... Of course crunching the financial numbers is critical as you begin to contemplate retirement. But your personal calling, support network and health and well-being are just as important. In the end, a holistic approach to your life is always the best starting place. We offer just such an approach every year through the Osher Life Long Learning Institute at the University of Virginia. Beth Nedelisky and I are teaching the workshop‚ "Planning for Success and Significance in Retirement." The course, intended for people age 50 to 70, covers cash flow projections and asset alloca...
University of Virginia student groups are stepping up to raise money for the Rotunda repairs. The Thomas Jefferson Literary Debating Society in conjunction with about 15 other groups will host the Restoration Ball on March 19th.
...A provocative new book, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” makes a strong case that for a large portion of the nation’s seemingly successful undergraduates the years in college barely improve their skills in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing. Intellectual effort and academic rigor, in the minds of many of the nation’s college students, is becoming increasingly less important. According to the authors, Professors Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia:...
Start-up companies with interests ranging from golf shoes to blood clots threw pitches to investment capitalists Friday at the close of the University of Virginia’s third annual Venture Summit.
On the field of her dreams, Yeardley Love will remain No. 1 forever. The Cockeysville native's uniform number was retired Sunday at the University of Virginia, where teammates, relatives, friends and fans gathered in the rain to present her mother and sister with a commemorative jersey and to raise a flag bearing her name and number, 1, at her beloved lacrosse field. [Includes picture gallery]
Larry Sabato is director for the Center of Politics at the University of Virginia.
A significant number of households across the state lack enough income and assets to cover basic needs and unplanned expenses, and the federal poverty level inadequately measures how much it costs to be economically self-sufficient, according to a University of Virginia study.
Assistant professor of sociology Josipa Roksa is co-author of a new book about what is happening, or not happening, when it comes to learning on America’s college campuses. The book chronicles what the authors say is an amazing lack of education taking place for large numbers of students.
One year after a devastating earthquake destroyed their homes, 800,000 Haitians are still waiting for new places to live. Two Virginia groups (Building Good Foundation and the U.Va. School of Architecture’s Initiative reCOVER) have stepped up to help, but Sandy Hausman reports on why progress is slow.
If the standard campus-based college education is boring you, consider signing up for the short-term 2011 Semester at Sea program. The 26-day program is the result of a partnership between the Institute for Shipboard Education and the University of Virginia. The theme for the adventure is “Engineering a New Tomorrow” and students will be working through an academic program based on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center is striving to be designated the first comprehensive cancer center in the Commonwealth. ... The designation would allow UVA to tap into a wealth of funding to add researchers and double the number of clinical trials done right here across Virginia.
Wilson notes that in the 2010 book, Foreclosing the Dream: How America's Housing Crisis is Changing Our Cities and Suburbs, University of Virginia architecture professor William Lucy shows that foreclosures in 2008 and 2009 occurred more often in car-dependent outer suburbs than in cities and closer-in suburbs.
In order for a business to get off the ground, it needs money. Thursday investors sitting on about $20-billion listened as entrepreneurs made their pitch. It's a part of the third annual Venture Summit at the University of Virginia. Organizers say the summit is all about showing off the university's potential for innovation.
Since JBHE began tracking graduation rates of black students at the nation’s leading colleges and universities nearly two decades ago, the University of Virginia has always ranked at the top of the list for state-operated educational institutions. The university prides itself on this achievement and works hard to maintain its superior performance in graduating black students. ... The emphasis on strong academics has paid off not only in maintaining a high black student graduation rate. The university reports that from 2005 to 2010 the percentage of African-American students with a grade ...
Kate Orff
Earned a Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction in Interdisciplinary-Political & Social in 1993
Robin Felder
associate director of clinical chemistry and toxicology
Passive Monitoring May Reduce Patient Care Costs in Assisted Living, Home Health
SeniorHomes.com / Mar. 2
Dr. David S. Geldmacher
Medical Director of the Memory Disorder Clinic and Director of the Memory Disorder Program
Understanding Alzheimer’s
"Virginia Insight" on WMRA Public Radio / Feb. 28
Grace Hale
Associate professor of history and author of "A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America"
Charlottesville--Right Now: Grace Hale joins...
...The university is participating in Recyclemania. It's an eight week competition between colleges across the United States and Canada to find out who can recycle the most. UVA has been keeping track of progress with scoreboards posted in the dining hall.
The healing power of touch has new meaning in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or NICU at UVA'S Children's Hospital. When doctors or nurses can't comfort a baby, a volunteer with the Baby Cuddler Program steps in. Deborah MacDonald is a volunteer cuddler.
Bipartisan legislation on its way to Governor McDonnell's desk aims to revamp the way Virginia's colleges and universities deliver higher education. Lawmakers say the bill is a roadmap to prevent tuition spikes and enable an additional 100,000 degrees for in-state students.