Gardeners in central Virginia are saying goodbye to the snow and celebrating spring with Southern States' second annual Taste of Spring Garden Show. Proceeds from ticket sales will go to benefit pancreatic cancer research at the University of Virginia.
School assessment became a tool for description, but not reform. Too often, that’s all standardized testing really tells you about students, said UVA sociology and education professor Paul Kingston: Rich or poor? Good home life or bad one? … “The question is how to create a system of evaluation that is both simple enough for people to understand and utilize, but also complex enough to get at what it is that schools should be doing for kids,” said Patrick Tolan, director of Youth-Nex, a cross-disciplinary center at UVA that takes a research-based approach to youth devel...
Landscape architect and OLIN Studio principal Laurie Olin has been awarded a 2013 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Architecture by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello.
The protections of tenure are important in every country. In the United States, for example, it was behind the shield of tenure that prominent media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan was able to call out the misguided maneuverings of the University of Virginia’s trustees.
Doscher isn't the only analyst who believes that dark data can illuminate fraudulent activity. Last fall, researchers from the University of Virginia and Brigham Young University announced they had teamed together to "create the most robust and accurate fraud detection system to date using information from publicly available financial statements."
Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on a brief visit to Kochi, compared South African cricketing star Hashim Amla to Sachin Tendulkar as he spoke on India’s contributions to the shaping of modern-day South Africa. The archbishop is part of the ‘Semester at Sea’ programme, which aims to give students from over 27 countries an exposure to living with people from across the world. Explorer is the 34th cruise ship calling at the Kochi port during the current year and has 800 passengers onboard, most of whom are students and faculty in a trip sponsored chiefly by the...
A team of urban planners, civil engineers, environmental engineers, architects, systems and information engineers and others from the University of Virginia is working to provide sustainable solutions to global water problems.
Volunteer Michael Ritinski said the program's elimination is unnecessary because the zoo already uses a safety system known as "protected contact," so a metal or brick barrier always separates zookeepers and volunteers from large, aggressive animals. A Chesapeake resident, Ritinski volunteered weekly for seven years before enrolling at the University of Virginia. He continues to volunteer during summer break.
A University of Virginia graduate student has filed paperwork to run for the Charlottesville City Council. “There’s a huge proportion of the population that’s between the age of 18 and 29,” said Adam Lees, a master’s candidate in foreign affairs.
The bills they've written have been sent to other students across the nation via the website for the Youth Leadership Initiative at youthleadership.net, Delenick said. The Initiative is "a program of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, which develops free education resources designed to assist civics teachers, and encourage students to participate in the political process," according to the website.
Jonathan M. Evans is a geriatric physician who teaches "Aging and the Law" at the University of Virginia School of Law. A firm believer in onsite physicians at nursing homes, he explained, “The thing that matters most is being there – being there for patients when they're sick; being there for families when they're in need; being there for staff to provide support and ongoing education. You can't be part of a team if you're not present.”
Step Afrika, the world's first professional company dedicated to stepping performance, will take the Paramount Theater stage at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The performance is sponsored by the University of Virginia's Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity.
The Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio will bring piano-fueled jazz from Iceland to Charlottesville with a concert stop at the University of Virginia's Brooks Hall.
Charlottesville police say shots were fired Friday morning on The Corner, near the University of Virginia. Police officials say no one was hurt, and the school is not on lockdown.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, chairman of the media studies department at the University of Virginia, said the redesign could help educate users as to just how much Facebook’s algorithms filter what they see on what they think of as their social network.
All law schools, including the elites, are increasing skills training by adding clinics and externships. Starting this fall, the University of Virginia will allow students to earn a semester of credit while working full time for nonprofit or government employers anywhere in the world.
Kacie Saulters, a medical resident at the University of Virginia, was introduced to edible flowers in July after finding a package of squash blossoms in her "bounty basket," a container of hand-picked fresh produce from local farms.
Paul’s Libertarian views don’t make him a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, but Wednesday night helped, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “His problem is broadening the coalition his father had,” Sabato said. “Republicans have to believe that Rand Paul can actually win.”
A less-than-stellar rating can be used against an incumbent by a political opponent, and a good score can generate positive publicity with voters who share the rating group's point of view, not to mention generate significant campaign donations. "These vote scoring groups can be very influential," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "Some of the bigger (ones on right and left) even claim their members' offices will call and ask whether a particular upcoming vote will be included in the group's scorecard. The legislato...
A group of educators from half the world away are calling Charlottesville home this week. Hailing from Lagos, Nigeria, the group is working to improve secondary education in their region through a World Bank-funded initiative. The initiative comes to an end in December, and the group is turning to UVA's Darden School of Business for assistance and guidance as they work to convince their country to continue reforming education and encouraging engagement.