John D'earth
Director of jazz performance
Local man's passion is getting musical instruments to children
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 5
Sidney M. Milkis
A politics professor and a presidential scholar at the Miller Center of Public Affairs
From war woes to Gulf disasters, Obama's presidency mirrors Bush's
Washington Times / July 5
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Virginia isn't big enough for two slavery museums
Richmond Times Dispatch / July 3
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Violating the Political Golden Rule
FOX News (blog) / July 2
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Jobs, economy to rule recess c...
... The study reports the UVa Demographics and Workforce Group’s prediction for growth by 50,000 students in Virginia public schools, with a record number of students attending this year and a growing number over the next five years, according to a Weldon Cooper Center release.
A law student at the College of William and Mary was struck and killed by a Metro train over the holiday weekend. 28-year-old Joseph Doyle was killed by a train at the Minnesota Avenue Metrorail station. He was killed at 3 a.m. Sunday.
... Sunday, it was Juan Esteves’ chance to belong. The 2005 University of Virginia graduate and Charlottesville resident has an attachment to Thomas Jefferson, he said. “I was a tour guide at UVa,” the Venezuelan native said. “And, as all tour guides at UVa, I was obsessed with Thomas Jefferson.” He said, “Being able to be here on his property on July 4 is so incredible.”
Naeem Ahmad came to the United States from Pakistan 10-years-ago, and while he'll never forget where he came from, Pakistan is no longer his home. Ahmad said, "It's a big day. I'm very excited." With his new US citizenship, the University of Virginia graduate plans to set out in pursuit of his dream to become an American astronaut. Ahmad said, "I'm being a part of this American life, and being a part of this American dream." Ahmad is just one of 71 people, representing 32 different countries, who became a United States citizen on the steps of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, ...
Rhonda Williams and her three sons checked into an emergency shelter in Loudoun County 11 years ago. What a difference a decade makes. Now, the three brothers -- Victor, 20, Joseph, 17, and Michael, 15 -- are out of the shelter and are giving back. They have helped tutor younger children, built a peace park behind a mosque, cleaned up streets, and collected trash from the Anacostia River. ... "I always want to continue service work," said Joseph, who is attending the University of Virginia. "[It] keeps you focused on what's important. ...
... Two months ago, Mr. Madary assumed the unpaid position of interim camp director, and he has slept some nights in a glorified storage room next to the old custodian’s office. He becomes emotional when talking of the sacrifices made by these visitors, the young and the not-so, who will be housed in a local motel while BP is in town. He points to ceiling tiles in the cafeteria that some volunteer groups have painted to commemorate their time together. “HOODAT!” one reads, from a group of University of Virginia students. “Katie, Rachel, Kevin, Derek....”
By Tonya R. Moon, an associate professor in the Curry School of Education and a principal investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
School districts need to use multiple measures and multiple methods in identifying children for gifted and talented programs. And in the case of young children, schools should provide multiple opportunities for assessment, particularly those from low income and minority families. Those students often are not identified as gifted early on and therefore less likely to be identified later in their academic careers.
By Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?”
... there aren’t good data on this question. Everyone (including me) is speculating. That said, here are three ways of thinking about ways student’s brains might change and my guess as to their likelihood.
After most University of Virginia students departed for the summer in May, construction crews descended upon Grounds to make improvements and finish projects. Some of these summer break projects, such as the Alderman Road utility project, are affecting drivers and pedestrians in and around UVa.
...In the spring of 2011, the W&L team will begin a new dig at Morven Site D, which is associated with tenant farmer George Haden, who was renting land at Morven in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The W&L field school will be part of a larger collaborative project that will focus on the history and prehistory of Morven and will include archaeologists and graduate students from the University of Virginia, Monticello and Rivanna Archaeological Services.
... Recently, researchers from the University of Virginia Health System found that hotel rooms were teeming with germs. It's hard to avoid cold viruses on remote controls and light switches ...
... For educators uncomfortable in the role of anti-cheating enforcer, an online tutorial in plagiarism may prove a simple technological fix. That was the finding of a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January. Students at an unnamed selective college who completed a Web tutorial were shown to plagiarize two-thirds less than students who did not. The tutorial "had an outsize impact," said Thomas Dee, a co-author and an economist at the University of Virginia.
Poisoning symptoms can be different every time — nausea, seizures, skin discoloration, double vision and more. Determining that a patient has been poisoned takes a team of doctors, specialists and psychologists, plus law enforcement if the poisoning is a crime. To ensure that all these professionals can work together easily, two University of Virginia doctors [Gregory B. Saathoff and Christopher P. Holstege] have helped co-author a new manual called “Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives.”
Some University of Virginia architecture students are putting what they learned in the classroom to good use by building a prototype of a shelter for people who lost their home because of a natural disaster. After Hurricane Katrina and the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, it became apparent victims needed a more permanent form of housing besides tents. Initiative reCOVER is a UVA School of Architecture design and build program that helps humanitarian aid organizations with relief efforts.
... Lydia Mattice Brandt, a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia, is studying reproductions of Mount Vernon, which were built for no fewer than six major expositions and fairs. The choice of Mount Vernon, Brandt says, reflected a Southern desire to lay claim to the nation's founding father, reassert the South's fundamentally American identity and "embody both post-Confederate pride and an agreeable vision of a new South for a national audience."
Now that we've learned the murder of a Virginia Tech student has a possible connection to Northern Virginia, authorities have received 50 leads from Fairfax to the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has a rich history, but an often forgotten part of that history is slavery. Friday, the push is on to build a new memorial on grounds for slave laborers who had a big part in building UVA. It's a student-run effort to get the new memorial and they're asking for the public's input.
...On the other hand, Virginia enjoys a wealth of educational resources, such as the expertise housed at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and other highly regarded higher education institutions. Their leadership could prove extremely valuable as Virginia develops the charter school authorizing capabilities needed to ensure that charter schools live up to the excellence we will require of them.
Energy technology companies, universities, local governments and commercial property owners from Delaware to West Virginia have formed a team that is competing to land $130 million in federal funding for a regional green-building research center. ... More than a half-dozen university partners, including the University of Maryland, University of Virginia, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University, would drive research if Washington wins the award.