Volunteers with the grass-roots advocacy group Virginia Organizing will hold events on college campuses today to make sure students know that a key provision of the federal health-care reform going into effect may benefit them. … Volunteers will give out information on the health-care reform law at the College of William and Mary, the University of Richmond, the University of Virginia, the University of Mary Washington and Tidewater Community College campuses in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Blust said.
If college students were given the chance to design and teach their own classes, what would they pick to study? Judging by this semester’s student-initiated courses program at UVA, the bulk of their curriculum might be TV shows.
The story quotes Tesha Westbrook, an office manager in the Office for the Vice President for Research, who led a volunteer team at Cale Elementary School.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are getting a $2 million grant to develop "smart building" energy systems for residential and commercial buildings. The four-year National Science Foundation grant was announced by the Charlottesville school Thursday.
Director of the Virginia Film Festival, Jody Kielbasa, joins Coy Barefoot to discuss the upcoming Film Festival.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise registered 1,992 students for this semester, narrowly surpassing last fall’s total. While total enrollment rose less than 1 percent, the college reported a 20.3 percent increase in transfers, spokeswoman Kathy Still said.
It was a topsy-turvy offseason for Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett, who lost leading scorer Sylven Landesberg to a pro team in Israel and had two other players transfer. At the same time, Bennett welcomed six freshmen into his program. On Tuesday, Bennett — whose team can begin practicing Oct. 15 — sat down for a wide-ranging discussion with Daily Progress beat writer Whitelaw Reid.
Ben Evans, a drummer for the University of Virginia’s marching band, worked with them collectively during a clinic before the Augusta County Bands’ Valley Showcase. “It’s a lot of high school drummers, but I think they’ll do fine,” said Evans, who competed against other marching bands when he was in drum line at Jamestown High School in Williamsburg. “I think this is kind of neat to see.”
Looking for a new show to fall in love with this fall? Try "Musical: The Online Musical." Monday night at 8 p.m., University of Virginia students posted the first episode of the interactive Web show.
Dr. Stephen DeKoskey
dean of the School of Medicine
Deadly Dementia: Alzheimer's Disease Costing and Inflicting More
Suite101.com, / Sept. 21
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics
Dr. Robert Fatton talks with Coy Barefoot about Haiti
"Charlottesville Right Now," WINA / Sept. 21
Iggy Provenzio
associate professor of biology
How Change of Seasons Affects Animals and Humans
LiveScience / Sept. 21
Larry Sabato
professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics
Mitt Romney treads lightly in New York
Politico / Sept. 21
Chris Sprigman
professor ...
A lecture about Haiti's earthquake dilemma and plans for the future of its people will be presented 10 a.m. Saturday at Alumni Hall at University of Virginia. Associate Dean Robert Fatton, a native of Haiti, and Assistant Professor Rebecca Dillingham, M.D., Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases will present "Haiti: The People, Politics and Plans for the Future."
The goals and factors that will come into play were researched and developed by researchers at the University of Virginia and verified through Health and Human Services research.
A recent study found that two-thirds of Americans believe in soul mates, the idea that there is one "perfect" person out there for everyone. Romantic, right? Except for one thing. The University of Virginia study [by W. Bradford Wilcox] also found that people who believed in this concept were 150 percent more likely to divorce than people who had fewer fairy-tale expectations of marriage.
Here's what Howard Morphy, Director of the Research School of Humanities & the Arts at Australian National University has to say on the Kluge-Ruhe website, “It is impossible to overestimate John Kluge’s contribution to increasing the global appreciation and understanding of Australian Aboriginal art. He built an exceptional collection of aesthetically powerful works and ensured they were documented to the highest standards. His support of research into Aboriginal art and his development of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia helped to lay the foun...
Eskandarian, 28, is a full-time student again, resuming course work almost eight years after departing Charlottesville to pursue a pro career that was derailed by a series of concussions. Some on campus recognize him or his distinctive name through soccer - as Virginia's season scoring record holder and national player of the year, as the first overall draft pick by D.C. United and MVP of the 2004 MLS Cup. Others know him through pop culture - as celebrity Kim Kardashian's blind date on reality TV a few weeks ago.
A University of Virginia study has found that the federal health care reform law will extend Medicaid eligibility to nearly half a million Virginians, thereby reducing the state’s total number of people without health insurance by as much as 21 percent. The study, by demographers at UVa’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, estimates that an additional 464,000 low-income Virginians will become eligible for Medicaid in 2014.
"Marriage is about a long-term commitment, thick and thin, kids, money — all that stuff," says study co-author W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "But in our day and age, as people have developed more independence, there's been much more focus on just the emotional dimensions of married life."
[…The ] University of Virginia used this approach successfully with posters that carried messages comparing the perception of how much students drink to reality. For instance, most UVA students have about three drinks a week, but the perception was that most have six.
Dick Bodson, who earned a BA in English from the College
As I would work on proposals, I could always see the different ways one could market a company and try to prove that it was better, distinguishing them from the herd. So I've made a career out of doing that. I found I was really good at relating to people. That sounds really simplistic, but as you meet with top executives, there are certain things in relating to them that you should know how to do.
If college students were given the chance to design and teach their own classes, what would they pick to study? Judging by this semester’s student-initiated courses program at UVA, the bulk of their curriculum might be TV shows.