal.

The New England Freedmen’s Aid Society sent Anna Gardner to Charlottesville to start the school where Isabella applied for a position. The Massachusetts abolitionist immediately took her on as an aide, and with additional training, hired Gibbons as a teacher.

“The former slave was well spoken, had a sense of personal dignity that earned respect, and had already started to teach others in the community,” the Gibbons report says.

The sites of the old school and of the First Baptist Church have retained importance in Charlottesville, Martin said. The former school now houses the Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center, which provides intergenerational programs that expose new audiences to genealogical, African-American and local history research. Both were featured locales in the October symposium on “Universities Confronting the Legacy of Slavery.”

Walker said the only campus building named after a slave she could find in her research is a dorm at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the George Moses Horton Residence Hall, named in 2007 for a slave and poet who was the first African-American to publish a book in the South.

Sullivan convened the Commission on Slavery and the University in 2013, charging the group to provide advice and recommendations on the University’s response to its historical relationship with slavery and enslaved people, specifically in the interests of memorializing them and educating the community currently and into the future.

Editor’s note: In the run-up to Final Exercises on May 16 and 17, UVA Today will introduce readers to some of the outstanding members of the Class of 2015. All of the stories, plus other information about Finals Weekend, are compiled here.

After graduating high school in Richmond in 1993, Jason Woodle studied briefly to be a nurse at Virginia Commonwealth University, then worked as a financial analyst at a large corporation and traveled the country as a point person for the corporation, opening new business locations.

But something was missing: a college degree. “I was watching people being promoted around me and it was frustrating,” he said.

That, a new marriage and the prospect of having children also pushed him to complete his college degree. “The thought of having children and not being able to provide to the level that I’d like to provide was definitely an obstacle that I wanted to overcome,” he said.

During a recent park bench conversation near Newcomb Hall, one day ahead of his son Connor’s third birthday, Woodle shared his story with UVA Today.

Q. Why did you decide to study at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies?

A. When I was at Carmax, I realized that without a college degree I would be unable to advance my career. My wife graduated from U.Va. with a degree in foreign affairs. As a graduate and someone who gets the alumni magazine and keeps up with everything, she found out about the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. I decided I wanted to enroll and created a plan to get in.

Q. You studied briefly at VCU in the 1990s and are calling this ‘College, Round Two.” What has your experience been like?

A. I call this “College, Round Two” because it is really a second opportunity for me. When I moved to Charlottesville, I enrolled in Piedmont Virginia Community College. Coming out of that environment, where I was accustomed to all ‘A’s’ for two years of transfer credits, adjusting to the level of instruction here was a bit intimidating. But I was really ready to go and just kind of took off. It’s been a whirlwind ever since.

Q. Most students in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies earn their degrees in four to seven years as part-time students. You are graduating after spending 2½ years in the program. How did you do that?

A. I’m kind of an anomaly. My wife and I decided that after our son Connor was born, I would study full time and be a stay-at-home dad. And I have always been one who thrives on accomplishment. I attribute that to working so long in a business environment and being held to certain standards. I’m very structured and very organized, so I have a set of goals that I feel I need to reach. With school in particular, I really wanted to walk out of here with a 4.0, and I’m going to end up walking out with a 3.99, which I'm perfectly happy with. The point is that for my learning style, I’ve found that setting goals is one of the most useful tactics to succeed. For “College, Round Two,” I also wanted to prove to myself and others that I could achieve these goals.

Q. What did you study?

A. As a humanities major in the BIS program, I have decided to focus on an area that is very personal to me, and it is art. I am blessed to have a father who, ironically, is a retired C.P.A., but also a phenomenal painter. My grandmother was a painter and my sister was a painter. I dabble in a variety of different mediums and love art history. My capstone project is based on how 18^th-century colonial Americans used visual media to promote nationalism. So I’ve spent a lot of the last year of my life looking at ephemeral media from the late 18^th century. Probably some of the biggest and best-known examples is Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” wood cut. For the future, I am really looking at historical site management, a non-profit with some sort of history tie, or potentially even collection and exhibition curation and graduate school.

Q. School of Continuing and Professional Studies Dean Billy K. Cannaday has described you as a person of great curiousity who seems “driven” to be a great husband and dad to Connor, who was born without thumbs and had breakthrough hand surgery at U.Va. How do you plan to celebrate graduation with your family?

A. My parents and aunt are coming and my wife is going to bring my son. We’re going to see how that plays out.

It’s one thing to have your parents see you graduate. It’s another thing to have your child see you graduate. I mean, he’s 3; he’s not going to remember it, but there will be plenty of pictures. Really, he’s been the guiding motivator behind this. Everything that I’ve done, absolutely everything is for him. Some people go to college because their parents want them to. Some people go because they want a better job. I want to better myself to be an example to my son in real time and hopefully inspire him later to do something similar.

Martin Carey Battestin, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Virginia, died May 15 in Gordonsville, Virginia. He was 85.

Battestin, born on March 25, 1930, in New York City, attended the Peddie School and received both his B.A. (summa cum laude, 1952) and Ph.D. (1958) from Princeton University, where as a member of the baseball team he expressed a love of sports that eventually would be manifested in his passionate backing of U.Va. teams.

After his first academic appointment at Wesleyan University, he moved to the University of Virginia in 1961. He taught in the Department of English until his retirement as William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus in 1998. He chaired the department from 1983 through 1986 and made vital hires during that period. His years at U.Va. were punctuated by a faculty appointment at Rice University and by terms as visiting scholar at Princeton, Clare Hall, Cambridge and Lincoln College, Oxford.

Battestin’s literary interests were broad and included 20th-century writings by T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Williams (a relative through the Sevier family of Tennessee), as well as any works that included cats. But his heart lay in the 18th century, whose elegant manners he inculcated, and his dissertation on Henry Fielding’s novel “Joseph Andrews” set the direction of his scholarly career. 

His preeminent role as a Fielding scholar first involved the preparation of reliable editions. He was a founder of the now-standard Wesleyan Edition of Fielding’s works and edited four volumes in the series: “Joseph Andrews” (1967), “Tom Jones” (1974), “Amelia” (1983) and “Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, Shamela, and Occasional Writings” (2008). He also co-edited “The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding” (1993) and in later years edited the translation of Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” (2003) by another 18th-century novelist, Tobias Smollett.

He analyzed these writings in landmark volumes of criticism on 18th-century literature, “The Moral Basis of Fielding’s Art” (1959) and “The Providence of Wit” (1974), and he prepared an important reference tool, “A Henry Fielding Companion” (2000).

His understanding of literature and life came together in the biography he wrote with his wife Ruthe, “Henry Fielding: A Life” (1989), of which the English writer Antony Burgess wrote, “This massive biography must stand, for many years to come or perhaps permanently, as the definitive Life of the man who is, conceivably, England’s greatest novelist.”

In 1997, colleagues and former students honored him with a collection of essays, and in 2012 the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia established Battestin Fellowships, in recognition of the Battestins’ contribution to the scholarly life of U.Va., to support bibliographical and textual research by U.Va. graduate students in U.Va. libraries.

He is survived by his partner in mutual devotion for 52 years, his wife and collaborator Ruthe. 

His burial service will take place Wednesday at 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Ivy.

In lieu of flowers, gifts in Battestin’s honor may be made to the Battestin Fund, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, VA 22906, or to St. Paul’s Ivy, P.O. Box 37, Ivy, VA 22945.

Charlottesville Daily Progress obituary

UPDATED, June 10, 2015, 10:10 a.m., to add corrected departmental affiliations.

UPDATED, June 10, 2015, 9:45 a.m. Due to an error, many employees' departmental affiliations were incorrect. The story has been changed to delete departmental information.

When the longest-serving University of Virginia employees started working on Grounds, the library used typed cards to record every book in rows of the card catalogue, and the “old” hospital, now known as the West Complex, was just being built.

The University honored 15 employees with 55, 50 and 45 years of service and more than 400 more with 40, 35, 30 and 25 years of work at a festive dinner Monday in the John Paul Jones Arena. One other employee, more recently part time, has clocked 60 years and couldn’t attend the ceremony.

At the 1950s-themed event, employees could get their photos taken at a booth that looked like a vintage diner, ogle shiny classic cars and scoop up the candy of the era, including Turkish taffy and pixie sticks.

Asher Conn began working in 1959 in the Barringer wing of the original hospital, when the floors were called “wards.” Now a patient technician for the orthopedics operating rooms, he said he still enjoys working and recalled fondly several of the physicians who were prominent over the years, including the late Dr. Frank McCue and Dr. Warren Stamp.

More than 50 years ago, Betty Phillips earned her nurse’s diploma through the Blue Ridge Sanatorium, a U.Va.-affiliated hospital for tuberculosis patients. She eventually earned a bachelor’s degree from the School of Nursing in 1985 and worked in the medical unit known as “The Towers,” now the site of the new Children’s Hospital. Phillips tried retirement after 40 years and “hated it,” she said. She has had different roles over the years and now works twice a week in the plastic surgery department, caring for breast cancer patients.

A radiologic technologist, Burley “Bucky” Thacker, who has 50 years under his belt, was in charge of the first CAT scan division at the Medical Center. He said he’s been amazed by the technological progress over the years.

Irene Norvelle, too, has seen many technological changes in Alderman Library, where she has worked for 50 years. In her role, Norvelle has seen visits from President George H.W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the Queen of Denmark and the Dalai Lama, to name a few. She has helped many graduate students with their dissertations, many faculty members with their research and many lost tourists with finding the Rotunda, she said.

“Each of you has contributed to the success of U.Va. through your dedicated service,” Susan Carkeek, vice president and chief human resources officer, said as she welcomed the guests to the ceremony. “In your time here, you’ve touched hundreds of lives at the University.”

U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan also thanked the longtime staff, saying, “We wouldn’t be where we are today without your years of hard work.”

“Some of you work on the ‘front lines’ of the University and serve as the first point of contact for students, parents, alumni and others who come to the Grounds,” she said, “so your efforts are very visible. In this way, you are the ‘face’ of U.Va. We depend on you as the University’s ambassadors.”

