Robert Pianta, the dean of the Curry school at the University of Virginia, said his institution does not expect to receive any revenue from the Coursera arrangement through fees or other means. The school is offering an online course through Coursera to help educators understand how effective teacher-child interactions boost early-childhood development. "This is an opportunity for us to innovate," Mr. Pianta said. "It's a good idea for us to be experimenting in this way. ...We think it's going to help us go out there to a much broader audience."
College officials are anxiously awaiting a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on whether they may continue to consider race and ethnicity in admissions decisions. Many expect the court to limit the consideration of race, and some fear an outright ban. But a study that will be published this summer in the Harvard Law & Policy Review suggests that class-based affirmative action could yield more spots not only for students from low-income backgrounds, but also for underrepresented minority students -- without the consideration of race.
Lou Bloomfield is behind on his correspondence. A teetering stack of letters and postcards sits on the desk of the UVA physics professor, creator of the much-loved undergraduate science-for-non-science-majors course “How Things Work.” They’re all from students, and full of praise and thanks. He’s met none of them.
What do a seven-millimeter-thick portable speaker, a blood-sampling catheter designed to mimic a mosquito’s proboscis, and habanero-pineapple hot sauce have in common? They’re all destined for the Darden School of Business, three of more than two dozen business ideas from a group of entrepreneurs who will form the first class to go through UVA’s new W.L. Lyons Brown III Innovation Laboratory Incubator.
Ask some of the newest members of UVA’s International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition team why they plan to spend the summer in a lab on Grounds splicing DNA, and they have a tendency to talk over one another in their eagerness to explain.
“What do you think?” A mundane little sentence, maybe. A simple conversational turn. But is there any question more basic to an institution devoted to disseminating knowledge? Research, read, write, process, teach, tell, but above all, ask: What do you think?
At UVA, building for the future—the current Rotunda dome is expected to last 100 years or more—requires a lot of looking back. But the team of preservationists and architects in charge of the care and keeping of Grounds aren’t sure exactly what the original Rotunda dome looked like.
(Press release) The National Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's (NCAPEC) Board of Governors has elected Scott Price, CEO of Walmart Asia, to serve as its new Chairman.
There are a number of theories on what's driving the increase in suicide among the middle-aged. W. Bradford Wilcox wrote in The Atlantic that the increase may be owed, at least in part, to an erosion of traditional support systems. Wilcox directs the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and co-authored "Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives." He cited French sociologist Emile Durkeim's theories that men are more apt to kill themselves when they are "disconnected from society's core institutions," like marriage an...
"You can find a way to go to the University of Virginia, start looking, and I did." Those were the words said by 69-year-old Jerry Reid as he thought about going to get his college education. He is hoping to start a new chapter in his life as a student at the University of Virginia.
Eleven of the 56 schools assessed by Diversity MBA Prep scored an A. Among them are Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Preparations are well under way for this weekend's commencement celebrations at the University of Virginia. UVA Facilities Management is spending the week getting the lawn prepared for thousands of guests.
The most famous second thought in recent decades is attributed to the late Justice Lewis Powell. Powell cast what would seem to have been the deciding vote in 1986 in Bowers v. Hardwick, in which the Court ruled by a vote of five to four that gays and lesbians had no right of sexual privacy to engage in sodomy. Powell retired a year later, and then in 1990, responding to questions after a speech at New York University Law School, said, “I think I probably made a mistake in that one.” According to his biographer, Professor John Jeffries of the University of Virginia Law School, Just...
(By Cammy Brothers, an associate professor at the University of Virginia and author of "Michelangelo, Drawing and the Invention of Architecture") Michelangelo knew what drawings could do. He used them for a wider array of purposes than almost anyone, from the banal to the sublime, and in genres ranging from comic to religious. Despite their centrality to everything he did, he treated them roughly, writing drafts of letters and poems on them, folding them, and in some cases reworking the sheets so intensely that they almost come apart. Most shockingly, he burned great numbers of them,...
Dr. Scott Bender, an associate professor of psychiatry and neurobiological sciences at the University of Virginia, discussed the extent of Deal's injuries from the gunshot.
When Bob Rowley learned of the fund-raising efforts to help provide Fort Hill football player Zac Elbin the opportunity to play in the Down Under Bowl this summer in Australia, it became a mere reflex for him to make a significant contribution on Elbin’s behalf. For while very few area high school football players have followed in his footsteps, Rowley, the former Fort Hill great from the late 1950s, had certainly walked in Elbin’s, having faced similar circumstances following his senior year in high school.
This year, 84 graduates will accept their diplomas after only three years or less at UVA. The University says these early graduates are part of a growing trend, and for the first time ever at this weekend's final exercises, they're being honored in a special way.
Trying to book a last-minute hotel room for graduation weekend will be costly, if not impossible. As the hotels book their last few rooms, prices are doubling and in some cases, even tripling - from the luxury spots to the rooms with just a lamp, bed and bath.
If the idea does catch hold, “Bitcoins will have become something entirely new: a true, stateless, virtual currency rooted in nothing other than confidence in the set of rules that surround them,” says University of Virginia Peter Rodriguez in a post about what five real economists think about Bitcoin’s future.
The game of baseball is all about strikes, outs and runs. But sometimes, just having an at bat can be meaningful. Take April 22. That's when something extraordinary happened at the Fairfax Rebels-Madison Warhawks game. A player who can't even walk took an at bat. You may have seen the video, it went viral then and is still getting views. Fairfax High senior Drew Bonner has been the baseball team manager for four years, manages two other teams, is on the homecoming court, is an Eagle Scout and an AP scholar with a 4.2 GPA.