Alumni in the News

Friday, August 22, 2008

Thomas Woltz's Sustainable Practices Featured in NYT

Alumnus Thomas Woltz, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and Partner, NBWLA is featured in a NYT article entitled, "A Sustainability that Aims to Seduce," from this week's Home & Garden section. Follow the link below to the article.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Class of '83 Breaks Records with Reunion Gift

At the June Reunion 2008 lunch on Grounds for UVa School of Architecture alumni, a trio of friends celebrating their 25th Reunion listened intently to Dean Karen Van Lengen’s appeal for giving in light of declining state contributions to the University. As the dean explained, rising costs combined with reduced state funding means that financial support from private donations will be critical to advance the top-level academic programming for which the Architecture School is so highly regarded. Stephanie Mashek (BSArch’83) was moved by the dean’s words to make a difference. She spoke with fellow classmates Mary Horst Buchanan and Lisa Gould about working together to challenge all alumni from the School’s Class of 1983 to raise $50,000 in unrestricted funds by the end of the fiscal year. Adding to the challenge was the fact that the end of the fiscal year was only a couple weeks away. To jump start the two week campaign, Mashek, Horst Buchanan, and Gould joined Dean’s Forum, the School’s giving society, with a pledge of $5,000 each across the next five years. Upon returning home, the friends e-mailed the entire class to announce their hopes for a substantial class gift, and to share the challenge, “Please join us in this effort to ensure that all the great memories we have of the A-School will be experienced by future generations, and that its great legacy will endure.” Kim Wong, Assistant Director of Operations and Alumni Relations for the UVa School of Architecture Foundation, who assisted the Class of 1983 in reaching their goal, attributed their success to a vibrant connection to the School and to each other. “All weekend they expressed gratitude to the School for challenging them as students 25 years ago, so when they saw the opportunity to help the students and faculty for five years until their next reunion year, they stepped up and took the challenge,” she said. The UVa School of Architecture Class of 1983 raised $49,500 in just 17 days, for a total 25th Reunion Gift of $59,483. The grand total includes approximately $10,000 raised by Tony Santoro (BSArch’83) in the weeks leading up to Reunion. In a message to the alumni following their remarkable gift, Dean Van Lengen expressed her gratitude, “The money you donated will support new faculty projects, allow for more travel, provide the right supplies and technological advances and give them the tools to better educate our students and the architectural community as a whole. I cannot thank you enough. “This amazing accomplishment is a testament to the generosity and lasting camaraderie of the School of Architecture Class of 1983 and truly exemplifies how one group of people can join together and significantly impact the School,” she said. The Class of 1983 gift contributed greatly to a banner fiscal year 2008 for unrestricted gifts to the UVa School of Architecture Foundation.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Alumna Appointed Director of Woodlawn and Pope-Leighy House

Laurie Ossman was recently appointed as Director of Woodlawn Plantation and Pope-Leighey House, a National Trust Historic Site in Mt. Vernon, Virginia, and will be starting on August 1. Laurie has a broad background in preservation, historic site management and architectural history and most recently served as the Deputy Director at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami. Her previous positions include Chief Curator, The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach (Florida), and Curator and Restoration Project Manager, Ca d’Zan, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota (Florida). She also served in a variety of research and curatorial capacities at The Maryland Historical Society, the HABS/HAER Division of the National Park Service and the Preservation Office of the Old Executive Office Building. Laurie has a Ph.D and a Masters degree in American Architectural History from the University of Virginia, where she interned at Monticello, and an undergraduate degree from Brown University. She is presently completing a book on the historic homes of the South.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Recent Alumna Named to All-American and National Under-23 Rowing Teams

Kelsie Chaudoin (BSArch'08), a team captain of the UVA Rowing Team during the 2007-08 season and a member of the Varsity Eight boat that won the ACC and South/Central Regional Championship, is an All-ACC selection and was also named to the CRCA’s All-South Region first team. Today's Daily Progress announces that Chaudoin was recently selected to compete in the world championships in Brandenburg, Germany next week as a member of the U.S. National Under-23 Rowing Team. In addition, Chaudoin was named to the All-America rowing team.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Class of 2008 Profile: Working Across Disciplines, Malindi Lankatilleke is Dedicated to Neighborhood Restoration and Revitalization

[by Jane Ford, UVa News Services] May 13, 2008 — The tsunami that devastated communities along the coastlines of Indonesia, Thailand, Maldives, India and Sri Lanka in December 2004 had a lasting effect on Malindi Lankatilleke. Armed with her bachelor's of architecture degree, which she earned at the University of Virginia in 2004, Lankatilleke took a hiatus from her office job and spent three weeks working with the United Nations Human Settlement Program in Sri Lanka to help with rebuilding efforts. She quickly learned that her design background was not enough to deal with the policy issues associated with rebuilding a community. To have real impact, "you need to be able to understand all sides of the issues," she said — social, political and cultural – and allow the citizens of the community to be part of the process. Lankatilleke's firsthand experience reinforced what she had been exposed to her whole life. A native of Sri Lanka, she came to U.Va. from a high school in South Africa, one of many places around the world that her father's work with U.N. Habitat took their family. "I had seen so much of this work of community building in marginalized communities," she said. "It is so important to allow communities to make decisions and build their visions. It instills value in them and encourages people to build their own assets. The people’s process of development is a much more effective way for marginalized communities to sustain themselves and be self-reliant." Lankatilleke kept this vision with her when she applied to graduate schools, seeking dual master's degrees in architecture and planning. She said a major factor in her decision to return to U.Va. was the Architecture School's commitment to community activism and outreach. She also knew the faculty's expertise in both disciplines would be a great resource for her. "The faculty work closely with the students and are available," Lankatilleke said. "They inspire in so many different ways." [for complete article, follow link in headline to UVa News]

Monday, May 12, 2008

Malindi Lankatilleke to Receive Shannon Award from the Z Society at Graduation

The University of Virginia's anonymous Z Society has announced the winners of its 35th annual Edgar F. Shannon Awards, given to the "best" graduating students from each of the University's schools. In a notification letter to the winners — signed, "Mystically, Z" — the society wrote, "The definition of best student is intentionally left ambiguous because each of us pursues greatness in very different ways; however, the best student is an individual who has pursued academic greatness with fervent ardor and keen insight while never forgetting the importance of those priorities aside from school." The notification letters state that the winners are determined based upon the recommendations of deans and students. Notations of the awards are made on both the students' transcripts and in the Finals program. The awards are named for the University's fourth president. In its announcement, the Z Society lauds Shannon's legacy of initiating coeducation and increasing the numbers of black students and faculty, and his establishment of the Center for Advanced Studies and the Echols Scholars program. This year's Shannon Award winners are: • School of Nursing: Sarah Morris Boschung, Oakton, Va. • McIntire School of Commerce: Jennifer Renee Clifton, Danville, Va. • School of Medicine: David Benjamin Bumpass, Flowery Branch, Ga. • School of Law: Katherine Ireland Twomey, Vienna, Va. • Curry School of Education: Kevin Patrick Haddix, Haddon Heights, N.J. • College of Arts & Sciences: Christopher Ross Walters, Blacksburg, Va. • School of Architecture: Malindi Rasangi Lankatilleke, Charlottesville, Va. • School of Engineering and Applied Science: Eliah Ruth Shamir, Vienna, Va. The notification letter urges the winners to "Take the lessons you have learned here and use them to do great things for the world in the years to come, but never forget that you will forever be welcome back at our University. Congratulations, and happy graduation."

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Two SARC Faculty Win University Teaching Awards

The 2008 University of Virginia Outstanding Teaching Awards were given last night at a celebratory dinner in the Rotonda's Dome Room. Among this year's honorees are two architecture faculty members. Associate Professor Kirk Martini received one of nine All-University Outstanding Teaching Awards, and Assistant Professor John Quale received the Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award. To read reflections on the teaching practices of both faculty members, follow the given link to the UVa News article.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

SARC Alumnus Lectures and Students Mount Exhibit for Historic Garden Week in Virginia

