Avery Catlin, vital in the introduction of computers to the University of Virginia and the first person to hold the key position of executive vice president of UVa, died Saturday at Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge.
On Sunday, a service to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., marked the start of celebration here in Charlottesville. Maurice Jones, the new city manager joined forces with the University of Virginia to pay tribute to the civil rights leader and to call the community to action.
Health care workers at University of Virginia volunteered their Martin Luther King holiday to give future medical professionals some hands-on experience. It is just one of the many ways UVA will be honoring Dr. King throughout the week.
… “We must maintain faith in the future,” Dr. Marcus Martin, the University of Virginia’s vice president and chief officer for equity and diversity, quoted King as saying. The quote comes from King’s visit to UVa in 1963. … Martin also read a letter from UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan. “We have come a long way … but we still have a long way to go to create the completely colorblind society envisioned in King’s dream,” the letter read, in part.
Gov. Bob McDonnell announced legislation Monday that would expand the number of slots for Virginians seeking to attend state colleges and establish a long-term link between higher education and job creation. … McDonnell said the commission's work already is having an impact. He praised the University of Virginia for its plan to add about 1,000 spaces for in-state students as the kind of innovation needed across the higher-education system.
If the purpose of a college education is for students to learn, academe is failing, according to "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," a book being released today by University of Chicago Press. … "How much are students actually learning in contemporary higher education? The answer for many undergraduates, we have concluded, is not much," write the authors, Richard Arum, professor of sociology and education at New York University, and Josipa Roksa, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia continued its two-week celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with keynote speeches from Dr. Vivian Pinn and Dr. Louis Sullivan on the importance of increasing diversity and their own paths to success.
Federal Judge John Roll, who received a master's degree from U.Va.'s Law School, will be laid to rest today.
Mo Gaffney
Doctoral student in elementary education at the Curry School
Covenant School names new head of Lower School
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Jan. 14
John T. Casteen III
President emeritus
Press release: President Obama Appoints John Casteen and Timothy Broas to Woodrow Wilson Center Board of Trustees
PR Newswire / Jan. 13
Dewey Cornell
Forensic clinical psychologist in the Curry School
Forensic Psychologists Praise Obama's, Boehner's Response To Shooting
Dow Jones Newswires / Jan. 13
Emma Edmunds
Director of strategic communications in the Office of Development and Public Affairs, and project director of a Danville oral history project
Website tells Danville civil rights history
Danville Register & Bee / Jan. 13
Christopher Holstege
Me...
Highlights research by Jennifer Klein and Dewey Cornell, a Curry School graduate student and professor, respectively, that found no statistically significant differences in self-reports of bullying between large and small schools.
Duke basketball will dip a toe into international waters Saturday by offering a Mandarin broadcast of its game against Virginia. The broadcast, featuring three undergraduate student announcers, will be the first of its kind for the Atlantic Coast Conference. It will be available live and on demand on the Duke sports website.
The University of Virginia's Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degree-completion program, which features part-time evening classes tailored to working adults, will be offered in the Richmond region starting in fall 2012 through new partnerships with John Tyler and J. Sargeant Reynolds community colleges.
In anticipation of the January 17 federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., UVA announced a community celebration featuring two weeks of events to honor the doctor and his legacy.
With six public universities in Virginia named “best values” in quality and affordability, the commonwealth can boast again this year about its higher education system. The University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, Virginia Tech, University of Mary Washington and James Madison and George Mason universities have done particularly well despite the lack of necessary financial support from Virginia’s government.
Willard Finley
U.Va. graduate and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Willard Finney, delegate, lawyer, dies
Franklin News-Post / Jan. 12
Former U.S. Sen. Kit Bond
Law School graduate
Editorial: Sen. Kit Bond: A friend to the Jewish community
St. Louis Jewish Light / Jan. 12
Winonah Peters Greene
105-year-old master's degree graduate
Brooksville resident has seen lots of changes in her 105 years
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Time / Jan. 13
Edd Houck
Earned a master's degree in education; former Va. state senator
Houck to receive award for support of education
Culpeper Star-Exponent / Jan. 13
Laura Lantz
U.Va. alumna; by day, a designer of video and computer games; on nights and weekends, a circus performer
Local performers form a di...
Matthew Moran
Current student, unofficial aid too newly elected State Sen. Greg Habeeb
Special election winners scramble to 1st workday in General Assembly
Roanoke Times / Jan. 13
Harry Harding
Dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
U.S. Seeks To Revitalize Ties With China
NPR "Morning Edition" / Jan. 12
John Monahan
Law professor
Commentary: Joe Klein: Arms and the Unbalanced
Time / Jan. 13
and
Experts Say Violence Not Necessarily Linked to Mental Illness
Voice of America / Jan. 12
Brian O'Connor
Head baseball coach
Virginia high schools ban high-powered new baseball bats
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot / Jan. 12
Stephen Railton
English professor in the College of Arts & Sciences and Mark Twain expert
Editorial: Resist editing Twain's &...
In Richard Crozier’s studio behind his Preston Place home, about 1,000 of his original works line shelves and baskets on the floor. You could find a football field, lay them all out, and spend hours looking at an impressionistic map of Charlottesville, composed entirely of the many moments Crozier spent brush in hand. Crozier (whose work is on view at UVA’s Ruffin Gallery through January 28) retires from UVA this year after 36 years.