Ming-Jer Chen
Darden professor
Commentary: Case in Point: Using the power of ‘one\' as a business practice
Washington Post / July 7
Dr. Arthur Garson Jr. and Carolyn Long Engelhard
Garson is director of U.Va. Center for Health Policy, a university professor and professor of public health sciences; Engelhard is an assistant professor and director of the Health Policy Program, Department of Public Health Sciences
Commentary: Affordable care act could mean huge changes in your health care coverage
Houston Chronicle / July 6
John Norton Moore
Law professor and director of U.Va.\'s Center for Oc...
By Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies
One of the most interesting and maddening issues to emerge from the debacle at the University of Virginia over the past month has been the obsession that people far removed from the actual work of teaching college and university students have for MOOCs – “Massive Open Online Courses,” such as those offered with great fanfare by Stanford University, MIT, Harvard, and others.
The home of the UVA baseball program just started receiving a huge makeover. A new playing surface and much more is being installed at Davenport Field.
College of William & Mary President Taylor Reveley offers a prescription for the future of Virginia higher education.
The Monticello-UVA Archaeological Field School is on the verge of discovering two slave dwellings that Thomas Jefferson excluded from his maps of Monticello.
Studies have reported the over-the-counter vaginal lubricants impact sperm motility in a laboratory setting (in vitro). A new study by researchers affiliated with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville revisited this issue. They evaluated the impact on fertility in human couples (in vivo). They published their findings in the July 2012 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
A new study by the National Center for Postsecondary Research found that summer bridge programs are producing promising but mixed results. The study found positive impacts for students over the first 18 months after completing a bridge program and entering college, a time period when they are most likely to drop out of school. "There are some gains pushing students toward college-level math," said Heather D. Wathington, an assistant professor of education at the University of Virginia and lead author of the study. "But the gains appear to be short-term. It's like a booster shot. You need it, b...
The University of Virginia Foundation presented a $90,000 check to the Wounded Warrior Project during a special post-race celebration Friday.
Charlottesville's Henry Avenue Learning Center plans to offer a new elective course called Learn and Serve, which is designed to increase self-awareness and concepts related to community service. In a partnership with the University of Virginia Women's Center, the project seeks to use philosophy to develop students' critical thinking and relationship skills.
U.Va.'s Board of Visitors spent $115,581 for the fiscal year ending June 30 on expenses that included dinners, overnight stays at luxury hotels, car and airline fares, and entertainment for spouses.
Students will soon be able to take University of Virginia and Virginia Tech classes at a new joint center for the two universities, to be located near the entrance to City Center. The city's Economic Development Authority on Friday approved a $94,900 grant to support the project. The center will focus on science, math, business, information technology and engineering classes, both for professional development for local companies and for undergraduate and graduate students at U.Va. and graduate students at Virginia Tech.
Online education has come to the fore as an item of discussion at the University of Virginia since last month's failed attempt to oust President Teresa A. Sullivan.
One of the most beloved individuals in University of Virginia history, Dr. Frank C. McCue III, passed away Sunday at the age of 82. Known simply to most as “Doc,” McCue directed the UVa sports medicine program for more than 40 years.
The current members of the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors have given many millions of dollars to the university, and board members are in a unique position to align their gifts with the university's needs.
T.C. McCarthy
Science fiction writer, Ph.D. scientist, Fulbright Fellow, Howard Hughes Biomedical Research Scholar
Sci-fi author finds success with subterranean trilogy
Aiken (S.C.) Standard / July 6
John D'earth
Director of jazz performance
Kyle Thomas remembered through his music
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 6
Brandon Garrett
Law professor
Va. police required to have eyewitness ID
The Associated Press / July 6
Cristina Gherghe
Endocrinology fellow
Virginia: Doctor Recommends State Pay for Inmates Gender Reassignment Surgery
The Advocate / July 5
Kyle Kondik
Analyst with U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Connecticut Republicans skipping GOP national convention
Connecticut Mirror / July 5
Peter Norton
Assistant professor in the Engineering School's Department of Science, Technolo...
Former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett reports on an interview with the founder of Udacity, an online education outreach that has attracted a massive number of students.
One week before she was asked to resign, University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan suggested the board of visitors turn its attention to U.Va.'s academic mission at an upcoming retreat. She was rebuffed by Rector Helen E. Dragas, who responded by email two days later that she had decided the board should "take a general time out on content" and instead focus the retreat "on self-assessment and governance alignment." Dragas' response foreshadowed her June 10 announcement that Sullivan would resign, a decision rescinded 16 days later after a campus revolt. The email exchanges were release...
A report in the August issue of Consumer Reports magazine that lists the University of Virginia Medical Center as the third-worst-ranked hospital in the state in terms of safety is causing a lot of conversation in Charlottesville, but local officials say the rankings, while worth looking at, don't necessarily tell the whole story.