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Jan 15, 2025 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and other famous writers often failed to distinguish between works created by the writers themselves and imitations that ChatGPT produced, according to a story on the study in the Washington Post.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
By the time he was 2 years old, John D’earth says he was ruined. His father, an amateur drummer, put a young D’earth in front of a small drum with some drum brushes and taught him to play. D’earth recalled another adult remarking on how young he was to be playing an instrument, despite his clumsiness. He was hooked on music. “I was sunk.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
Maxine Platzer Lynn, who graduated from what was then the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and made an endowment donation to the University’s Women’s Center, died Nov. 23. She was 96. In 1947, Platzer Lynn was a 19-year-old newlywed who had moved to Charlottesville and wanted to complete her education at UVA.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
Mandy Unterhalter was scared. It was the first day of her basic real analysis course at the University of Virginia, a “notoriously difficult” subject that Unterhalter and her fellow math majors are required to take. “This is going to be a hard class,” Unterhalter, now a fourth-year student, remembered thinking when she was taking the course in her third year at UVA. Basic real analysis, Unterhalter said, is an area of study that proves everything you learned in calculus is true.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
Linnea Revak was at her wit’s end. It was 2017, and the University of Virginia alumna was running her consignment store, Darling, on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall by herself. She did everything, from bookkeeping to marketing to mopping the floors. After staying up late one night to do the store’s accounting, she went to put a load of clothes away. She knocked over a vase and almost instantly began crying as shards of glass scattered across the floor.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about falling for someone seem to be declining in popular music. Which begs the question: Why aren’t we listening to more love songs? Music critics at the Huffington Post and NPR, as well as reporters at the data journalism outlet The Pudding, have all searched for an answer.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
As a child, when a storm would pass through, Karen McGlathery didn’t hunker down inside her family’s cottage on an island in Massachusetts. Instead, she would run to put on her “wellies” and raincoat and race outside to the beach with her grandfather to experience it more fully. Since her childhood in New England, McGlathery has become the Sherrell J.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
The sun has set on this year’s Virginia Film Festival. The five-day event included a range of programming, from 21st-century screwball comedy and opening night film, “Anora,” to Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut, “The Room Next Door,” to a University of Virginia Center for Politics-produced documentary about the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
Before he spoke on a panel after a Virginia Film Festival documentary screening, Metropolitan Police Department officer Danny Hodges learned that a man who attacked him at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to 37 months in prison. The sentencing “discourages people who have fantasies about doing this sort of thing again,” Hodges told the audience after a showing of “Defenders of Democracy: The Thin Blue Line,” a University of Virginia Center for Politics-sponsored documentary.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
news.virginia.edu | Alice Berry
Thousands packed the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena on Wednesday night to see Grammy-nominated, genre-bending artist Jelly Roll. Known as both a country musician and a rapper, Jelly Roll recently landed his first No. 1 album on the Billboard charts with “Beautifully Broken,” whose lead single, “I Am Not Okay,” has already reached nearly 60 million streams on Spotify.
