By the end of 2011, the Campaign for the University of Virginia had raised roughly $2.6 billion since its 2004 kickoff. That’s a lot of money, but $400 million less than UVa had set as its goal, which senior vice president for development and public affairs Robert D. Sweeney said was the largest such campaign ever announced when officials kicked it off. Of course, the UVa folks “called their shot,” so to speak, before the economy tanked. The campaign was started under former President John T. Casteen III. The intended completion date passed during the tenure of current Presid...
John White
College of Arts & Sciences (English)
Brandon Garrett
Law professor
Supreme Court rejects special review of eyewitness testimony
Reuters / Jan. 11
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Why Do We Find John Edwards So Particularly Loathsome? Here Comes the Science
Time / Jan. 11
Larry Sabato
Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
Video Opinion: Onto the Palmetto State
Wall Street Journal / Jan. 11
and
As Romney rises, Tea Party sees Senate as "bulwark"
Reuters / Jan. 11
The jail designed by Thomas Jefferson in Nelson County has as rich a history as the county itself. “I think one thing that’s so great about the building is all of the information with it,” said Bob Self, an architectural conservator at Monticello. “There are some more well-known structures that don’t have as many documents.” ... The documents from Jefferson, Joseph Cabell and Arthur Brockenbrough are located in the University of Virginia’s library in Charlottesville and the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston. ...
Federal officials say Central Connecticut State University is among five schools nationwide to win an annual contest challenging students to reduce trash at their college football games. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says CCSU had the least amount of wastegenerated per person at its 2011 home football games. ... More than 75 schools nationwide participated ... University of California at Davis, the University of Virginia and New York's Marist College took top honors in other categories for recycling, cutting greenhouse gas and other actions.
Michelle Obama announced a new commitment by medical colleges to bolster veterans' mental health care during a visit to Virginia on Wednesday that was bookended by fundraisers in Richmond and Charlottesville. ... The schools will share their work through a Web forum. Among the ... 130 schools participating areVCU, Eastern Virginia Medical School, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
In a landmark decision hailed by conservative Christians and advocates for religious liberty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in favor of a Redford Township church's firing of a teacher. ... In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that it was legal for Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School in Redford Township to fire Perich after she complained she was being discriminated against because of a disability. ... The U.S. government defended Perich; the church was represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and professor Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia ...
Joanne McGrath Cohoon
An associate professor in the Engineering School's department of Science, Technology and Society
Wanted: Less Excuses And More Competitive Women
Forbes | Jan. 10
Robert Fatton
A professor of politics
Haiti: Two years after the earthquake, where did the money go?
‎GlobalPost | Jan. 10
Jonathan Haidt
A professor of psychology
Whose side are you on, Jon Huntsman?
‎The Economist (blog) | Jan. 10
and
Why We Love to Loathe John Edwards: It's Science
TIME | Jan. 11
AE Dick Howard
A professor of law and constitutional law expert
Parties to wrestle for Va. Senate...
Less than two months after the University of Virginia strengthened its campus weapons restrictions, a state legislator has introduced a bill that would circumvent the university's intentions. The legislation would allow faculty members to carry concealed handguns on college campuses.
The state's top education arm has a new leader. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has named its interim director to the permanent job. Peter A. Blake had served in the interim role since April. Blake served as Virginia Secretary of Education under former governor Mark Warner.
The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, a Morgan Stanley publication, recently published a transcript of its roundtable on the state of global corporate equity. Participates ended up discussing not so much numbers as culture. ... A quite recent study, in which Kaplan collaborated with Bob Harris of the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business and Tim Jenkinson of Oxford, addressed fund-level performance using data from Burgiss Group.
Researchers from University of Virginia Health System studying the homes of adults who showed early signs of getting a cold found 60 percent of the TV remotes tested positive for the common cold virus.
In this post I want to discuss four apps worth examining that all try to get users to look at objects and use the tablet platform to extend that experience. And then maybe, there’ll be questions about apps creating virtual analogues of a physical experience. The apps in question are: The University of Virginia Art Museum’s “UVaM” app, MoMA’s “Abstract Expressionism NY,” The American Folk Art Museum’s “Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts”, and a non-museum example, Pyrolia SA’s “Road, Inc.”
The University of Virginia will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with events beginning Sunday (the day before the federal holiday memorializing the civil rights leader) and running through the end of the month. The keynote will be delivered by noted vocalist, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte on Jan. 24 at 6 p.m. at the Paramount Theater. Julian Bond, the U.Va. professor and civil rights activist who once chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will also speak.
As New Hampshire residents voted Tuesday in the GOP presidential primary, so too did 350 Albemarle County High School students. The mock election is more than just a political lesson, as government students are making sure their votes count in the primary process. ... Just like the voters in New Hampshire, students are casting their votes for the GOP presidential candidates. But they are doing it through the Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI), an educational outreach program offered by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Albemarle is just a great example of active tea...
The Bill & Melinda Gates report is just one of many that offer recommendations for best practices in teacher evaluations ... And despite heightened focus on teacher evaluations, a report out the same month showed that there are few professional development methods that have proven to effectively promote student learning. Robert Pianta, the study's author, notes that evaluations should be used to assess and target areas that teachers can improve and bolster their skillsets, rather than for the current common practice of firing ineffective teachers said to be dragging student performance.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Medical Center have discovered a new, faster way to detect outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals.