Friday's Daily Progress included a special section on the inauguration of Teresa A. Sullivan as U.Va.'s eighth president. As of midday Friday, the contents were not posted online.
Academics must make deliberate, data-driven efforts to improve the way they teach, according to Lee S. Shulman, president emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. “If we believe that evidence [that suggests many students learn little during their stay at college] is flawed, we must reply with more evidence,” he said Thursday, speaking at an academic symposium held to mark today’s inauguration of University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan.
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Dr. Steven DeKosky
Vice president and dean of the School of Medicine
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Daniel Ortiz
A law professor
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Sophia Rosenfeld
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The History of Common Sense
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Born on April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, would have celebrated his 268th birthday today. Instrumental as a founding father, Jefferson authored the declaration of independence, spurred the American Revolution and developed the political ideals on which America built itself. ... Birthday festivities will be celebrated today at Monticello, Jefferson's former estate and a popular historical landmark. Music from U.S. Army's Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, a presentation of wreaths and a commemorative speech fill the schedule. Likewise, the University ...
Every year thousands of babies are born prematurely in the Commonwealth. Many are forced to spend their first days, weeks, and even months inside of the intensive care unit at the University of Virginia Medical Center. The Cuddler Program works to ensure each infant receives the tender loving care that they need.
The organ that went bad inside Trey Ward’s body has, when you think about it, an ironic name — the liver. As in: You can’t live without it. ... April is National Organ Donation Month, and thus a good time to contemplate one of the true transplant success stories. Ward, a Lynchburg resident who is director of food services at Chatham Hall, received his new liver in a 2½-hour operation at the University of Virginia Medical Center on March 23.
Common sense has a special place in modern politics. Politicians constantly appeal to it in their arguments, and they do so because democracy itself is founded on a faith in common sense. ... The truth is, as usual, more complicated. As Sophia Rosenfeld, a historian at the University of Virginia, shows in Common Sense: A Political History, common sense was invented by scientists, philosophers, and politicians. ... Common sense is, as she puts it, a "slippery" idea -- the kind of idea that covers its own tracks.
The Jefferson Foundation at the University of Virginia celebrated three individuals for excellence in the fields of study that Jefferson valued most. The honorees were Maya Lin for her work in architecture, Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Cynthia Kinser for law, and Peter Peterson for citizen leadership.
The woman who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has shared her passion for architecture and the environment. Maya Lin is this year's winner of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
The University of Virginia community came together Wednesday in an interfaith celebration to honor its new president, Teresa Sullivan, as she continues the tradition set by Thomas Jefferson. The University Singers participated in the event. The inauguration is only just beginning. An all-day academic symposium is scheduled for Thursday. Friday is the inauguration ceremony itself. Saturday, Sullivan will join UVa. students in service projects throughout the area, and Sunday will be the inaugural 10K walk around Charlottesville.
The University of Virginia is set to formally install its eighth president. Inauguration ceremonies for Teresa A. Sullivan are scheduled for Friday afternoon on the historic Lawn in Charlottesville. The 3 p.m. ceremony will be moved indoors in case of rain. Sullivan is the first woman to lead U.Va., which didn't become fully coeducational until 1970.
The University of Virginia recently named Nathan Moore, a veteran of noncommercial radio, as the new general manager of WTJU 91.1 FM, the university’s eclectic community radio station. ... Moore took over as the station’s GM on April 5. The Daily Progress interviewed Moore for a Q&A about his perspective on community radio and goals for the station.
Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, hopes she can get viewers of her art and architecture to think about the natural world in a way they hadn’t before. Speaking Wednesday at the University of Virginia to mark Founder’s Day, she was one of three notables to win Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, a joint honor presented by UVa and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Also honored were Cynthia D. Kinser, chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, and Peter G. Peterson, philanthropist and founder of his namesake foundation. The medals are the highest external honor conf...
During a recent visit to this newspaper, Leonard Sandridge offered valuable insight into the contributions of past presidents at the University of Virginia. The university’s outgoing chief operating officer, Mr. Sandridge has worked directly with five of the presidents and clearly has studied the tenures of the others. UVa has had only eight presidents in its illustrious and lengthy history. ... Tomorrow afternoon, UVa will formally inaugurate Teresa A. Sullivan as its eighth, and first woman, president.
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Michael Huppe
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John Monahan
A law professor
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Larry J. Sabato
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The Choral Union will be performing Randall Thompson’s Testament of Freedom based on the words of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. The Testament of Freedom was written during Thompson’s tenure at the University of Virginia and is dedicated to Jefferson, “in the memory of the Father of the University.”
He drafted the Declaration of Independence, was Governor of Virginia and founded the University of Virginia. As the 3rd U.S. President, he approved the Louisiana Purchase and had Lewis and Clark explore it. He sent the Marines to stop the Muslim Barbary Pirates of Tripoli. His name was Thomas Jefferson, born APRIL 13, 1743.