Those honored for their years of service this year:

60 Years

• Edwin Spenceley, Dean's Office, School of Eng and Applied Science

55 Years

• Asher Conn, Operating Room

50 Years

• Irene Norvelle, University of Virginia Library
• Betty Phillips, Plastic Surgery
• Burley Thacker, U.Va. Special Care Augusta Cardiology

45 Years

• Sandra Clark, Blood Bank
• Deborah Deane, University Human Resources
• Linda Dodd, Heart Center
• Alan Knight, University of Virginia Police Department
• Paulette Lewis, Staffing Resource Office
• Vickie Loeser, Curry School of Education
• Susan Malone, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Eugene Mcclurken, Department of Pathology
• Roberta Nixon, Dean's Office, School of Eng and Applied Science
• Brenda Whitaker, U.Va. College at Wise
• James White, Department of Parking and Transportation

40 Years

• Denise Allensworth, Operating Room
• John Anderson, Operating Room
• Robert Arnold, Blandy Experimental Farm
• David Barbour, Facilities Management Department
• Susie Blakey, Department of Athletics
• Ellen Boswell, Medical Labs Administration
• Laura Brock, Electronic Medical Records
• Irene Burns, Peri-Operative Services
• Teressa Butler, Procurement And Supplier Diversity Services
• Carolyn Carter, Document Imaging
• Patricia Cobb, Peds Spec Clinic-Battle Bldg
• Martha Creasy, Facilities Management Department
• Florine Early, Facilities Management Department
• Terry Gentry, Radiology Support Services
• Peggy Gibson, Civil & Env Engr
• Joyce Gray, School of Medicine, Diversity Programs
• Alice Henley, University of Virginia Library
• William Hodges, Facilities Management Department
• Rosa Jordan, Center for Comparative Medicine
• Janet Kirby, Kidney Center Administration
• Lucy McCauley, Peri-Operative Services
• Judy McDaniel, Office of the Comptroller
• Janet McDowell, Medica Center Accounts Payable
• Ruby Melton, Environmental Services
• John Payne, Facilities Management Department
• Virginia Porter, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Thelma Proffitt, University of Virginia Library
• Sue Reynolds, Diagnostic Radiology
• Lillie RIchardson, Environmental Services
• Margaret Rogan, Information Security, Policy and Records
• John Sauer, Facilities Management Department
• June Seay, Office of the Comptroller
• Joann Shelton, Cancer Registry
• Margaret Short, Continuum Administration
• Linda Thompson, Department of Systems and Information Engineering
• Katherine Willard, Radiology Nursing
• Charlene Williams, Department of Dentistry
• Lucy Wrenn, Student Financial Services

35 Years

• Janet Adkins, Peri-Operative Services
• Ana Askew, Occupational Therapy
• Darlejean Baker, University of Virginia Library
• Richard Barbour, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Joseph Beatrice, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Karen Bibb, Pre Arrival Unit
• David Boling, Office of the Comptroller
• Gloria Bright, Office of U.Va. Dining Services
• Darlene Brown, Nurtritional Services
• Regina Bull, Information Technology Services
• Steven Bunch, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Paula Campbell, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
• Kathleen Casey, Orthopaedics Clinic Fontaine
• Penney Catlett, University Communications
• Annemarie Clemente, Social Work
• Kathleen Collier, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Hilary Cooper, Cardiac Catheterization Lab
• Felix Crawford, Facilities Management Department
• Joyce Crenshaw, Department of Radiology
• Milly Crickenberger, University of Virginia Library
• Wilbur Daniels, Otolaryngology Clinic-Fontaine
• Paula Darradji, Case Management
• Linda Davidson, U.Va. College at Wise
• Rebecca Davis, Department of Athletics
• Cynthia Davis, University of Virginia Library
• Teresa Deane, PFS Operations
• Brenda Denise Drakeford, Electrophysiology
• Eleanor Earl, Adult Psych - Northridge
• Donna Eddy, HSHR Child Care
• Gregory Ellis, Patient Transportation
• Elizabeth Eshbach, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Roy Fitch, Payroll Department
• Bruce Ford, HSTS Technical Services
• Mary Goode, Admitting
• Glenn Harris, POC Testing
• Athlene Harrup, Department of Neurological Surgery
• Pattie Hellmann, Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Beth Helmandollar, Home Dialysis-Clinical Service
• Roger Henry, Facilities Management Department
• Claude Howard, Cardiac Transition Unit
• Cathy Hudson, CEO-MC
• Karen Jackson-Reid, Surgical Supply
• Jacqueline Jarrett, 8 West Oncology
• Mary Johnson, Facilities Management Department
• George Johnson, SCPS - CP-Admin-Administrative Svcs
• Sarah Jones, Student Financial Services
• Patricia Kirby, Operating Room
• Deborah Lamb, Surgical Services IT
• Rebecca Lanahan, 5 West
• Denny Leake, Bed Coordination Center
• Robin Linke, TWP Inpatient Services
• Nancy Lutz, Elson Student Health Center
• Tony Marusak, Facilities Management Dept
• Deborah McDaniel, GI Motility
• Ninnette Mcgee, Department of Radiology
• Sheila Meek, Department of Athletics
• Cynthia Mittler, Pediatric Clinic - Orange
• Mary Morris, Medical Center Procurement
• Vanessa Morris, Neuroradiology
• Randolph Morris, Facilities Management Department
• Dillard Morris, Office of U.Va. Dining Services
• Curtis Morton, Core Laboratories
• Joyce Moton, Elson Student Health Center
• Joyce Olatunde, Phlebotomy
• Catherine Oliverio, Spine Center
• Lisa Powley, Department of Pediatrics
• Lori Ratliff, Hsf I/M Renal Clinic
• Stephen Remley, Department of Ophthalmology
• Patricia Robinson, Financial Service Coordination
• Karen Salmonson, Utilization Management
• Jocelyn Saunders, Adult Med Surg Admin
• Stephanie Schwar, Office of the Comptroller
• Ewa Setaro, University of Virginia Library
• Lynne Simpson, School of Medicine, Research
• Scott Singel, Pegasus
• Gloria Smith, Fac Planning & Development
• Robin Smoot, Family Medicine Stoney Creek
• Tammy Snow, Department of Pharmacology
• Albert Spengler, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
• Annette Stalnaker, University of Virginia Library
• Kathy Tapscott, Endoscopy
• Carol Tatum, Children's Hrt Ctr-Battle Bldg
• Frances Taylor, HS-HSF-Gamma Knife
• Deborah Thacker, Facilities Management Department
• Barbara Thomas, Coding
• Michael Thomas, Interventional Radiology
• Rose Tolliver, Equipment Management
• Patricia Toms, Housing Division
• Louise Tressler, School of Medicine, Med Ed Support
• Deborah Via, Systems Engineering
• Wanda Vickers, Radiology Support Services
• John Whalen, Client Services
• Ruth Williams, Medica Center Accounts Payable
• Sherry Wood, Biomedical Operations
• Kay Wood, Office of Health System Development
• Keith Wood, Facilities Management Department

30 Years

• Sharon Ackerman, Pain Management Center
• Robert Adcock, Facilities Management Department
• Lorenza Amico, University of Virginia Library
• Fannie Anderson, Facilities Management Department
• Garth Anderson, Facilities Management Dept
• Katherine Bagby, Department of Printing and Copying
• Margaret Ball, Office of the VP for Research
• Charles Bankard, Information Technology Services
• Mona Banton, Department of Neurological Surgery
• Charlotte Bartley, Orthopaedic Surgery Administrative Office
• David Bearinger, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• Kathleen Bohorfoush, Department of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology
• Cheryl Borgman, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Thomas Brady, Blood Bank
• Mark Breeden, Facilities Management Department
• Brenda Browning, Surgery Admission Suite
• Keith Bryant, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Jimmy Budd, Cancer Clinic
• Susan Burnett, Cytogenetics
• Edward Byers, Department of Chemistry
• Reba Camp, EoC Admin Services
• Robert Carman, Facilities Management Department
• Debra Carr, Orthopaedics Clinic Fontaine
• Brenda Carter, Department of Dentistry
• Patricia Carver, Plastic Surgery
• Joanne Chaplin, Department of Biology
• Paula Chapman, Procurement And Supplier Diversity Services
• Janis Churchman, Document Completion
• Mary Clark, Radiology Support Services
• Steven Clark, Facilities Management Department
• Roger Cobb, Environmental Services
• Wendell Collier, Surgical Services IT
• Susan Collins, Spine Center
• Kevin Cox, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
• Caroline Dailey, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Mary Dalby, Respiratory Therapy
• Linda Davis, University Advancement
• Jeri Davis, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
• Shelby Davis, Elson Student Health Center
• Sandra Dean, 7 Acute
• Tammy Dean, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Cathy Dean, Dean's Office, School of Eng and Applied Science
• Linda Dent, Environmental Services
• Gail Desandis, Admitting
• Anna Dietrich-Covington, Surgery Clinic
• Patricia Doorley, Respiratory Therapy
• Charles Douglas, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Suzanne Doyle, Couric Pharmacy
• Kimberly Sue Drewry, Breast Clinic
• Paul Drumheller, Cardiac Transition Unit
• Sherry Dunaway, University Advancement
• Elisabeth Dwyer, Newborn ICU
• Lisa Farmer, Surgery Admission Suite
• Gary Fewell, Department of Athletics
• Ann Fincham, PFS Operations
• Karen Forsman, Patient Care Services
• Clara Fortune, Dean's Office, Curry School of Education
• Clinton Frazer, Facilities Management Department
• Linda Freeman, Nerancy Neuro ICU
• Rufus Gaines, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Janet Garnett, 6 Central
• Janet Goode, Operating Room
• Marian Harlow, University Human Resources
• Mary Harmon, 4 Central
• Gary Harris, Facilities Management Department
• Mary Hart, MD-DMED Finance and Human Resources
• Mary Hey, Coding
• Sandra Hicks, University of Virginia Library
• Paul Houchens, Biomedical Operations
• Elizabeth Huckstep, Department of Athletics
• Susan Hughes, Curry School of Education
• Leslie Hunt, Technical Services
• Vicky Ingram, University of Virginia Library
• Joann Jefferson, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Dorothy Johnson, Radiology-Orange
• Mary King, General Peds Clin-Battle Bldg
• Patricia Knighton, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology
• Robert Knox, Pegasus
• Donald Kramer, Medical Center Procurement
• Heidi Ladd, Newborn ICU
• Marian Lawson, SIP Admin Dept Cardiovascular
• Kimberly Leake, Cancer Clinic
• Marcia Luniewski, Liver Acquisition
• John Maben, Department of Environmental Sciences
• Keith Margrey, Radiation Oncology-East
• Kimberly Marshall, U.Va. College at Wise
• Karen Maxton, Phlebotomy
• Theresa McDaniel, Dean's Office, School of Nursing
• Joseph McMillan, Orthopaedic Surgery Prosthetics and Orthotics Div
• Phyllis Meredith, Facilities Management Department
• Phyllis Meredith, Facilities Management Department
• Suellen Metcalf, Vascular Lab
• Christine Miller, Social Work
• Patricia Morris, Child Dev/Rehab Ctr-Battle Bld
• Douglas Morris, Facilities Management Department
• Millicent Morris, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Sharlene Murdaugh, Department of Printing and Copying
• Pamela Neff, Department of Biology
• Tam Nguyen, Health System Physical Plant Department
• James Offield, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Salvatore Palumbo, Operating Room
• Sandra Pannell, Zion Dialysis Center
• Linda Peffley-Firer, Nurse Education
• Tammy Pendleton, SCPS - CP-Admin-Administrative Svcs
• Gerald Perry, Phlebotomy
• Allison Pipkins, Facilities Management Department
• Thomas Pugh, Darden Graduate School of Business
• William Ramsey, U.Va. College at Wise
• Stephen Ratliff, Facilities Management Department
• Elizabeth Rexrode, Surgery Clinic
• Patricia Reynard, School of Medicine, Med Ed Support
• Marvin Roche, Facilities Management Department
• Donna Rose, Dean's Office, School of Architecture
• Jonathon Schuch, Therapy Servicces Admin.
• Valerie Semer, Newborn ICU
• Nancy Sheehan, Department of Neurological Surgery
• Craig Shelton, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Janet Shifflett, Pre Arrival Unit
• Barbara Simonton, Student Health
• Mark Smith, Information Technology Services
• Carolyn Smith-Lee, Core Laboratories
• Malcolm Snow, Information Technology Services
• Barbara Strain, Supply Chain Value Management
• Alan Strain, Financial Information Systems
• Wayne Terwilliger, University Bookstore
• Karen Thomas, Peri-Operative Services
• Ricky Thomas, Facilities Management Department
• David Turner, Operating Room
• James Veith, Core Laboratories
• John Vigour, Dean's Office, School of Architecture
• My Vu, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Anthony Whindleton, Facilities Management Department
• Jodi White, Newborn ICU
• Charles White, Facilities Management Department
• Angela Wilkins, SCPS - CP-Admin-Outreach
• Michael Wilson, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
• Clara Winfield, Surgery Admission Suite
• Carol Wood, School of Law
• Charlotte Wooten, 6 East
• David Wray, Electronic Medical Records

