A group of psychologists are launching a project this week that they hope will make studies in their field radically more transparent and prompt other fields to open up as well.
University of Virginia Board of Visitors Rector Helen E. Dragas responded Tuesday to faculty leaders who questioned her motives and processes in setting goals for the president.
(By David Rabinowitz) You don’t know me, but TidBITS publisher Adam Engst asked me tell you a little about myself. It’s not that my life is so particularly interesting, but that as a fourth-year computer science major at the University of Virginia, I have a particular perspective on the technology world that Adam thought might be of interest to those whose college days are long past.
The University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and School of Engineering are collaborating with area public schools to create the first lab school in the nation.
Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AAA' rating to the following series of bonds issued by The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ...
"Everyone's kind of waiting to see what Bill Bolling decides," said UVA Center for Politics analyst Geoff Skelley, "because his entrance into the race officially would definitely shift the dynamics."
Dr. John T. Casteen III, Dr. Mary Hatwood Futrell and Dr. William Julius Wilson shared the spotlight as winners of the 2013 Dr. John Hope Franklin Awards on Monday night, as well as their memories of the legendary historian, writer, educator and humanitarian.
The University of Virginia announced early Wednesday morning that all classes are cancelled.
New teachers become much more effective with a few years of classroom experience, but a working paper by a team of researchers suggests the most – and least – effective elementary teachers show their colors at the very start of their careers. "This is a fundamentally different time period for teachers, when we know they are going through changes," said lead author Allison Atteberry, a research associate in the Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness at the University of Virginia. (Subscriber access only)
University of Virginia Rector Helen Dragas rebuked the faculty senate Tuesday for expressing concern about the latest evidence of discord between Dragas and President Teresa Sullivan. The renewed tensions come as the board of visitors is scheduled to meet today in Richmond for a quarterly review of Sullivan, a process put in place last fall after Dragas led an unsuccessful effort to remove the president.
Michael Bishop, a longtime friend of Blythe’s, said he was happy that Blythe prevailed. “I’m impressed with how he handled a very difficult situation with class,” said Bishop, the bassist and singer for the band Kepone as well as an adjunct professor of popular music history at the University of Virginia. “He made all of us who know him proud to be his friend.”
A valley school that's all about hands-on training prepares students for careers in emergency response. The program is getting even more realistic, thanks to a special donation from the University of Virginia Medical Center.
(Editorial) Court-storming can provoke safety problems. But that doesn’t seem to have happened at the University of Virginia-Duke game last week — except, that is, for the problems in Coach K’s head.
(Book review) “Redirect,” Timothy Wilson's excellent new book, can be read in two ways.
Catholic bishops and other religious leaders who are worried about the implications of same-sex marriage for religious liberty should make time to read the amicus brief filed Thursday by the American Jewish Committee in the Supreme Court’s Proposition 8/DOMA case. The brief is a Protestant-Catholic-Jewish affair, written by three of the most respected advocates of religious liberty in the American legal community: (Protestant) Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia Law School; (Catholic) Thomas C. Berg of the University of St. Thomas Law School; and (Jewish) Marc Stern, associate ...
The University of Virginia student body has approved a major change to the institution’s honor system. A vote was held last week for a proposal that would allow informed retraction — roughly equal to guilty pleas — leading to one-year suspensions for students.
The University of Virginia’s Faculty Senate unanimously passed a statement Monday saying it is “disheartened” by a recent report in the Washington Post outlining allegations that Rector Helen E. Dragas has been trying to micromanage President Teresa A. Sullivan.
(Commentary by Edward Hess, professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business) All growth is good. Bigger is better. All businesses must either "grow or die." If you're a small business owner, you might have been nodding along as you read those business mantras, agreeing wholeheartedly with each one. But these "truths" are anything but.
U.Va. student Hales Parcells explains why she dresses as a mermaid to visit elementary schools and libraries.