Eleven humanities projects in Virginia have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The National Endowment for the Humanities announced the grants Monday. The Virginia projects total nearly $2 million in funding. ... Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, George Mason University, the College of William and Mary and the George C. Marshall Research Foundation also received grants.
The University of Virginia researchers quickly found the task wasn't as simple as envisioned. Participants struggled to entertain themselves with just their thoughts for six to 15 minutes and didn't enjoy the experience, according to the study published in July's Science Magazine. ... To gain a more in-depth perspective on the study, we chatted with Erin Westgate, a second-year graduate student at UVA and a co-author on the paper.
City crews will remove the cobblestones at 14th Street and University Avenue at the University of Virginia corner. Once the wobbly stones are out, crews will repave that intersection. The project will also give taller vehicles a few extra inches of space to get under the railroad bridge.
Blood pressure checks, vision tests and mammograms are among the many free health screenings available at this year’s Charlottesville Community Health Fair, being held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The University of Virginia, Martha Jefferson Hospital and the Virginia Department of Health are teaming up to offer the fair. It will be held in conjunction with the 25th annual African-American Cultural Arts Festival at Washington Park on Preston Avenue.
The state of Virginia may not recognize gay marriage, but three public institutions aren't letting the law get in the way of them supporting same-sex couples. The College of William and Mary, George Mason University and the University of Virginia have all passed inclusive resolutions urging administrations to extend benefits like health care to same-sex partners.
A professor named Lisa Woolfork created a class that encourages students to “analyze” the Game of Thrones book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, according to UVA Today. Woolfork’s creation is a four-week summer English seminar that pushes undergrads to delve deep into the books while watching the HBO series.
That’s right, Game of Thrones has entered the world of academia. The University of Virginia is currently offering a four-week seminar on the series — allowing students to study both the books and the first three seasons of the HBO show. ...
The University of Virginia will unveil a fleet of 120 bicycles later this summer as part of a new bike-sharing program. The bikes will serve about 1,100 acres of UVa’s Grounds, giving riders a transport alternative.
Three faculty members from the University of Virginia are this year’s finalists for the Library of Virginia’s annual Literary Awards.Barbara Perry, a senior fellow and associate professor at the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program, claimed one of the top three nonfiction spots for her biography “Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch.”Alan Taylor was tapped as a finalist for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book “The Internal Enemy,” an account of the slaves who sought freedom by escaping to the British side during the ...
A new six-year strategic plan, which the college’s Board of Trustees endorsed Thursday, reinforces the institution’s ongoing metamorphosis. “They’ve certainly been far more entrepreneurial and willing to try things that many other institutions won’t,” said David Breneman, the Newton and Rita Meyers Professor in Economics of Education at the University of Virginia. Breneman, the higher education expert from the University of Virginia, wrote an influential article in 1990 that argued that the liberal arts college was disappearing.
After more than 40 years in academia, David Breneman is set to begin a new phase of his career as president and chief executive officer of The Society of the Four Arts. Breneman, 73, will take up the reins Jan. 1. He succeeds Ervin Duggan, who announced his retirement in December after 13 years at the helm. Trained as an economist, Breneman is a nationally recognized expert in the finance and economics of higher education and the author of several books. He has worked for 19 years at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, most recently as a professor and as Newton and Rita Meyers Profe...
James Clawson, a professor with the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, agrees. McDonald needs to do a “clean 100 percent sweep of senior management,” he said in an email. “You can’t get to ‘B’ with the horses who got you to ‘A.’ ”
Marshall Jevons’ The Mystery of the Invisible Hand (Princeton University Press, forthcoming September 7) may not measure up to Wittgenstein’s lofty standard since it imparts knowledge rather than wisdom, but it’s still a worthwhile, enjoyable read. Marshall Jevons is the pen name of William L. Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University and the University of Virginia. They write mysteries that mix economics lessons with murder.
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank Dr. John A. Bartlett from the Duke Global Health Institute and Dr. Eric Houpt from the University of Virginia School of Medicine for their comments.
“You have to offer hope to donors,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball, a website of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “For an incumbent, his numbers are dreadful.”
Whether or not the U.S. Supreme Court accepts Utah’s efforts to uphold the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, it is clear, in the words of University of Virginia professor Douglas Laycock: “The conflict between religious liberty and gay rights is bad for both sides and dangerous for the American tradition of individual liberty.”
The World Vision memo will be helpful, though religious organizations would be better protected if the forthcoming executive order included a religious exemption, said Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia.
“This is the closest thing to a Greek tragedy that we’ve had in Virginia politics,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “The man was talked about as a presidential and vice presidential candidate. He had high popularity in Virginia. For a while, he was seen as potentially one of Virginia’s great modern governors,” Sabato said. “And it’s all evaporated.”
The Democrat’s name brand and deep pockets give him a significant advantage over Gillespie, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Warner is a known quantity and something of a comfortable shoe for many Virginians and key state interest groups; Gillespie is known only by a relative handful of GOP activists at the state and national level,” Sabato said.