An inexpensive way to get pictures from high in the sky is now available at the University of Virginia. The scholars' lab staff is using a weather balloon and a camera to take photographs in the area, including a parking lot that has been transformed into a mural.
... The rankings, which are compiled exclusively for Forbes by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for College Affordability and Productivity, focus on the things that matter the most to students: quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low-levels of debt. ... Excluding service academies, there are five public schools in the top 50, with the University of Virginia (#36) being the highest ranked.
Andrew Block
Director of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the Law School
Some young killers have a shot at freedom
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) / July 31
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
7 Tips for Successfully Closing MBA Summer Internships
U.S. News & World Report / July 31
S. Max Edelson
A professor of history
Obama is related to legendary Virginia slave, genealogist says
Los Angeles Times / July 30
Mark Edmundson
English professor
The Case For Online Education
Forbes / July 30
Kyle Kondik
A political analyst for the Center for Politics
Texas...
Ben Kohles won the Web.com Tour's Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational on Sunday in his first professional start, beating Luke Guthrie with a 22-foot birdie on the first hole of a playoff after birdieing two of the final three holes in regulation. ... The 22-year-old former University of Virginia player earned $144,000.
Two years ago, after earning an environmental science degree at the University of Virginia, Michelle Henry signed up to work for a farming commune in rural Thailand overseen by a small Thai nonprofit. It was a challenge, given that she did not speak Thai, but luckily she had an arsenal of field skills dating from her high school years, like the ability to test soils, assess the land\'s potential and apply the best possible growing techniques. She picked up that knowledge through the Canon Envirothon, a nonprofit environmental education program for high school students in Canada and the United ...
Computer scientist William Wulf was a star professor at the University of Virginia until he recently resigned to protest the forced resignation of popular President Teresa Sullivan... For Wulf, the crisis has not really ended. Here's the letter where he explains why: ...
By Douglas A. Blackmon, Miller Center forum chair
For much of the past year, things looked bad for the tea party. Polls showed little new interest from voters, and its favorite presidential contenders flopped in the face of Mitt Romney, who was denounced within the movement. But the final days of the Republican Senate runoff in Texas suggest that the tea party may be reshaping itself into a political operation with long-term viability.
By Raymond C. Scheppach, professor of practice at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and economic fellow at the Miller Center
States can figure out how to use the Affordable Care Act to cut costs--if the federal government provides funding and flexibility
... Peter Bronsteen and Andrew Abere, president and senior analyst, respectively, of the Princeton Economics Group, and Kenneth Elzinga, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, are familiar with Stewart after analyzing the financial success of stock car racing. Their paper was included as one of the chapters in the book "The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics," published in March.
... In the new paper, in press at Psychological Science, Benjamin Converse of the University of Virginia and Jane Risen and Travis Carter of the University of Chicago describe one way we try to manipulate karma to get what we want: by offering it favors.
... a report from the Physicians Foundation on the future of medical practice acknowledged the difficulties solo physician practices face, but, paraphrasing Mark Twain, insisted that “the reports of the demise of private medical practice are … exaggerated.” The Physicians Foundation report, written by Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, an associate professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia, acknowledges the challenges solo physicians are facing, but offers a glimpse of the future, too, by suggesting that the tide toward employment will turn to new models in the coming years.
...Manta rays use a graceful set of motions to glide through the water, and researchers at the University of Virginia want to know more about it. As professor Hillary Bart-Smith explains in the video, this robot was created to understand why manta rays and stingrays move the way they do, and how that movement can be applied to underwater autonomous vehicles. Rays swim quickly and efficiently, which is important for robots that may have limited power sources, and their broad, flat shape means they could carry a relatively large payload. The manta bot is a prime example of biomimicry in robotics...
Crews are fixing fireplaces in the rows of rustic rooms on the University of Virginia\'s historic Lawn and Range after inspectors found cracks in flue linings and chimneys last year in the rooms, which date to the school\'s 1819 founding.
The Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center started out in the trunk of Rachel Fowlkes’ car. More than a decade later, the center, which partners with 10 colleges to bring higher education programs to Southwest Virginia, has become a model for more than half a dozen other educational institutions. ... The concept did challenge the status quo with its concept of collaboration, Fowlkes said. It’s far more typical for colleges to compete than work together under one roof. ... The partnership began with four institutions: UVa, then-Clinch Valley College, now the University of Virginia’s College...
When a top hedge fund manager donated money to start a student-run portfolio at the University of Virginia in 1994, Richard Gerson was one of the few undergraduates to earn a spot managing the six-figure portfolio. It was the first connection of many that paved his way to the upper echelons of the hedge fund industry. Mr. Gerson parlayed his college experience into an internship at Tiger Management, the vaunted hedge fund firm run by Julian Robertson. He then helped John Griffin, a top deputy of Mr. Robertson and the sponsor of the investment club, start Blue Ridge Capital. ... In those early ...
For decades, Virginia governors filled the boards that oversee the state universities with supporters, donors and friends. But in July, following a leadership crisis at the University of Virginia that drew rare attention to that school’s Board of Visitors, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) boosted the ranks of educators on governing boards at universities across the state.
... The hope is that the new approach will allow doctors to be more aware of patients' statuses and the respond faster to problems by combining new software, a team of health care providers and new methods of radiation treatment. The team will include a wide range of specialists, including palliative care doctors, whose aim is to deal with patients' pain. Experts plan to build a new computer modeling system to track how patients are doing in categories ranging from pain and weight loss to spiritual wellbeing.
Ben Kohles
The 22-year old played golf for U.Va.
Ben Kohles wins Web.com Tour event
Fox News | July 29
Robbie Oberholzer
A U.Va. alumnus
Affordable housing for public servants remains an issue
Daily Progress | July 28
Paige Selinski and Michelle Vittese