When he’s on the recruiting trail, UVA basketball coach Tony Bennett isn’t just looking for players who can jump the highest or make the most 3-pointers. (Photo by Matt Riley, UVA Athletics)

Melody Barnes, formerly the director of President Obama’s White House Domestic Policy Council, has turned her attention to the study of democracy itself at UVA and Monticello. (Photo by Sanjay Suchak, University Communications)

There’s a certain chemistry that happens in work relationships between professionals and their patients, clients or students that UVA sociologist Allison Pugh is studying.