... Teresa Sullivan, unanimously elected by the Board of Visitors, became the University’s first female president in August of 2010, and graduation for the Class of 2012 represented a very significant event for women in leadership roles at the University of Virginia. The speakers – in addition to Dr. Sullivan and Ms. Couric – included the first female rector of the University, Helen Dragas; chair of the Alumni Association Board of Managers, Victoria Dux Harker; and grand marshal Gweneth L. West, a drama professor in the College of Arts & Sciences.
...Tina Ho has graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine after using her medical struggles as a child to help others across the globe. ... Ho was class president for four years running. In that leadership role, she created a scholarship for future medical students. It was her drive in the classroom and in those positions that caught the eye of faculty and staff at the School of Medicine.
... But even more than conducting research, universities are also incubating promising new water technology companies. For example, students at the University of Virginia’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Darden School of Business are incubating two new water ventures. One example is Apollo Water which is developing a low-cost, easy-to-use water purification and desalinization system for use primarily in the developing world.
... Udacity is a free university (of sorts) that offers “massive open online courses”—or, MOOCs—to anyone with a decent Internet connection and a little self-discipline. ... I enrolled in Udacity’s CS101: Building a Search Engine, with tens of thousands of other students from across the globe. ... On the screen appeared Dave Evans, a computer scientist at the University of Virginia. Over the next seven weeks, his goal was teach newbies like me enough Python—a basic programming language—to build a mini Google.
Daniel V. Pitti, associate director of U.Va.'s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, convened a meeting at the National Archives to create a vision and strategy for a National Archival Authorities Cooperative, or NAAC, that could mainstream a new archival-authority standard, released in 2010 and already being tested by IATH.
Work is getting under way on the renovation of the University of Virginia's Rotunda. Media outlets report that the Rotunda's roof and oculus skylight will be replaced. The work also includes repairing exterior brick walls, windows and ornamental sheet metal. Work on the nearly $4.7 million project begins Wednesday. It's scheduled to be completed in August 2013 but the university says it will try to finish the work in time for final exercises in 2013.
The finance committee of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Tuesday adopted a budget that’s slightly larger than the current year’s, but grim talk accompanied the budget, which showed a dip in research funding and precious little new funding overall.
Vigen Guroian
Professor of religious studies and commencement speaker for Ad Fontes Academy, a Christian K-12 school in Centreville
High School Students Defend Thesis to Graduate
Centreville Patch.com / May 22
Rachel Harmon
Professor of law
Governing Policing: Stop-and-Frisk and Arrest in the 21st Century
Urbanite Baltimore / May 21
Farzaneh Milani
A professor of Persian literature and women's studies
Book TV at University of Virginia: Farzaneh Milani, "Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement"
C-Span2 BookTV / May 20
Brad Wilcox
Associate professor of sociology...
... While I was researching some themes for the speech, I stumbled on a new book by Dr. Meg Jay, a member of the U.Va. community. She's a clinical psychologist and author of "The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now." ... In this episode, I speak to Dr. Jay on the grounds of U.Va. and ask her about some of the mistakes recent college grads make…and how to avoid them!
... conventional banking as we know it may not be part of the traditional Hispanic upbringing. This has led to a general mistrust of banks and, when coupled with a natural skepticism, would account for the $53 billion attributed to "unbanked" Latino households according to a study by a research arm of the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business...
Seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and can store up to twice as much carbon as the world's temperate and tropical forests, new research indicates. The study was published yesterday, May 20, in the journal Nature Geoscience. ..."One remarkable thing about seagrass meadows is that, if restored, they can effectively and rapidly sequester carbon and reestablish lost carbon sinks," study researcher Karen McGlathery, of the University of Virginia, said in a statement.
“Some said I lacked ‘gravitas,’ which I’ve since decided is Latin for ‘testicles.’” — Katie Couric on the skepticism she faced as a woman climbing the career ladder in broadcast news, in a commencement speech on Sunday to graduates at the University of Virginia.