Batoid rays, such as stingrays and manta rays, are among nature's most elegant swimmers. They are fast, highly maneuverable, graceful, energy-efficient, can cruise, bird-like, for long distances in the deep, open ocean, and rest on the sea bottom. U.Va. researchers are designing an "autonomous underwater vehicle" that someday may surpass what nature has provided as a model. The vehicle has potential commercial and military applications, and could be used for undersea exploration and scientific research.
The Building Tomorrow Academy of Gita, about an hour outside of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, is an amazing example of what can be accomplished when local communities and international organizations work together toward innovative solutions to educational challenges. ... In the 2007-2008 school year, undergraduate architecture and engineering students at the University of Virginia’s Architecture Studio reCOVER and its Engineering in Context Capstone Design Program designed Gita’s seven classrooms, its library, its latrines, its office space and its outdoor play and learning space (includin...
The current project on which Bill T. Jones has settled is intriguing, one that will unfold for local audiences beginning Wednesday evening at 8 on the stage of the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. "Story/Time," a project Jones developed during a U.Va. residency, has Jones seated at a table in the middle of the playing area reading stories. ... Jones happened upon Ted Coffey, an associate professor of music at the University of Virginia, during a panel discussion on the role of chance in the creative process. Impressed with Coffey's understanding of the mid-20th-century av...
Robert Poland Atkinson
The Rev. Robert P. Atkinson
The Journal (Martinsburg, W.Va.) | July 25
James Manning McCarthy
He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Business Administration from the University of Virginia in 1959. While at U.Va. he lived on The Lawn, an honor reserved for students of academic merit, and was a member of Chi Phi fraternity and The Jefferson Society.
James Manning McCarthy, age 74, of Peachtree City
The Citizen (Fayetteville, Ark. | July 24
Barry Hite
He graduated from U.Va., where he picked up the comedy bug and started an improvisational comedy group called the Whethermen. He is a member of the Second City's Laugh Out Loud Tour.
Second City's local appearance includes Va. native Barry Hite
The Examiner (Washington, D.C.) | July 24
Matt McLean
Sterling, Va., native and 2011 University of Virginia graduate McLean will compete in the 800-meter freestyle relay in London.
London 2012 Olympics: Local athletics go for gold
Washington Post | July 24
Chris Murray
Murray placed fourth in the co...
Mark Edmundson
A professor of English
Massive Online Open Courses: From McLuhan to MOOC
Huffington Post (blog) | July 23
Paul Freedman and Jeffrey Jenkins
Freedman, an associate professor in the Department of Politics and Jeffrey Jenkins, associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Miller Center, discuss how current political systems could be improved.
Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call: Improvements in Politics
Charlottesville Podcasting Network | July 22
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Ann Kirkpatrick banking on kinder District 1 race
Tucson Citizen | July...
Virginia's public universities fared well overall in the survey. UVA, Virginia Commonwealth, George Mason and Virginia Tech all saw declines in spending, although equity ratios were down 8% at Old Dominion and 12% at George Mason. The survey also showed the University of Virginia with a hefty cushion against future costs -- an endowment per student of more than $157,000 – compared with about $16,000 at Tech, $8,000 at VCU, $7,000 at ODU and $1,800 at George Mason.
Unfolding details of the negotiation that led the University of Virginia into Stanford University's Coursera online consortium last week reveal a poignant episode of bad timing. On June 8, the leaders of the university's Board of Visitors asked for the resignation of President Teresa Sullivan. Among their chief complaints: U-Va. was ignoring perhaps the most significant development in the brief history of online collegiate learning, the vast experiment in global online learning launched by Stanford, MIT and Harvard. Earlier that day, a group of academic deans at U-Va. had discussed the pros...
The project partners rated the 41 localities on low-impact development principles, grouped into the following categories: minimization of land disturbance; preserving vegetation; minimizing impervious cover; and general water quality protection. The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University and the Center for Watershed Protection assisted in the review and assessment.
In light of the events at University of Virginia this summer, with President Sullivan’s sudden ouster and then reinstatement, faculty members at the university are using this as a teaching experience and offering a new course this fall. "The teachable moment was really strong for the whole university community. We hope that this is also something that is going to motivate students to want to take the class," said John Alexander, the professor for the course. The class is called: Documenting UVa's Future: Oral History of the Ouster and Reinstatement. The course is a 300 level class in the Me...
Rare Book School, an annual gathering of bibliophiles at the University of Virginia that we profiled in Tuesday's paper, is often called summer camp for book geeks ... It's all a long way from making lanyards in Moonrise Kingdom. But perhaps nothing embodies the beam-me-up intensity of the enterprise more than the university's Hinman Collator, a 450-pound behemoth that sleeps in the basement of its special collections library ... Mr. Vander Meulen, an English professor at U.Va., explained the mechanics of the machine, which uses a system of mirrors to superimpose the two pages, which are th...
Kyle Van Houtan
A research biologist at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center earned his undergraduate degree in environmental sciences at U.Va.
Martha B. Hamrick
Received her MA degree from the University of Virginia who taught high school English
Virginia is for Superstars
When the Olympic field hockey competition begins later this week, there will be no question Paige Selenski is representing her country. ... But there\'s one other entity she\'ll be representing on the playing fields of London - the University of Virginia, where she\'s been a collegiate star since 2008. Selenski and teammate Michelle Vittese are the first field hockey Olympians in school history, and they\'re thrilled to be sharing an international adventure together.
Citizens Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. | July 24
Anne Sun
An economics major
Anne in the fashion closet
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Richard J. Bonnie
A Law School professor and expert in the fields of criminal law and procedure, mental health and drug law, public health law and bioethics
Supreme Court May Consider Constitutionality of Insanity Plea
The New American | July 23
Skip Burzumato
Assistant director of the National Marriage Project
With fewer wedding bells ringing, marriage in America has evolved
Sacramento Bee | July 24
Dewey Cornell
A forensic clinical psychologist and an expert on youth violence
How can we prevent mass killings like Aurora?
Huffington Post | July 24
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Beyond gun control: Some say mass kill...
Five Virginia hospital systems have joined a national effort that aims to get mothers of newborns to breastfeed. The University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University health systems, along with Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Inova Loudoun Hospital in Leesburg and Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg are among 90 hospitals nationwide that are participating in Best Fed Beginnings, a national program that involves hospital health care employees encouraging breastfeeding in new mothers.
By Suzie McCarthy, a politics graduate student who is studying the impact of social media on political movements and was an organizing force behind the efforts to reinstate President Sullivan.
... While I believe that U-Va. is an exceptional university with an exceptional community of honor, our accomplishment need not be exceptional. Our movement demonstrates the power of social media when used in conjunction with traditional media. We successfully created a peaceful movement to mobilize students, alumni, friends, and family around the world in a way that would have been a pipe dream just a f...
Charlottesville radio station WTJU 91.1 FM is making some changes to its program. The radio station put into effect a new programming schedule last Monday. ... "[We are] trying to see ourselves not just as a radio station but as a community media center that's sort of a community organizing center; a community resource that also runs a radio station," said Nathan Moore, WTJU 91.1 General Manager.
A dozen major research universities, including Georgia Tech, Princeton, Duke, Johns Hopkins and the University of Virginia, announced plans last week to offer 100 free online courses that will enable millions worldwide to take the same classes as students at elite U.S. campuses. The announcement by Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford professors, represents a giant leap forward in the expanding inventory of what has become known as MOOCs — massive open online courses.