This luxury home is set in Noordhaven, an up-market suburb of Noordhoek with beautiful sea and mountain views. Watch the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean as you enjoy your dinner on the terrace or have a late dip in the solar-heated pool. Fantastic indoor/outdoor flow means there is a comfortable place for everyone to relax. A few minutes drive to the beach, restaurants and large shopping mall. A few minutes more and you are on the Constantia Wine Route or swimming with penguins on Boulders Beach. This is a much loved home with a warm atmosphere. Ideal for a family with children, suitable for all ages. The magic of the surrounding mountains, the blue skies, the flowers and the greenery of the garden create the perfect peaceful holiday feel. Serenity found!
Spacious open plan living area with great flow onto covered veranda, large garden and solar-heated pool with sun loungers. Generous main lounge with fire place and wall-mounted plasma TV, open plan dining area leading to kitchen. A second smaller, family TV room/play room with direct access to the back garden with jungle gym and 10ft trampoline for the kids. DVD player, video machine, Satellite TV (with PVR decoder) and WiFi throughout ensure that everyone is entertained. A separate study provides a quiet place to work if you need to stay on top of those deadlines. The kitchen is fully equipped with modern new appliances including; gas stove/electric oven/extractor fan, dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer, fridge/freezer, kettle, toaster, microwave and coffee machine. Under floor heating on the ground level keeps your toes toasty and warm in winter. There are also heaters available upstairs. Immaculate finishes, clean and well maintained.
Large covered veranda with various comfortable areas to relax. Spectacular sea and mountain views! The hand-made wooden table seats 10 for alfresco dining. Portable Weber braai for barbeques. Children's outdoor play area to the rear of the house. The solar-heated pool has a removable fence for toddler safety. This home is private, tranquil and secure, and protected from the Cape summer winds. Complimented with a large lawn and established garden.


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African and African American Studies
Civic and Global Leadership
Classical Languages
Environmental Arts and Humanities
Finding Your Place
French & French Studies
German & German Studies
International & Global Studies
Medical & Health Programs
Religion & Environment
Shakespeare Studies
Southern Appalachian Studies
Watershed Science
Ecology and Biodiversity
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Student-Faculty Research
Biology Faculty and Staff
Through a combination of formal coursework, laboratory courses, field courses, and research projects with faculty, our students explore biological complexity from the inner working of cells to ecosystems. Moreover, our students are introduced to the pressing questions that remain in the life sciences and are exposed to the ways that scientists at Sewanee and beyond are working to address these questions.
The biology department offers a major in biology for which students select from of the three tracks:
The biology department also offers, in collaboration with the psychology department, a major in Neuroscience and, in collaboration with the chemistry department, a major in Biochemistry.
Students have the opportunity to study away with the Island Ecology program and a variety of other environmental study away programs.
Students who are interested in the health sciences often major in biology and work with the Office of Medical and Health Programs to earn practical experience via internships and civic engagement opportunities.
Students who are interested in a career in research are encouraged to get involved in student-faculty research and to consider working full-time on research projects in the summer with undergraduate research fellowships offered through the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship.
A sampling of courses
Field Investigations in Biology
A study of ecology, evolution, and biological diversity, with an emphasis on scientific investigations in the natural areas in and around the University.
BIOL 130
This course focuses on basic anatomical structures of the human body and how distinct organ systems are organized at the tissue and cellular levels. Emphasis is placed on understanding structure-function relationships in the human body, how they interact in a network, and how those relationships are perturbed in the development of human disease. The laboratory component addresses practical considerations relating to anatomy and includes medical imaging technology emphasizing three-dimensional relationships.
Cancer Cell Biology
This course is an overview of cancer development at the cellular and molecular levels. It uses a survey of primary scientific literature to cover the basic cell biology of cancer. Topics include growth control, angiogenesis, invasion, metabolism, and cell signaling as they relate to the progress of cancer.
This course studies animal behavior from an ecological and evolutionary perspective. Topics include the development of behavior, predator-prey interactions, communication, foraging strategies, cooperation, mating behavior, and parental care. Lectures include discussions of the scientific literature. Laboratories emphasize methods used to study animal behavior, including hypothesis testing, experimental design, and statistical analysis.
