Five schools in the Ogden School District are using approximately $7 million in federal grants to help bring them up to a higher level and keep them out ofdanger of being shut down because of poor performance. ... All the grant schools except Madison also participate in a University of Virginia program that helps students make progress.
The governor\'s office announced Friday that in December, for the first time in more than a year, state revenue collections declined, indicating Virginia\'s economy may not be rebounding as fast as officials had hoped. Collections decreased 4.7 percent last month from December 2010 ... The governor Friday afternoon sent down a series of adjustments to his roughly $85 billion spending plan. Revisions totaling $58 million were submitted to meet a legislative deadline for budget amendments. His proposed amendments would ... increase by $8.7 million money for teaching hospitals like those at the U...
The climatologist at the center of a legal battle between Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and the University of Virginia will speak at UVa on Tuesday. Michael Mann, formerly of UVa and now at Pennsylvania State University, will give a talk titled “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines.” It will begin at 1:45 p.m. in Room 108 of Clark Hall. ...
The Post reported last week that the University of Maryland is demolishing its president’s residence and constructing a new $7.2 million house and events center. The project is privately funded but has raised questionsabout how much is too much for a university to spend on a presidential abode. ... Here’s a glance at homes of some other presidents in the region. ... University of Virginia: President Teresa A. Sullivan and her husband live in Carr’s Hill, a historic home that celebrated its centennial in 2009. The 11,647-square-foot house has 16 rooms and eight bathrooms and w...
Faculty members and students of the University of Virginia Medical Center and the Schools of Nursing and Medicine honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Monday. They held a panel and high school students visited the medical center to learn more about the medical field. Students were able to learn about nutrition and vital signs. The annual event hopes to possibly get students interested in medical school. "Really extending his dream so that students, all students, can see themselves as having any type of dream they want for their future," said Cathy Campbell of the University of Virginia...
Neighbors around Charlottesville did their part to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Junior\\'s long legacy. ... The University of Virginia and the UVA Health System is also hosting a number of events in honor of the holiday.
The pews of Mount Zion First African Baptist Church were packed Sunday night with a diverse crowd of people honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. The church was the site of the 27th annual community celebration in the late civil rights leader’s memory. The theme of this year’s event, which is sponsored in part by the University of Virginia, was “Why We Can’t Wait.” Holly Edwards, who recently completed a term on Charlottesville’s City Council and now acts as the service coordinator for the Public Housing Association of Residents, addressed the audien...
Established in 1963, Semester at Sea is the only study-abroad program of its kind in the world. On a ship that becomes a traveling campus, a community of faculty and students live and learn together, exploring a different world region every semester. [The University of Virginia is the academic sponsor.]
Several Charlottesville-area organizations were recently awarded state grants totaling about $1.8 million ... The University of Virginia was among the recipients of CIT grants, receiving $120,000 for the development of technology aimed at detecting bone abnormalities. Other grants received locally are slated to treat influenza and diagnose pancreatic cancer, among other initiatives.
Co-authored by William Lucy, Lawrence Lewis Jr. professor of urban and environmental planning
So how do we get out of this mess — this economic stagnation?
First, as a nation we have to stop looking to Washington; it is broken. ... So we should look to private enterprise to lead the way. ... As of right now, according to Forbes, major corporations have $2.1 trillion in cash on hand. ... Private enterprise could now target an investment of 10 percent of its cash on hand to take the modest risk that our economy will rebound. Companies couldhire workers and contract for other work. ... Some...
Douglas A. Blackmon called the election of President Barack Obama an event that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. could have and would have imagined. Blackmon is the new forum program chairman of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. Blackmon, who starts full-time at the Miller Center in February, is a senior national correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.” In his Monday speech that celebrated Martin Luther King ...
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M.Arch’11
Wanted: one school, must be prepared to travel
How did an article in The Independent lead to the creation of a portable school for Burmese refugee children?
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Bob Gibson
Executive Director of The Thomas C. Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
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Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Behaviour change? Don't think too hard about it
The Guardian / Jan. 13
Kyle Kondik
Communications director, Center for Politics
Allen Declares War on Unions
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Larry Sabato
Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
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Alaska Dispatch / Jan. 13
When the new breast surgery clinic opens on Tuesday in the UVa Specialty Care-Culpeper facility, it’ll bring multidisciplinary care to local patients, minimizing the need for them to travel elsewhere for continuing outpatient procedures. Drs. David Brenin and Anneke Schroen, both with 10 years of experience at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, will be available for patients on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the first and third weeks of each month at a new breast surgery clinic near the main entrance of Culpeper Regional Hospital on Sunset Lane.
Legendary entertainer and human rights activist Harry Belafonte will screen the acclaimed documentary Sing Your Song exclusively for an audience of areamiddle and high school students on January 24 at 10:00 a.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center. The event, presented by the U.Va. Office of Diversity and Equity, the Virginia Film Festival's Outreach and Education Program, the U.Va. Center for Politics, and the Festival of the Book, will feature a post-screening discussion with Mr. Belafonte moderated by Professor Larry J. Sabato, director of the U. Va. Center for Politics.
The main event isn’t until the first of next month, but Zap McConnell’s latest dance theater project is so much more than just one event. “The Unearthing” includes a series of free events and workshops — one on Sunday — that all culminate in the grand staged production that runs Feb. 1-12 at the Ix. ... Dancers and musicians from the U.S. and Mexico arepart of the project. So is the audience. Attendees who come to see performance at the Ix will get a chance to interact with the performers as they walk through a world of sculptural installations. University o...
The University of Virginia has emerged victorious from its participation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Game Day Challenge.” The school participated in the challenge Oct. 15, when it hosted the Georgia Tech football team. UVa took first for having the greatest greenhouse gas reductions from diverting waste and for having the highest recycling rate.
The legal fight between the University ofVirginia and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli over Cuccinelli's inquiry intogrant money used by former U.Va. climate scientist Michael Mann is in the hands of the Virginia Supreme Court.
Women studying computer science at the University of Virginia are garnering national attention. UVA has received a $10,000 grant from the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Microsoft Research. The grant goes toward programs that focus on recruiting and retaining women in computing and technology fields of study. The university has the top percentage of women in the country involved in the field of study. Carolyn Vallass, the assistant dean of engineering diversity stated, "Right now we have 31 percent of women in the undergraduate program so our objective now is to inc...
Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision holding that ministers cannot sue their churches foremployment discrimination was a huge win for religious liberty. It was unanimous, it was sweeping and it was unqualified. This decision was about separation of church and state in its most fundamental sense. Churches do not run the government, select government leaders, or set criteria for choosing government leaders. And government does not run the churches, select religious leaders, or set criteria for choosing religious leaders. The Court unanimously reaffirmed that principle on Wednesday. ...