Rita Dove, Miami University graduate and former poet laureate, was awarded a 2011 National Medal of the Arts by President Barack Obama. Dove, who graduated in 1973, was one of eight people presented with the medal on Feb. 13.
Even as Americans feel freer to find a marriage partner without race as a barrier, the institution of marriage faces strains on other fronts, however. The National Marriage Project, a research group based at the University of Virginia, has documented what it calls a worrisome decline of marriage, particularly among poorer and working-class Americans.
The University of Virginia Department of Drama is examining complex issues of discrimination through its new production of Caryl Churchill’s “Vinegar Tom.” The play can be seen at the Helms Theatre.
The audience at The Lodge at Old Trail traveled decades back into American history Thursday night to listen to U.S. presidents air their deepest fears and their most mundane requests. Presidential conversations provided by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia revealed President Lyndon Johnson agonizing over the future of the Vietnam War with Georgia Sen. Richard Russell in 1964. But on another tape, the audience was amused to hear Johnson speak to an official of Haggar Clothing and talk about ill-fitting slacks and jackets he ordered.
Cites the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, developed by researchers at the Curry School of Education, which were used in both the MET study and the most sweeping studies of preschool classroom quality.
Kim Lowry, principal of South Elementary, a 500-student school in rural Kennett, Mo., was wary when her superintendent enrolled her in a part-time, two-year business school program. …That changed in the summer of 2009, when she attended her first classes at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
To mark Presidents Day, the Miller Center at the University of Virginia has launched Presidential Classroom, an online resource to teach students about the U.S. presidency and government.
SpermCheck, an over-the-counter male fertility test, is one of the most recent and high-profile products to emerge from research led by the University of Virginia. But Mark Crowell, UVa’s executive director and associate vice president for innovation partnerships and commercialization, says other noteworthy breakthroughs are on the horizon.
The latest annual college fundraising figures out Wednesday show donations to colleges and universities rose 8.2% in fiscal 2011, crossing back over the $30 billion mark for just the second time ever, and improving many schools' financial footing after several lean years during the economic downturn. But the very richest universities accounted for nearly half the growth.
Washington area colleges earn generally high marks for quality-of-life issues among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, according to an ”LGBT-friendly” index. (U.Va. received 3.5 out of 5 stars.)
He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he received undergraduate [1933] and law degrees [1936], according to the firm. He was a Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif and a member of the university’s Raven Society, the firm said. Seward was a distant relative of William H. Seward, President Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state, according to the firm.
Todd Sherer [Ph.D. in neuroscience, 1999] wants to put the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF)--the world’s largest private funder of Parkinson’s Disease research--out of business. That may sound strange, especially considering that if Sherer achieves that goal as CEO of the Foundation, he’ll be out of a job. But it will also mean they’ve found a cure for Parkinson’s, a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that affects one million people in the United States, and more than 5 million worldwide.
A founding partner of one Richmond’s biggest law firms is trading in his downtown office tower for a laboratory. Dennis Ryan [Law '82], co-founder of LeClairRyan, is leaving the firm that bears his name in April for Health Diagnostic Laboratory.
Called Christ Church of Vienna, the blossoming church held its first service in November, in the Louise Archer Elementary School cafeteria. It is run by a Board of Directors, the "church council." As Pastor of the church, [Johnny] Kurcina [College '97] heads its future, guided by the deliberations of the church council. Kurcina would like to see more Anglican churches "planted" in the area.
[Peter Farrell, College '06] is a Republican who represents the 56th House District, which includes Louisa County and parts of Goochland, Henrico and Spotsylvania counties.
Marc P. Berger [Law '99], a veteran federal prosecutor, on Wednesday was named to be the new chief of the securities fraud unit for the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan. … As chief of the securities fraud unit, Mr. Berger will supervise a team that has brought a series of high profile insider trading prosecutions against hedge fund traders and other corporate insiders.
City of Falls Church Mayor Nader Baroukh has announced his intention to seek re-election to the City Council. Baroukh was elected to the Council in 2008 and became Mayor in 2010. He is a senior attorney with management responsibilities at the Department of Homeland Security, where he handles immigration and national security issues. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law [class of 1999] and holds a bachelors degree from Chapman University in Orange, California.
By Val Ackerman, College '81, four-year starter on U.Va. basketball team, founding president of the WNBA, 2012 Valediction speaker
With the 40th anniversary of Title IX looming, this an ideal time to take stock of just how sports fit into the overall educational experience of young women and to assess whether the intercollegiate programs that have evolved over the past four decades are doing the best possible job of preparing female student-athletes for the demands of life they will encounter after their playing days are over.
Dr. Edward Bertram
Professor of neurology
Gene therapy in epilepsy could stop seizures
ZME Science / Feb. 15
Dr. David Kaufman
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Bundles battling infections in hospitals
Infectious Diseases in Children / Feb. 15
Kyle Kondik
Communications director of the Center for Politics
Obama seeks to energize young voters in Virginia
Washington Examiner / Feb. 15
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
Obama's popularity could take a hit if gas prices continue to spike
Fox News / Feb. 15
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“Presidential Politics Then and Now” outlines the birth of modern politics in the tumultuous 1800 election between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. Peter S. Onuf, the University of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History and a historian of the National Public Radio’s “The BackStory: with the American History Guys,” and Frank Cogliano, professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, are the featured speakers of this two-part event.