Last fall The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia invited the public for the first time to vote online on works from the museum’s permanent collection for an upcoming exhibit. Opening Friday and running through Aug. 2, The Fralin’s new crowd-sourced exhibit, “What is a Line?”
They [the parents] met with the specialists at the University of Virginia’s Pediatric Heart Center in Charlottesville. “I felt like a 100 pounds had been lifted off. They regularly perform the series of heart surgeries he would need. They know what to expect.”
For the new study, which was presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in San Diego on Sunday, Mark DeBoer, from University of Virginia, and colleagues looked at the data of over 11,000 kindergarten children particularly information on lifestyle factors that could impact their educational performance such as their television habits and computer usage. The researchers likewise noted the height and weight of the students.
The University of Virginia is creating two new finance committees in an attempt to address student concerns over transparency. The UVA Student Fee and Tuition Advisory Committees will start meeting with the university's chief operating officer in the fall. UVA Student Council says the groups will provide input on big decisions.
The Virginia Sea Grant charter was signed Monday in Richmond by the presidents of George Mason, Old Dominion, Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia and William & Mary.
Amid concerns over childhood obesity and other health threats, interest in alterative vending is growing from schools and colleges, including a contract Vend Natural announced this month with the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors is divided over the future of school President Teresa A. Sullivan as she negotiates her contract following a series of nationally publicized crises.
This June will mark 10 years since he and his University of Virginia roommate Steve Huffman co-founded the social news site Reddit after moving into a two-bedroom apartment in Medford, Massachusetts, where they started coding what would eventually come to be known as “the front page of the internet.” Obama wrote, using the site’s own terminology, about their activism around net neutrality.
“I was pretty certain I was going to die,” Mr. Ang Jun Heng, now 24 and a commerce major at the University of Virginia in the United States, told The Sunday Times last week, when two of his assailants were sentenced.
(By Abraham Axler, president of U.Va. Student Council) The success of the University of Virginia’s new financial model, termed “Affordable Excellence,” ought to be determined not by statistics but rather by students’ experiences.
(By Mila Versteeg, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Adam Chilton is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.)Last December, the release of the Senate Torture Report shocked the world. But although the C.I.A.’s use of torture had been more brutal and extensive than previously reported, researchers who study human rights were not surprised to see more evidence that a government—even a democratic one—frequently engages in torture. In fact, there is data suggesting that in 2011, of the 107 democracies i...
Bob Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, said teachers have responded well to the observation method of evaluation. The student academic progress category, Pianta said, is the most controversial because two teachers could deliver the same curriculum in the same manner to two different classes, which could then produce two different levels of test scores.
But if the Supreme Court now decided that laws like Prop. 8 were constitutional, Brown and Harris would have a legal obligation to enforce the ban, said A.E. Dick Howard, a law professor at the University of Virginia widely respected as an authority on constitutional law. That would also be true in other states, like Oregon, Nevada and Virginia, whose top executives declined to defend their marriage laws, he said.
Every day, Americans wake to new reports of fatal gun violence. But in late-14th-century London? That’s the intriguing foundation on which Bruce Holsinger builds “The Invention of Fire,” his second historical novel featuring poet and trader-in-secrets John Gower, a real-life figure of the era.
You will be forgiven if, upon completing Bruce Holsinger’s novel “The Invention of Fire,” you decide that the author spent his early years in late 14th-century London, later to be magically transported to our own time. Holsinger is a scholar of the medieval era who teaches at the University of Virginia. This is his second novel set in the 1380s.
ANNIE ROREM, 29, PUBLIC POLICYThese days, Rorem is a policy associate in the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Demographics Research Group.
“Apart from streets, parks and sidewalks, the government as owners of space can restrict its speech uses as long as it does not engage in discrimination on the basis of point of view,” said Frederick Schauer, a University of Virginia law professor.
“Television is a very passive activity,” says study author Mark D. DeBoer, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia. Combine the ill effects of sitting with TV-related behaviors like more snacking and exposure to commercials selling unhealthy food, and the effects can add up.
“Safety, comfort and all that aside, the efficiency of a dedicated facility is that you can maintain varying speeds,” said Alec Gosse, an author of the UVA study, in an interview this week.
The University of Virginia Medical Center received over one million dollars for research funding from the organization last year alone.