Over the past 16 years, artist Lincoln Perry has created a visual allegory representing education through the depiction of triumphs and setbacks, the cycle of generations and the relation between culture and nature.
(Commentary by Paul A. Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Virginia) What’s an English professor at the University of Virginia doing writing about such television shows as “South Park” and “The X-Files”? Sure, it’s a welcome change of pace from working on Shakespeare, but there’s a lot more to it than just having fun.
(Editorial) Sometimes Charlottesville officials talk about encouraging more cooperation with the University of Virginia. Next thing you know, they’re ignoring the university community.
Sharon Davie, director and founder of The Women’s Center at the University of Virginia, said she thought Shen Yun Performing Arts was marvelous, at the matinee on Dec. 29 at Jones Hall for Performing Arts in Houston.
(Commentary) The U.Va. board assuredly deserves a failing grade for attempting to bring about change with neither community buy-in nor transparency. But now it is taking reasonable steps to analyze and remedy its missteps. The accreditors have no right or reasonable cause to supplant those who are, by statute, responsible. They have no right to create one more administrative distraction and bureaucratic hoop for trustees to jump through, rather than allowing them to focus on students and quality education.
It's that time of year again when a lot of us are asking ourselves what we want to achieve in the new year. But University of Virginia psychologist Brian Nosek says that's not the question we should be asking.
The University of Virginia made national headlines this year not for some stellar achievement but for a self-inflicted scandal that has yet to fade. In a recent poll, Richmond Times-Dispatch readers selected the tumult — which raised eyebrows nationally — as one of the top stories of the year, and the second most popular news story of 2012.
As the city and county update their respective comprehensive plans, local officials have said joint planning along the Rivanna River will get greater attention. To that end, the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture will participate in a week-long design workshop in mid-January to offer its land-use ideas.
Mark LaNeve gets to work around 9 a.m. these days. It's a welcome respite from his General Motors days, when he had a daily 7 a.m. meeting. In July he became COO of WPP Group's Global Team Detroit, Ford Motor Co.'s advertising agency. After years as a corporate client, LaNeve, 53, is now on the flip side, working for an ad agency.
As a girl growing up in New York City, Lynn Beebe loved the daily subway and bus commute to school that took her by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She recalls with a nostalgic grin a day when she could not resist an urge to leave the bus and see the Mona Lisa up close at a brief display at the museum.
On a recent Friday morning, Clintina Hankerson led a class of fidgety fourth-graders through a handful of holiday songs--first with the lyrics projected onto the white board, then without them.
"He's the most apolitical senator I've ever met," said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "Many people run for the Senate to be something, rather than do something" - but not Webb, said Sabato.
"It's a little unusual for an organization that has had a long-term relationship with a small provider to then decide that they're going to move into that very market," said Greg Fairchild, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia.
Though there is disagreement on the media’s role in creating copycats, one undisputed fact is that sensationalist news coverage leads people to believe that public mass violence is an escalating problem. Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist and professor of education at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, says that there is “a perception of increase whenever we have a major event like the tragedy in Newtown.” The truth is that school shootings have declined dramatically since the 1990s, Cornell says.
"I am not sure how a very conservative governor from a small Midwestern state is going to appeal to the increasingly diverse electorate that makes up America,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato calls the fiscal cliff fiasco deeply disappointing. He said, "I think everybody has a right to be disappointed. We've known this was coming for 17 months, and here we are in the last 48 hours and they're madly trying to put together a patch that can pass."
Marcia Invernizzi, a reading-education professor at the University of Virginia, said reading to dogs won’t, by itself, make a child a better reader. But she liked the idea of motivating children, and she noted several potential benefits.
Winter break is an ideal time for area high school and college students interested in learning more about public service to apply for Sorensen Youth Scholarships.
Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, believes the US is still in a "clinical shock stage" of reaction to the Newtown shooting.
The above map is from Rachel Nelson, a master’s student at the University of Virginia. She plotted hail, tornado, hurricane, and earthquake paths across the United States.