The National Industrial Defense Association honored the pair on Tuesday as winners of the Colonel Leo A. Codd Memorial Award. One thousand instructors are nominated for this prestigious award, but only nine are named instructor of the year, nationwide. UVA has two of the nine: Major John Prather of the U.S. Marine Corps and Captain Jared Hoover of the U.S. Air Force.
Leonard W. Sandridge, executive vice president and chief operating officer, represented the University of Virginia at the public meeting on Tuesday.
The U.S. has its expensive cosmopolitan areas, too, but it also has highly ranked universities, such as Louisiana State and University of Virginia, where the cost-of-living is low enough to live comfortably.
Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia Larry Sabato joins Coy Barefoot to discuss a recent discovery.
The founder and director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, Larry J. Sabato, has given the university an original entrance pass to President Abraham Lincoln's funeral.
Steven Carroll is supervising everyone on this sunny day. He is the University of Virginia botanist who is director of public programs at the Virginia state arboretum at Blandy Experimental Farm, where he is expanding the community garden plots to several dozen.
Article cites the new book, "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," by sociologists Richard Arum and U.Va.'s Josipa Roksa, and also discusses U.Va. McIntire School of Commerce. A forthcoming report from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching praises 10 American colleges of business as models for integrating the liberal arts and practical training. The University of Virginia's business school, which is often ranked in the top five, is included.
Daniel McDowell
Doctoral student in international relations
In an email interview, Daniel McDowell, a doctoral student at the University of Virginia and an expert in international lending practices, discussed the IMF's proposal.
Boris Kovatchev
professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, director of the school's Center for Diabetes
Artificial Pancreas More Effective at Night
Medscape / April 18
Larry Sabato
Politics professor, director of the Center for Politics
Trump: Obama Is Wrong World Messenger for US
Newsmax.com / April 18
Arthur Schulman
Retired psychology professor
Crossword King
WVTF Public Radio (Roanoke, VA) / April 18
Sarah Turner
Assistant professor of education and economics
Experts Call for Changes to Pell Grants
Education Week / April 18
Isaac Wood
Policy analyst, Center for Politics
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Timothy Beatley
Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities in the School of Architecture
On April 20, 2010 — one year ago this week — the Deepwater Horizon, a massive drilling rig operated by BP off the southeast coast of Louisiana, exploded, opening a sea-floor gusher that began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster that unfolded — some five million barrels of oil would be spilled in the three months before the well was capped — was a gut-wrenching reminder of how profoundly American dependence on fossil fuels affects our marine environments. Yet a ...
How much does the environment influence mental growth, and how much of that growth is dependent on genetics? The answer appears to depend on the socioeconomic class of the parents, according to researchers at the University of Virginia and University of Texas.
UVA's Darden School of Business is once again honoring companies that are achieving success in communities that face economic hardship with the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award.
Psychology professor Jonathan Haidt quoted on rationalizing.
“One hundred and fifty years later, we’re still fighting with many of the same questions,” said Andrew T. Mink, the director of outreach and education at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, who has administered a series of federal Teaching American History grants.
"I do not like it, even though you could say we have benefited from it," said Brian O'Connor, head coach at the University of Virginia, ranked No. 1 in one major college poll. "Our team has been able to make the adjustment, but I don’t think it is what is best for college baseball."
ROCS stands for Responsible Outgoing College Students. It has helped more than 1,000 local students — most are from George Mason University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, the University of Maryland and George Washington University — launch careers. So what’s hot? "Information technology," said co-founder Brandon Labman.
... many of them — including the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University and Washington College. ... Check the Web sites or rule books of most American universities, including the ones above, and you will discover that they offer college credit to students who get good grades on Advanced Placement exams in high school but that they refuse to give the same credit to students who do well on similar International Baccalaureate Standard Level exams.