A one-day conference brought folks from around the world to the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business to exchange ways we can keep our communities more sustainable. The American Council on Renewable Energy joined forces with the embassies of Germany and Denmark for a program called "Sustainable Ways to Community Prosperity."
Betsy Sholl, a former poet laureate of Maine, will be the featured writer at Coffee Night, a reading and performing event dedicated to the poetry and prose of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and its community.
"How can we move beyond protecting what we 'know' to embrace what we don’t even know we don't know?" Among some two dozen other inquiries scribbled on the whiteboards at the new OpenGrounds studio, this question encompasses the spirit of U.Va.'s new initiative, challenging the boundaries of disciplines and proposing collaboration across borders.
This year's Spring Dance Program will bring original contemporary works by student and faculty choreographers and two special guests. The University of Virginia Dance Program's annual event can be seen at 8 tonight and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday in Helms Theatre. Visiting choreographers Danah Bella and Susan Wiesner will join Kim Brooks Mata, U.Va.'s interim dance program director, and the students for the performances inspired by the change in seasons and the ways in which people emerge from their own winter cocoons and revive their spirits.
It started with an aria. Shortly after arriving at U.Va. five years ago, music professor Bonnie Gordon was searching for a score to "Cara Sposa" from George Frideric Handel's opera Rinaldo. Thomas Jefferson's own copy of the aria, it turned out, was sitting nearby in U.Va.'s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. There was only one problem. "I didn’t have enough credentials to actually look at the music," said Gordon.
U.Va. officials say this fall's entering class of first-year students could be the most highly qualified ever. The University has offered admission to over 7,700 applicants and hopes to enroll 3,360. The average SAT score is 1396 on a scale of 1600. Just over 95% are in the top 10% of their high school graduating classes. UVA says those are the highest numbers ever. The students offered admission have until May 1st to decide.
Two concerts will explore the soundtrack of the Sage of Monticello during Harmonious Blacksmith will perform with members of the Baltimore Consort and University of Virginia violin professor David Sariti at 8 tonight in Cabell Hall Auditorium. The performers will play music from violinist, music lover and third president Thomas Jefferson’s collection on period instruments.
WTJU, the University of Virginia's community radio station, was in turmoil two years ago, amid a staff revolt against a new general manager’s big plans for change. Now, under yet another general manager, the station is showing a healthy pocket book and growing listenership.
Another banner admissions year — and a new Early Action program — seems to be elevating the University of Virginia to a higher tier of selectivity, with numbers increasingly resembling those of the Ivy League. U.Va. returned to early admissions this year after a brief hiatus, allowing students to apply early and get a decision early on the condition that they not apply early to any other school.
Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler, a 1974 Law School graduate, is representing the United States in the arguments over whether the Obamacare law should be overturned if the insurance requirement is ruled unconstitutional. He is one of a handful of attorneys who have argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
U.Va. student Courtney Luckman ... started a Charlottesville chapter of the National Stuttering Association. Their goal is to help others feel as if they can speak freely like anyone else.
Jonathan Haidt
psychology professor
How evolution turned us into liberals and conservatives
Telegraph.co.uk (London) / Mar. 29
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Why liberals need conservatives, and vice versa
Telegraph.co.uk (London) / Mar. 29
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Editorial: Left/right divide widens in America
The Oklahoman Editorial / Mar. 29
Mary Margaret Frank
A Darden associate professor of business administration
Tea party challenges need for Albemarle tax bump as groups plead for more
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Mar. 28
Wayne Graham
Head of research and development in the Scholars' Lab, and author of a new guide to Faceboo...
... a study by economists at the University of Michigan and University of Virginia has found that approximately two-thirds of American women's wage gains from the 1960s to the 1990s was due to the ready availability of birth control pills...
... All of the money raised will go toward the work of Dr. Amir Jazaeri, Kirchner’s doctor, whose research at the University of Virginia Cancer Center focuses on the early detection and prevention of [ovarian] cancer, the ninth most common among women, according to the American Cancer Society.
... Another significant collection of indigenous works collected by Kluge has been housed at the University of Virginia as the Kluge-Ruhe Collection since 1997. ... The Virginia collection is seen as the best public collection of Aboriginal art in the US.
About a dozen restaurants on the corner at the University of Virginia are participating in a fundraising drive to help children at risk of abuse.
The University of Virginia Health System will move in to part of its competitor's former downtown Charlottesville hospital. UVA Health System is partnering with the Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) and Newport News-based Riverside Health System to open a PACE clinic in the first two floors of the old Martha Jefferson Hospital's Cardwell Center. ... PACE stands for Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Doctors and researchers at the University of Virginia are making breakthroughs that could improve chances of survival for people with pancreatic cancer. ...Researcher Kim Kelly and surgeon Todd Bauer discussed developments, including a new clinic for high-risk patients. ... Former UVA women\'s basketball coach Debbie Ryan joined the discussion to talk about her 12 years as a survivor.
Glioma is the most common and deadly kind of brain cancer. Each year, 10,000 Americans are diagnosed, and only half survive beyond a year. Only a quarter after two years. But research at the University of Virginia [by Dr. Benjamin "B.J." Purow] has led to the discovery of a toxic molecule which targets the disease and might also be used to target other cancers.