In this post I want to discuss four apps worth examining that all try to get users to look at objects and use the tablet platform to extend that experience. And then maybe, there’ll be questions about apps creating virtual analogues of a physical experience. The apps in question are: The University of Virginia Art Museum’s “UVaM” app, MoMA’s “Abstract Expressionism NY,” The American Folk Art Museum’s “Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts”, and a non-museum example, Pyrolia SA’s “Road, Inc.”
The University of Virginia will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with events beginning Sunday (the day before the federal holiday memorializing the civil rights leader) and running through the end of the month. The keynote will be delivered by noted vocalist, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte on Jan. 24 at 6 p.m. at the Paramount Theater. Julian Bond, the U.Va. professor and civil rights activist who once chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will also speak.
As New Hampshire residents voted Tuesday in the GOP presidential primary, so too did 350 Albemarle County High School students. The mock election is more than just a political lesson, as government students are making sure their votes count in the primary process. ... Just like the voters in New Hampshire, students are casting their votes for the GOP presidential candidates. But they are doing it through the Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI), an educational outreach program offered by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Albemarle is just a great example of active tea...
The Bill & Melinda Gates report is just one of many that offer recommendations for best practices in teacher evaluations ... And despite heightened focus on teacher evaluations, a report out the same month showed that there are few professional development methods that have proven to effectively promote student learning. Robert Pianta, the study's author, notes that evaluations should be used to assess and target areas that teachers can improve and bolster their skillsets, rather than for the current common practice of firing ineffective teachers said to be dragging student performance.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Medical Center have discovered a new, faster way to detect outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals.
Carrie Brown
Received her master of fine arts in creative writing at U.Va. and is the author of five novels
Sweet Briar professor to teach at Hollins University
‎Lynchburg News and Advance | Jan. 10
John Hanneman
Earned a degree in environmental science
Wood Business Keeps Evolving: Hanneman Forest Products Looks to Multitek to Boost Firewood Production
TimberLine | Jan. 9
Judge John Roll
A 1990 alum of the School of Law's graduate program for judges
Special Session Honors UVa Grad Killed in Tucson Shootings
WCAV CBA-19 | Jan. 9
Freddie Williams
Received her undergraduate d...
Jennifer Rae Greeson
An assistant professor of English and author of “Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature”
What a concept
News and Record, Greensboro, N.C. | Jan. 9
Kyle Kondik
A political analyst with the Center for Politics
As New Hampshire votes, Mitt Romney faces a moment of truth
The Hill (blog) | Jan. 10
Jerome McGann
An English professor and a pioneer in digital scholarship in the humanities
The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality
New York Times (blog) | Jan. 9
Maurie D. McInnis
A professor of art history and author of ...
As states establish new ways for funding institutions of higher education, Virginia finds itself moving forward with incentivizing colleges and universities instead of only providing across-the-board- base funding each year. Governor McDonnell mentioned the reform recently as he unveiled his proposed $200 million dollar higher education funding increase. This year, each institution can benefit from a pool of more than $20 million dollars for improved performance in areas with an associated point value. That amount will grow in the future. Virginia Secretary of Education Laura Forna...
The program focuses on the University of Virginia Press 320-page book, The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present, that contains a series of essays edited by Warren Hofstra and Karl Raitz about the road. Featured in the book are a number of photographs taken by Jost, a Bridgewater College professor, of sites along U.S. Rt. 11. Keller, who has a chapter in the book, has completed extensive research on the turnpike.
By Philip Zelikow
A professor of history who was counsellor of the US Department of State from 2005 to 2007
Barack Obama’s new defence strategy caps the most important year in American foreign policy for a decade. Whatever grade one gives to the president’s decisions, they are certainly consequential, adding up to the most profound shift in US foreign policy since the convulsive period between September 2001 and August 2002.
A lavish desert for guests at this Sunday's Golden Globe Awards decorated with edible gold balls and ingredients flown in from various locations around the world has attracted criticism. ... Why that is seen as an environmental problem is a measurement called one's carbon footprint - the amount of pollution emitted. That total estimation according to a carbon footprint calculator by the University of Virginia's TerraPass is 9,261 lbs of carbon dioxide.
“The combination of infrared sensitivity and a 300-target multiplexing capability will make it possible for APOGEE to create the first-ever systematic and comprehensive probe of stars in every part of our Galaxy,” says principal investigator Steven Majewski who presented the new survey at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, today. Astronomy professors David Nidever, Michael Skrutskie and graduate student Gail Zasowski are also part of the team.
The Wall Street Journal is expected to announce on Monday that Douglas A. Blackmon, a senior national correspondent who frequently covers politics, will be leaving the newspaper to take an academic post at the University of Virginia and to cover politics for The Washington Post as a contributing editor.
I kept hearing this sentiment from all sorts of people: There’s just something about being invited into the president’s home that makes students, faculty, donors and others feel personally connected to the school. ... University of Virginia: President Teresa A. Sullivan and her husband live in Carr’s Hill, a historic home that celebrated its centennial in 2009. The 11,647-square-foot house has 16 rooms and eight bathrooms and was designed by the same architect who redesigned the Rotunda after a fire in 1895. Over the past century, guests to Carr’s Hill have included pre...
Some lawyers would shy away from a client like Shanteny Calvin, but students at the University of Virginia law school’s Immigration Law Clinic were not afraid to take on her case. A Costa Rican immigrant and mother of three, Calvin dreamed of becoming a permanent resident of the United States. However, her criminal history complicated her case, making it less likely that she would be granted a green card.
Acquire a global perspective. Learn to communicate and lead. Get in touch with your creative side. Become a holistic thinker. Never have students in Virginia’s business schools had so much to learn. "In the past 10 years, there has been an evolution in the way we think about business education and in the perspective our students bring to us," says Carl Zeithaml, dean of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.
Thomas Truitt
A 1964 alumnus of the Law School