(Includes video of Wright reading his poem “When the Horses Gallop Away from Us, It’s a Good Thing”)
“What I consider the holy grail of this exhibit because it was the most amazing thing for us to acquire are the handwritten pages of (John Steinbeck’s)‘ The Grapes of Wrath’,’” Farber said. The pages were not in any of the major Steinbeck archives, but Farber traced them to the University of Virginia library. The college was reluctant to lend the writings to the Autry, but Farber kept pleading with them until they agreed. “The Grapes of Wrath” pages are one of the key items in the show because it is within that the term “Mother Road” ...
According to a statement prominently displayed on the Semester at Sea website, the University of Virginia and the organization that has offered a multiple country study abroad program to students of all majors since 1963 have "mutually agreed" to end their relationship. UVa will no longer be the academic sponsor for Semester at Sea, effective May 31, 2016.
For anyone who felt awkward as a teenager and desperately wanted to be popular like the ‘cool kids’ at school, a new study may seem like poetic justice. Scientists have found that teenagers who act cool in early adolescence are more likely to experience a range of problems in early adulthood, compared to their geeky peers. Children who are revered at school, for example, are more likely to have alcohol and drug problems, become involved in crime, and have problems in relationships. According to a decade-long study by researchers at the University of Virginia, cool teens who seek ou...
Part of that process is a tenure review that in New York City has grown increasingly rigorous in recent years. Research from Stanford and the University of Virginia, released Wednesday, found that the city’s tenure review process has recently been effective at easing out ineffective teachers before they received tenure.
Nine institutions including NASA and U.Va. are joining forces in a partnership dedicated to climate change research on the mid-Atlantic coast. The goal is to help local and regional leaders make coastal communities more resilient in the face of climate change by providing science and research to inform public policy. ... Its vision statement is far-reaching: "We will be the best understood coastline in the world and a destination for coastal science and public policy integration worldwide."
Nine institutions including NASA and U.Va. are joining forces in a partnership dedicated to climate change research on the mid-Atlantic coast. The goal is to help local and regional leaders make coastal communities more resilient in the face of climate change by providing science and research to inform public policy. ... Its vision statement is far-reaching: "We will be the best understood coastline in the world and a destination for coastal science and public policy integration worldwide."