25 Years

• Tad Adams, Electrophysiology
• Donna Adams, School of Medicine, School of Medicine Core Facilities
• Monica Anderson, 4 West-TCV
• Garry Anderson, Facilities Management Department
• Hannelore Asmussen, Department of Cell Biology
• Katherine Bagby, Pulmonary Function Testing Ctr
• Mary Baldwin, Heart IT and Outcomes
• Jan Bastress, 8 West Oncology
• Emily Berry, Physical Therapy
• Deborah Best, Institute of African-American and African Studies
• Richard Boitnott, Staffing Resource Office
• Gloria Booker-Price, Urology Clinic
• Joanne Bower, PACU
• Janna Boyd, Staffing Resource Office
• Bessie Bracey, University Human Resources
• Renee Brett, Electronic Medical Records
• Laurie Brock, Electronic Medical Records
• Aleta Brown, Child Dev/Rehab Ctr-Battle Bld
• Marcia Buck, Pharmacy
• Janette Burkett, Lodging
• April Burns, Neuroradiology
• Kathy Butler, Surgery Trauma
• Dorothy Cage, MD-RADL Angio/Interv Oper
• Marcia Cain, PEDS Clinic Northridge
• Mario Capacillo, Biomedical Operations
• Donald Carpenter, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Brenda Carsley, Dean's Office, School of Nursing
• Marjorie Chambers, Medical Center Procurement
• Frank Clarke, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Jeryl Cohen, Infusion Procedural Center
• Raymond Cook, Specimen Support
• Jane Cook, Dean's Office, Curry School of Education
• Lisa Cook, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
• Margaret Cooper-Anderson, Comm Med Exp Pass-Thru
• Jane Cornelius, School of Medicine, Graduate Programs
• Ronald Crittenden, Information Technology Services
• Loretta Cronk, Office of the President
• Frances Cruz, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Mary Darnell, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Linda Davis, Department of Medicine, Allergy and Immunology
• Theresa Deramo, University Human Resources
• Cynthia Derrico, Midlife Health
• Eileen Donne, UPC
• Teresa Dorrier, Emergency Services Admin
• Vonda Durrer, Office of Sponsored Programs
• Natalie Edwards, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Deborah Eggleston, Adult Neurology
• Nancy Fauber, Heart IT and Outcomes
• Daniel Fetko, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Bonnie Fincham, Pre Arrival Unit
• Lois Fitzgerald, Coding
• Tonja Ford, Otolaryngology Clinic-Fontaine
• Fritz Franke, Facilities Management Department
• Randall Gabbert, U.Va. College at Wise
• Lucy Goddard, Elson Student Health Center
• Stephen Goodman, Nuclear Cardiology
• Robert Graves, Department of Printing and Copying
• Gordon Hahn, Core Laboratories
• Linda Harris, Audit Department
• Sarah Hay, IV Team
• James Hearns, HSTS Technical Services
• Holly Hintz, Patient Care Services
• Dawn Hunt, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
• Anita Isom, SSU-Short Stay Unit
• Elizabeth Keys, School of Medicine Faculty Development
• William Kirby, Facilities Management Department
• Jeffery Kiser, U.Va. College at Wise
• Curtis Klann, Heart IT and Outcomes
• Linda Langman, Department of Surgery
• Susan Levick, Radiology Nursing
• Laura Lingo, Office of the Comptroller
• Jacqueline Loach, Risk Management & Insurance
• Helen Love, Pain Management Center
• Peter Mantell, TCV Perfusion
• Janice McCormick, Childrens Hospital Ops
• Michael McDaniel, TCH Administration
• Cathy McDaniel, Information Technology Services
• Pamela Mike, Core Laboratories
• Michele Monger, Office of Residents' Life
• Gary Moon, Facilities Management Department
• Audrey Morris, Coding
• Rebecca Muse, UMA Clinic - JPA
• James Nicely, Bed Coordination Center
• Gayle Noble, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Ronald Otten, Electronic Medical Records
• Helen Overstreet, Pre-Anesthesia Eval TestingCtr
• Deborah Page, Northridge Mammography
• Tswen-Jye Pan, IS PeopleSoft
• Marcia Parrish, PT Access Admin Management
• Kevin Pillow, Revenue Management
• Stephanie Poindexter, Student Financial Services
• Theresa Raju-Arroyo, Core Laboratories
• Fred Reese, Facilities Management Department
• Patti Lou Riker, Systems Engineering
• Kelly Robins, Bed Coordination Center
• Tammy Rogers, School of Medicine, Continuing Med Ed
• Charles Rorrer, Dean's Office, School of Eng and Applied Science
• Betty Ross, Dermatology Clinic-PCC
• Regina Rush, University of Virginia Library
• Richard Sandridge, University of Virginia Police Department
• Regina Seaner, Microbiology
• Christine Shane, TCV Post Operative
• Kathleen Shelton, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Lillian Shoffstall-Tyler, Ophthalmology Clinic-Old Med
• Kelly Simpson, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs
• Patricia Slohoda, Department of Pediatrics
• Vallerie Staton-Bickley, Orthopaedic Surgery Administrative Office
• Melissa Stell, Cardiac Transition Unit
• Lewis Steva, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Deborah Steva, Office of Environmental Health and Safety
• Jeanne Stovall, Dean's Office, Curry School of Education
• William Taaffe, TCH Respiratory
• Sharon Taylor, Cancer Center Admin Support
• Trudy Taylor, Student Financial Services
• Mary Taylor, Facilities Management Department
• Michael Taylor, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Glenn Taylor, School of Law
• Tamara Thompson, Infusion Procedural Center
• Cynthia Thompson, Anesthesia CRNA's
• Cindy Thompson, Office of Health System Development
• June Trainum, University of Virginia Library
• Karen Tyler, Heart Clinic-Northridge
• Janine Vallee, Department of Neuroscience
• Ella Veney, Operating Room
• Sharon Vest, Pharmacy
• David Webb, University of Virginia Police Department
• Donna Webster, University Human Resources
• Ellen Welch, University of Virginia Library
• Michelle Whitlock, Office of Environmental Health and Safety
• Kellie Williams, Transplant Clinic-Davis
• Lillie Williams, ECG
• Gerald Williamson, Department of Environmental Sciences
• Brigid Wonderly, Kidney Acquisition
• William Wood, Facilities Management Department
• Sandra Woodward, MD-PEDT Pappas BRCCC
• Lisa Workman, Department of Medicine, Allergy and Immunology
• Bryan Wright, Department of Physics
• Phyllis Yensan, Liver Acquisition