What students research
AMPHIBIAN ECOLOGY
Kristen Cecala studies the patterns and processes contributing to changing amphibian distributions in the face of landscape changes including land-use and climate change. She is specifically interested in linking observational and manipulative experiments to explore mechanisms of change. Her research also contributes toward development of comprehensive management strategies for freshwater ecosystems.
The lab is broadly interested in the molecular basis of behavior, and uncovering details of the mechanisms of activation of ion channels, especially at the single channel level. Professor Shelley's lab uses sea urchins as an experimental organism, with the aim of elucidating the electrical and biochemical steps that underlie sea urchin behavioral responses to light.
Shelley Lab
PROTEIN FOLDING
Elise Kikis studies the aberrant proteins that underlie neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease. Huntington's disease is one of several autosomal dominant disorders in which a polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion leads to "toxic gain of function" caused by the adoption of a misfolded or aggregated state associated with proteotoxicity. Contact her for more information about research opportunities in her laboratory.
PLANT ECOLOGY / CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
Jon Evans studies the dynamics of plant populations and the processes that determine the composition and structure of plant communities over time and across landscapes. He is specifically interested in the role of clonal growth as a mechanism for population persistence in plant communities. As a conservation biologist, he studies the consequences of land-use history, global climate change, and exotic species introductions on long-term change in ecological communities.
More about Dr. Evans' Lab
Viruses infect all cellular life; they are everywhere. Here at Sewanee we are interested in coronaviruses (CoV), which include the deadly human pathogens SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. In order to understand more about these human coronaviruses, we use a murine coronavirus, mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), as a model system.
More about Virology @ Sewanee
Nature vs. Nurture
A Sewanee biology professor and her students look to shed new light on an age-old debate—by scaring some tiny fish. Behind an unmarked door on the ground floor of Woods Labs, Katie McGhee is studying tiny fish from Lake Cheston as she seeks to tease out clues to one of the great puzzles of human life. It's a question that has vexed everyone from philosophers and criminologists to biologists and theologians: What makes us the way we are? Nature or nurture?
Students select one of three major tracks in biology:
Requirements for the Minor in Biology
Requirements for the Major and Minor in Biochemistry
Requirements for the Major and Minor in Neuroscience
Meet some professors
Alyssa R. Summers
arsummer@sewanee.edu
Alyssa Summers earned a B.A. at Lawrence University and a Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. Her interests and topics of study include molecular cell biology, molecular genetics, epigenetics, cancer cell biology, and medical humanities. Dr. Summers specializes in topics that explore the complexity of DNA and the implications of genetic differences in cellular development and disease. In addition to the sciences, she is interested in gaining insight in how we understand our own humanity—in particular how this realization may allow us to become better healers and practitioners of medical care.
Associate Professor of Biology, Director of Office of Medical and Health Programs
Kirk S. Zigler
kzigler@sewanee.edu
Kirk Zigler earned a B.A. from Kenyon College and a Ph.D. from Duke University. His specialities include invertebrate zoology, evolution, and biodiversity. Dr. Zigler studies the evolution and development of invertebrate animals, focusing on cave biodiversity in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. He has also worked with students on research projects studying animals as varied as spiders, snails, millipedes, ants, isopods, beetles, and clams. He also co-directs the Island Ecology Program, which takes place every summer.
Deborah A. McGrath
dmcgrath@sewanee.edu
Deborah McGrath earned a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Her specialties include ecosystem and plant physiological ecology, biogeochemistry of land use, and environmental health. Dr. McGrath studies pharmaceuticals in treated wastewater and watershed streams, the effects of exurban development on water quality, and the impact of land-use change and plant invasion on ecosystem nutrient dynamics.
elise a. kikis
Chair and Associate Professor of Biology
eakikis@sewanee.edu
Spencer Hall 167A, Ext. 1747
Pre-Health at Sewanee
Getting you on the right track
As a pre-health student, you'll be surrounded by an environment of support and opportunity. Enriching curriculum, clinical internships, expansive advising, and a strong alumni network combine to create a solid foundation for your medical career. The structure of programs help ensure that you are well-prepared for your journey after Sewanee.
