Former Secretary of Education William Bennett, author of "Is College Worth It," sat down with The Daily Ticker on the sidelines of the Milken Institute's 2013 Global Conference to talk about whether college is worth it.
This “fun to do at home” science experiment is being brought to you by graduate and undergraduate student members of the Chemistry LEAD (Learning through Experiments and Demonstrations) Program at the University of Virginia. Chemistry LEAD brings hands-on science experiments into Charlottesville-area elementary classrooms and provides activities at community events throughout the year to motivate and excite young learners about science.
What started as a class project turned into an award-winning invention for a group of University of Virginia students. The engineering students created a solar-powered wheelchair.
"Was there something of a cover-up by either State or the White House or both? No doubt," says Larry Sabato, a government professor at the University of Virginia. "That's the usual impulse, especially during a tough election campaign."
On Friday, 33 inmates in the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women can call themselves graduates from college programs. They earned community college degrees from PVCC or certificates in a pilot program from one of the nation's top-ranked business schools. The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business offered the entrepreneurship class to inmates at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women for the first time this fall, and now the class of 2013 says they are ready for a fresh start.
Until I looked it up today, I had forgotten what happened to the Commonwealth Challenge, the all-sports competition between Virginia and Virginia Tech that started in 2005-2006.
Buford Middle School is getting a new look, with the help of some student-artists. Arts group "The Charlottesville Mural Project" dedicated a 2,200-square-foot mural to the school on Friday. The geometric garden design was created by art students from Buford Middle School and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is accepting applications for the 2013 Resilience Awards from now until July 31. The awards, presented by the Institute for Business in Society at U. Va’s Darden School of Business, recognize companies in the commonwealth that have overcome significant economic obstacles to grow and create jobs in their communities.
Minimalist running shoes are at the center of a new, one-of-a-kind study at the University of Virginia. Researchers in the UVA Biomedical Engineering Department are looking at how muscles change when adapting to the shoes.
Daniel T. Willingham, Ph.D. ’90, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and author of the Science and Education blog, drew on various experiments to demonstrate that critical thinking—the desired outcome of so much learning and education—“is hard, it’s taxing” and “It’s not obvious that it’s going to pay off.”
Friday, the University of Virginia Health System honored the work of nurses who have gone above and beyond. It was a full house at the 13th Annual Nursing Excellence Awards Ceremony. The awards reception marked the grand finale of National Nurses Week.
(Commentary by Elizabeth Dobbins, a graduating student at the University of Virginia School of Law) In the beginning of law school, everything you learn swirls around in confusion and sometimes contradiction: You hear professors talk about larger policy objectives, you read opinions in cases that call for a dictionary — no, a legal dictionary — and you can’t believe that almost nothing you’ve learned previously applies to your present study of the law. It’s easy to get bogged down in it all, and that’s when professors use the following phrase to encourage st...
Something strange is happening at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center. Residents are so eager to get into a Russian literature class led by the University of Virginia that prison officials use it as a reward. The youths are clamoring to read weighty books such as “War and Peace” even after the class is over.
University of Virginia Professor A. E. Dick Howard, who teaches courses in law and public affairs, spoke about different revolutions across the world and the difference between them. He said the French Revolution ended with the Reign of Terror and Napoleon Bonaparte’s dictatorship; the Russian Revolution began with “promises of a utopian society” but resulted in gulags and the Iron Curtain.
(Commentary by Kim Prosser, a University of Virginia nursing student from Virginia Beach, who will earn her bachelor’s degree from the School of Nursing May 19. This commentary won first place in the School of Nursing’s annual writing contest.) He looked me straight in the eye and told me he wanted to die. His pale blue eyes burned through me as he stated, indignantly, that I was to do no more.
After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of Staten Island, Oday Aboushi was worried about his parents. Their home is just blocks from the shore near Tottenville. Despite the demands of school and football at the University of Virginia, Aboushi made time to volunteer with Jets linebacker David Harris. The future teammates had a football connection and raised funds together before spending a December day handing out hot dogs and other supplies to a local community hit hard by the storm. They spent the better part of the day outside with Aboushi’s neighbors, who were greatly affected by Sandy...
“I thought it was great,” Katarina Turpeinen, a native of Finland and first-time visitor to the festival, said after the percussion performance. The festival’s smaller size, she added, is also a good thing. “If you come here with people, you don’t lose them,” the University of Virginia student said.
“Joan Brearley was a sophisticated woman. She was active in politics, passionate about justice, an upper-middle-class professional who had written many books and articles. And she couldn't even manage the VA system. If it fails a woman like her, imagine all the thousands of vets it fails every day,” said Christopher Swift, her pro bono lawyer, an adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetown University and fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia.
The congratulatory messages flooded Oday Aboushi’s Twitter page for a few days after he was drafted by the Jets two weeks ago. Many were happy to see the hometown kid from the New York borough of Staten Island starting his NFL career close to his family and friends. It was the other tweets, first dozens and then hundreds, from places such as Dubai and Saudi Arabia that made the enormity of the situation really sink in. As a Palestinian-American, the Jets’ offensive lineman is a rarity in the NFL. Aboushi, drafted in the fifth round out after a standout career at the University of V...