(Editorial) Chalk up another strike against the ABC. An appeals court has just ruled that the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission erred in promulgating a rule that certain college newspapers could not advertise alcoholic beverages except in the context of a restaurant ad.
Old Dominion University plans to establish a College of Continuing Education, joining a crowded marketplace of educational institutions serving nontraditional students trying to get a leg up in the workforce.
An advanced manufacturing research center in Prince George County is getting $280,000 in federal funding. The grant will be used to develop a strategy for establishing the Advanced Manufacturing Apprentice Academy, a regional training center that will provide hands-on training to prepare workers in Virginia's tobacco region for careers in advanced manufacturing. The center is a public-private partnership between dozens of industry partners and the University of Virginia, Virginia State University and Virginia Tech.
Jazz vocalist Kathy Kosins will sing at 8 tonight at the University of Virginia's Brooks Hall to help kick off this year's WTJU-FM Jazz Marathon.
Below is a list of the largest single announced donations to various schools in the District, Maryland and Virginia, according to information the schools provided. In the public sector, the largest is $100 million to the University of Virginia.
The Family Weekend Choral Showcase gets started at 7 p.m. Saturday in the University of Virginia's Cabell Hall Auditorium. Listen for University Singers, UVa Chamber Singers, Virginia Glee Club and Virginia Women's Chorus.
The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra will open its 39th season, "A Musical Kaleidoscope," at 8 tonight at Cabell Hall Auditorium at the University of Virginia and 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Monticello High School.
University of Virginia researchers have received a $1.5 million federal grant to develop a six-month online course for teachers who work with toddlers.
This weekend, you can hear a free a cappella concert at the University of Virginia. It involves several of the university's diverse singing groups who will be performing on grounds. The groups will be at the McIntire Amphitheatre on Saturday for Tomtoberfest. It's part of The Founders Fair hosted by Tom Tom.
On Saturday, the festivities move to the University of Virginia Grounds, where popular a cappella groups will perform in the McIntire Amphitheater from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Listen for the Virginia Belles, the Academical Village People, Virginia Glee Club, CHooSE, Harmonious Hoos, Hoos in Treble and New Dominions. The free events are part of a larger festival that explores new ideas and innovation in the arts and entrepreneurship. Saturday's events at UVa include the Founders Fair, a summit of more than 75 entrepreneurial ventures from UVa and elsewhere.
On the home page of an introductory course in computer science, Professor David Evans of the University of Virginia encourages students to collaborate and explains how his MOOC class is different from a traditional course. "We intersperse our video segments with interactive questions," Dr. Evans writes. "There are many reasons for including these questions: to get you thinking, to check your understanding, for fun, etc. But really, they are there to help you learn. They are NOT there to evaluate your intelligence, so try not to let them stress you out."
Professors at the University of Virginia will explain the conflict in Syria at a “teach-in” Thursday evening. The session, which begins at 6 p.m. in Room 101 of Nau Hall, includes a panel discussion, a short film and a question and answer session.
Most teenagers in Erica Elder's hometown of Bassett, Virginia, don't think they're college material. The county's median household income is $33,600—about half the Virginia average—and only 11.3 percent of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher. Elder graduated from the University of Virginia this year, becoming the first in her family to obtain a B.A. She probably wouldn't have applied to UVa, a highly ranked flagship school, without the encouragement of her college adviser in high school. Despite less-than-stellar SAT scores, "he never told me I...
Researchers at the University of Virginia have received a grant to help support teachers working with toddlers. The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $1.5 million to the Curry School of Education to help develop a six-month, online course for teachers who work with toddlers.
"Essentially, Virginia being only game in town in 2013, it has become 'experiment central' for both parties and it's not just an experiment for the 2014 midterms. People are already looking forward to 2016 presidential elections," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "Virginia now is one of the key swing states. It's the closest to the national average in terms of the vote in 2008 and 2012, and it has implications for 2016."
(Commentary) The University of Virginia is the latest college to bail on low-income students, in essence telling underprivileged applicants to look but not touch. Citing mounting program costs, UVa recently announced it was cutting back on its highly lauded AccessUVa financial-aid program, which had ensured low-income students’ financial needs would be met with grants and not loans.
The prize in astronomy went to University of Oxford professor Steven Balbus and University of Virginia professor John Hawley.
Children played in the background, surrounded by a backdrop of mountains. A light breeze was present as volunteers from the University of Virginia Library clipped away at bushes sporting lavender blossoms, weeded and did other hands-on work in the butterfly garden at Rockfish River Elementary School as part of the United Way Laurence E. Richardson Day of Caring. “It’s just a stunningly beautiful location to volunteer at,” said Tobiyah Morris, a human resources generalist at the library.
The finding that insulin-resistant younger women had fewer cardiovascular disease risk factors than insulin-resistant younger men appears to add to the evidence that sex steroids are a major play in the female heart disease advantage, Robert M. Carey, MD, told MedPage Today. Carey is a professor of medicine, endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, and he is a past president of The Endocrine Society.
The student newspapers at two of Virginia’s biggest universities can run advertisements for alcohol despite a ban the state says is intended to curb illegal underage drinking, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.