20 Years

• Sara Aldridge, Kidney Acquisition
• James Allen, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
• Tammy Amos, Department of Radiology
• Wendy Baker, Department of Neuroscience
• Donna Barbour, Department of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology
• Michael Beaudreau, Facilities Management Department
• Cynthia Beebe, Electronic Medical Records
• Gary Bickers, Facilities Management Department
• Annamarie Black, SCPS - CP-Admin-Stdnt Svcs&Enllmt Mgt
• Jolene Bodily, U.Va.-WorkMed
• Gail Bodine, Physical Therapy
• Nancy Botchford, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
• Donna Brendt, Coronary Care Unit
• Jerome Brown, Facilities Management Department
• Jelinda Brown, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Sherry Burnett, Elson Student Health Center
• Carolyn Stuart Cahalen, 4 West-TCV
• Donnie Calton, U.Va. College at Wise
• Paula Capobianco, Social Work
• David Carmines, Orthopaedic Surgery Prosthetics and Orthotics Div
• Melissa Carter, Transplant Clinic-Davis
• Jama Coartney, University of Virginia Library
• George Collier, Facilities Management Department
• Kathryn Collins, Pre Arrival Unit
• M Colony, Biomedical Operations
• Anne Colony, Papers of James Madison
• Todd Cooper, UMA Clinic - JPA
• David Cornelius, EoC Admin Services
• Carolyn Craig, Battle Building Operations
• Tina Davis, Newborn ICU
• Brenda Davis, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Amanda Dorrier, Information Technology Services
• Michael Dowell, Cavalier Computers Division
• Kristi Ellen, Transplant Clinic-Davis
• Marinda Elliott, HSHR Child Care
• Erik Elvgren, Department of Athletics
• Mary Farsetta, Heart IT and Outcomes
• Sheryl Feggans, Plastic Surgery
• Harry Felton, Facilities Management Department
• Eric Field, Dean's Office, School of Architecture
• Melissa Fox, Physical Therapy
• Bridget Ganey, International Studies Office
• Kirsten Gibson, Nursing Governance Program
• Kellie Gildersleeve, SOM Human Resources
• Steven Glass, Office of Health System Development
• Elizabeth Good, Cancer Clinic
• Patricia Goolsby, University Bookstore
• Pattie Gough, Facilities Management Department
• Patricia Graham, Information Technology Services
• Kenneth Graham, Facilities Management Department
• Elizabeth Graham, School of Medicine, Med Ed Support
• Rebecca Guilford, Marketing & Communications
• Thomas Hall, Centers for Computation Research & Scholarship
• Stephen Hasko, University Bookstore
• Taylor Hathaway, University Advancement
• Jay Hearns, Client Services
• Eddythe Hicks, Dean's Office, School of Nursing
• Nellie Hill, Facilities Management Department
• Tania Hineline, Pediatric Clinic - Orange
• Wendy Hoelscher, Department of Athletics
• Katherine Hoffman, Office of Sponsored Programs
• Hobert Howard, Fleet Operations
• Jada Howard, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Barbara James, Facilities Management Department
• Catherine Jennings, Operating Room
• Kimberly Jennings, Curry School of Education
• Lesa Johnson, PACU
• Eunice Jones, 5 Central
• John Kelly, University of Virginia Library
• Lynn Kelly, MD-DMED Finance and Human Resources
• Bruce Kostoff, Department of Printing and Copying
• Ann Lee,
• Clemmie Lewis, Facilities Management Department
• Martha Long, University Advancement
• Gwendolyn Louderback, GYN Clinic PCC
• Tammy Lull, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Amy MacCall, Operating Room
• Sandra Mahanes, Nerancy Neuro ICU
• Steven Majewski, University of Virginia Library
• George Mann, Renal Unit
• Patricia Marohn, Advanced Practice
• Melinda Mason, Department of Neurological Surgery
• Mary Mccanna, Cardiovascular Research Center
• Danny McDaniel, Facilities Management Department
• Jane Mcdonald, University Advancement
• Johanna McDonough, Respiratory Therapy
• Daniel McKillican, PACU
• Linda Miles, Department of Biology
• Michele Miller, Staffing Resource Office
• David Moody, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
• Martha Moran, Interventional Radiology
• Ruth Morsch, Elson Student Health Center
• Milton Mozie, Facilities Management Department
• James Mundy, Information Technology Services
• Terrence Musser, Facilities Management Department
• Christina Myers, Pre Arrival Unit
• Joyce Nash, School of Medicine, SOM Core Facilities
• Susan Nelson, POC Testing
• Gaynelle Noble, General Peds Clin-Battle Bldg
• Lisa Patterson, Zion Dialysis Center
• Sandra Payne, Facilities Management Department
• Arthur Pearson, Kidney Acquisition
• Susan Perry, PACU
• Mary Poe, University Advancement
• Randall Porter, Facilities Management Department
• Anne Porter, Department of Urology
• Tracy Puffenbarger, Sleep Disorder Center
• Diane Quinn, Breast Center Mammography
• Robert Reid, Medic V
• Margaret Reitz, University Human Resources
• Rosa Rhodes, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Charles Rice, University of Virginia Library
• James Ruffner, Department of Computer Science
• Wayne Russell, Facilities Management Department
• Aileen Ryalls, Center for Comparative Medicine
• Delores Saunders, EVP Office Administration
• Allen Saunders, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
• Beverly Scheibner, 3 Central
• Jeffrey Schlatter, Department of Surgery
• Robert Schuett, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Sandi Sclater, Orthopaedics Clinic Fontaine
• Richard Sergi, Facilities Management Department
• Larry Shackelford, Health Systems Facilities Management
• S. Shelton, University Bookstore
• Emily Shifflett, Cardiac Catheterization Lab
• William Shirey, Facilities Management Department
• Melissa Simmons, Department of Athletics
• Burnard Simpson, Materiel Operations
• Sheila Smith, Peri-Operative Services
• Terri Smith, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Frances Smith, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Downing Smith, McIntire School of Commerce
• Gina Songer, 3 East Geri & Palli Care
• Louise Spataro, Respiratory Therapy
• Shannon Taylor, Augusta Dialysis
• Judy Tharpe, Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division
• Nawang Thokmey, University of Virginia Library
• Stacy Thompson, Department of Neurology
• Kenna Toliver, Family Medicine Stoney Creek
• Roy Tomlin, Pegasus Ground Unit
• Melvin Toney, Facilities Management Department
• Heather Turner, 6 Central
• David Volles, Pharmacy
• Annette Waddill, Fleet Operations
• John Waldo, Home Infusion Continuum
• Terry Wallace, Information Technology Services
• Robert Watson, Facilities Management Department
• Sandra Weaver, Cardiac Catheterization Lab
• Peter Welch, University of Virginia Library
• Mary Wiebel, Case Management
• Sheila Williams, 7 Acute
• Beth Williams, Department of Ophthalmology
• Eric Williams, Office of Newcomb Hall
• Lora Williams, U.Va. College at Wise
• Carol Wisinski, Cancer Clinic
• Calvin Wright, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

