In less than a year, Coursera has attracted $22 million in venture capital and has created so much buzz that some universities sound a bit defensive about not leaping onto the bandwagon. All of this could well add up to the future of higher education — if anyone can figure out how to make money.
I reached out to Dr. Patrick Tolan, the director of Youth-Nex, a center started at UVA’s Curry School of Education to promote healthy youth development, for some perspective. As an expert in child development, he sees the importance of mothers being able to share information in the years before their kids interact with the school system of childcare providers. ... W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at UVA, said that Mommy Blogs go beyond a supportive network for women, they also give women who aren’t in the paid w...
James Aune, who taught rhetoric and commubication studies at U.Va. from 1981 to 1986, died Tuesday in College Station, Texas.
Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Julie Jones, head of its department of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas for the past 21 years, will retire this April and take the new title “curator emeritus.” Alisa LaGamma, a curator in the department who earned an undergraduate art history degree from U.Va., will become its new head.
James Buchanan, who won the Nobel Prize for economics, helped found the field of public-choice theory, which examines how bureaucracies and elected leaders make decisions. He formerly chaired U.Va.'s Department of Economics.
Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Wednesday the members of his newly-created Task Force of School and Campus Safety, including Curry School professor Dewey Cornell. The 45-member task force was established after the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting to review school policies and procedures, and address funding challenges.
Politicians take money so they can afford to be elected, and people give so they can be heard, political science and public policy experts said. Whether that scenario is at play in the saga of University of Virginia Rector Helen E. Dragas is among the questions swirling in the run up to lawmakers deciding whether to confirm her reappointment to the Board of Visitors.
Critics of Helen Dragas, who as board chair of the University of Virginia led the failed attempt to oust Teresa Sulllivan as president, took to the skies Wednesday, with a banner flown in Richmond urging lawmakers to reject the re-appointment of Dragas to the board.
Perhaps the most intriguing capability of social media involves something that goes deeper than data. The University of Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Game is an interactive computer simulation with the power to change minds.
In a national effort to accelerate scientific advances in critical areas of the new energy economy, the United States Department of Energy will establish 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers across the nation. Among them is The Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization at the University of Virginia, directed by T.Brent Gunnoe, with the objective to develop novel catalysts and manipulate their reactivity for the efficient conversion of hydrocarbon gases into liquid fuels.
"The incentive to support major tax reform is gone," said George Yin, a law professor at the University of Virginia and former chief of staff at Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation.
A nutritional supplement available over-the-counter may offer protection from Alzheimer's disease, a study by the University of Virginia and Northwestern University suggests.
"They would be foolish not to use this opportunity to lay the foundation for their strategy on the debt ceiling," said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. "That's a high-profile hearing that they don't want to let go to waste."
“Presidents act first and think later about the long-term consequences,” says Barbara Perry, an expert on the presidency at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “Then 50 years from now, or even 10 years from now, we’ll say: ‘Oh, why didn’t he see that this wasn’t going to work properly?’”
As the state legislature prepares to consider confirmation of Helen Dragas for a second term on the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, a member of the faculty is out with a new theory about why Dragas and other members of the board wanted to get rid of President Teresa Sullivan.
(Commentary) Cites recent research by a team that includes U.Va. psychology professor Timothy Wilson.
State Senator Ralph Smith (R-19th) said in an e-mail on Tuesday, that he supports the reappointment of University of Virginia rector Helen Dragas. Dragas headed up the unsuccessful effort to oust UVA President Teresa Sullivan, and has drawn heavy criticism since.
After the Virginia Tech shooting of 32 in 2007, Richard Bonnie, professor of medicine and law at the University of Virginia School of Law, said many barriers remain in obtaining mental health treatment for those desperately needing it.
As the General Assembly convenes, political figures in the top echelons of power are rallying to the side of embattled University of Virginia Rector Helen E. Dragas.
Even as most of the nation's 15,000 public school districts roll out new systems to evaluate teachers, many are still struggling with a central question: What's the best way to identify an effective educator? After a three-year, $45 million research project that included researchers at the University of Virginia, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes it has some answers.