Curry School of Education Professor Joanna Lee Williams discusses the recent YouthNex conference.
Today's world is full of technology, innovation, skepticism, and materialism. Is there still room for ideals? Mark Edmundson, an English professor at the University of Virginia, asks this question in his book, Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals. In the book, he discusses the three most important ideals of courage, contemplation, and compassion. Edmundson uses historical figures to embody these traits, mentioning Plato as a great thinker and Jesus and Buddha as figures of compassion.
There might not be a more perfect nickname for Malcolm Brogdon than the one his two older brothers gave him years ago. They call the Virginia guard Humble Moses. It makes sense because Brogdon is modest and his middle name is Moses. He’s also a leader. The redshirt senior, who was a first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference pick last season while averaging 14 points a game and played for Team USA in the Pan American Games this summer, is entering his fifth and final year at Virginia, which is ranked sixth in the Preseason Coaches Poll. And while putting in work on the court, Brogdon also ...
(By Mark Edmundson, University Professor at the University of Virginia) I often start the school year teaching Plato’s Republic to first-year students at the University of Virginia. We then go on to read Homer, the New Testament, and Confucius and Buddha and Shakespeare. But as we move through the class I always have the option and the pleasure of asking a very smart group of students a revealing question: “What would Plato say?”
(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia) er skin was dryer than usual. Her eyes had deeper bags than a student in her twenties should have. Her hair was pulled back severely in a way that demanded the least possible care. And she was speaking at a rapid rate about how she needed to take eighteen credits—six courses—to fulfill her plan to complete a double major in chemistry and French. This was supposed to be an advising session to help a second-year student choose her major and courses for the next semester. Instea...
A chemical lab designed by Thomas Jefferson has been uncovered by construction crews working on the $58 million ongoing renovation of the former president's Rotunda at the University of Virginia.
A collaboration between the Department of Agriculture, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Microsoft has won this year’s Public-Private Partnership (P3) Impact Award. The P3 Impact Award was created by the US State Department’s Office of Global Partnerships, the Concordia organization and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business to recognize public-private partnerships that are changing the world in innovative and impactful ways.
The Economist has updated its full-time MBA ranking for 2015. This year, US schools once again dominate the ranking. Fourteen of the top 20 schools are based in the US. For the fifth time in six years, the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business takes the top spot. It's followed by the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, and Harvard Business school.
No previous experience fully prepares one to be president. The most important training presidents receive is on the job. But presidents and their aides can learn much about the first year from those who have gone before. What follows—drawn almost entirely from the Presidential Oral History Programof the University of Virginia’s Miller Center—are 10 lessons that any new president can apply, or at least be informed by, culled from the experiences of those who already have served in one or more administrations.
With law school application season in full swing, StartClass set out to identify the top 25 law schools in the country. Ranked No. 8, the University of Virginia School of Law was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. It is the fourth-oldest active law school in the United States.
Governor Terry McAuliffe paid a visit to the University of Virginia Thursday afternoon to recognize and celebrate central Virginia's entrepreneurs as part of “Techtober,” which highlights new and emerging technology industries around the state. The governor held a roundtable at UVA’s i.Lab, a collaborative department that aims to foster entrepreneurship and innovation.
The 12th annual Corner Crawl took place Wednesday evening. The charity fundraiser is hosted by the University of Virginia sorority chapter of Kappa Delta and benefits both Prevent Child Abuse Virginia and Prevent Child Abuse America.
If it were a World Wrestling Entertainment bout, it’d surely be pay-per-view. The nation’s youngest consumer protection agency fired a direct shot at one America’s oldest institutions last week — banking. The stated goal of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s latest proposal is to make it easier for consumers to sue a bank if it misbehaves. “It comes down simply to whether the (bureau) can now make rules that run directly counter to clear Supreme Court findings,” said Matt Adler, a law professor at the University of Virginia ...
Born in the US, but a fluent French speaker. Raised in Alaska, but based for 24 years in Brussels. Of British ancestry, but with dual French-US nationality. It is a biography that would be rare for any business school dean, but is perhaps particularly so for one in the US. It also probably explains why Scott Beardsley, former senior partner at McKinsey, who became dean of the Darden school at the University of Virginia in August, frequently refers to himself as a “European dean”.
Along with the free publicity, the attacks from his Republican counterparts let Bernie Sanders say “look how serious they’re taking me.” But does this signal that Republicans see Sanders as a general election threat, as they do Clinton? Kyle Kondik, the managing editor or Sabato’s Crystal Ball out of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says no.
As U.S. House Republicans remain fractured over the selection of the next Speaker, Rep. Dave Brat, R-Richmond, continues to be vocal about the conservative principles to which he feels the next speaker should adhere. Few want the job, however, due to the GOP dissonance. The House Freedom Caucus was established at the beginning of the 114th Congress with the general goal of moving the House GOP to the right, said Geoffrey Skelley with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “There are actually about 40 members in the group, nearly one-sixth of the GOP members in Congress’ lo...
What has emerged from all this new advocacy is a higher-education discussion colored—some say skewed—by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation's vast wealth. Siva Vaidhyanathan, chair of the media-studies department at the University of Virginia, is a frequent combatant in debates about reforming college. As he sees it, Gates holds such a powerful megaphone that it drowns out "real" education researchers. "When we have public debates about the needs of higher education—the future of higher education—not coincidentally they track with the agendas and ...
Curry School of Education Professor Joanna Lee Williams discusses the recent YouthNex conference.
Today's world is full of technology, innovation, skepticism, and materialism. Is there still room for ideals? Mark Edmundson, an English professor at the University of Virginia, asks this question in his book, Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals. In the book, he discusses the three most important ideals of courage, contemplation, and compassion. Edmundson uses historical figures to embody these traits, mentioning Plato as a great thinker and Jesus and Buddha as figures of compassion.
There might not be a more perfect nickname for Malcolm Brogdon than the one his two older brothers gave him years ago. They call the Virginia guard Humble Moses. It makes sense because Brogdon is modest and his middle name is Moses. He’s also a leader. The redshirt senior, who was a first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference pick last season while averaging 14 points a game and played for Team USA in the Pan American Games this summer, is entering his fifth and final year at Virginia, which is ranked sixth in the Preseason Coaches Poll. And while putting in work on the court, Brogdon also ...