(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies)Siva Vaidhyanathan wrote a personal essay for VQR about South Indian food, family and culture, and what has changed in today’s world.
Simply creating a financial aid system and college search tool kit isn’t enough. We have to make sure students and families know about these resources and can easily access them.
The results of IMPACT are themselves a matter of dispute. The study by Stanford’s Dee, with co-author James Wyckoff from the University of Virginia, found that the system has had a positive effect on teachers with both low and high ratings.
In this edition of Off the Record, below, you'll hear highlights of that report, campus reaction and discussion about the story's impact on future coverage of sexual-assault crimes.
Margaret Montague Feldman, a college adviser who works with low-income students at T.C. Williams High School, in Alexandria, Va., said parents are often reluctant to give out their income over the phone. "They don’t know who I am, what the Fafsa is, and why they need to be giving this personal information," said Ms. Feldman, who works for the Virginia College Advising Corps, which places recent University of Virginia graduates in high-need schools throughout the state. "The issue is not so much with the number of questions as it is with the difficulty of getting that infor...
It’s been about three weeks since Virginia State Police opened an investigation into the arrest of 20-year-old Martese Johnson in Charlottesville. 13 News Now has learned an administrative investigation like the one VSP is conducting right now is rare. Law enforcement has been asked to look into a sister agency, an agency funded with the same money from your tax dollars, only one other time.
About 75 students and their families were on UVa Grounds Wednesday for Paseo, an event put on in conjunction with the Latino Student Alliance at the University of Virginia.
Another new accelerator project, financed by USA Funds and the University of Virginia Curry School of Education, has just introduced a similar effort to identify and rigorously test promising ed tech products aimed at filling concrete needs for schools.
As the inaugural Charles W. McCurdy Legal History Fellow, Sarah Seo is exploring police searches of automobiles and the implications for individual freedom. Starting this summer, the legal historian will hone her dissertation on the subject while participating in a yearlong residency at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Coy Barefoot talks with Media Studies professor Aynne Kokas about the Sony hack, the real vulnerabilities of cloud storage — plus what we all need to understand about China’s emerging media market and what that means for the rest of the world.
(By Edward Hess, Professor of Business Administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business and author of “Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization”)Hess writes about the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business whose mission is to improve the world through entrepreneurship and innovation.
According to some economists at the University of Virginia [Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service], the phenomenon is very rare. It is confined only to extremely rapid change in the largest urban areas.
Kyle Lampe, 33, joined the University of Virginia faculty in January 2014 as an assistant professor of chemical engineering and launched the Lampe Biomaterials Group, which is conducting research in neural-tissue engineering, drug delivery and redox [a portmanteau of reduction and oxidation] regulation of stem cell fate, among other interests.
The University of Virginia's Curry School of Education will offer its first online degrees this fall. They include two master of education degrees in reading education and curriculum and education, and an education specialist degree in reading education.
(By Robert F. Turner, a School of Law professor who has taught at the University of Virginia since 1988, and his son Thomas, a third-year student in the university’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.)Women are safer at the University of Virginia than at many other colleges.
The University of Virginia fraternity at the center of a retracted article by Rolling Stone magazine that detailed a purported gang rape by its members said on Monday that it planned “to pursue all available legal action against the magazine.”
U.Va. ROTC Cadets Seek Blood for Military PersonnelThe University of Virginia’s ROTC programs are looking for blood donors to support the military. The drive, part of the Armed Services Blood Program, will run from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Newcomb Hall Ballroom on April 13, with a team from the Fort Bragg Blood Donor Center collecting blood to be used for the military in its medical centers. All blood types are welcome, although types AB and O are in the most demand. Walk-in donations are welcome; however, donors are encouraged to make an appointment using the ASBP’s online ...
Cancer is what happens when abnormal cells grow in an uncontrolled way. Not all cell abnormalities are tied to or lead to cancer, and scientists are constantly trying to discover which do and which do not. Now, in a new breakthrough, researchers suggest targeting a type of abnormality that causes mitochondria to deform and divide unnaturally, may block the growth of tumors in many common cancers.