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Kinnier Award Allows Engineering Students to Explore Academic Life Through Jeffersonian Dinners
Friday, May 17, 2013
The inaugural program gave eight potential engineering professors a foretaste of life in academia.
Class of 2013: U.Va. Faculty, Students Give Online Education a Mostly Positive Grade
Thursday, May 16, 2013 | Lorenzo Perez
Soon-to-be graduates find the experience rewarding. Professors do, too, but worry that the time demands of producing online lectures detract from their research and scholarship.
U.Va. Philanthropy Class Awards $100,000 in Grants to 14 Nonprofits
Thursday, May 9, 2013 | H. Brevy Cannon
A class on philanthropy spent the semester researching and deliberating how to award $100,000. In the end, 14 organizations, 11 of them local, picked up checks ranging from $3,000 to $12,000.
New Darden Classes, Cases and Connections Immerse MBA Students in H2O
Monday, May 6, 2013 | Abena Foreman-Trice
Water is seeping into the Darden curriculum, as students and faculty examine water as a resource and a potential market, and its vital role to the world of commerce.
New ‘Homemade’ Book Showcases Graduating U.Va. Students’ Creative Writing
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Fourth-year students who graduate this month are taking their creative work with them in a new keepsake book, the fruit of collaboration among the Creative Writing Program, the University Bookstore and Printing and Copying Services.
Evans: U.Va. Should Be a Global Leader in MOOCS, Online Learning
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The University of Virginia should take bold steps in online education, including offering an online degree program, a U.Va. professor and MOOC instructor urged Wednesday.
U.Va. Students Get Creative with ‘Found Poetry’
Monday, April 29, 2013 | Anne E. Bromley
Two U.Va. undergraduate students taught their peers where poetry can be found in everyday life.
U.Va. Architecture Students Create ‘American Flag’ Art for Final Fridays
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | Robert Hull
Watch architecture students work on a collaborative project to repaint the American flag on Friday, as Campbell Hall’s Elmaleh Gallery becomes a public art studio – but look out for wet paint.
U.Va. Engineering School Hosts Innosight Institute Co-Founder Michael B. Horn April 25
Thursday, April 18, 2013 | Josie Pipkin
Horn, whose institute advocates for blending traditional and online learning models, will speak on “Disrupting Mr. Jefferson’s University: Online Learning and the Future of U.Va.”
Giant Moving Creatures To Invade U.Va. on Saturday
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | Robert Hull
The creatures are coming! The creatures are coming! U.Va. studio art, drama and architecture students will showcase their massive moving creatures Saturday in a parade and all-day festival on Grounds.