[From UVa News Services, by Rebecca Arrington] The University of Virginia will participate in the 75th Historic Garden Week in Virginia April 22. Events include a lecture by Will Rieley, U.Va. School of Architecture alumnus and former faculty member, and a student-designed exhibit on the architectural history of the U.Va. gardens. As always, the University's pavilion gardens and selected homes will be open to the public for the event. Rieley, who serves as consulting landscape architect to the Garden Club of Virginia, which sponsors historic garden week, will give a public talk titled "The Garden Club of Virginia and the U.Va. Gardens" at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library. Special Collections will also house a student-curated exhibit, "Designing History, Curating Nature: The Gardens Within the Academical Village" on April 21 and 22. The exhibit outlines the architectural history of the gardens and their relationship to the wider University community. Landscape architecture students Jessica Calder, Melissa Celii, Taylor Cooper, Paul De, Kurt Fulmer, Dhara Goradia, Lauren Hackney, Christa Kolb, Elise Mazareas and Chihiro Shinohara, as well as College of Arts & Sciences student Mary Brandon Ingram, created the exhibit as independent study projects over the course of the year. They explored themes such as how the gardens have changed over time, their use as social spaces and the patronage of the Garden Club, which restored the gardens in the second half of the 20th century. Landscape architecture professor Beth Meyer, who guided the students in developing the exhibit, said that the project was a chance for the whole University community to learn more about the unique spaces. "There are a lot of myths about those gardens," Meyer said. She also pointed out that while Jefferson laid out the serpentine walls, "He didn't design the gardens. He let the faculty develop them the way anybody who moved into a house would. They had to grow their own food...." [for complete article, follow link to UVa News online]

Monday, April 14, 2008

Two Alumni Awarded the Rome Prize for 2008-09

The American Academy in Rome has announced the recipients of the coveted Rome Prize for 2008-09. Among the awardees are two School of Architecture alumni, Hope Hasbrouk and Matthew Hural. Hope Hasbrouk (MArch'91) has been awarded the Garden Club of America Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture for her project,"Interpreting Cultural Territories Through Prospect and Passage". Hasbrouk holds a MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Matt Hural (BSArch'03, MArch'07), an adjunct member of the faculty, has been awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize in Architecture for his project, "Between Inside and Out: Aurelian Gates". Hural is a designer at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in Charlottesville. About the Rome Prize: "Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to 15 emerging artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature, Musical Composition, or Visual Arts) and 15 scholars (working in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and early Modern, or Modern Italian Studies)..... Fellowship winners come to Rome to refine and expand their own professional, artistic or scholarly aptitudes, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience, as well as on the inestimable resources of the Italian capital, Europe and the Mediterranean." Hasbrouk and Hural will spend 11 months in residence at the American Academy in Rome, working on their projects, interacting with artists and scholars from many disciplines, and traveling through the region.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Alumnus Finds Success Designing Golf Courses

Alumnus David Johnson's career as a golf course designer is profiled in Williamsburg, Va.'s Virginia Gazette. See the Virginia Gazette archive (not online) to read the article.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Alumna, Pres. of Preservation Action, Looks to Preserve Las Vegas

Heather MacIntosh (MAH), is the president of D.C. based Preservation Action. Recently, MacIntosh visited Las Vegas to discuss preservation of several 100-year-old structures in that city. The resulting meeting was featured in an article published by the Las Vegas Sun and available online (follow link).

Monday, March 24, 2008

Alumnus, a Former CIA Officer, Returns to UVa

Jim Skove (MP'78), is a retired CIA officer who returned to the University in his 80s to take additional classes in the Citizen Scholar program. Follow the link to UVa News to read the article.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Urban Studies and Service Learning in Cape Coast Ghana

[by Jane Ford, UVa News Services]A recent trip to the Ghanaian city of Cape Coast provided 16 University of Virginia students with an opportunity to work with community members on economic development projects aimed at introducing tourists -- drawn to the city by its historic slave castle and forts -- to some lesser-known attractions associated with its multifaceted history and culture. The trip was part of a January-Term course, "Community as Classroom: Urban Studies and Service Learning in Cape Coast, Ghana." The academic leaders — Maurice Cox, associate professor of architecture; Scot French, associate professor of history and director of U.Va.'s Virginia Center for Digital History; and independent scholar Gina Haney, a 1997 architectural history alumna who has worked on conservation and tourism development projects in Cape Coast for more than a decade — sought to create a program that would allow for the sharing of ideas and experiences across traditional boundaries. [for the complete article, follow link to UVa News]

