The University of Virginia welcomes back one of its own on May 20. ABC News correspondent Katie Couric, who graduated from the university in 1979, will be giving a commencement speech there this year.
Student teams in professor Julia Devlin's classes detailed their research in the UVA Global Development Market Hub under the rotunda dome room. This is a competition for the best global development project proposal prepared by economics students.
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
GOP's McDonnell airs sunny ad touting Va.
Associated Press via Washington Post / April 24
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Change Could Happen: 5 Things That Could Derail Obama's Re-Election Bid
CBS-DC / April 24
Brad Wilcox
Associate professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project
Sometimes we cheat on our partners about money, survey shows
MSNBC.com (blog) / April 24
Some good news regarding higher education funding. That's according to University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, who says the just-passed state budget keeps higher ed funding intact.
National Physics Day isn't new; revelers have celebrated physics on or around April 24th for the past 18 years, starting in 1995 at the University of Virginia. One year later, the National Science Foundation incorporated National Physics Day into their now defunct Science and Technology Week. Despite that program's end, National Physics Day has endured.
The students from Old Dominion, Radford and Virginia State universities, the University of Virginia, and two community colleges are expected to share their views at Wednesday's panel discussion hosted by the State Council of Higher Education.
According to Peter Norton, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and the author of "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City," the change is no accident (so to speak). He has done extensive research into how our view of streets was systematically and deliberately shifted by the automobile industry, as was the law itself.
The study, published last month in the Journal of Geophysical Research, looked at the impact of the 1982 eruption of El Chichón in Mexico and the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo in the Philippines. In the year following each eruption, both the frequency and intensity of hurricanes were reduced by about half, compared to the year prior, said study author Amato Evan, a climate researcher at the University of Virginia.
Historians Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf and Brian Balogh, hosts of the public radio show and podcast "BackStory with the American History Guys," explore the history of beer and spirits in America, and what it tells us about life in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Live from the Organization of American Historians annual meeting in Milwaukee. [Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History and Balogh is Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor of History. Ayers, president of the University of Richmond, is the former dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.]
Fewer people are giving more money to American colleges, and the industry may be staging a modest rebound from the slowdown in higher-education fundraising that accompanied the 2008 economic downturn, according to a new report.
As the state's colleges and universities prepare to set tuition rates, Gov. Bob McDonnell has written school presidents and board members urging them to keep increases below 3 percent. …
McDonnell noted in his letter that the General Assembly approved a two-year budget that provides more than $230 million in new funding for higher education "with the clear understanding" that in-state rates would be held down. So far only the University of Virginia has set rates for the next academic year. U.Va.'s board increased in-state tuition and mandatory fees by 3.7 percent, which was the lowest increas...
Kathleen Eleanor Sheehy was born in Lawrence, Mass. She was a 1966 graduate of Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., and received a master's degree in education from the University of Virginia in 1977.
Jeanne Addison Roberts, 86, a Shakespeare scholar who taught at American University for three decades until her retirement in 1993, died April 3 at her home in Chevy Chase. … She received a bachelor's degree in 1946 from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947 and a doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1964, all in literature.
Mark Changizi (College '91) and Tim Barber (College '91) have formed a venture called 2AI Labs ("To Artificial Intelligence" is their favored interpretation of the acronym for the business). Its mission is "researching the mind, what it does and where it's headed," according to 2AI's website.
Former U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode of Rocky Mount [Law '73] secured the Constitution Party's nomination for president at the party's convention Saturday in Nashville, Tenn.
Andrew Block
Director of the Child Advocacy Clinic in the Law School
Road Back to School Is Rocky for Ex-Offenders
Education Week / April 23
Kyle Kondik
Center for Politics
Gov. McDonnell Still Undecided On Voter ID Bills
WAMU Public Radio, Washington, D.C. / April 23
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Does Mitt's Mormonism matter? Recent comments raise questions over what role faith will play in 2012
Fox News / April 23
Daniel Willingham
Psychology professor
Concern Abounds Over Teachers' Preparedness for Standards
Education Week / April 24
We need strong regulations to check what social-networking sites are sharing about us, says Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor in Media Studies Chair, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia. Vaidhyanathan, who has written four books, including The Googlization of Everything - and Why We Should Worry, says we should never believe what Google delivers is the last word.
Most psychology research takes place under laboratory conditions allowing tight control over the exact interventions and procedures participants are exposed to. That makes for neater science but leaves the discipline vulnerable to claims that the results aren't relevant to real life where things are far messier. Now Gregory Mitchell at the University of Virginia has tested this very issue by poring over the literature looking for previously published meta-analyses that compared findings in the lab to the same issue addressed in a field experiment.
Interview with Tim Laseter, lecture in the Darden School, about the General Services Administration's efforts to track greenhouse gas emissions by federal agencies and promote sustainable procurement practices.
"What that plays on is that we want to see Edison as the early grounded, highly practical commercially minded inventor and that [Nikola] Tesla as the more intuitive, spiritually tuned in, person who is reaching for, discovering the secret forces of the universe," said Bernard Carlson, a professor of science, technology and society at the University of Virginia.