Green games, or “green gamification” if you want to sound trendy, are a big deal. Companies, brand strategists, academics, marketers — they’re all on board with the potential for making sustainability about “fortune, fun, and fame” instead of “blame.” ... let’s talk about a really exciting project from the University of Virginia and Azure Worldwide: The UVA Bay Game.
Why I Picked University of Virginia Curry School of Education
Kevin Hessberg, fourth-year Ph.D. candidate
After one walk around "Grounds," I was already imagining myself at the University of Virginia. The tradition, beauty, and academic reputation of the university were just a few factors that prompted me to enter the Master of Teaching program at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education. ... I have stretched myself at U.Va. more than I imagined possible, through challenging coursework and leadership opportunities. Mostly, I picked U.Va. because of the people.
... started as a book club at the University of Virginia, [the Network of Enlightened Women (NeW)] has turned into a nationwide conservative college organization, geared toward education and furthering intellectual diversity on university campuses. Through their various initiatives of book clubs, campus speakers, and service work, NeW women are forming a view of the strong, intelligent, goal-oriented women who are respectful of men -- their equal counterparts.
Jeffrey W. Legro
Professor of Politics
Multi-alignment the way forward: Legro
The Hindu / Mar. 8
Barbara Perry
A senior fellow and associate professor at the Miller Center
Obama tested by events outside his control
Associated Press / Mar. 13
and
Candidates weigh family's privacy vs. political gain in campaigns
The Hill / Mar. 12
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Virginia's Anti-Abortion Debacle
Southern Political Report / Mar. 13
Brad Wilcox
Director of the National Marriage Project at U.Va. and author of "Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christiani...
...Sometime last year, while flat tax was the topic of discussion in several parts of the world, including the US, a study of 54 different countries by Shigehiro Oishi, a psychologist attached to the University of Virginia, found a direct co-relation between progressive tax policies and overall happiness.
By Eric Stern, co-chairman of the Critical Incident Analysis Group at U.Va., Gregory Saathoff, executive director of CIAG, and Brad Kieserman
... In a unique collaboration launched in September 2010, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Virginia worked closely with senior leaders and lawyers from FEMA to explore effective, and less effective, forms of collaboration between leaders and lawyers in crises. We called this initiative Advice in Crisis (AIC). Following more than 60 AIC interviews and numerous group discussions, a number of key findings emerged ...
... For three years, a pilot program tracked the reading ability of approximately 1,000 students at 20 New York City schools, following them from kindergarten through second grade. Half of the schools adopted a curriculum designed by the education theorist [and professor emeritus of education] E. D. Hirsch Jr.’s Core Knowledge Foundation. The other 10 used a variety of methods, but most fell under the definition of “balanced literacy”... The study found that second graders who were taught to read using the Core Knowledge program scored significantly higher on reading comprehe...
...SpermCheck Fertility promises to spot potential problems with male fertility in just about 10 minutes, potentially avoiding unneeded visits by women to the gynecologist or obstetrician, according to its owner and distributor, ContraVac Inc., a biotechnology start-up in Charlottesville, Va. The company says it offers men the same kind of quick test women have access to with pregnancy or ovulation tests. "There\'s now some gender equality on the family planning shelf," said John C. Herr, a University of Virginia cell biology professor who came up with the product\'s concept and help...
The Lunafest, hosted by the University of Virginia's School of Nursing, featured movies made by women and focused on women's topics. ...
No budget on the state level means big questions for how much money the University of Virginia will have to work with next year. The university is not letting that stop top administrators from moving forward with developing their budget.
For the first time in three years, there was some movement at the very top of the U.S. News Best Law Schools rankings. ... Along with Yale, Stanford, and Harvard, 11 institutions that historically claim the top spots in the U.S. News rankings are known as the top 14 (T14)... Some T14 schools shuffled: The University of California—Berkeley School of Law and the University of Virginia School of Law both moved up two spots to tie with the University of Pennsylvania Law School for 7th...
... For three years, a pilot program tracked the reading ability of approximately 1,000 students at 20 New York City schools, following them from kindergarten through second grade. Half of the schools adopted a curriculum designed by the education theorist [and professor emeritus of education] E. D. Hirsch Jr.’s Core Knowledge Foundation. The other 10 used a variety of methods, but most fell under the definition of “balanced literacy”... The study found that second graders who were taught to read using the Core Knowledge program scored significantly higher on reading comprehe...
... [Bennett Barbour's] lawyers at the University of Virginia’s Innocence Project filed paperwork last week to have the state formally declare him innocent. The trouble is that Barbour is one of only a handful who have enjoyed this vindication. ... University of Virginia law school professor Brandon Garrett (who has contributed to Slate) is an expert on wrongful convictions and DNA exoneration. His landmark study, Convicting the Innocent, scrutinized the cases of the first 250 people to be exonerated nation-wide by DNA testing. ... As he discovered in his own research, Barbour’s co...
Thanks to the ministrations of doctors at the University of Virginia, the tallest man in the world has stopped growing. “He’s done very, very well, fortunately,” said Dr. Jason Sheehan, a UVa brain surgeon who treated Sultan Kosen, the world record holder for height.