Robert F. Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
Plugging The Globalization Knowledge Gap
Eurasia Review / May 2, 2012
Jim Burroughs
Professor of marketing
Preppy look has a Southern feel
Rocky Mount (N.C.) Telegram / May 1
Lavahn Hoh
Drama professor and circus expert
Dream Job: Running away to join Cirque du Soleil
"The Madeleine Brand Show," KPCC Public Radio (Pasadena, Calif.) / May 1
Robert M. O'Neil
Emeritus professor of law and a former president of the university
Taking a Stand
Inside Higher Ed / May 2
Alan Rogol
Law professor
Commentary: Is the government wasting tax dollar...
Novelist Fernanda Eberstadt reviews "The Right-Hand Shore," by Christopher Tilghman, an English professor and head of U.Va.'s Creative Writing Program. "Tilghman unfolds his harsh lesson with precision, delicacy and startling humor. … 'The Right-Hand Shore' is the dark, magisterial creation of a writer with an uncanny feel for the intersections of place and character in American history."
The University of Virginia, located in a South that Julian helped change, is set to establish the H. Julian Bond Professorship of Civil Rights and Social Justice. There will be a celebration of Julian's many gifts and good works and a fundraiser for the chair tonight at New York's Plaza Hotel.
Brandon L. Garrett
Roy L. and Rosamund Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law
Don't Believe the Hype on Corporate Bribery
Huffington Post / May 1
Early phases of construction are under way for the University of Virginia's new indoor football facility.
From May to November, Eastern Shore Rural Health System will offer four free diabetes education classes to anyone interested in doing something positive about their condition. All four classes will be taught be experienced, certified diabetes educators from the University of Virginia Diabetes Education and Management Program. The programs will be broadcast live from U.Va. using telehealth technology.
Standardized test measurement errors are twice as bad as reported, lending traction to the argument that they're not a good metric for student achievement. Teacher effectiveness, knowledge deterioration and school environment can all affect how students perform on the tests, according to the new study by researchers the University of Virginia and three other institutions.
Experts now say that teaching kids to argue intelligently may give them the tools they need to stand up to peer pressure as they get older. Researchers from the University of Virginia recently studied arguments between 157 13-year old kids and their parents. The study, published in the journal Child Development, indicated that it was how the parents reacted to these arguments that determined whether or not their kids became good arguers.
Forbes recently ranked the fastest-growing endowments from the NACUBO study, and the University of Virginia topped the list with a 28.4% increase in its assets from 2010 to 2011. In fact, the $5.4-billion UVIMCO more than doubled its real estate allocation over the past four years. Real estate represented just 2.7% of the total portfolio in 2007 but grew to 5.9% in 2011.
As a result of work by the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, authorities are backing a request that the Virginia Supreme Court clear the name of Bennett S. Barbour, a James City County man wrongly convicted of a rape in Williamsburg 34 years ago. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Tuesday also asked the justices to expedite a writ of actual innocence for Barbour, 56, convicted of the Feb. 7, 1978, rape of a 19-year-old College of William and Mary student.
"BackStory with the American History Guys," a public radio program produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, will be syndicated on a weekly basis starting May 11. The show is hosted by "18th Century Guy" Peter Onuf, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation professor of history at UVa; "19th Century Guy" Ed Ayers, current president of the University of Richmond, former dean of the UVa College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and "20th Century Guy" Brian Balogh, Hugh P. Kelly professor of history at UVa and director of the Fellowship Program at UVa's Miller Center of Public Affairs...
Officials are encouraging University of Virginia students headed out for the summer to donate and recycle nonperishable food, household goods and furniture, rather than throwing it in the trash. Chuck It for Charity is an annual donation drive sponsored by the school's Office of Community Relations, Office of Off-Grounds Housing and Facilities Management in partnership with groups including the Blue Ridge Apartment Council and the Salvation Army.
Seven central Virginia nonprofits are cashing $100,000 worth of donation checks from University of Virginia students. Those students finish the University's first philanthropy course by handing out grants that will support programs that fight poverty and empower kids in and around Charlottesville.
Dewey Cornell
Curry School professor and head of the Youth Violence Project, which is cioted in this story
Tragedy raised security at Yuba-Sutter high schools
Marysville (Calif.) Appeal-Democrat / May 1, 2012
Chris Holstege
Toxicologist and medical director of The Blue Ridge Poison Control Center at the U.Va. Medical Center
Hand Sanitizer Used For Alcoholic Beverage
Charlottesville Newsplex / April 30
Jason Lawrence
Computer science professor and co-founder of Arqball
3 Examples: Visual Technologies Change The Rules
Information Week / April 30
Neal Kassell
Professor of neurosurgery and cha...
The article briefly profiles presidents, CEOs and/or primary leaders of the Becker\'s Hospital Review 100 Great Hospitals, including Edward Howell, vice president and CEO of the U.Va. Health System.
Bethany Nowviskie, director of digital research and scholarship at the U.Va. Library and president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, describes the Praxis Program, a digital-methods workshop and competitively awarded, yearlong, paid apprenticeship, designed to train emerging scholars and tech-savvy knowledge workers in the humanities.
Former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles, executive director of U.Va.'s Miller Center, discusses the report of the David R. Goode National Transportation Policy Conference and the need to find the political will to make transportation infrastructure a priority.
Dr. Karen C. Johnston of the U.Va. School of Medicine is a clinical principal investigator in a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke-funded study that should determine whether intravenous delivery or the usual shot of insulin works best for treating ischemic stroke patients, about 40 percent of whom arrive at the hospital with high blood glucose levels that can worsen their brain damage.