Scholarship Sewanee
Sewanee's undergraduate research program gives students the opportunity to explore new ideas, sharpen their research skills, and get a head start on a career or graduate school. Almost a quarter of students here were involved in mentored research projects last year, in the sciences (of course)—but also in the arts, English, politics, and more. Students have the chance to wow their peers by giving talks and presenting posters during Scholarship Sewanee, the annual celebration of student scholarship and creativity.
Get Your Research Published
Journal of Sewanee Science
The Journal of Sewanee Science, a semiannual magazine, was founded in 2015 as a venue for Sewanee students to highlight their work. All research articles are reviewed by Sewanee alumni, giving both past and current students the opportunity to participate in, and learn from, the process of scientific publishing. The Advent 2018 issue features Amanda Watters and her research on pre-gestational oxycodone exposure and its impacts on maternal motivation, caregiving, and drug seeking.
The University Farm
Where Growth Happens
The University Farm offers students a transformative experience through the immersive and intimate practice of restorative agriculture. At the farm you'll find many opportunities to enhance your education and connect with the history of agriculture. And if you're lucky, there will be some baby goats around during finals.
Yes, I love baby goats

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Narrative Architecture: Architectural Design Primers series
Wiley (2012)
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Coates, Nigel (2012). Narrative Architecture: Architectural Design Primers series. Wiley.
The first book to look architectural narrative in the eye Since the early eighties, many architects have used the term "narrative" to describe their work. To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. Narrative Architecture explores the potential for narrative as a way of interpreting buildings from ancient history through to the present, deals with architectural background, analysis and practice as well as its future development. Authored by Nigel Coates, a foremost figure in the field of narrative architecture, the book is one of the first to address this subject directly Features architects as diverse as William Kent, Antoni Gaudí, Eero Saarinen, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Rem Koolhaas, and FAT to provide an overview of the work of NATO and Coates, as well as chapters on other contemporary designers Includes over 120 colour photographs Signposting narrative's significance as a design approach that can aid architecture to remain relevant in this complex, multi-disciplinary and multi-everything age, Narrative Architecture is a must-read for anyone with an interest in architectural history and theory.
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The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture.Juhani Pallasmaa - 2011 - Wiley.
Architecture: The Making of Metaphors.Barie Fez-Barringten - 2012 - Cambridge Scholars Press.
Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture.William M. Taylor - 2011 - Routledge.
Architecture and Interpretation: Essays for Eric Fernie.Jill Franklin, T. A. Heslop & Christine Stevenson (eds.) - 2012 - Boydell Press.
Organicism in Nineteenth-Century Architecture: An Inquiry Into its Theoretical and Philosophical Background.Caroline van Eck - 1994 - Architectura & Natura Press.
Architectural Reflections: Studies in the Philosophy and Practice of Architecture.Colin St John Wilson - 1992 - Butterworth Architecture.
Food + Architecture.Karen A. Franck (ed.) - 2002 - Wiley-Academy.
Shifts: Architecture After the 20th Century.Hans Ibelings - 2012 - Architectural Observer.
Derrida for Architects.Richard Coyne - 2011 - Routledge.
Cognitive Architecture: From Bio-politics to Noo-politics ; Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information.Deborah Hauptmann & Warren Neidich (eds.) - 2010 - 010 Publishers.
Narrative, ephemerality and the architecture of the contemporary city.Graham Livesey - unknown
In-Ex 01: Review of Peripheral Architecture = Revue Périphérique D'architecture. [REVIEW]David Trottin (ed.) - 1999 - Birkhäuser.
Irigaray for Architects.Peg Rawes - 2007 - Routledge.
The Aesthetics of Architecture: Philosophical Investigations Into the Art of Building.David Goldblatt & Roger Paden (eds.) - 2011 - Wiley-Blackwell.