15 Years

• Edward Acree, Facilities Management Department
• Steven Adams, Pharmacy
• Cheryl Adams, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Amy Adams, Center for Comparative Medicine
• Bukurije Aljiji, Office of the General Counsel
• Rosemary Allen, Children's Hrt Ctr-Battle Bldg
• Kimberly Allen, Civil & Env Engr
• David Alpern, Department of Anesthesiology
• Pamela Ambler, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
• Katherine Anderson, Pre Arrival Unit
• Sherry Ayers, Document Completion
• Jana Baber, Cytogenetics
• Tonya Baker, University of Virginia Police Department
• Felicitas Balagtas, Sterile Processing
• Eduardo Balagtas, Materiel Operations
• Amy Ballenger, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Gail Banks, HSHR Child Care
• Juanita Banks, Internal Medicine Orange
• Harry Barney, Equipment Management
• Mary Barth, Accreditation
• Jane Beckert, Dean's Office, School of Nursing
• Richard Bednar, HSTS Technical Services
• Leslie Bell, Curry School of Education
• Karen Bennett, School of Law
• Lori Bennington, Orthopaedics Clinic Fontaine
• Johanna Betts, School of Medicine, Research
• Evangeline Beverage, Newborn ICU
• Ellen Bishop, Department of Radiology
• Gary Bolt, HSTS Technical Services
• Angela Jean Booker, Pre Arrival Unit
• James Bowen, Office of Sponsored Programs
• Heather Bower, Department of Pediatrics
• Kyle Bowman, College of Arts and Sciences
• Melissa Brads, Office of the President
• Nancy Brady, Renal Unit
• Peter Brecht, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Theresa Brock, University Bookstore
• Joyce Brooks, SUSAN CARKEEK
• Mary Brown, Facilities Management Department
• Kathleen Brown-Steinke, Department of Pediatrics
• Amy Bunts, Department of Surgery
• Martha Burner, Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Miranda Butler, University of Virginia Police Department
• Nora Byrd, Strategic Planning
• Todd Campbell, Health System Physical Plant Department
• John Campbell, Blandy Experimental Farm
• Peggy Candler, Office of Sponsored Programs
• Allen Carter, Cavalier Computers Division
• Susan Carter-Smith, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Gloria Casella, Department of Athletics
• David Clark, Department of Microbiology
• Roger Clements, Facilities Management Department
• Todd Cole, NETS
• Jason Coleman, University of Virginia Press
• Roberta Collyer, Information Technology Services
• Julie Comer, Respiratory Therapy
• Christa Conley, Elson Student Health Center
• Susan Connette, Pain Management Center
• Nancy Cooper, Cardiac Transition Unit
• Taylor Cooper, U.Va. College at Wise
• Margaret Corbin, Home Health Aides Continuum
• Kathryn Corbin, Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Ann Powell Cox, Document Completion
• Lauren Craig, MICU
• Wendy Crannage, Department of Biology
• Dianna Crawford, Surgery Admission Suite
• Gloria Crawford, Financial Service Coordination
• Eric Cross, Department of Printing and Copying
• Dawn Crow, Orthopaedic Surgery Administrative Office
• William Crowder, Social Work
• Carole Cyrus, UMA Clinic - JPA
• Kendra Dahnert, Newborn ICU
• Karen DAlessandro, Physical Therapy
• Howard Darmstadter, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
• Victoria Davis, 7 Acute
• Kristy Davis, Office of Environmental Health and Safety
• Cathy Dawkins, Department of Neurology
• Cynthia Dean, Newborn ICU
• Kim Deaver, Kidney Center Administration
• Linda Deeds, Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division
• Joseph Dimaria, Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging
• Kelly Dreher, Marketing & Communications
• William Dunn, Information Technology Services
• Luther Dunnivan, Facilities Management Department
• David Durocher, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Laurie Edwards, Center for Comparative Medicine
• Jeffrey Enoch, Client Services
• Atanya Eubanks, University Bookstore
• Jeffrey Farrish, Facilities Management Department
• Sharon Ferguson, Cancer Clinic-Multispecialty
• James Ferraiolo, Information Technology Services
• Melissa Ferrell, Office of the University Registrar
• Sally Fields, Facilities Management Department
• Charles Finchum, Department of Medicine, Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative & Hospital Medicine
• Ellen Fisher, Surgery Admission Suite
• Timothy Fitzgerald, Cavalier Computers Division
• Edwina Forch, Geriatric Services
• Sarah Mabe Ford, Adult Neurology
• Bryan Foster, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Susie Foster, Elson Student Health Center
• Melinda Franke, Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program
• Lora Frazier, Family Medicine Stoney Creek
• Christopher Fulton, University Bookstore
• Steven Funkhouser, Sterile Processing
• Michael Galvez, Office of the Comptroller
• Shandra Gammon, Department of Psychiatry and NB Sciences
• Henry Garrison, Facilities Management Department
• Richard Gibson, Facilities Management Dept
• Brian Gibson, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Kathleen Gillette-Mallard, Dean's Office, Curry School of Education
• Scott Gillies, Electrophysiology
• Weiping Gong, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Charlotte Graham, PT Access Admin Management
• Karen Graham, Staffing Resource Office
• Michael Gray, MD-DMED Institutional Analysis
• Elizabeth Greene, Emergency Department
• John Gress, Department of Plastic Surgery
• Barbara Hall, Augusta Dialysis
• Karen Hall, Department of Anthropology
• Lynn Hall, Department of Pediatrics
• Shirley Halladay, MICU
• Christina Hamill, Department of Medicine, Administration
• Robin Hamlin, Endoscopy
• Teresa Hammond, University Bookstore
• Lisa Haney, Department of Microbiology
• Michael Hanshew, Department of Radiology
• Colleen Harrington, Radiology Nursing
• Holly Heilberg, University Human Resources
• John Henrietta, Facilities Management Department
• James Herod, Office of the Comptroller
• Robert Herold, Facilities Management Department
• Sarah Hetmanski, Revenue Analytics
• Rebecca Hill, Risk Management & Insurance
• Aubrey Hipp, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Debra Hirst, Department of Systems and Information Engineering
• Robert Hiserman, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
• Sonya Hodgen, U.Va. Special Care Augusta Cardiology
• Dana Hoffman, Radiology Support Services
• Ricky Hopkins, U.Va. College at Wise
• Christopher Hoy, Facilities Management Department
• Christopher Hubert, University Advancement
• Cristy Huffman, University Bookstore
• Stacey Hughes, ExecTech
• Katrina Hunter, University Bookstore
• Michele Irvine, Information Technology Services
• Maizie Jackson, Office of the VP for Research
• Arun James, TCH Respiratory
• Mary Jasper, Facilities Management Department
• Phyllis Johnson, Revenue Cycle Operations
• Anita Johnson, Facilities Management Department
• Jesse Johnson, Facilities Management Department
• Charlene Kaufman, MD-HUMN Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities
• Barbara Knisley, Client Services
• Ruth Kohl, MICU
• Amanda Kutch, SCPS - CP-Admin-Administrative Svcs
• Deborah Lamb, Surgical Pathology
• Julie Lanahan, Newborn ICU
• Amber Lanter, Renal Unit
• Donna Lash, Radiation Oncology-East
• Ruth Lawrence, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Amy Layman, University of Virginia Police Department
• Lisa Layne, Office of the Comptroller
• Anthony Lindsay, University of Virginia Library
• Viola Lita, Sterile Processing
• Mariano Lobo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Brian Mack, Department of Intramural-Recreational Sports
• Helen Madison, Department of Pediatrics
• Marie Manz, PACU
• Nazif Maqani, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
• Patricia Marbury, University Human Resources
• Sarah Marshall, Papers of James Madison
• Joseph Mattera, Facilities Management Department
• Emily McAllister, Endocrine Clinic
• Chantal McCain, Department of Neurology
• Kim McCall, Endoscopy
• John McDowell, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Deborah McGehee, Kidney Center Clinic
• Wade Meadows, Information Technology Services
• Tiffany Melhuish-Baxter, Center for Cell Signaling
• Catherine Mihalsky, Department of Ophthalmology
• Laura Miller, University of Virginia Library
• Ellen Missana, Dean's Office, Curry School of Education
• Donna Misurelli, Newborn ICU
• Howard Moore, Facilities Management Department
• David Morin, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Staci Morris, Payroll Department
• Kimberly Morris, Facilities Management Department
• Neil Morris, Facilities Management Department
• Rebecca Muse, UMA Clinic - JPA
• Cesar Musngi, Anesth Cardiovascular Techs
• Patricia Napier, Facilities Management Department
• Francis Olimpio, Sterile Processing
• Stephanie Oliveira, U.Va.-WorkMed
• Leah Paige, Pharmacy
• Teresa Park, Cardiovascular Coronary
• Michael Park, TCH Respiratory
• Vernell Payne, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Martin Peterman, Information Security, Policy and Records
• Suellen Peterson, Elson Student Health Center
• Cheryl Pietrzyk, U.Va.-WorkMed
• Kathryn Podgorski, PACU
• Herbert Porter, Housing Division
• Edward Porter, SOM Clinical Trials
• Gayle Porterfield, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
• Michael Quillon, PFS Operations
• Joseph Ragland, Facilities Management Department
• William Randall, Staffing Resource Office
• Robert Remsberg, Information Technology Services
• Martha Rhodes, HSTS Technical Services
• Abigail Rice, University Advancement
• Clayton Roberts, Facilities Management Department
• Trudy Robinson, Office of Sponsored Programs
• Mariah Rogers, MICU
• Angela Rogers, Department of Pediatrics
• Timothy Roland, Facilities Management Department
• Patricia Romer, Housing Division
• Debra Rose, Information Technology Services
• R. Roy, School of Medicine, SOM Core Facilities
• Robin Ruffner-Newman, Facilities Management Department
• Shelly Rush-Evans, 6 West
• Lisa Sacre, Medical Center Procurement
• Jessy Sam, 6 West
• Diane Sampson, Lactation Consult
• Michael Schwartz, University Human Resources
• Melissa Seal, Information Technology Services
• Christina Seale, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Terrance Sheltra, Dean's Office, School of Architecture
• Kelly Shifflett, Diagnostic Radiology
• Patricia Shifflett, Materiel Operations
• Mindi Shifflett, Department of Pediatrics
• Melissa Shifflett, Orthopaedic Surgery Prosthetics and Orthotics Div
• Amy Shifflett, University Human Resources
• Tonya Shifflett, School of Medicine, Med Ed Support
• Yuji Shinozaki, Centers for Computation Research & Scholarship
• Marilyn Sicheri, Renal Unit
• Scott Smallwood, University of Virginia Police Department
• Terri Smith, Augusta Dialysis
• Stacey Snoddy, Heart Acquisition
• Dennis Snyder, School of Medicine, Med Ed Support
• Adam Soroka, University of Virginia Library
• Donald Spencer, Facilities Management Department
• Karen Spitzer, Information Technology Services
• Mark Stanis, Facilities Management Department
• Roger Staton, Information Technology Services
• John Steffey, U.Va. College at Wise
• Reginald Steppe, Facilities Management Department
• Margaret Stevenson-Scaringe, University Bookstore
• Jennifer Stinespring, Augusta Dialysis
• Lynn Stiteler, School of Law
• Derrick Stone, Web Development Center
• Reginia Stottlemyer, Interventional Radiology
• Kimberly Strader, Blandy Experimental Farm
• Cynthia Strickler, Augusta Dialysis
• Paul Strong, Orthopaedic Surgery Prosthetics and Orthotics Div
• Kristin Stubblefield, Augusta Dialysis
• Rita Swain, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Randy Swift, Department of English
• Sara Tarkington, Office of the Comptroller
• Gregory Taylor, 5 East
• Jennifer Taylor, Department of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology
• Michele Tevis, 4 East
• Ross Thomas, ECMO
• Steven Thomas, Advanced Heart Failure Center
• Maggie Thompson, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Crystal Trice, HSHR Child Care
• Marianne Truslow, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Tammy Turner, Comm Med Exp Pass-Thru
• Angela Turner, McIntire School of Commerce
• Robin Uglow, TWP Inpatient Services
• Elizabeth Veasey, Radiology Nursing
• Brenda Via, Abdominal Transplant
• Jane Walker, University of Virginia Library
• Bridgett Walton, Pre Arrival Unit
• Terri Washington, Department of Medicine, Administration
• Lisa Weaver, 5 North
• Lynn Welch, Case Management
• Beverly West, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Marcia White, TCV Post Operative
• Kristi Wilkins, Surgical Trauma Burn ICU
• Timothy Wilkinson, Information Technology Services
• Twanda Williams, 5 Central
• Randy Williams, Sterile Processing
• Colleen Williams, Bed Coordination Center
• Ernest Williams, Office of the President
• Lorna Williams, Department of Surgery
• Deborah Wingate, Surgery Clinic
• Michael Wood, Network Services
• Douglas Wood, Medical Emergency Team
• Darrell Wood, Facilities Management Department
• Kelly Wozneak, Advanced Practice
• Paul Wright, Department of Medicine, Allergy and Immunology
• Jie Yao, Blood Bank
• Hong Ye, Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division
• Karen York, Blandy Experimental Farm
• James Zarling, Civil & Env Engr
• Kathleen Zenker, 3 East Geri & Palli Care