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	Home > Alumni > Alumni in the News Friday, August 22, 2008 Thomas Woltz's Sustainable Practices Featured in NYT Alumnus Thomas Woltz, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and Partner, NBWLA is featured in a NYT article entitled, "A Sustainability that Aims to Seduce," from this week's Home & Garden section. Follow the link below to the article. Monday, August 11, 2008 Class of '83 Breaks Records with Reunion Gift At the June Reunion 2008 lunch on Grounds for UVa School of Architecture alumni, a trio of friends celebrating their 25th Reunion listened intently to Dean Karen Van Lengen’s appeal for giving in light of declining state contributions to the University. As the dean explained, rising costs combined with reduced state funding means that financial support from private donations will be critical to advance the top-level academic programming for which the Architecture School is so highly regarded. Stephanie Mashek (BSArch’83) was moved by the dean’s words to make a difference. She spoke with fellow classmates Mary Horst Buchanan and Lisa Gould about working together to challenge all alumni from the School’s Class of 1983 to raise $50,000 in unrestricted funds by the end of the fiscal year. Adding to the challenge was the fact that the end of the fiscal year was only a couple weeks away. To jump start the two week campaign, Mashek, Horst Buchanan, and Gould joined Dean’s Forum, the School’s giving society, with a pledge of $5,000 each across the next five years. Upon returning home, the friends e-mailed the entire class to announce their hopes for a substantial class gift, and to share the challenge, “Please join us in this effort to ensure that all the great memories we have of the A-School will be experienced by future generations, and that its great legacy will endure.” Kim Wong, Assistant Director of Operations and Alumni Relations for the UVa School of Architecture Foundation, who assisted the Class of 1983 in reaching their goal, attributed their success to a vibrant connection to the School and to each other. “All weekend they expressed gratitude to the School for challenging them as students 25 years ago, so when they saw the opportunity to help the students and faculty for five years until their next reunion year, they stepped up and took the challenge,” she said. The UVa School of Architecture Class of 1983 raised $49,500 in just 17 days, for a total 25th Reunion Gift of $59,483. The grand total includes approximately $10,000 raised by Tony Santoro (BSArch’83) in the weeks leading up to Reunion. In a message to the alumni following their remarkable gift, Dean Van Lengen expressed her gratitude, “The money you donated will support new faculty projects, allow for more travel, provide the right supplies and technological advances and give them the tools to better educate our students and the architectural community as a whole. I cannot thank you enough. “This amazing accomplishment is a testament to the generosity and lasting camaraderie of the School of Architecture Class of 1983 and truly exemplifies how one group of people can join together and significantly impact the School,” she said. The Class of 1983 gift contributed greatly to a banner fiscal year 2008 for unrestricted gifts to the UVa School of Architecture Foundation. Tuesday, August 5, 2008 Alumna Appointed Director of Woodlawn and Pope-Leighy House Laurie Ossman was recently appointed as Director of Woodlawn Plantation and Pope-Leighey House, a National Trust Historic Site in Mt. Vernon, Virginia, and will be starting on August 1. Laurie has a broad background in preservation, historic site management and architectural history and most recently served as the Deputy Director at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami. Her previous positions include Chief Curator, The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach (Florida), and Curator and Restoration Project Manager, Ca d’Zan, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota (Florida). She also served in a variety of research and curatorial capacities at The Maryland Historical Society, the HABS/HAER Division of the National Park Service and the Preservation Office of the Old Executive Office Building. Laurie has a Ph.D and a Masters degree in American Architectural History from the University of Virginia, where she interned at Monticello, and an undergraduate degree from Brown University. She is presently completing a book on the historic homes of the South. Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Recent Alumna Named to All-American and National Under-23 Rowing Teams Kelsie Chaudoin (BSArch'08), a team captain of the UVA Rowing Team during the 2007-08 season and a member of the Varsity Eight boat that won the ACC and South/Central Regional Championship, is an All-ACC selection and was also named to the CRCA’s All-South Region first team. Today's Daily Progress announces that Chaudoin was recently selected to compete in the world championships in Brandenburg, Germany next week as a member of the U.S. National Under-23 Rowing Team. In addition, Chaudoin was named to the All-America rowing team. Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Class of 2008 Profile: Working Across Disciplines, Malindi Lankatilleke is Dedicated to Neighborhood Restoration and Revitalization [by Jane Ford, UVa News Services] May 13, 2008 — The tsunami that devastated communities along the coastlines of Indonesia, Thailand, Maldives, India and Sri Lanka in December 2004 had a lasting effect on Malindi Lankatilleke. Armed with her bachelor's of architecture degree, which she earned at the University of Virginia in 2004, Lankatilleke took a hiatus from her office job and spent three weeks working with the United Nations Human Settlement Program in Sri Lanka to help with rebuilding efforts. She quickly learned that her design background was not enough to deal with the policy issues associated with rebuilding a community. To have real impact, "you need to be able to understand all sides of the issues," she said — social, political and cultural – and allow the citizens of the community to be part of the process. Lankatilleke's firsthand experience reinforced what she had been exposed to her whole life. A native of Sri Lanka, she came to U.Va. from a high school in South Africa, one of many places around the world that her father's work with U.N. Habitat took their family. "I had seen so much of this work of community building in marginalized communities," she said. "It is so important to allow communities to make decisions and build their visions. It instills value in them and encourages people to build their own assets. The people’s process of development is a much more effective way for marginalized communities to sustain themselves and be self-reliant." Lankatilleke kept this vision with her when she applied to graduate schools, seeking dual master's degrees in architecture and planning. She said a major factor in her decision to return to U.Va. was the Architecture School's commitment to community activism and outreach. She also knew the faculty's expertise in both disciplines would be a great resource for her. "The faculty work closely with the students and are available," Lankatilleke said. "They inspire in so many different ways." [for complete article, follow link in headline to UVa News] Monday, May 12, 2008 Malindi Lankatilleke to Receive Shannon Award from the Z Society at Graduation The University of Virginia's anonymous Z Society has announced the winners of its 35th annual Edgar F. Shannon Awards, given to the "best" graduating students from each of the University's schools. In a notification letter to the winners — signed, "Mystically, Z" — the society wrote, "The definition of best student is intentionally left ambiguous because each of us pursues greatness in very different ways; however, the best student is an individual who has pursued academic greatness with fervent ardor and keen insight while never forgetting the importance of those priorities aside from school." The notification letters state that the winners are determined based upon the recommendations of deans and students. Notations of the awards are made on both the students' transcripts and in the Finals program. The awards are named for the University's fourth president. In its announcement, the Z Society lauds Shannon's legacy of initiating coeducation and increasing the numbers of black students and faculty, and his establishment of the Center for Advanced Studies and the Echols Scholars program. This year's Shannon Award winners are: • School of Nursing: Sarah Morris Boschung, Oakton, Va. • McIntire School of Commerce: Jennifer Renee Clifton, Danville, Va. • School of Medicine: David Benjamin Bumpass, Flowery Branch, Ga. • School of Law: Katherine Ireland Twomey, Vienna, Va. • Curry School of Education: Kevin Patrick Haddix, Haddon Heights, N.J. • College of Arts & Sciences: Christopher Ross Walters, Blacksburg, Va. • School of Architecture: Malindi Rasangi Lankatilleke, Charlottesville, Va. • School of Engineering and Applied Science: Eliah Ruth Shamir, Vienna, Va. The notification letter urges the winners to "Take the lessons you have learned here and use them to do great things for the world in the years to come, but never forget that you will forever be welcome back at our University. Congratulations, and happy graduation." Thursday, April 24, 2008 Two SARC Faculty Win University Teaching Awards The 2008 University of Virginia Outstanding Teaching Awards were given last night at a celebratory dinner in the Rotonda's Dome Room. Among this year's honorees are two architecture faculty members. Associate Professor Kirk Martini received one of nine All-University Outstanding Teaching Awards, and Assistant Professor John Quale received the Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award. To read reflections on the teaching practices of both faculty members, follow the given link to the UVa News article. Wednesday, April 23, 2008 SARC Alumnus Lectures and Students Mount Exhibit for Historic Garden Week in Virginia [From UVa News Services, by Rebecca Arrington] The University of Virginia will participate in the 75th Historic Garden Week in Virginia April 22. Events include a lecture by Will Rieley, U.Va. School of Architecture alumnus and former faculty member, and a student-designed exhibit on the architectural history of the U.Va. gardens. As always, the University's pavilion gardens and selected homes will be open to the public for the event. Rieley, who serves as consulting landscape architect to the Garden Club of Virginia, which sponsors historic garden week, will give a public talk titled "The Garden Club of Virginia and the U.Va. Gardens" at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library. Special Collections will also house a student-curated exhibit, "Designing History, Curating Nature: The Gardens Within the