In its 23rd year, the annual Virginia Film Festival started Thursday and runs through Sunday, featuring more than 100 films. The festival is presented by the University of Virginia’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. High-profile films will be showcased, as well as first-run features, beloved classics, short films and cutting-edge documentaries, alongside an array of celebrity guests, parties and community events.
College leaders gathered for the TIAA-CREF Institute's 2010 Higher Education Leadership Conference. President Teresa Sullivan shared how UVa is incorporating student habits into its pedagogy. For example, the university is experimenting with “flash seminars.”
Evan Amato
Atmospheric Scientist, Professor of Environmental Sciences
More Volcanoes - Less Storms
Discoveries & Breakthroughs inside Science / Nov. 3
John Casey
English professor
Poets & Writers magazine / Nov. Dec. Issue
The article, “Beyond the Compass,” talks about John Casey’s new novel, “Compass Rose,” a sequel to his National Book Award-winning novel, “Spartina,” and about Casey’s writing career.
Mark Edmundson
Professor of English
The Teacher Who Makes a Difference
Murray Ledger and Times (Ky.) / Nov. 3
Larry Sabato
Dire...
Frederick G. Hayden, MD, a flu expert and professor of medicine and pathology called the study design "solid," but noted the lack of a placebo control and limited virologic sampling. He said he agreed with the suggestion about a cautious approach to using the two drugs together.
Richard Santen, a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia Health System noted, the odds aren't huge: Of every 10,000 women who take the hormones for five years, six more will die of breast cancer.
A University of Virginia study earlier this year found that every $1 government spends on farm clean water practices creates $1.56 in new economic activity and thousands of new jobs.
Students voted using a state-of-the art online system as they participated in a mock election program sponsored by the Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI), a national civic education program.
With the job market still weak, the University of Virginia is doing its best to make sure their graduates have jobs secured upon graduation.
Proposals to expand health coverage for low-income children and to continue funding government programs for the uninsured top the list of health-related bills to expect in next year's General Assembly session.
UVA is collecting non-perishable food items like canned goods and peanut butter through November 19 as a part of its ‘Hoos for the Hungry' campaign.
James W. Ceaser
A politics professor
In new game, protection may be Obama's strategy
Washington Times / Nov. 2
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Republican wave makes a strong statement
McClatchy News Service / MiamiHerald.com / Nov. 3
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Election Night: Live Blogging the Media Coverage
New York Times (blog) / Nov. 2
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Midterm elections 2010: the highs and lows
The Guardian (London) / Nov. 2
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Amid big Republican gains, House gets more polarized
Christian Science Monitor / Nov. 3
Isaac Wood
House race analyst for the Center for Politics
Hurt: 'The...
Students on grounds at the University of Virginia spent the day trying to rally their peers, both Republicans and Democrats, to the polls. In between classes, college Republicans and Democrats spent the day manning phone banks, doing literature drops and canvassing the neighborhood. They did whatever they could to support their candidate.
A new study published in Psychological Science “presents empirical evidence that infants who watched an unidentified baby video did not actually learn the words the video purported to teach.” According to the Association for Psychological Science (APS), researchers recruited 96 families with children 12 -18 months old to participate in the month-long study, which was led by Judy S. DeLoache, PhD, of the University of Virginia.
By James L. Fisher, president emeritus of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and Towson (Md.) University
... Then there are the public community colleges, the institutions where the best teaching goes on. ... at Piedmont (Va.) Community College, students often transfer to the prestigious and selective University of Virginia. On average they do better than students who enroll at the university as freshmen.
... Authors David Kirkpatrick and John Hagel took part in a panel discussion at Old Cabell Hall. The authors discussed the role Facebook and Twitter are playing in transforming businesses and communities all across the globe.
Attention all film buffs—students, professionals and hobbyists alike, the Virginia Film Festival is back for its 23rd round of "reel" appreciation in a four-day, 100-movie celebration.
The annual Virginia Film Festival kicks off Thursday and this year a series of short movies made by middle school students is part of the line-up. Last spring, 200 students from Sutherland Middle School in Albemarle County made the movies during their sixth grade year.
"Republicans will perhaps misinterpret this election as predicting a win in 2012," says Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "Midterms do not predict the following presidential election."
... "5-fluorouracil cream is extremely toxic to dogs, for unknown reasons," said Dr. Nicholas Snavely, a dermatologist at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and a co-author of the report on the case. "Very small doses will send them into seizures and they die-and people don't know about this."
... University of Virginia social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done considerable previous work probing the moral differences between American liberals and conservatives, but came to recognize that a significant proportion of Americans did not fit the simplistic left/right ideological dichotomy that dominates so much of our political and social discourse. Instead of ignoring outliers, Haidt and his colleagues chose instead to dig deeper. The result: A fascinating new study, “Understanding Libertarian Morality: The psychological roots of an individualist morality,” to be published...