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The true story of the SMS Cap Trafalgar
The SMS Cap Trafalgar sailed a peaceful trade line between Germany and South America. At the start of WWI, the ship was requisitioned by the German navy.
Captain Wirth (Julius Wirth, pictured below) was brought on as the new commander, and the ship was charged with the mission to sink British merchants.
The ship was anchored at Trinity, a small volcanic island being used as a German rendezvous point. In order to blend in, the crew, numbering around 300 men, disguised the ship as a British ocean liner, the RMS Carmania. The ship was outfitted with new guns, and they set sail for Brazil.
Five days into their voyage they received a radio transmission. Crefeld, the ship that was originally supposed to refuel the SMS Cap Trafalgar off the East coast of Brazil, had been reassigned to instead refuel a different German ship. Coal was scarce among the entire German navy at the time, and so with nowhere else to refuel, Captain Wirth turned the ship back to Trinity, arriving just two weeks after leaving, without having run into a single enemy ship.
Once loaded up with fuel again, they set sail, searching for British merchants to ambush in disguise. As luck would have it, they did run into a British vessel: a cruiser that had been requisitioned by the British navy and outfitted for war with heavy armaments. To Captain Wirth's surprise, however, this ship turned out to be the real RMS Carmania, the ship theirs was disguised as. The RMS Carmania opened fire and within an hour the SMS Cap Trafalgar was sunk.
The survivors were rescued from the water, but of the 300 crew, 16 had drowned in the sinking. Among them was Captain Wirth.


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At the beginning of 2018 Phillips & Peters decided to try something new. For the first time ever our office took on a yearly theme. The course was set by the partners and together the Phillips & Peters crew aimed to be more accountable. For eight years our mission has been to help our clients move forward and with the year of accountability, we've had one of our best years yet!
It was a busy year. With 197 consultations and 164 new clients there was always a lot to do; through it all, Kim Phillips and Corrynn Peters maintained the qualities and characteristics that earn them the recognition of the Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia by CoVa Biz Magazine and Legal Elite by Virginia Business. Through the patented selection process of Super Lawyers, Jennifer Fuschetti was named a "Rising Star" among her attorney peers and Lisa Jackson became a senior associate at Phillips & Peters.
Many of our highlights from the past year involved giving back to the community. Ms. Fuschetti gave some of her free time to the Virginia Beach Bar Association's CLASS Program for pro bono work. Leila watched her Kid's Hope mentee of four years graduate from elementary school. Lisa beat down the threat of hunger by volunteering with meals on wheels. Everyone gave back in some way, but our favorite events were the ones we did together like the annual NPBA & NPS Mock Trial program. Half of the office was involved in this big event that takes months of planning, coordinating, and teaching to pull off. We also sponsored organizations like Peter Decker Children's Charity and together along with our families, ran in the Triple R Ranch Memorial Day 5K.
Between working and giving the families of Phillips & Peters still had time to grow. The Peters household started the process of becoming foster parents in January and by August had their first beloved placement. Jennifer Fuschetti and her husband welcomed their first child into the world earlier than expected but without complication. Liene and Kim both sent children off to college this year while Ashley Keil's daughter conquered kindergarten. Nancy Baker on the other hand, as active as she is with her family, found a peaceful space that is all her own with a cozy fireplace to enjoy with her dog, Riley.
A year at Phillips & Peters wouldn't be complete without some fun. More than half of the office got into the wizarding spirit and joined the masses in Staunton, Virginia for the Harry Potter weekend. We enjoyed the downtown Norfolk scenery in the fall by celebrating the firm's birthday with a ferry ride and lunch in Portsmouth. For Christmas, everyone dressed up as Buddy the Elf for an evening of celebrating the season.
It was a full and fast-paced year that we had fun going through together. To maintain the level of excellence we achieved this year and hope to exceed in 2019, our attention turns to wellness. When you are juggling work, community, family, and perhaps stressful situations wellness is the last thing on your mind, but it is so important. What does wellness look like in a fast-paced world with a jammed packed schedule? We intend to find out and hope you will join us on the journey by following along through Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
As always, thank you to everyone who made this year amazing. From our family to yours we wish you an amazing new year!