The Building Goodness Foundation is a Charlottesville-based nonprofit that offers free construction and design services in needy communities. Communications Coordinator Sarah Lawson spoke to Soundboard’s Julia Kudravetz about the big impact the organization is having in Central Virginia, Haiti and elsewhere.

What do you get when you ask students from an “Introduction to Music and Computers” class to record sounds that represent UVA? You get “sonic portraits” — audio slices of life. Soundboard’s Nathan Moore spoke with music department lecturer Erik Deluca about the portraits his class created, available here: https://collections.wtju.net/neatline/fullscreen/sounds-around-grounds

Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello may be history, but when Pulitzer Prize winning author Annette Gordon-Reed looks at the topic with fresh eyes, the subject comes alive.

Soundboard’s Emily Richardson-Lorente spoke with the Harvard history professor about her groundbreaking research, the value of “revisionist history” and why biographers should move beyond the simplistic idea of ‘Thomas Jefferson, man of contradictions.’

Listen — do you hear them? The voices of the civil war are alive at UVA’s Institute for American History, Literature and Culture. A new exhibit called “‘Who Shall Tell the Story?’ Voices of Civil War Virginia” draws on artifacts from the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library to tell the story of the Civil War in the voices of the ‘regular people’ who experienced it. WTJU’s Julia Kudravetz talks to Special Collections Librarian Edward Gaynor about a few of his favorite pieces.

What’s it like to be a student at UVA in the wake of the Rolling Stone “Rape on Campus” debacle? UVA student and Bustle.com contributor Elizabeth Ballou spoke with Soundboard’s Nathan Moore about life on grounds today.

Allen Hench spoke with Michelle Krisel, on November 21st, about the upcoming showing of Amahl and the Night Visitors on December 13th. For more information, visit: http://www.ashlawnopera.com/

Voices from the Nov 22 rally against sexual assault by wtju

​What if everything really does happen for a reason? What if people don't stop living once they die?

In this episode of Independent Study, ​we're taking a look at a very special relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter. In this episode, we're hangin' with Mama.