James Sterling Young, who established the country’s only program dedicated to compiling comprehensive oral histories of the American presidency, and who also amassed a vast oral history of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s career, died on Aug. 8 at his home in Advance Mills, Va. He was 85. His death was announced by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, which studies politics, policy and the presidency. The center houses the Presidential Oral History Program, of which Professor Young was the founder and longtime chairman.
When young people starting their college careers ask me what they should look for when they get to campus, I tell them: find out who the great teachers are. It doesn’t matter much what the subject is. Find a real teacher, and you may open yourself to transformation – to discovering whom you might become. If I meet any students heading to the University of Virginia, I will tell them to seek out Mark Edmundson, an English professor and the author of a new collection of essays called “Why Teach?” For Mr. Edmundson, teaching is a calling, an urgent endeavor in which the liv...
(Commentary) Open online education will never be “education of the very best sort” (Professor Mark Edmundson from the University of Virginia in The New York Times).
A new map paints a vivid picture of just how demographically diverse Houston's population is. A researcher at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service created "The Racial Dot Map," which illustrates the racial demographics of the nation using one colored dot per person.
The lotus leaf has a unique microscopic texture and wax-like coating that enables it to easily repel water. Taking his inspiration from nature, a University of Virginia professor has figured out a way to make metals and plastics that can do virtually the same thing. Mool Gupta, Langley Distinguished Professor in the university's department of electrical and computer engineering, and director of the National Science Foundation's Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Lasers and Plasmas, has developed a method using high-powered lasers and nanotechnology to create a similar ...
According to the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, 45 of the commonwealth’s 95 counties have a 4 percent meals tax. The other 50 don’t levy a meals tax.
William H. Lucy, a professor of urban planning at the University of Virginia, says that a decade ago, many typical suburbanites were turning their noses up at the modest housing stock of the close-in suburbs (around 1,100 square feet for the average home built in the 1950s) in favor of newer homes that tended to be double the size of those built 50 or 60 years ago. They moved to the further-out “exurbs” for newer, bigger houses, despite the fact that “the two things these older homes have going for them is that they are closer to the urban centers and better built,” Luc...
Among the guests for the show, scheduled to air at 11 a.m. EDT: Mark Edmundson, author of the Washington Post essay, ”Why major in humanities? Not just for a good job — for a good life.” Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Author of “Why Teach: In Defense of a Real Education.”
Meantime, he made an appeal to Nevisians to consider obtaining medical insurance for themselves and their families, as he noted that a recent study, conducted by the Ministry of Health in conjunction with the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, had found that at least 30 per cent of persons in the Federation have private medical insurance.
The time has changed for a portion of the University of Virginia's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies will host a forum entitled “The March@50” from 4 to 6 p.m. Aug. 28.
Charity Crowell, a 2010 graduate of Liberty County High School and senior at the University of Alabama, was selected to participate in an eight-week undergraduate research program in the Education Policy and Applied Developmental Science Programs at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.
(Audio) Among the guests discussing nursing education was Pamela A. Kulbok, Theresa A. Thomas Professor of Nursing and Professor of Public Health Sciences as well as Chair of the Department of Family, Community, and Mental Health Systems at the University of Virginia.
“If either of them win, it’s because they’re selling their business credentials,” says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center of Politics. “If New Yorkers want more of a Bloomberg approach, at least in theory, to governing the Big Apple – that’s their only shot, obviously.”
A federal law intended to protect health care workers from needlesticks has slashed the number of such injuries by more than 100,000 annually and is producing a yearly cost savings of up to $415 million, a new study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.
But as November’s election approaches, Bolling said he’s worried moderate and independent voters might find themselves too discouraged by the negative hyper-partisan campaign atmosphere to even vote at all, a concern echoed by Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Turnout in this election was always going to be low, because turnout naturally goes down in non-presidential races in Virginia,” said Kondik.
Paul Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English, talks with the Mises Institute about his new book, “The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in Film and TV," newly available from The University Press of Kentucky.
Carlos Ayers isn’t sure exactly why it dawned on him when it did, but he knew at age 15 that he was going to be a doctor. “I was just waltzing along, and all of a sudden it came over me that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. That was 1947, when he was still living on a small West Virginia farm. He finished high school a year later, and 10 years after that, he graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia.
Here’s a piece looking at how distracting laptops can be in class by cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a professor and director of graduate studies in psychology at the University of Virginia and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?”
(By U.Va. English professor Mark Edmundson) I had a conversation not long ago with a fellow humanities professor, someone with a reputation as an inspiring teacher and a first-rate scholar. We were talking about influencing our students. My friend teaches Nietzsche’s work (as I do); my friend teaches the Gospels (I do that too). And surely we want our students to learn from these works.