Book Traces is a new crowdsourced project that is collecting images of library books published between 1820 and 1923 that include marginalia and inserts. The site is part of NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), which is directed by Professor Andrew M. Stauffer at the University of Virginia.
Final exercises at the University of Virginia are expected to bring huge crowds to town this weekend. Hotels and restaurants are bracing for a big weekend in Charlottesville, as tens of thousands of people flood town. ... Officials expect nearly 30,000 people to descend on UVA for final exercises this weekend.
Aramark and its client partners at the University of Virginia and James Madison University have achieved Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Chain of Custody certification resulting in the first MSC certified Aramark properties in the United States. MSC made this announcement, stating that the certification of these two universities will provide more than 40,000 students, faculty and employees daily with seafood that can be traced back to a fishery that has been certified to the science-based, global MSC standard for sustainable wild-caught seafood.
1. Stephen Colbert delivers a hilarious guest speech to University of Virginia's class of 2013.
U.Va. School of Law ranked No. 5 in the nation, with 132 clerkships, or 11.9 percent of the total graduates in those years.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park – The National Park Service has selected two people to temporarily take over key positions in the park. Cynthia MacLeod will take over as the park’s acting superintendent, and Clay Jordan will become the park’s acting deputy superintendent.
“Many who confess do so in short interrogations,” University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett writes in his book, “Convicting the Innocent.” “In contrast, almost all of these [false confession] interrogations were prolonged affairs, lasting many hours or even days.”
But Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said they raise concerns that US and foreign banks are being treated differently.
On Thursday evening — as Charlottesville braces for the organized chaos that comes with graduation weekend at the University of Virginia — more than 600 students at Piedmont Virginia Community College will receive their degrees in a ceremony at John Paul Jones Arena. ... Others, like nursing graduates Alton Annabel and Mike Bannister, are embarking on new careers. Annabel and Bannister, who have both been hired by the UVa Medical Center, show what a reputable community college can offer its students. Both are adults who decided to switch careers later in life.
Between 20 and 30 of the books will be introduced to Ghana in August, said Theresa Dankovich, who is now a post-doctoral fellow in chemistry at the University of Virginia.
Companies and individuals in the Shenandoah Valley were honored during the annual champions of disability employment ceremony Wednesday at the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton. Organizers say the group is setting positive examples. The University of Virginia, Hershey, and James Madison University were all recognized.
Working with the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program, School of Architecture graduate student Tom Bliska's “eco-reMOD” team of architecture students is hard at work improving a nearly century-old house in the 10th and Page neighborhood.
Thomas Talhelm, a social psychologist and PhD candidate at the University of Virginia, says unpublished data he gathered over 2012-13 in India mirrors his findings in China—published last week in the journal Science—of significant cultural differences between wheat- and rice-growing cultures.
Graduation weekend at the University of Virginia is expected to bring more than 30,000 people to Charlottesville this weekend. The university will conduct Final Exercises on Sunday morning, but thousands of people will be in town for a full weekend of activities, including Saturday’s Valedictory Exercises featuring speaker Peyton Manning.
It’s definitely been a year of change at the University, from the announcement of some major departures to a big reveal to the Rotunda dome’s makeover, but it’s also been a bang-up year for advancement, thanks to research and writing from the faculty.
It’s been a year of achievement and change at UVA, and as another class prepares to become alumni, we’re taking a look back. In this piece, we’ve gathered stories of students who stuck out in the last year—particularly those whose achievements were outside the classroom.
A study by Backblaze of hard drive failures shows they don't fail any less often if allowed to run hotter than their recommended operating temperature. Other studies about drive temperatures have drawn varying conclusions. Google didn't see a correlation, but Microsoft and the University of Virginia did. But one major difference with Backblaze's work is that, like its previous study, it names which drive makes and models were part of the pool.
Margo Bagley, a law professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, also can’t relate to the “sky is falling” mentality. Roslin’s broad claim to a variety of cloned animals conflicts with long-standing Supreme Court precedent, she says, but a more narrow claim would have stood a better chance.
Apart from some unforeseen event, Republicans are positioned to pick up four to eight Senate seats in the November midterm elections, says Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.