Neil Snyder
Retired McIntire School of Commerce professor
The Next Gaza War Will Be a Coordinated Attack
American Thinker / April 15
Snyder taught leadership and strategy at the University of Virginia for 25 years. He retired from UVA in 2004 and is currently the Ralph A. Beeton Professor Emeritus. His blog, SnyderTalk.com, is posted daily.
The latest blow against the proposed maps for House of Delegates and Senate district came Wednesday. Two political scientists, one from Christopher Newport University and the other on the staff of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, released their analysis of the new district. Quentin Kidd and Dustin Cable pulled no punches in their 17-page report. "In short, the maps presented to the governor by the General Assembly would make a bad situation worse for the coming decade," they said, putting yet more pressure on McDonnell.
A new Web-based role-playing simulation called ValleySim that some school districts have piloted draws on the Valley of the Shadow project, a vast digital archive compiled by the University of Virginia that details life in two communities, one Northern and one Southern, in the Civil War era. "The problem for teachers is there's too much stuff, so how do you make sense of it?" said Andrew T. Mink, the director of outreach and education at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, who has administered several Teaching American History grant initiatives.
The 78th annual Historic Garden Week in Virginia starts Saturday and continues through April 23. This year’s local tours will include Monticello, Farmington Country Club, Morven Estate, the Pavilions on the Lawn at the University of Virginia and the gardens of private homes.
On Tuesday ... "Living for 32" documents Colin Goddard's story and his efforts to raise awareness of gun violence in the United States. Goddard and his father, Andrew, will be at UVa for a discussion following the 7 p.m. screening in Newcomb Hall Theater.
The cost of undergraduate tuition and fees at The University of Virginia will increase 8.9 percent next year, a move officials credited in large part to state cuts.
Friday's Daily Progress included a special section on the inauguration of Teresa A. Sullivan as U.Va.'s eighth president. As of midday Friday, the contents were not posted online.
Academics must make deliberate, data-driven efforts to improve the way they teach, according to Lee S. Shulman, president emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. “If we believe that evidence [that suggests many students learn little during their stay at college] is flawed, we must reply with more evidence,” he said Thursday, speaking at an academic symposium held to mark today’s inauguration of University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan.
Vivian Marie Watkins Keeton
A graduate of the School of Nursing
Dustin Cable
Demographer with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
New legislative districts would be worse than the old ones
Washington Post | April 13
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Experts slam lawmakers' effort on redistricting
Newport News Daily Press | April 13
Dr. Steven DeKosky
Vice president and dean of the School of Medicine
Brain May Shrink in Decade Before Alzheimer's Symptoms Appear
US News & World Report | April 13
Daniel Ortiz
A law professor
Health care law gets day in court
USA Today | April 14
Sophia Rosenfeld
Associate professor of history
The History of Common Sense
Boston Glo...
Born on April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, would have celebrated his 268th birthday today. Instrumental as a founding father, Jefferson authored the declaration of independence, spurred the American Revolution and developed the political ideals on which America built itself. ... Birthday festivities will be celebrated today at Monticello, Jefferson's former estate and a popular historical landmark. Music from U.S. Army's Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, a presentation of wreaths and a commemorative speech fill the schedule. Likewise, the University ...
Every year thousands of babies are born prematurely in the Commonwealth. Many are forced to spend their first days, weeks, and even months inside of the intensive care unit at the University of Virginia Medical Center. The Cuddler Program works to ensure each infant receives the tender loving care that they need.
The organ that went bad inside Trey Ward’s body has, when you think about it, an ironic name — the liver. As in: You can’t live without it. ... April is National Organ Donation Month, and thus a good time to contemplate one of the true transplant success stories. Ward, a Lynchburg resident who is director of food services at Chatham Hall, received his new liver in a 2½-hour operation at the University of Virginia Medical Center on March 23.
Common sense has a special place in modern politics. Politicians constantly appeal to it in their arguments, and they do so because democracy itself is founded on a faith in common sense. ... The truth is, as usual, more complicated. As Sophia Rosenfeld, a historian at the University of Virginia, shows in Common Sense: A Political History, common sense was invented by scientists, philosophers, and politicians. ... Common sense is, as she puts it, a "slippery" idea -- the kind of idea that covers its own tracks.
The Jefferson Foundation at the University of Virginia celebrated three individuals for excellence in the fields of study that Jefferson valued most. The honorees were Maya Lin for her work in architecture, Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Cynthia Kinser for law, and Peter Peterson for citizen leadership.
The woman who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has shared her passion for architecture and the environment. Maya Lin is this year's winner of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
The University of Virginia community came together Wednesday in an interfaith celebration to honor its new president, Teresa Sullivan, as she continues the tradition set by Thomas Jefferson. The University Singers participated in the event. The inauguration is only just beginning. An all-day academic symposium is scheduled for Thursday. Friday is the inauguration ceremony itself. Saturday, Sullivan will join UVa. students in service projects throughout the area, and Sunday will be the inaugural 10K walk around Charlottesville.
The University of Virginia is set to formally install its eighth president. Inauguration ceremonies for Teresa A. Sullivan are scheduled for Friday afternoon on the historic Lawn in Charlottesville. The 3 p.m. ceremony will be moved indoors in case of rain. Sullivan is the first woman to lead U.Va., which didn't become fully coeducational until 1970.
The University of Virginia recently named Nathan Moore, a veteran of noncommercial radio, as the new general manager of WTJU 91.1 FM, the university’s eclectic community radio station. ... Moore took over as the station’s GM on April 5. The Daily Progress interviewed Moore for a Q&A about his perspective on community radio and goals for the station.
Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, hopes she can get viewers of her art and architecture to think about the natural world in a way they hadn’t before. Speaking Wednesday at the University of Virginia to mark Founder’s Day, she was one of three notables to win Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, a joint honor presented by UVa and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Also honored were Cynthia D. Kinser, chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, and Peter G. Peterson, philanthropist and founder of his namesake foundation. The medals are the highest external honor conf...