The University of Virginia has announced the main speakers for this year’s Final Exercises on the Lawn. Dr. Cameron Webb will address graduates from the College and Graduate Schools of Arts & Sciences. Webb will speak to the Class of 2019 at UVA’s largest school during the Saturday, May 18th ceremonies.
Former President Bill Clinton will be a featured speaker at the University of Virginia’s Presidential Ideas Festival. A tie-in to UVA’s bicentennial founding celebration, PrezFest will feature more than 60 bipartisan White House veterans, journalists and scholars discussing the state of the American presidency.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has reappointed its dean to a second five-year-term. Scott Beardsley became dean at the Charlottesville-based school on Aug. 1, 2015. The reappointment extends his term to 2025.
Jim Koch, the founder of Samuel Adams brewery, made a trip to talk with UVA students. He shared his experiences in the beer business with the School of Brew at the Darden School and at Draft Taproom.
“I spent many years observing classrooms, and what I saw blew my mind,” said Patricia Jennings, a UVA education professor, recalling a period earlier in her career when she helped young teachers improve their classroom management. “The teachers’ own stress levels and emotional reactivity were causing problems in their classrooms.”
Members of UVA’s Community Working Group said Thursday that while their group is officially done, they intend to keep working toward and advocating for recommendations made in a recent report.
Patrice Preston Grimes, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, recommends field trips. For several years, she has taken her preservice teachers to James Madison’s Montpelier estate. They spend hours immersed in the history of the enslaved people and their descendants who once lived there, examining primary source documents and walking through the buildings where they slept. “That was far more effective than me trying to do some sort of simulation in the classroom,” she said.
Nobody wants to think about the next recession when the state and national economy are booming, but that attitude is exactly what got VRS into trouble the last time. The results of the latest stress test should not be ignored. As University of Virginia Associate Economics Professor Leora Friedberg warned public employees last year, they “need to be aware that the benefits they’ve been expecting may not be there.”
A first-of-its-kind caregiver’s workshop was held Wednesday to provide the community with information on valuable resources in Central Virginia. “We're very fortunate to have many community-based resources, and so we want the caregivers to have a chance to find out for themselves what’s here," Kathy Campbell, a facilitator with the UVA Nursing School, said.
The market for security equipment and services in the education sector reached $2.7bn in 2017, according to IHS Markit. However, it said, despite advances in the level of security, the number of mass shootings at US schools has remained relatively constant during the past 30 years. Dewey Cornell, a school safety expert at the University of Virginia, said he was skeptical of companies that “sell products of dubious value”.
America has now seen Trump weather a massive investigation led by a widely respected prosecutor. Somehow, Trump turned what might have been a catastrophe to any other President–a sweeping inquiry into potential collusion with a foreign power to undermine U.S. democracy–into a rebuttal against whatever comes next. “The politics of what’s happened over the last few days just places the President in a much better political position than he probably could have imagined,” says Russell Riley, professor of presidential studies at the University of Virginia.
Scientists looking at how the body transports testosterone may have found a way to explain why patients on certain medications have low levels of the hormone. “This represents a key finding from one of many albumin-related projects investigated in our laboratory. We study human and equine serum albumins but at interested in bovine, rat, mouse and rabbit serum albumins as well,” said principal investigator Wladek Minor, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Scientists looking at how the body transports testosterone may have found a way to explain why patients on certain medications have low levels of the hormone. “This represents a key finding from one of many albumin-related projects investigated in our laboratory. We study human and equine serum albumins but at interested in bovine, rat, mouse and rabbit serum albumins as well,” said principal investigator Wladek Minor, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
A 2012 study out of the University of Virginia concluded time spent on math and science homework had no impact on course grades, but modestly improved standardized test scores.
The move comes after the University of Virginia announced it would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour earlier this month. UVA’s new wage will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
The man who put his life on the line when an assassin shot and killed President John F. Kennedy spoke to dozens of people at the University of Virginia on Wednesday about his experience that fateful day.
Although the cost of an MBA can vary, some two-year programs can exceed $60,000 in tuition annually. Attending a top-ranked public business school in state is one way to save on costs. UVA’s Darden School of Business is among the 10 highest-ranked full-time MBA programs at public institutions.
Many colleges have boards and initiatives that focus on town-gown relations and research – say, a public-service graduation requirement or a commitment to purchase and hire from neighborhoods around the campus. But few community members actually play roles in leading or shaping those projects, according to a new report. That needs to change, argues the “Field Guide for Urban University-Community Partnerships,” published on Wednesday by the University of Virginia’s Thriving Cities Lab.
As March Madness rages on, here’s a look at the schools that made the Sweet 16 and how each ranks, per U.S. News data.
The author of "Hidden Figures," Margot Lee Shetterly, spoke to UVA students on Tuesday as part of the McIntire School of Commerce’s Centennial Speaker Series. Shetterly, a UVA graduate, talked about what it was like to tell the story of the African-American women who broke barriers at NASA.