Virginia's work force has become increasingly diverse because of immigration, a trend that seems likely to continue and will benefit the state's economy, speakers said at a summit on immigration Wednesday night. About one of every 10 Virginia residents is foreign born, and a growing number of businesses are started by immigrants, said Qian Cai, director of the demographics and work-force group at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
The city of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia continues to look for energy efficient opportunities to protect the environment.
Jody Kielbasa Director of the Virginia Film Festival Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot Charlottesville Podcasting / Feb. 22 Jim Ryan Law professor U.S. Secretary of Education Appoints Members of Equity and Excellence Commission TTKN News.com / Feb. 23 Larry Sabato Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics Walker in middle of perfect storm Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel / Feb. 23 and John Thune isn't running for president. Who will make the first move? The Christian Science Monitor / eb. 23 Richard Schragger Law professor Foreclosures helping change color...
The University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service this week released the results of a study on the economic security of families in Virginia. The report evaluates economic stability among residents of the state and concludes that traditional metrics for doing so are woefully inadequate. Namely, it reports that the poverty guidelines used in the United States are obsolete and inaccurate.
As many as 135 junior and senior students at Patrick Henry High School played a real game of life on Friday at the school. The Washington County school hosted for the first time a Reality Store, an interactive, hands-on simulation that offers students a glimpse of the cost of living and the choices adults have to make on a daily basis. ... “It took several people to make this happen, such as Karen Kilgore, Career Coach from Virginia Highlands Community College, Danielle Riffe, College Guide from University of Virginia, faculty and staff at Patrick Henry High School, Bonner Scholars from ...
So, what do you get when you throw three playwrights and three different centuries into a theatrical blender? You get “The Beaux’ Stratagem,” a farcical comedy written in 1707 by George Farquhar — half-adapted in the 1930s by American playwright Thornton Wilder (perhaps best known for “Our Town”), and the adaptation finished by Ken Ludwig, of “Lend Me a Tenor” fame. ... It’s a delightfully silly plot with a predictable ending, and it manages to make fun of nearly everything from marriage to medicine. It’s this cheery concatenation tha...
The Kennett Public School District is one of five regionally-located schools currently participating in a national academic improvement initiative identified as the University of Virginia's School Turnaround Specialist Program. ... The program is described as an intensive intervention and leadership development agenda designed to help teachers and administrators improve or "turn around" their failing or under-performing schools. ...
People who want to eat healthy and live sustainably have a new way to measure their impact on the environment: a Web-based tool [http://n-print.org/sites/n-print.org/files/footprint_sql/index.html#/home] that calculates an individual's "nitrogen footprint." The device was created by University of Virginia environmental scientist James N. Galloway; Allison Leach, a staff research assistant at U.Va.; and colleagues from the Netherlands and the University of Maryland.
Japan's top telecoms company is developing a simple wristwatch-like device to monitor the well-being of the elderly, part of a growing effort to improve care of the old in a nation whose population is aging faster than anywhere else. ... In the U.S., the Institute on Aging at the University of Virginia has been carrying out studies in practical applications of what it calls "body area sensor networks" to promote senior independent living. What's important is that wearable sensors be easy to use, unobtrusive, ergonomic and even stylish, according to the institute, based in Charlottesv...
For the third year running, the University of Virginia has been named the best value public college by the Princeton Review and USA Today. UVA is one of five schools in Virginia to make the cut. Florida is also well-represented on the list, with the New College of Florida and the University of Florida nabbing the second and third spots. ...
Andrew Mulkeen Law alumnus L.A. puts new lawyers to work – free The Daily Breeze / Feb. 21 Rock Stephens Darden TEP graduate Eastern Shore grower named winegrower of the year The Daily Press blog / Feb. 21
James F. Childress Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Religious Studies and professor of medical education Wary (and Inevitable?) Embrace Inside Higher Ed / Feb. 21 Harold Gould Visiting scholar in the Center for South Asian Studies A second Arab revolution - for a new social order Sify News.com / Feb. 20 Jonathan Haidt Psychology professor Fundamental moral errors Los Angeles Times Op-Ed by Gregory Rodriguez / Feb. 21 Ed Lengel History professor and editor-in-chief of The Papers of George Washington George Washington: Separating Man From Myth NPR / Feb. 21 Larry Sabato Professor of Politics and ...
Texas legislators are poised to pass a bill allowing college students and professors to carry guns on campus. ... If passed, the legislation would make Texas the second state to allow concealed weapons on college campuses, after Utah. Colorado allows colleges to decide for themselves. ... University of Texas President William Powers, who opposes the bill, warns that the combination of students, guns and parties on campus could lead to trouble. The average American college can expect a murder on campus once every 265 years, according to statistics from the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the...
This is the first time ODU and Hampton have competed in the prestigious [international Solar Decathlon] ... Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia entered the first contest in 2002; U.Va. finished second, Tech fifth. ...
Using the super-sharp radio "vision" of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured "yardstick" three times farther into the cosmos than ever before, an achievement with important implications for numerous areas of astrophysics, including determining the nature of Dark Energy, which constitutes 70 percent of the Universe. ... Previously, distances beyond our own Galaxy have been estimated through indirect methods. "Our direct, geometric measurements are independent of the assumptions and complications inherent in other techniques,&q...
The University of Virginia has received a $1.5 million state-of-the-art scanning-transmission electron microscope as a gift from Altria of Richmond. ... "The gift by Altria of this Titan transmission electron microscope distinguishes U.Va. as having a unique capability in the region," Phillip A. Parrish, U.Va. associate vice president for research, said. "It will be a major benefit to U.Va. researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, and in the School of Medicine. The Titan's capabilities make it very useful to researchers in ...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will give the keynote address in this symposium at the University of Virginia Law School. Appeals-court judges will speak, too. Justice Thomas's address will be at the Boar's Head Inn. Friday and next Saturday;
A new support system will soon be available for caregivers with loved ones suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Connections, a free eight-week in-home training program, was piloted through the University of Virginia and tested over a two-year period. Anyone is eligible to participate in the program regardless of the degree of dementia or Alzheimer’s they have. ...
... Washington did not seek the office. His ascendance to the presidency was a far cry from the prolonged and expensive campaigns of today. The nation's first president was, in fact, somewhat reluctant to take the seat, but “accepted the inevitability of his election as president,” as a University of Virginia account [http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/inaugural/index.html] put it. ...