10 Years

• Rachel Abdella, Arts and Sciences Development Office
• Sara Adair, Department of Surgery
• Shannon Adams, Facilities Management Department
• Daniel Addison, University Communications
• Lisa Adldoost, Radiation Oncology-East
• Jeanette Albert, Amherst Dialysis
• Ibrahim Ali, Facilities Management Department
• Theresa Altherr, Department of Pediatrics
• Frances Amos, PFS Operations
• David Amos, U.Va. College at Wise
• David Anderson, Department of Printing and Copying
• Geraldine Anderson, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
• Molly Angevine, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Ivan Arapovic, Specimen Support
• Laura Asbeil, Diagnostic Radiology
• Contadina Ashwell, Lynchburg-Hospital Program
• Ramon Avila, Facilities Management Department
• Ashley Ayers, SOM Faculty Development
• Ginger Aylor, Medical Center Procurement
• Jeffrey Baker, School of Medicine, Graduate Programs
• Alia Bakhtiar, Facilities Management Department
• Ami Banks, Central Cardiac Monitoring Uni
• John Baxton, Dean's Office, School of Eng and Applied Science
• Robert Beach, Lynchburg-Hospital Program
• Andrew Bedotto, Office of Sponsored Programs
• Fenella Belle, Kluge-Ruhe Museum
• Jean Bennett, School of Law
• Lori Benson, Web Development Center
• Debra Benson, Department of Surgery
• Deborah Berry, Interventional Radiology
• Angela Best-Campbell, Cardiovascular Research Center
• Janeth Bibb, 415 Bldg MC Radiology
• Damascene Bimenyande, Facilities Management Department
• Elisangela Blevins, Office of Health System Development
• Alicia Blocksom, Pre Arrival Unit
• David Bolick, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
• Monica Booker, 5 Central
• Darlene Booker, Office of Sponsored Programs
• Mindy Borszich, Cancer Center
• Donna Bowman, Dentistry Clinic
• Betty Bowman, Facilities Management Department
• Laura Bowness, Office of Sponsored Programs
• Braelynn Boyle, OB-Fetal Care Ctr-Battle Bldg
• Shirley Bradley, Amherst Dialysis
• Sarah Bradshaw, 7 Acute
• Mary Brant, Pediatric Clinic - Orange
• Nicole Breeden, University Advancement
• Gerald Brooks, Language Assistance Program
• Cecilia Brown, School of Law
• Jack Bryant, Facilities Management Department
• James Burns, HSTS Technical Services
• April Burrell, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Debra Bushey, Department of Radiology
• Diane Butler, Marketing & Communications
• Phyllis Cabell, Amherst Dialysis
• Darlene Cabell, Sleep Disorder Center
• Linda Callihan, International Studies Office
• Bryan Camarata, Radiation Oncology-Moser
• Anita Campbell, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Dolores Campbell, Lynchburg-Home Program
• Bernard Carroll, Facilities Management Department
• Jennifer Carson, Case Management
• Lora Carver, Operating Room
• Peggy Carwile, Dentistry Clinic
• Alana Chaffee, Radiology Nursing
• Paul Chaney, Health System Physical Plant Department
• John Chavan, Infusion Procedural Center
• Emily Chen, Pharmacy
• Amy Chenoweth, Cancer Clinic
• Amy Chestnutt, Women's Center
• Kathryn Chiacchia, Elson Student Health Center
• Regina Chisenhall, U.Va. College at Wise
• Elisabeth Christian, University Communications
• Eveling Clark, University Bookstore
• Sarah Clatterbuck, Pediatric Clinic - Orange
• Chace Clay, Office of University Career Services
• Mesha Clements, Surgical Trauma Burn ICU
• Jason Coleman, Electronic Medical Records
• Pauline Coleman, Kidney Acquisition
• Margaret Collier, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Savannah Conley, Department of Dentistry
• Donna Cooper, ID and Security Systems
• Michele Cousins, 6 West
• Viola Craft, Lynchburg-Home Program
• Sherry Cramer, Pre Arrival Unit
• Patricia Crawford, Women's Center
• Gregory Crites, Kidney Center Administration
• Michael Critzer, Department of Parking and Transportation
• Anne Croft, Diagnostic Radiology
• Tina Cross, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
• Michael Crothers, DHC Clinic
• Catherine Crothers, Emergency Department
• Linda Crouch, Altavista
• Linda Crowley, Kidney Center
• Katherine Cure, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Brian Curry, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Bernadette Dalton, Endoscopy
• Sherry Davis, Operating Room
• Patricia Davis, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Sandra Davis, Pre-Anesthesia Eval TestingCtr
• Miriam Davis, 4 Central
• Amanda Davis, Sports- Ortho
• Holly Davis, Department of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology
• Randolph Davis, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Cassie Dawson, Radiology Support Services
• Lisa Dennis, Facilities Management Department
• Elena Dimov, University of Virginia Library
• Mary Dix, Augusta Dialysis
• Patsy Donnelly, Case Management
• Brenda Doss, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Elizabeth Drake, Curry School of Education
• Charles Duke, Sterile Processing
• Peter Dummett, Department of Pathology
• Amybeth Durant, Department of Radiology
• Nicole Durden-Mundy, Newborn ICU
• Phyllis Eanes
• Presinda Easley, Respiratory Therapy
• Jennifer-Rose Eccles, Pediatric ICU
• Debra Edgar, UMA Clinic - JPA
• Cecil Edmonds, Facilities Management Department
• Rachel Edwards, Dean's Office, Curry School of Education
• Regina Eggleston, Amherst Dialysis
• Melissa Elliott, 5 East
• Randall Ellis, Office of the Comptroller
• Judith Ellis, School of Law
• Therese Ellison, School of Medicine, Continuing Med Ed
• Ryan Emanuel, University Advancement
• Heather Eppard, Student Financial Services
• Erika Evans, Department of Systems and Information Engineering
• Connie Falcone, Child Dev/Rehab Ctr-Battle Bld
• Anelia Farhi, MD-DMED Finance and Human Resources
• Sandra Farnum, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Rebecca Ferguson, Fleet Operations
• Sharon Ferraro, Newborn ICU
• Tonya Fincham, Pediatric Clinic - Orange
• Ginger Fitzgerald, Radiology Support Services
• Angela Fitzgerald, Radiology Support Services
• Crystal Fleming, U.Va. College at Wise
• Dale Floyd, Lynchburg-Hospital Program
• Emily Ford, Blandy Experimental Farm
• Sandra Foster, Department of Psychiatry and NB Sciences
• Dale Fowler, Echo Lab
• Christopher Fox, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Melissa Frederick, Compensation
• Teresa Fulks, Respiratory Therapy
• Steven Fuss, Facilities Management Department
• Patty Futrell, Department of Economics
• Lisa Gabriel, Electrophysiology
• Johnneen Gaines, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
• Lynn Galasso, Office of the Comptroller
• Angela Gamble, Office of the VP for Research
• Jessica Gentry, Department of Surgery
• Terri Gerald, Surgery Admission Suite
• John Gerding, Procurement And Supplier Diversity Services
• Mary Giannini, Pre Arrival Unit
• John Gilday, Emergency Prep & Response
• Dale Gilliam, Facilities Management Department
• Sonia Glantz, Radiation Oncology-East
• David Glover, Department of Biology
• Amy Goldstein, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
• Crystal Goodale, Orthopaedic Surgery Administrative Office
• Tashonda Gough, Staffing Resource Office
• Ernest Gowin, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Heather Greenbaum, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
• Andrew Greene, Office of the University Architect
• Judith Grigg, Department of Medicine, Administration
• Carlos Gum, 3 East Geri & Palli Care
• Kelli Hale, U.Va. Special Care Augusta Cardiology
• Susan Hamil, Department of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology
• Patricia Hamlett, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Shirley Haney, Respiratory Therapy
• Linda Hanson, Dean's Office, School of Nursing
• Thomas Harkins, AVP for Hospital and Clinic
• Carol Harlow, 415 Bldg MC Radiology
• Edward Harlow, Fac Planning & Development
• Kelly Harris, Ophthalmology Clinic-Old Med
• Rachel Harrop, Emergency Department
• Idris Hassan, Facilities Management Department
• Kassim Hassan, Facilities Management Department
• Deborah Haynes, Patient Access ED Registration
• Christin Henderson, Diagnostic Radiology
• Lisa Henry, 415 Bldg MC Radiology
• Debra Hensley, Amherst Dialysis
• Victoria Herring, Interventional Radiology
• Susan Herron, U.Va. College at Wise
• Amy Hicks, Lynchburg-Hospital Program
• John Hicks, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Candice Hill, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Lisa Hiter, 3 West
• Cicely Hocker, Core Laboratories
• Timothy Hodge, Medical Transport Network
• Suzanne Hoeft, Department of Athletics
• Duane Hogge, Facilities Management Department
• Jeffrey Hood, 8 West Oncology
• Emily Hopkins, School of Medicine, Continuing Med Ed
• Robert Hornberger, Facilities Management Department
• Shannon Horton,
• Lorie Hubbard, C.T. Scan
• Cheryl Hubbard, 7 Acute
• Linda Hughes, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Rachael Hughes-Key, 6 East
• Timothy Huston, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Bradley Ingram, Facilities Management Department
• Debra Inman, Dentistry Clinic
• Ruby Irvine, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Patricia Irvine, Phlebotomy
• Susan Ishmael, 6 East
• Stephanie Jackson, HSHR Child Care
• Ira Jackson, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Joel Jacobus, Department of Music
• Joe Jamerson, Cavalier Computers Division
• Jennifer James, Center for Politics
• Barbara Jefferson, Lynchburg-Home Program
• Eva Jenkins-Mendoza, Department of Psychiatry and NB Sciences
• Floyd Jennings, Kidney Center Administration
• Jack Jennings, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Carol Jensen, Surgery Admission Suite
• Vanessa John, BMT Pheresis
• Toyia Johnson, Surgical Supply
• Simone Johnson, Amherst Dialysis
• Darlene Johnson, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Paul Johnson, Facilities Management Department
• Brandi Johnson, Department of Pediatrics
• Denise Johnson, Department of Radiology
• Amy Johnston, 6 West
• Renee Jones, Lynchburg-Hospital Program
• Dean Jones, Information Technology Services
• Beena Joseph, 6 West
• Marlene Kane, Coding
• Catherine Keefe-Jankowski, SOM Human Resources
• Nancy Kelly, Physical Therapy
• Christine Kennedy, Audit Department
• Stacey Kenney, Client Services
• John Kenney, Department of Athletics
• Christopher Kern, Facilities Management Department
• Cortney Kestner, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
• Tia Keys, PEDS Clinic Northridge
• Lailuma Khair Khawa, Facilities Management Department
• David King, University Human Resources
• Philip Kleinheinz, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Mary Klekamp, Elson Student Health Center
• Lee Klemptner, Cancer Clinic
• Shenika Knox, Office of Sponsored Programs
• Amanda Koenig, Children's Hrt Ctr-Battle Bldg
• Del Kolberg, Office of the Comptroller
• Laura Kollar
• Michael Kozuch, Office of Newcomb Hall
• Joyce Kreitzman, University Advancement
• Helen Kunkel, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Mark Kutney, Office of the University Architect
• Ronald Lackey, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Joseph Lahendro, Facilities Management Department
