The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia will honor 12 faculty members next month for their work. Winners of the 2014 Outstanding Faculty Award include two from U.Va.: Linda Columbus, associate professor of chemistry, and William Petri Jr., professor of infectious diseases.
Others said Virginia's lax laws open the door for influence buying. Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said business leaders probably don't give gifts in exchange for anything specific, but they want that politician to remember them whenever something arises that would affect their organization.
A major provider of free online college courses from prominent universities has begun to offer “specialization certificates,” for a fee, to students who complete a sequence of courses in a given subject. The certificates, for courses taken via the online platform Coursera, are the latest development in a movement that advocates say will democratize elite higher education.
(Abbi Shelat, associate professor of computer science, is among the signatories) Media reports since last June have revealed that the US government conducts domestic and international surveillance on a massive scale, that it engages in deliberate and covert weakening of Internet security standards, and that it pressures US technology companies to deploy backdoors and other data-collection features. As leading members of the US cryptography and information-security research communities, we deplore these practices and urge that they be changed.
As political prognosticator Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told Megyn Kelly Thursday, Republicans, “…are very lucky this year in that the most competitive seats left on the board are in deeply red, Republican states where there are Democratic incumbents.”
Without changing a thing, Republicans are very well positioned for the midterm elections this year and even for the 2016 presidential election. As the University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato recently noted, Republicans are almost guaranteed to keep the House of Representatives in November; they have about a 50-50 chance of taking the majority in the U.S. Senate; and they are likely to keep their majority of the nation’s governor’s mansions.
In "Fe26," sculptor and University of Virginia professor of art Kevin Jerome Everson works with iron and film; both are abstract art forms and he's been mixing his mediums for a while. In this short, the title drawn from the periodic table symbol for iron, he follows a couple of metal scrappers who spend their days stripping abandoned houses. A crowbar, made by Everson, takes center stage, prying up manhole covers for this off-center look at deconstruction and discards.
Henry Li, a senior at the University of Virginia, read all the original Sherlock Holmes mysteries before watching the BBC series. He doubted the TV version could live up to the original. “But I have to say, setting the plot in modern fashionable London is clever. Though I love the carriages and revolvers in the books, this is a fresh view with new plots,” says the student in biomedical engineering who returned to Shanghai for the holidays. “You can’t really compare the two, though sometimes there are surprising details reminiscent of the novels, and that’s great.&...
“New year, new mayor, new promises, same old problems with transparency,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered a test used to detect a rare type of cancer in children may produce false positives. Their findings show a fusion of genes thought to be unique to the cancer also occurs during normal cell development.
Forty-three percent of grades given out by college faculty are A’s, according to research published by Teachers College at Columbia University. Yet one-half of students about to graduate from four-year colleges and 75 percent at two-year schools fall below the “proficient” level of literacy, according to a survey by the American Institutes for Research. That means they’re unable to complete such real-world tasks as comparing credit-card offers with different interest rates, or summarizing the two sides of an argument. “It’s really bad news, and it’s go...
(By Jennifer Anyaegbunam, a third-year medical student at the University of Virginia) I’ve spent the past four weeks learning about primary care on my Family Medicine rotation. A significant portion of patient care in this setting is focused on “health maintenance” or disease prevention. Physicians can provide their patients with evidence-based recommendations for various screening tests and vaccinations, but it is ultimately up to the patient to decide what services he or she will receive.
a recent study ‘Investment Bank Reputation and “Star” Cultures’ by Professor Alan Morrison at Saïd Business School, Zhaohui Chen and William Wilheim of the University of Virginia, shows performance-based compensation may cause junior bankers to act in their own self-interests, which are often at odds with those of their clients. This culture gives rise to reputational conflicts, and has contributed to a decline in investment bank reputations in recent years.
(Commentary) When I learned last Thursday morning that Josh Darden had peacefully passed away the night before, I had to acknowledge that the timing for me personally was both sadly unfortunate but also somehow appropriate to his role in my life.
Misplace your car keys, and you lose some time. Misplace highly radioactive radium, and you have real problems. Everybody from janitors to doctors at the University of Virginia Hospital learned that the hard way in November 1935.
A future where one-story shopping centers on U.S. 29 are replaced with multi-story buildings in which people live, work and shop is the vision of the team that won both the student and public prizes at the University of Virginia School of Architecture’s third annual “vortex.”
W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia is surprised. "In some contexts in America today, religion is a buffer against divorce. But in the conservative Protestant context, this paper is showing us that it's not," he tells the Times, adding that the study also showed that more "secularism" was also linked to higher rates of divorce.
It is not a grand exhibit with people strolling by paintings and sipping wine. Hardly an exhibit at all, one might think when approaching the video screen placed above a locked glass case. But stand there a moment, and the realization might begin to settle into the consciousness that this is a display that is as much about what one feels as what one sees. On the screen the sight of a few dozen toddlers, eyes wide with fear, being herded toward an unknown fate may linger in the mind for days. So, too, the emaciated, hollow-cheeked corpses, mouths ajar, strewn about like litter. And yet it is no...
The HEPC was inspired by Ben Castleman, a researcher from the University of Virginia who conducted a study in which he sent texts to students in urban areas of the country during the summer after their senior year of high school and saw an increase in enrollment.
(Book review) The chance to meet Alexis Ohanian at an INFORUM event at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco allowed me to read his book, “Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed,” with an insider’s respect and appreciation for his charming sense of humor. If you are a speed reader and just want the short version, read the creative and hilarious footnotes crafted by this University of Virginia graduate who founded Reddit.com. He is at once brilliant and self-deprecating throughout this memoir of his 30-year-old geeky life.