Peter Bogdanovich has taken on many roles as a director, actor, producer, film historian and writer over the years. His latest role will be as a Virginia Film Festival Fellow. A new season for the 23rd Virginia Film Festival got rolling Monday with the unveiling of the festival’s new logo at the Paramount Theater and the announcement that Bogdanovich will participate.
It took the death of lacrosse player Yeardley Love to galvanize the University of Virginia to address the critical problem of relationship violence on campus. Now the university is taking steps to avoid a repeat of the tragedy. It deserves recognition and praise for reacting quickly and substantively. The university strengthened its security policy this month to require students to disclose any arrests or convictions since enrolling. The change is crucial. …
Four Virginia schools retain their status as top public colleges in annual rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report. The University of Virginia remains second and the College of William and Mary is again sixth among the Top 50 public national universities. Virginia Tech moves up two spots to rank 27th on that list. ... On the best national university list, including private schools, U.Va. is No. 25, W&M is No. 31 and Tech is No. 69.
Dr. Mark F. Abel
Lillian T. Pratt distinguished professor of orthopedic surgery and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics
Overcoming adversity
Culpeper Star Exponent / August 15, 2010
Daniel L. Duke
Education professor who profiled Tom DeBolt's reign in Manassas Park in the book "The Little School System That Could: Transforming a City School District"
Manassas Park Superintendent Tom DeBolt retiring after 15 years
Washington Post / Aug. 15
Roger Felder
Director of U.Va.'s Medical Automation Research Center and a founder of WellAware Systems
Can better tools overcome the medi...
A horde of Hoos descended on Scott Stadium on Sunday afternoon for an up-close look at the team on which they’ll be pinning the year’s hopes for football glory.
... said Erika Hayes James, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia. ... Crisis management in the business context isn’t something that is taught in college or graduate programs, James said, but it’s something that businesses need to be prepared for — just ask Toyota or BP. To provide that education, James has co-authored a book with University of Michigan professor Lynn Perry Wooten called “Leading Under Pressure: From Surviving to Thriving Before, During and After a Crisis.”
... The Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act is part of the solution needed to restore our rivers and streams. ... If passed, the bill will: ... Provide for new rural jobs — more than 11,000 new jobs of at least a year's duration, according to an economic study by the University of Virginia.
Athletes from the University of Virginia's national champion men's soccer and women's rowing teams are being invited to the White House to meet President Barack Obama. The White House said Friday more than 30 teams that won NCAA titles are being invited to a reception with the president next month.
Water consumption at the University of Virginia has increased for the fifth consecutive year, according to data provided by university officials. ... “While the university continues to benefit from the many water conservation initiatives that have been implemented, the construction of energy- and water-intensive research and hospital facilities in the last couple of years is starting to cause an upward trend in water consumption,” wrote UVa’s director of utilities, Cheryl Gomez, in an e-mail to Charlottesville Tomorrow. However, Gomez said, UVa’s overall water usage has...
By Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?”
The best books show you a new way of thinking about a familiar issue. Paul Peterson’s "Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning", offers a new way of thinking about education reform by recounting the histories of reformers.
... The three-year grant from the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund will provide funds for conservation groups, universities--including Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia--and state and county agencies to review local stormwater codes and ordinances. The results will be used to create scorecards for localities.
... University of Virginia research shows that progressive wives are less happy than traditional wives. "More traditional women may wear rose-colored glasses, but they also benefit from a sense of male and female roles," said sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, who conducted the research.
... Studies have linked early puberty to earlier experiences with alcohol, drugs and sex. A 2006 University of Virginia study noted, “Early maturing girls are more likely to exhibit poor academic performance in high school than on-time or later maturing peers.”
True to the aphorism, couples who pray together stay together, said study co-author W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, and "African American couples are more likely to have a shared spiritual identity as a couple."
As an assistant public defender in Georgia, Darryl Brown occasionally handled cases where he thought an offender’s sentence was extreme for the crime committed, especially for younger defendants. Brown, now the O.M. Vicars Professor of Law at the University of Virginia… is researching overcriminalization — the idea that the country has too many laws and punishments that are too harsh. Brown is advocating for a legislative method that resists creating crimes and repeals older crimes, although he said he’s not optimistic that it will happen soon.
... Psychologists like [U.Va.'s Jonathan] Haidt are leading a wave of research into the so-called moral emotions — not just disgust, but others like anger and compassion — and the role those feelings play in how we form moral codes and apply them in our daily lives. A few, like Haidt, go so far as to claim that all the world’s moral systems can best be characterized not by what their adherents believe, but what emotions they rely on.