• Kay Lair, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Christopher Land, Facilities Management Department
• Jennifer Larew, PACU
• Elliot Leflar, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Christina Leftwich, Case Management
• Laima Lengel, 5 East
• Laura Lewis, Electronic Medical Records
• Shinika Lewis, Newborn ICU
• Susan Lewis, Accountable Care Organization
• Wen Li, Department of Cell Biology
• Ana Liddell, University of Virginia Art Museum
• Miao Liu, Department of Neurology
• Dawn Locklair, Office of the Assoc VP for Business Operations
• Linda Long, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Devonia Love, Dean's Office, School of Nursing
• Jeannie Loving, Staffing Resource Office
• Michael Lowe, Staffing Resource Office
• William Lowery, Electrophysiology
• Cindy Lu, SCPS - CP-Instr-Northern Virginia
• Susan Lucas, PAGE DIALYSIS
• Wanda Lucas, Facilities Management Department
• Rose Mabrey, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Melanie Madsen, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Hassan Mahamud, Facilities Management Department
• Elliot Majerczyk, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• Sean Manly, Dean's Office, School of Nursing
• Derrick Many, Respiratory Therapy
• Ibrahim Mapre, Facilities Management Department
• Kelly Marshall, MICU
• Tawana Marshburn, Department of Pathology
• Ellen Martin, Institute for Environmental Negotiation
• Norman Martinez, Orthopaedic Surgery Prosthetics and Orthotics Div
• Donna Mathes, Center for Comparative Medicine
• Jean-Claude Matte, Department of Neurological Surgery
• Barbara Matysek, Lodging
• Chit May, Center for Comparative Medicine
• Nadine McCarthy, TWP Inpatient Services
• Karen McDowell, Information Security, Policy and Records
• Daniel McGeehan, Facilities Management Department
• Robyn McKenzie, Cardiovascular Research Center
• Claire McKinley, Department of Radiology
• Lori McKinstry-Stern, 5 Central
• Gwen Medic, Physical Therapy
• Erin Meese, TCV Perfusion
• Melinda Melady, Pt Access Registration
• Judith Mendoza, Facilities Management Department
• Steven Miller, Pharmacy Administration
• Michael Miller, Nursing Governance Program
• Rahima Miller, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
• Gale Milligan, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Jennifer Mitchell, TCH Inpatient
• Donald Mitchell, Operating Room
• Mary Mitchell, Facilities Management Department
• Sheikh Mohamed, Facilities Management Department
• Hong Mon, Center for Comparative Medicine
• Jeffrey Monroe, Office of the VP for Research
• Jessica Moore, Lynchburg-Hospital Program
• Christopher Moore, Radiology Support Services
• Jason Moore, Facilities Management Department
• John Moore, Office of the University Registrar
• Carl Morris, Operating Room
• Mark Morris, Lynchburg-Hospital Program
• Judith Morris, Neuroradiology
• Rachel Morris, OB/GYN Clinic Northridge
• Samantha Morris, University Human Resources
• Tobiyah Morris, University of Virginia Library
• Charles Morris, Office of the VP for Research
• Timothy Morton, University of Virginia Library
• Bridget Moss, Advanced Practice
• Tracy Mourton, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Terri Murphy, SIP Admin Dept Neurosciences
• Vincent Muscarella, Facilities Management Department
• Tracey Mutters, Children's Hrt Ctr-Battle Bldg
• Monica Nance, Amherst Dialysis
• Vu Nguyen, Facilities Management Department
• Thomas Nichols, TCH Physical Therapy
• Robert Noble, Facilities Management Department
• Joy Nowell, Information Technology Services
• Paula O'Buckley, Outpatient Surgery Center
• John O'Gorman, Facilities Management Department
• William O'Shaughnessy, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Babalola Odusanya, Central Cardiac Monitoring Uni
• Todd Oickle, Urology Clinic
• Daniel OMalley, Radiology Administration
• Jackie Oswalt, Dean's Office, School of Nursing
• Cynthia Overton, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Connie Pace, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology
• David Page, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Marnie Painter, Pediatric ICU
• Deborah Palmer, Facilities Management Department
• Sheria Pannell, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Donna Parham, Pharmacy
• Randy Patrick, U.Va. College at Wise
• Kathie Payne, Microbiology
• Joseph Pearce, Facilities Management Department
• Christie Piedmont, Hospital Epidemiology
• Mary Pipkin, Lynchburg-Home Program
• Tracy Plunkett, University Budget Office
• Martha Plymale, Kidney Center Administration
• Joseph Polaro, Department of Intramural-Recreational Sports
• Nina Poppe, Pre-Anesthesia Eval TestingCtr
• Jean Porter, Department of Surgery
• Melanie Price, Office of the University Architect
• Henry Pritchard, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Melody Proffitt, Lynchburg Dialysis
• James Ptak, Information Technology Services
• Karmela Rabi, Center for Comparative Medicine
• John Ragland, Cavalier Computers Division
• Jonathan Ramsey, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Angela Randolph, Staffing Resource Office
• Goldie Rawlings, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
• Evan Reaves, Document Imaging
• Alex Rebhorn, University Human Resources
• Vasantha Reddi, Orthopaedic Surgery Research Center
• Richard Reifenstein, Office of Newcomb Hall
• Patricia Reynolds, Central Cardiac Monitoring Uni
• Anne Rindge, Electrophysiology
• Dawn Roach, Facilities Management Department
• Carmen Robbins, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Martha Roberts, Lodging
• Sharon Robinson, OB/GYN Clinic Northridge
• Tiffany Robinson, Surgical Pathology
• Ray-Mond Robinson
• Dominique Rose, Department of Biology
• Douglas Ross, Inst for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
• Randall Rowe, SCPS - CP-Admin-Administrative Svcs
• Barbara Ruddy, School of Law
• Teresa Russell, Altavista
• Mary Rutledge, Northridge Mammography
• Lisa Salopek, Department of Plastic Surgery
• Rhonda Sampson-Giles, Student Financial Services
• Tally Sanford, Department for Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
• Philip Saunders, Facilities Management Department
• Tracy Saxon, Central Cardiac Monitoring Uni
• James Sayre, Facilities Management Department
• Kimberly Schade, Office of Undergraduate Admissions
• Jennine Scott, Amherst Dialysis
• Kimberly Scott, 3 Central
• Darrah Seawell, Financial Service Coordination
• Sandra Seay, Investigational Drugs
• Maria Kristine Seguerra, 4 East
• Regina Seitz, Department of Microbiology
• Sean Sembrowich, Department of Psychiatry and NB Sciences
• Eileen Sembrowich, Office of the VP for Research
• Vicki Serrano, Electrophysiology
• Poonam Sharma, Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Christopher Shelton, Surgical Supply
• Lee Sherratt, SCPS - CP-Admin-Stdnt Svcs&Enllmt Mgt
• Lavennie Shifflett, Urology Clinic
• Dale Shifflett, Materiel Operations
• Robert Shifflett, Facilities Management Department
• Gary Shifflett, Facilities Management Department
• Shaofang Shu, Department of Pharmacology
• Cole Shull, Controller'S Office
• Julie Shumaker, Department of Cell Biology
• Svetlana Shumilina, Histocompatibility Lab
• Melissa Shupe, Department of Medicine, Administration
• Frederick Siebenmann, School of Medicine, Graduate Programs
• Tonyia Sillett, Facilities Management Department
• Rachel Simon, Department of Surgery
• David Simpson, Facilities Management Department
• Kim Smith, Amherst Dialysis
• Nellie Smith, Altavista
• Cynthia Smith, Phlebotomy
• Ronald Smith, Anesthesia CRNA's
• Anita Smith, Department of Urology
• Joyce Snead, Sports- Ortho
• Kirk Soderlund, Facilities Management Department
• Megan Soika, Occupational Therapy
• MarthaJoy Spano, Department of Cell Biology
• Karen Spencer, Barringer Pharmacy
• Lisa Spencer, Admitting
• Dawn Sprouse, Information Technology Services
• Anika Spry, PACU
• Louis Spry, University of Virginia Library
• Larry St. John, Department of Physics
• Lisa Stanton, Dean's Office, School of Eng and Applied Science
• Sarah Staton, Child & Family Psych Medicine
• James Staton, Facilities Management Department
• Brenda Stevens, Infusion Procedural Center
• Jaquelin Stevenson, 7 Acute
• Stacy Sties, Department of Psychology
• Sandra Stoots, Adult Neuro - Fontaine
• Heath Stout, Materiel Operations
• Carrie Strickland, 5 East
• Carlos Tache Leon, Life Support Learning Center
• Richard Tavenner, Facilities Management Department
• Jessica Tawney, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Ebbie Taylor, Security Administration
• Susan Taylor, Surgery Admission Suite
• Brian Taylor, Department of Athletics
• Tiffany Taylor, Facilities Management Department
• Victoria Testerman, Department of Surgery
• James Thorne, Lynchburg Dialysis
• Victoria Thurston-Grooms, Zion Dialysis Center
• Paul Tolar, Respiratory Therapy
• William Tomanek, Department of Environmental Sciences
• Melanie Tomlin, School of Medicine, Med Ed Support
• Elliot Toms, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
• Pamela Torrence, Outpatient Surgery Center
• Marlene Totty, Department of Pediatrics
• Juliet Trail, Dean's Office, Arts and Sciences
• Elizabeth Tyree, Department of Ophthalmology
• Amber Tyson, 7 Acute
• Donna VandePol, Physical Therapy
• Jon VanFossen, Financial Planning & Analysis
• Vinnie Vawter, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Julliet Walker, Lynchburg-Hospital Program
• Walter Walker, Facilities Management Department
• Shannon Wampler, Procurement And Supplier Diversity Services
• Xiaoming Wang, University of Virginia Library
• Gretchen Watkins, Department of Pediatrics
• Elizabeth Watson, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
• Sarah Weaver, Histocompatibility Lab
• Sequana Webb, Coding
• Caroline Weber, Case Management
• Erica Weiler, Lactation Consult
• Susan Wetherall, 5 Central
• Erica Wheat, University Human Resources
• Kimberly Wheeler, Cardiac Transition Unit
• Stacy Wheeler, Respiratory Therapy
• Linda White, Interns & Resident
• Richard White, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Haley Whitlock Gyory, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Lora Whitt, Staffing Resource Office
• Dennis Wickline, Surgical Supply
• Lucia Williams, 6 East
• Michael Williams, Office of the Comptroller
• Anne Williams, MD-DMED School of Medicine Administration
• Dorothy Williams, School of Medicine, Graduate Programs
• Diana Williams
• Mary Winecoff, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
• Susan Witzel, Center on Religion and Democracy
• Paula Wolford, Surgical Pathology
• Emily Wood, Radiation Oncology-East
• Stephanie Wood, Kidney Center Administration
• Willard Wood, Health System Physical Plant Department
• Shawn Wood, Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research
• Beth Woods-Boyer
• Jessica Worley, Facilities Management Department
• Tracy Wortman, Specimen Support
• Aizhen Xiao, Department of Neurology
• Paula Yancey, Department of Pediatrics
• Everette Yeager, Sterile Processing
• Eileen Young, University Budget Office
• Taotao Zhao, Information Technology Services
• Jamie Zimmerman, Operating Room
• Angela Zimmerman, Lynchburg Dialysis

