The family of Morgan Harrington is reacting to reports of an attempted abduction at the University of Virginia. The Harringtons are urging the student who filed the anonymous report to go to police.
(Commentary) Also addressing the collaborative nature of digital humanities, Bethany Nowviskie, director of digital research and scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, remarked "the most important new duty of tenure and promotion committees [is] to avoid looking for the finished products of solitary genii and simple print-culture equivalencies (this work equals a book, that work equals an article), and instead to appreciate quality in digital scholarship as a set of evolving and open processes."
University of Virginia employees have set a record for giving. Last year, university workers gave more than $1 million to the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign.
(By English professor Paul Cantor) The Fox Network claims to have a new hit TV show on its hands called “The Following.” People in Charlottesville might be curious about this show, because it deals with a university in Virginia and regularly refers to Edgar Allan Poe. I was particularly intrigued when I heard that “The Following” features an English professor (my own calling in life). Imagine my disappointment when I learned that “The Following” is partially set, not at UVA, but at the fictional Winslow University, and the English professor is a serial kille...
The Rev. Gerald Fogarty, a religious studies professor, was a guest, discussing the resignation of the pope.
In the final installment of our series on the changes to the writing section of the Common Application, Jeannine Lalonde, Senior Assistant Dean of Admission at the University of Virginia -- and the force behind one of our favorite admission blogs "Notes from Peabody" -- joins us to talk about the new essay prompts and the role that the essay plays in admission decisions.
In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.
Second-year student Scott Dunnam is part of a team that won the East Coast Junior Men’s Regional Curling Championship and was among 10 teams vying for the national championship in Boston, in a competition that wrapped up Feb. 2. The team placed third.
A Kevin Everson film combines archival, scripted, reenacted, and documentary elements for a look and feel that is sophisticated and no-nonsense like the artist himself.
The University of Virginia honored Presidents Day by analyzing the 2012 elections. The Miller Center hosted top scholars for a discussion on Michael Nelson's forthcoming book titled "The Elections of 2012".
University of Virginia students and staff will find out Tuesday morning if they are among the lucky few to get a front row seat to world history. The auditorium at Old Cabell Hall will host John Kerry's first public foreign policy speech as secretary of state.
(Book review) Robert Louis Wilken, Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, records in great detail the stories of men and women who spread the Christian message to widely dispersed locations through the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Persia, and India and as far as China.
When it comes to indoor college tennis, the University of Virginia men’s team is the undisputed king. On Monday afternoon in Seattle, UVa defeated USC, 4-2, to win its fifth ITA National Team Indoor Championship in the last six years.
Terry Rephann, a regional economist for the University of Virginia, said salary and benefits in Montgomery are about 10 percent higher than in neighboring Fairfax County. And if the cost of living climbs, workers obviously will want more money.
University of Virginia professor Melvyn Leffler believes the common critique of the Bush administration’s motivations for going to war is simplistic. Leffler gave a lecture Monday in Hamilton Hall, “George W. Bush & Saddam Hussein: Why Did the U.S. Go to War Against Iraq in March 2003?” as a part of a series put on by the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professorship called “The U.S. in World Affairs: The Cold War & Beyond.”
University of Virginia police said Monday they're on alert after a student filed an online report about what she described as an abduction and attempted assault.
This weary planet might not need yet another set of college rankings, but new models keep popping up. The latest is a rating of colleges based on their “desirability,” as determined by the choices applicants make.
(Press release) Sarah Dugan, a student at the University of Virginia, has won a $25,000 scholarship from CollegeNET.com, the social network through which people create topics, write or video-cam about them, and then vote to determine who will win scholarship money every week. The winnings were the culmination of a 15-week grand prize tournament, which also awarded second- and third-prize scholarships. Dugan has won a total of $39,574.21 in scholarship money since she began competing in CollegeNET.com’s weekly competitions in June 2011.
Jonathan Kipnis of the University of Virginia has found a link between sickness and reduced brain function. We’re all familiar with that vague sense that you’ve lost your mental edge when ill—turns out this may be due to the altered functioning of the immune system in the presence of a pathogen.
Those still stuck in the intuitive mode ought to consider the findings of a study reported in the current issue of International Organization by Todd Sechser of the University of Virginia and Matthew Fuhrmann of Texas A&M. They used a comprehensive database covering both nuclear and non-nuclear would-be coercers and spanning the entire nuclear age and more. Their finding: possession of nuclear weapons does not help in coercing other states. This is true whether or not explicit threats to use the weapons are made (they seldom are).