While the rest of us are schizophrenically both celebrating the wonderful run of our VCU’s Rams basketball making it to the Final Four and bemoaning the out-sized emphasis higher education places on its sports, my colleague Cliff Edwards finds the sweet spot that lets us have it all. “The power of the imagination is the very stuff of a university and a city, whether in the lab, classroom or studio,” Professor Edwards wrote in an essay recently published by our local Style Magazine. His riff on the power of imagination at work in the excitement of athletic excellence as it (yes) relates to the heady and heavy work of scientific research and the humanities’ wrestling with justice, goodness, and truth merits reading and contemplation. Follow this link, and enjoy ~
