After two decades of dealing, a sprawling Charlottesville-area farm recently came into the possession of UVA, practically completing a sort of university-owned western wall around Charlottesville and stoking development concerns in the surrounding neighborhoods.
TIME’s cover package this week is on reinventing college in general and specifically on whether a new breed of online megacourses can finally offer higher education to more people for less money. That story dives deep into Udacity, which was co-founded by a former Stanford professor. I’ve been looking into rival Coursera, which has partnered with dozens of prestigious schools, including Princeton, Duke and the University of Virginia.
The website On Being a Black Lawyer has published its Black Student’s Guide to Law Schools. Included in the guide is a list of the 25 law schools which it editors believe offer the best opportunities for Black students to succeed in law school. Harvard ranked first in the rankings. Historically Black Howard University School of Law ranked second followed by the Georgetown University Law Center. Other law schools in the top 10 include Columbia, the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Alabama, Northwestern, and Stanford.
Henry Martin was reportedly born into slavery on the day that Thomas Jefferson died and went to work at the University of Virginia as an enslaved janitor. He would later win his freedom– as well as the affection of generations of faculty and students– in his long-running role as UVA's bell-ringer. Over the last summer break, 102 years after he retired, Martin was commemorated with a plaque embedded in a sidewalk on the historic Grounds.
You can't judge a book by its cover. That's how the old saying goes, but experts at the University of Virginia Rare Book School say maybe you can. Julia Miller conserves rare books and studies book bindings. This week, she's paying a special visit to UVA to teach the community about why a book's cover matters.
Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said McMahon's decision to go after Obama voters makes sense. "Obviously if she's going to win, she needs people to do what people in the ad say they're going to do: vote for Obama and for her," he said. "The polls indicate President Obama is 10 to 12 points ahead in Connecticut."
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, says: “The area is diverse in race, origin, etc, and thus is more politically liberal.”
As the third presidential debate got under way Monday night, some University of Virginia students said they had no interest in watching, while others said they did want to hear what the candidates had to say about foreign policy.
The University of Virginia’s accreditation status will be reviewed in the wake of this summer’s leadership crisis. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, SACS, has been looking into the summer’s events and whether the university met standards for integrity, governing boards and the faculty’s role in governance.
Robert H. “Bob” Mincer, the second generation owner of a family-owned and -operated business that has been a fixture on the Corner for nearly 65 years, died of cancer at his home Monday.
“There’s no real way to keep candidates from returning to their own agendas,” said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. “I thought Bob Schieffer did a superb job. He facilitated the discussion without dominating it or siding with either candidate.”
The game was a special one for senior Paige Selenski and she ended up having a special game for the University of Virginia field hockey team. The Cavs defeated Wake Forest 4-0 last Saturday in Charlottesville. The game was chosen by the Virginia players to raise awareness of ovarian and breast cancer and it was dedicated in the memory of Paige’s mother, the late Judy Selenski. Paige scored two goals and had an assist in the game.
A team of researchers led by Shahriar Nirjon at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville embedded a microphone into a set of headphones that listens to the throb of arteries in your ear. That data, as well as activity levels gathered using an accelerometer, is sent over the internet to a recommendation engine which chooses the next song based on the user's current and desired heart rate.
By the 1960s, the state’s rural character had forever changed with more than half of Virginia residents living in urban settings, according to ‘‘Red State, Blue State,’’ an analysis published in July by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
“It’s certainly not going to convert anybody, but President Obama’s problem right now is that Democrats are less excited about this election than Republicans,” said Larry J. Sabato, University of Virginia professor and head of the school’s Center for Politics.
The president was perceived by many to have won the third, but perhaps a tweet from Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said it best. "Glancing down Twitter," he tweeted. "Shocker: All D's think O won, all R's think R won."
“Obviously if you are an incumbent president, you will welcome any good news, and this is good news just two weeks before the election,” says Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “But, and this is a big but, the vast majority of voters have already decided, so a small tick-down in their state unemployment rate is not going to change their minds.”
His voting record in the House qualifies Murphy, 39, as "a standard Democrat," said Kyle Kondik, a political scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and a specialist on the U.S. House.
Nearly 40 percent of the University of Virginia’s arts and sciences professors could retire later this decade, a wave that could carry the school toward an academic crossroads.
The University of Virginia has hired a former executive at Ernst & Young to be its new executive vice president and chief operating officer, a key position that fell vacant this past summer in the wake of the leadership turmoil at the university.