Academical Village" on April 21 and 22. The exhibit outlines the architectural history of the gardens and their relationship to the wider University community. Landscape architecture students Jessica Calder, Melissa Celii, Taylor Cooper, Paul De, Kurt Fulmer, Dhara Goradia, Lauren Hackney, Christa Kolb, Elise Mazareas and Chihiro Shinohara, as well as College of Arts & Sciences student Mary Brandon Ingram, created the exhibit as independent study projects over the course of the year. They explored themes such as how the gardens have changed over time, their use as social spaces and the patronage of the Garden Club, which restored the gardens in the second half of the 20th century. Landscape architecture professor Beth Meyer, who guided the students in developing the exhibit, said that the project was a chance for the whole University community to learn more about the unique spaces. "There are a lot of myths about those gardens," Meyer said. She also pointed out that while Jefferson laid out the serpentine walls, "He didn't design the gardens. He let the faculty develop them the way anybody who moved into a house would. They had to grow their own food...." [for complete article, follow link to UVa News online] Monday, April 14, 2008 Two Alumni Awarded the Rome Prize for 2008-09 The American Academy in Rome has announced the recipients of the coveted Rome Prize for 2008-09. Among the awardees are two School of Architecture alumni, Hope Hasbrouk and Matthew Hural. Hope Hasbrouk (MArch'91) has been awarded the Garden Club of America Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture for her project,"Interpreting Cultural Territories Through Prospect and Passage". Hasbrouk holds a MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Matt Hural (BSArch'03, MArch'07), an adjunct member of the faculty, has been awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize in Architecture for his project, "Between Inside and Out: Aurelian Gates". Hural is a designer at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in Charlottesville. About the Rome Prize: "Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to 15 emerging artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature, Musical Composition, or Visual Arts) and 15 scholars (working in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and early Modern, or Modern Italian Studies)..... Fellowship winners come to Rome to refine and expand their own professional, artistic or scholarly aptitudes, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience, as well as on the inestimable resources of the Italian capital, Europe and the Mediterranean." Hasbrouk and Hural will spend 11 months in residence at the American Academy in Rome, working on their projects, interacting with artists and scholars from many disciplines, and traveling through the region. Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Alumnus Finds Success Designing Golf Courses Alumnus David Johnson's career as a golf course designer is profiled in Williamsburg, Va.'s Virginia Gazette. See the Virginia Gazette archive (not online) to read the article. Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Alumna, Pres. of Preservation Action, Looks to Preserve Las Vegas Heather MacIntosh (MAH), is the president of D.C. based Preservation Action. Recently, MacIntosh visited Las Vegas to discuss preservation of several 100-year-old structures in that city. The resulting meeting was featured in an article published by the Las Vegas Sun and available online (follow link). Monday, March 24, 2008 Alumnus, a Former CIA Officer, Returns to UVa Jim Skove (MP'78), is a retired CIA officer who returned to the University in his 80s to take additional classes in the Citizen Scholar program. Follow the link to UVa News to read the article. Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Urban Studies and Service Learning in Cape Coast Ghana [by Jane Ford, UVa News Services]A recent trip to the Ghanaian city of Cape Coast provided 16 University of Virginia students with an opportunity to work with community members on economic development projects aimed at introducing tourists -- drawn to the city by its historic slave castle and forts -- to some lesser-known attractions associated with its multifaceted history and culture. The trip was part of a January-Term course, "Community as Classroom: Urban Studies and Service Learning in Cape Coast, Ghana." The academic leaders — Maurice Cox, associate professor of architecture; Scot French, associate professor of history and director of U.Va.'s Virginia Center for Digital History; and independent scholar Gina Haney, a 1997 architectural history alumna who has worked on conservation and tourism development projects in Cape Coast for more than a decade — sought to create a program that would allow for the sharing of ideas and experiences across traditional boundaries. [for the complete article, follow link to UVa News] For more news, see the News Archive. Keep us informed Please keep us informed by sending news, suggestions for articles, or photographs of recent work for inclusion in the Alumni Notes section of Colonnade. All materials will be included to the extent that space allows. Send JPEGs and brief descriptive text to the editor, Derry Voysey Wade, at derry@virginia.edu, or send original photos and text to P.O. Box 400122, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4122, Attn: Colonnade Editor.	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