(Transcript and video) The report includes an interview with Glen Bull of U.Va.’s Curry School of Education.
The University of Virginia could begin offering master’s degrees in data science and European studies if the Board of Visitors approves the programs at this week’s meetings. The board also expects to hear from a Harvard University higher education expert on governance, which has been scrutinized at UVa since the attempted ouster of President Teresa A. Sullivan in 2012. The board is scheduled to meet Wednesday through Friday.
'Trustworthiness was never the Clintons' long suit,' University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato told MailOnline.
A local non-profit is putting thousands of books in the hands of sick children at the University of Virginia. They're pledging to donate 60,000 books to the new children's hospital.
A pair of proposed amendments to Virginia’s two-year budget target fees paid by public college and university students to subsidize school athletics programs.
Every aspiring entrepreneur must check out the website Effectuation.org for useful success tips compiled and researched by Prof Saras Saraswathy of the University of Virginia's Darden School! She describes effectuation as a methodology for entrepreneurs to interact with their ecosystem and co-create ideas, products, services, firms and markets. It is a scientific approach that cuts across industry sectors and geographies, and is a logic for framing offerings and customers.
Dierdre Enright, director of U.Va. Innocence Project Clinic, believed clearing Coker’s name — overturning the conviction and getting his name removed from the sex offender list — would be fairly easy. But a procedural obstacle forced a legal battle that went all the way up to the state Supreme Court. “Getting him released was the easy part,” Enright said. “The tough thing was getting him vindicated.”
Political prognosticators, including the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato, rate Comstock the favorite in the race because of her fund-raising prowess and high-end political connections.
(By Kevin Hart, Edwin B. Kyle Chair of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia) When Christians say "Our Father," as we do when reciting the Lord's Prayer, what do we mean by "Our"? Is it understood that we are speaking for our congregation, our denomination, or for all Christians? Or for all Christians and Jews, since, after all, when Jesus taught the prayer he was a Jew speaking to Jews? Or for all believers in the Abrahamic faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - for whom God is the one Father? Or for all people, rega...
Deirdre Enright, the U.Va. Innocence Project’s director of investigations, said she wasn’t surprised to hear Coker and Dulaney’s current outlook on the ruling. “They’ve watched for seven years while people hid behind procedural hurdles so as not to address the merits of the recantation,” she said. “I think it’s going to take a long time before they fully believe it is real.”
He helped create a library full of music and an orchestra to play it, but Ernest Campbell “Boots” Mead was best known for his effort at making students feel like an integral part of their university. Mr. Mead, 95, served as professor of music and former head of the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia and led an effort to establish the UVa Music Library. He died Feb. 13.
It’s been over a year since the publication of a new book about Thomas Jefferson and his slaves. It won rave reviews from many parts of the country, but in Charlottesville the author is still attacked in certain circles.
Hobby Lobby’s argument won a favorable ruling from the 10th Circuit, and other leading legal experts on religious freedom believe that the Greens have a strong case. “Congress explicitly understood RFRA to protect for-profit corporations and their owners,” stated Douglas Laycock, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, in a brief filed on behalf of the Christian Legal Society.
(Book review) I fell into a state of dazed puzzlement at the start of this book, whose first chapter includes a remote century's bitter winter, "sour ale" in an "undercroft tavern," the stink of Newgate Jail, French secret agents, a wild-haired preacher and conversations in Italian and French as well as English. But after spending time with the knights, scholars and whores who populate the 1385 London of Bruce Holsinger's A Burnable Book, the pull of the story asserted itself: The search for a treasonous book of poems triggered labyrinthine plots and subplots that k...
At the University of Virginia, the director of the institute that bears Woodson's name said she feels some ambivalence about how Black History Month is observed in ritualistic ways that "reinforce the status quo, whether intending to do so or not." "It has come to mean let's celebrate how far we've come," said Deborah E. McDowell, the director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. A greater service to Woodson's legacy would be to deal honestly with the very measurable problems that remain, McDowell said.
The world is plagued with "wicked problems" – tightly-knotted problems such as poverty and inequality – that seem to defy solution. But a different way of considering those problems can lead to useful answers to difficult questions, said Andrew King at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business. That way is "design thinking," said the senior researcher at the Darden School's Batten Institute.
Bringing the dead to life for a wider audience, however, demands a different alchemy, the rigor of the historian mixed with the imaginative chutzpah of the novelist. In this endeavor, Bruce Holsinger is a gamekeeper turned poacher. A medieval scholar at the University of Virginia, he specializes in culture, religion and literature. If 14th-century Londoners were to come alive, he more than most would know what they might talk about. And language, spoken and written, is at the center of his first novel, “A Burnable Book.”
It is unclear if other Virginia colleges will follow suit. McGregor McCance, a spokesman for the University of Virginia, said the school does not have a “stated policy” regarding gender-neutral housing but accommodates similar living arrangements on a case-by-case basis.
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson will be launched on Monday, February 17, in commemoration of US Presidents’ Day. Free online access is offered to Chinese audiences and their worldwide counterparts.