Hi Dtempleton,
Welcome to Wikipedia!!
If you're new here, you may be interested in the Tutorial, Wikipedia:How to edit a page and How to write a great article. If you have questions, feel free to ask me or some other Wikipedian, or search the help pages (including a forum for questions).
As you seem to be familiar with scientific work, I guess I don't have to tell you about the necessity to cite sources, both to support claims you may want to make and to prevent plagiarism. So I just wish you for your start here: Be bold and enjoy the work here!
One more thing: In the discussion of University of Virginia, I've read that you have ties to UVa. As you may have read on another part of the discussion page, I am looking for pictures from UVa, especially of the Pavilions, the Hotels, and possibly a photograph of the text of the honor code (such as from a class room) for use in Wikipedia. I'd be of course *very* happy if you could and would provide any of those pictures or know someone who could. If you should be interested, but have technical or licence concerns, please feel free to ask me (or someone else). Thanks in advance, and I hope you'll enjoy Wikipedia! --Ibn Battuta 09:15, 15 May 2007 (UTC)