The University of Virginia today named Dr. David S. Wilkes as dean of the School of Medicine.

A board-certified specialist in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, Wilkes is executive associate dean for research affairs at the Indiana University School of Medicine. His five-year appointment as U.Va.’s dean begins Sept. 15.

Wilkes will succeed Dr. Randolph J. Canterbury, who has served as interim dean since November 2014.

“Dr. Wilkes is a nationally recognized physician-scientist in the field of lung immunology who has guided the academic research programs at the Indiana University School of Medicine through a period of renewal and growth,” said Dr. Richard P. Shannon, U.Va.’s executive vice president for health affairs. “His medical expertise, combined with his skill as an administrator, makes him an ideal fit as our next dean to lead our biomedical research renaissance.”

Wilkes has worked at Indiana University since 1992. In addition to his role as executive associate dean, he also serves as the university’s assistant vice president for research and as director of the Strategic Research Initiative for the Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health, as well as director of the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Physician Scientist Initiative.

He is the co-author of more than 100 research papers, holds six U.S. patents and is co-founder and chief scientific officer of ImmuneWorks Inc., which researches and develops treatments for immune-mediated lung diseases that include lung transplant rejection and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Wilkes’ commitment to education includes serving as national director of the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation since 2013 and earning the Alvin S. Bynum Mentoring Award from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis for his work in mentoring students outside the classroom.

“Dr. Wilkes has demonstrated leadership and acumen in medical research and education,” President Teresa A. Sullivan said. “He understands the important role academic medicine plays in the life of a comprehensive research university and is well-suited to lead the School of Medicine to greater heights of excellence. We look forward to welcoming him and his wife Toni to Charlottesville and the University community.”

“Dr. Wilkes has excelled as a mentor, researcher and educator,” said John D. Simon, U.Va.’s executive vice president and provost. “His well-rounded abilities make him an excellent fit as the next dean of the School of Medicine.”

Wilkes said he was drawn by the chance to work at U.Va. and with the Health System’s leaders, including Shannon and Pamela M. Sutton-Wallace, chief executive officer of U.Va. Medical Center. He is looking forward to partnering with them to continue strengthening the Health System in all its facets.

“My goal is that we excel in all three areas of our mission – research, education and patient care,” he said. “I want us to be the place to be among academic medical centers.”

Wilkes received a Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University, a medical degree from Temple University, completed his residency at Temple University Hospital, and completed a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is also a military veteran, having served three years as a major in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps.

Long before he ever stood in front of a University of Virginia classroom, wrote for Slate, finished grad school at Harvard, or even finished college himself, Jack Hamilton rocked stages across the United States and Europe as a member of the Mike Welch Band.

When he took a break from touring to return to his studies at New York University, he was still considering life as a musician after graduation, but the lure of his research was too tempting. Hamilton wanted to do more than just play music; he wanted to learn about its history and influence on culture.

He went on to earn his Ph.D. in American studies from Harvard University, focusing his research on the constant conversation between race and music, a topic he will explore in depth in his upcoming book, “Rubber Souls: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination.” Hamilton also keeps up a regular analysis of current music and popular culture trends by writing as a critic for Slate.

In the fall of 2014, he joined the U.Va. faculty as a jointly appointed assistant professor for the departments of Media Studies and American Studies.

UVA Today sat down with Hamilton to find out more about his first year at the University and what he’s discovered while researching the storied lives of people like Sam Cooke, Mick Jagger, Aretha Franklin and Jimi Hendrix.

Q. What first drew you to U.Va.?

A. When I applied here, it was like a dream job. I knew some people who were teaching and working here and when I got the job offer, it was an absolute no-brainer. I’m totally thrilled to be here.

Q. Was there anything surprising or unexpected you learned after your first year on the faculty?

A. One of the things I was really moved by was how much passion U.Va. students have for the school. I went to N.Y.U. as an undergraduate, which is sort of notorious for not having school spirit. I’ve never taught at or attended a school before where I felt like the level of passion and love the students have for the institution is this pronounced and earnest. It’s really productive. It’s not just a “rah-rah” thing. People are really invested in a genuine way, and that manifests itself positively.

Q. Can you tell us a little bit about the book you’re working on, “Rubber Souls: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination”?

A. It’s about how rock ’n’ roll music begins the decade of the 1960s being seen as an interracial form, and by the end of the 1960s it’s seen as something that just white people do. The best way that I can describe this is by looking at Jimi Hendrix. By the time he dies in 1970, it says over and over in his obituaries how remarkable he was as a black man playing lead electric guitar. It’s noted in a way that was not remarkable at all when Chuck Berry was doing the same thing a decade earlier. I look at what accounts for that shift, and especially what accounts for that shift in a decade that is often seen as being marked by a huge amount of racial crossover.

Q. What interests you most about the interplay between racial and musical identities?

A. Music and race don’t actually graft onto each other really perfectly, which is one of the things my book is about. It’s kind of odd because we think of music as auditory and we tend to think of race as a visual category. So what does it even mean to describe sound as having a racial component? We make those sorts of connections really effortlessly. Like if we talk about the singer Adele, people often say she sounds black and somehow everyone knows what that means. But when you really think about it, it’s a weird thing to say. I’m interested in how those logics work.

Q. How are you bringing that discussion to your students?

A. This next semester, I’m teaching a media studies course called “Race and Sound in American Culture.” It looks at the intersection of the way people have used race to think about sound and sound to think about race. We’re looking mostly at music, but also at other parts of sonic culture. It starts in the early 19th century and moves all the way up to the present. A lot of that deals with popular culture and popular music and the circulation of sound.

Q. What first led you away from life in a rock band and into the world of academia?

A. I kind of fell into doing music journalism while I was in college and I got an internship at a now defunct Hip Hop magazine. That opened up a new avenue where I could write about music, talk to musicians and review albums. It was fun.

I came to academia because I had always been interested in music historically. I remember complaining to one of my former professors that I wanted to write more about the music history that interested me, and he told me I should go to graduate school.

Q. Do you have an all-time favorite album?

A. My all-time favorite album is “Innervisions” by Stevie Wonder, but there’s very little music that I write about in my book that I don’t really like. I love the Rolling Stones and it’s great to have the chance to write about albums like “Beggars Banquet,” “Sticky Fingers,” and “Exile on Main Street.”

Q. Outside of music, one of your most shared articles for Slate was about the television show “The Simpsons.” Why do you think it resonated with people so much?

A. I love that article. I’m really proud of it. Part of it is just because I really love “The Simpsons” and I’d never gotten to write about them. I think “The Simpsons” has had a huge impact on American comedy, especially for people of my generation. For a lot of us, it’s really helped shape our sense of humor with how quick and referential it is.

For me, the article was a chance to talk about the show’s impact in wider culture and what makes it funny. I don’t write about comedy all that much, but I’m very interested in what makes us laugh and why we find it funny.

Q. How have you been spending your first for summer in Charlottesville? Do you have any favorite spots?

A. I like Charlottesville a lot. It’s been good. I’ve been going to a lot of concerts. I’ve seen a bunch of shows at the [NTelos] Pavilion and at the Jefferson [Theater] too. I live downtown, so it’s easy to go to Whiskey Jar or Alley Light. I also really like the places in Belmont like The Local and Mas.

Q. Going forward, what’s the most important thing you hope your students learn from you?

A. I really try to impart on my students the importance of doing what you love, particularly in college. I’m lucky that in a lot of ways this job is my dream job. I get to come to work every day and engage with things that I really love and am very interested in. It’s important to keep in mind that that’s something you can do. There are ways that you can work on what you’re passionate about.

President Obama last week nominated Michael F. Suarez, director of the Rare Book School and University Professor at the University of Virginia, to serve on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The council comprises 26 distinguished private citizens appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, with each member serving staggered six-year terms. Suarez is one of four nominees.

Suarez, director of theRare Book School since September 2009 and also a Jesuit priest, holds four master’s degrees (two each in English and theology) and a D.Phil. in English from the University of Oxford. Before coming to U.Va., he held a joint appointment at Fordham University and as a fellow and tutor in English at Campion Hall at Oxford.

He teaches in U.Va.’s Department of English and has written widely on 18^th-century English literature, bibliography and book history. He delivered the annual Lyell Lectures in Bibliography at Oxford earlier this year. He was invited by U.Va. students to deliver a “Last Lecture” and participate in the student-organized Flash Seminars several years ago.

Since 2010, Suarez has served as editor-in-chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online. His recent books include “The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume V, 1695-1830” (Cambridge University Press, 2009), co-edited with Michael Turner; and “The Oxford Companion to the Book” (Oxford University Press, 2010), a million-word reference work co-edited with H. R. Woudhuysen. “The Book: A Global History,” also co-edited with Woudhuysen, came out in 2013. In 2014, Oxford University Press published his edition of “The Dublin Notebook,” co-edited with Lesley Higgins, in the “Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins.” 

Suarez has held research fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

About Rare Book School

Rare Book School provides continuing-education opportunities for students from all disciplines and levels to study the history of written, printed and digital materials with leading scholars and professionals in the fields of bibliography, librarianship, book history, manuscript studies and the digital humanities. Founded in 1983, the Rare Book School, a not-for-profit educational organization, moved to U.Va. in 1992.