Behold, these awesome pictures of Tina Fey and her friend Cady Garey as “pinheads” in a production of “The Elephant Man” at the University of Virginia in 1991.
The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF) announces $400,700 in grants is being awarded to 61 local nonprofits. The grant money is coming from the Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band in CACF. Among the beneficiaries are the University of Virginia Office of Development and Public Affairs ($10,000) and WTJU ($6,000).
Much depends on the law’s continuing implementation and other events during Obama’s final three years in office, said Larry Sabato, a political scientist who runs the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. Still, Obama has work to do to win back public trust, Sabato said. "A whole series of presidents developed credibility gaps, because people didn’t trust what they were saying anymore. And that’s Obama’s real problem," he said. "Once you lose the trust of a substantial part of the American public, how do you get it back?"
There were some secret agents running around Clark Elementary School in Charlottesville Thursday. First- and fourth-graders were putting their "secret agent" training to the test in a course designed by engineering students at the University of Virginia. The event included everything from laser mazes to understanding motion and weight sensors. The goal is for students to realize engineering is about more than just the numbers, and that it can be fun.
Politics calls to those with a competitive spirit. According to Geoffrey Skelley associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball – a weekly political newsletter from the University of Virginia Center for Politics – this competitive mentality may help win the race, but it can also intensify polarization, and attract the wrong crowd.
(By Charles Mathewes, Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies) The most pressing problem facing academics today is undoubtedly the emergence of a two-tier job market, in which those on the tenure track live alongside — some would say on top of — a vast pool of adjuncts who lack much in the way of job security, opportunities for professional development, and oftentimes simple academic respect. What’s more, this economic crisis is part of a broader cultural assault on academic authority that needs confronting on our part.
The University of Virginia's Glee Club is continuing a holiday tradition. On Thursday night, the Virginia Glee Club rehearsed for its 73rd annual Christmas Concert. The show will feature will traditional and unique versions of holiday favorites, the group's own traditional holiday pieces, and audience participation.
University of Virginia environmental scientist Howard Epstein, another study co-author, warned that changes in the Arctic reverberate around the globe. "The Arctic is not like Vegas," Epstein said. "What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic."
“The psychology of this is fascinating,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “Speaker Boehner stuck to the party line in October that the government shutdown was necessary and warranted, and would produce a GOP win. He knew better even then.”
The most effective way to reduce gun violence without significantly curtailing Second Amendment rights is to treat the problem as a public health issue, like smoking or drunken driving, rather trying to profile potential shooters, according to a report released Thursday by a panel of experts who were commissioned by the American Psychological Association to study the issue in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre. “There’s been so much focus on crisis response, on getting to the scene on time and fortifying our schools, and that’s not going to take care of the problem,&rdq...
Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 students from around the globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence, starting what was widely viewed as a revolution in higher education, early results for such large-scale courses are disappointing, forcing a rethinking of how college instruction can best use the Internet.
Gov. Bob McDonnell proposes plowing $183.1 million into higher education in his upcoming two-year budget, the lion’s share of the money in line with the “Top Jobs” effort. From a pool of about $150 million, $45 million would funnel to college and university base operations and financial aid while $105 million would go to performance incentives, McDonnell’s office announced Wednesday, ahead of his formal budget presentation Monday.
Although a Wall Street bank has never faced a deferred-prosecution agreement, according to a University of Virginia Law School database, Wachovia and the banking arm of American Express have entered into such deals.
Douglas Laycock, a noted expert in the field of same-sex marriage and religious liberty, wrote recently that while the number of people who think same-sex marriage is morally or religiously wrong "is large," there is a very small percentage of businesspeople "who will turn away business in the name of conscience." And he predicted their numbers should fall as same-sex marriages become "more familiar and accepted."
A delegation of 13 representatives from leading universities and study abroad programs in the United States arrived in Israel for a weeklong visit, geared toward developing new study abroad collaborations with Israeli institutions. The delegation includes representatives from Brandeis University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Emory University, Georgetown University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Tulane University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and Yale University, as well as the director of education abro...
Among public colleges in Virginia and Maryland, three consistently rank in the top 10 in a Kiplinger’s analysis of “best values” in the country: the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Maryland at College Park.
The president of the Semester at Sea Cruise Ship academic program, Les McCabe, announced here on Tuesday that given to the positive results of this visit, the group will return next year for longer. Sponsored by the University of Virginia, USA, the program brought yesterday about 648 people to Havana, 568 of which are students from more than 200 universities in 42 states of the Union, most of Americans, but there are from other nations, such as Mexico and Canada.
The University of Virginia’s “warning status” has been lifted by its accreditation agency, following a number of policy changes by the Board of Visitors.
The first runner-up is the University of Virginia, for the second consecutive year. UVA has the highest four-year graduation rate on our list and the second-lowest in-state cost ($5,070, on average) after need-based aid is applied.