(Video) On this edition of UVa Today Bob Beard talks with Dr. Marcus Martin about upcoming events that honor Civil Rights leader Dr. King. The University of Virginia is celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr with events all around Grounds.
Karen Van Lengen is an architect and the Kenan Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Recently, as a Fellow at the University’s Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, she has been developing a project called Soundscape Architecture, which she describes as “an interpretative web-based project that listens to and records the sounds of iconic spaces of architecture, and then interprets them visually, acoustically, and aurally.” Van Lengen took me on a walk through a few of New York City’s notable soundscapes and reflected on why designers ...
Candidates are battling to the wire and rallying voters in Northern Virginia, but few residents have taken notice. "Considering we just had a gubernatorial election in Virginia ... the public isn't, understandably, thinking it's election season," says Geoffrey Skelley, spokesman for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Royal says waits are long for an appointment at Richmond’s free clinic, and if she misses work, she won’t get paid. Carolyn Engelhard gets that. She’s director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia. Not every community has a free clinic, she says, and those clinics – which are staffed mostly by volunteers -- can’t provide the kind of comprehensive and continuous care that people need. “Some of them can be cared for at the free clinic, and I serve on the board of the free clinic and have for the last decade, but the free...
A proposal in the state legislature to expand the size of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors Executive Committee will go to a vote in the Virginia House of Delegates. House Bill 465, sponsored by Henrico County Republican Delegate Jimmie Massie, would increase the executive committee's maximum membership size from six to seven. Massie was asked to carry the legislation on behalf of the university.
In the end, marriage promotion might still be a fine idea, but it clearly needs more research. “Most public policy efforts in the beginning stages don’t work,” said Bradford Wilcox, who runs the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. He drew a comparison to pre-K programs, which liberals have embraced fervently, but have shown mixed results so far. It takes time to figure out successful policy models, he said.
Christopher Hulleman, Professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, agreed. “STEM disciplines can be so masculine, and there’s also this presence of strong gender stereotypes, so females enter this masculine area, and not only do they have to act differently to fit in,” Hulleman said, “but then there’s a stereotype of what they’re going to be like as females, so it’s a double-whammy that they can experience.”
Others to be honored at the jamboree include University of Virginia soccer coach Steve Swanson, the College Coach of the Year winner, who led the Cavaliers to their best soccer season in school history with 24 wins.
Research by University of Virginia Law School professor Toby Heytens, soon to be published in the Stanford Law Review, underscores the aberrant nature of the panel’s removal order. Heytens found that appeals court replacements of trial judges have been highly unusual.
A former UNC-Chapel Hill trustee has landed a top position in the university’s administration. Felicia Washington, an attorney with K&L Gates in Charlotte and a U.Va. Law graduate, has been appointed the vice chancellor for workforce strategy, equity and engagement, the division formerly known as human resources, the university announced Tuesday.
“For change to be endemic and sustained usually takes three to five years,” says William Robinson, executive director of the University of Virginia Partnership for Leadership in Education, which runs a program that trains principals as turnaround specialists. “You want either a consistent leader for at least five years or a systemic succession plan where there is continuity of effort across at least five years.”
Virginia’s law that allows families to opt out of public education for religious reasons needs further study, according to a Republican state legislator. A recent study of school superintendents by the University of Virginia School of Law found confusion about how to comply with the law, a lack of accounting of how many children are affected and that the exemption was often routinely granted.
Officials say National Instruments has joined the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing as its 17th industry member. The Texas company helps engineers and scientists develop innovations and solutions for energy, aerospace, automotive and other industries. It serves 35,000 companies worldwide. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing does research for a group of manufacturing companies under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia will offer two new degree programs this fall. At the beginning of the next academic year, students at the Curry School of Education will have the option of majoring in Youth and Social Innovation. The School of Continuing and Professional Studies will offer an online, part-time degree program in Health Sciences Management. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia approved the programs at a meeting in Richmond Tuesday.
We've compiled a list of some of the most beautiful and iconic examples of American campus quads. (The Lawn makes the list.)
President Obama will convene a meeting with more than 100 college and university presidents Thursday -- a chance for his administration to pivot away from its stalled legislative agenda to executive actions and also a rare opportunity for White House-level attention for a large group of academic leaders. … The administration has specifically been interested, officials have said, in the academic scholarship on the undermatching issue completed by Caroline Hoxby, Sarah Turner and Christopher Avery.
Enrollment at the state’s public universities is flat this academic year, with an overall increase of just 27 students for the fall semester at four-year institutions. At the University of Virginia, undergraduate enrollment increased from 14,641 in fall 2012 to 14,898 last fall, while graduate student enrollment declined from 6,454 to 6,340 over the same period, according to a UVa spokesman. Total enrollment at UVa is up, to 21,238, from 21,095 in 2012.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are investigating why oral polio vaccines are only about half as effective in developing countries.
Two state lawmakers want to allow public colleges to shield their internal investigations into employment discrimination complaints. State Sen. Frank M. Ruff Jr., R-Clarksville, says he filed the legislation at the request of the University of Virginia. Likewise, a legislative aide in the office of Delegate C. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, who filed companion legislation in the House of Delegates, says the legislation was drafted at the request of U.Va. administrators.