Forecasts for population growth point to an enrollment increase in Virginia’s public schools of 40,000 by 2015, according to the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia. At the same time, the Cooper Center estimates about one-third of the state’s teachers are eligible to retire, or soon will be.
From the moment the guard at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center escorted my students and me into the multi-purpose room, where a group of incarcerated adolescents, aged 16-20, in maroon jumpsuits awaited us, we knew that this was not going to be Russian literature class as usual. … In this course pairs of University of Virginia students lead weekly discussions with small groups of residents at either a juvenile treatment or correctional center.
The leaking Rotunda roof is probably the most famous example of repair work needed at the University of Virginia, but across the school more than $195 million in maintenance has been put off. School officials are working to cut that figure, but the effort has been impeded by budget cuts from Richmond. The ratio of needed work to total infrastructure has improved marginally, but the total cost of the work needed has continued to mount.
A Kindle trial at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business found that while students liked the device for reading books, only one in 10 used it for studying. Michael Koenig, director of MBA operations at Darden, sees much greater potential for touchscreen tablets such as the iPad, RIM’s Playbook or Samsung’s Galaxy Tab.
First-term Virginia U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith will be among the speakers at the fourth annual Energy Technology Summit at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise on March 21.
The Virginia Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case dealing with whether Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) can subpoena e-mails and records from the University of Virginia dealing with the work of a former university climate scientist.
The effect of upheaval in the Arab world on fuel prices will eventually moderate, but democracies and the current autocracies will have the same long-term positions about oil, said Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations after a presentation at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
With their eyes glued to a piece of paper and their bodies swaying vertically and horizontally, University of Virginia law professor Molly Bishop Shadel said, students often hold onto the podium like it’s the last rail of the Titanic when they’re giving a speech. But after a few tries, Shadel said, the students begin to loosen up.
Lighting up villages in the remote areas of East and West Champaran, Muzzarpur, Sitamarhi and Lakisarai in Bihar is the Husk Power System (HPS), a company set up by electrical engineer Gyanesh Pandey together with his friends Ratnesh Yadhav, Manoj Sinha and Charles Ransler, and with support from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
Food hubs are one of the success stories of the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative, USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan said. She described a food hub at the University of Virginia that sells to the university, the food-service company Sysco and to other large buyers.
Pity the architects who've tried for almost 200 years to follow the genius of Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia. Their efforts bring to mind Fitzgerald's remark regarding the dearth of second acts in American lives. In Charlottesville, though, we're talking about the life of one of the nation's finest master plans -- and the mostly lackluster structures that have proliferated around it.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has decided it will hear an appeal in state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s battle to get the University of Virginia to turn over documents related to a climate change scientist. Cuccinelli, a climate change skeptic, has been investigating whether scientist Michael Mann, who worked at UVa for years but is now at Pennsylvania State University, committed fraud. The investigation relates to thousands of e-mails written by climate research scientists, including Mann, that were leaked from a British university. Skeptics have claimed that the e-mails showed the ...
Aerospace engineering researchers and students at the University of Virginia are helping to create a hypersonic "scramjet" engine that can travel at five times the speed of sound - or 3,700 mph. That's about twice the speed of a bullet, and it's technology that could one day allow a plane to fly from New York to Los Angeles in just 40 minutes.
There's something that her former players come to realize about coach Debbie Ryan. When they think back on the biggest successes in their careers at Virginia, Ryan seems a bit in the periphery, as if always letting them have the glory. But when they think about difficulties and challenges they faced, Ryan is front and center. Because she was always there to help them.
Billy R. Williams took the pictures of his head in a halo to church with him Sunday to share the news of his miracle. The halo was fastened to his head at the University of Virginia Health System two weeks ago as Williams became the first patient to undergo scalpel-free brain surgery using focused sound waves to relieve symptoms of the essential tremor that has plagued him for nearly a decade.
Darius Smith
A first-year student at the University of Virginia's College at Wise
Jonathan Haidt
A professor in the Department of Psychology
Liberal Bias in Academia Reaches New Levels
NewsMax.com / March 9
Josipa Roksa
a sociologist at the University of Virginia
Education community should re-evaluate itself
The North Wind / March 10
Saras Sarasvathy
An associate professor at the Darden School of Business.
Why entrepreneurs and corporate chiefs make bad bedfellows
Globe and Mail / March 10
Robert Sayler and Molly Bishop Shadel
Law professors and authors of "Tongue-Tied America: Reviving the Art of Verbal Persuasion"
How to end fear of public ...
More Virginians are identifying themselves as multi-racial, according to the U.S. Census. … The Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia has a overview of the multi-racial population here.
And the Virginia Festival of the Book, set for March 16-20, soldiers on, beleaguered by dwindling financial support as another chief source of funding, the National Endowment for the Humanities, takes its own funding hits. This year, the five-day event has 30 fewer programs than last year, but organizers don't see a mere 130 public events as necessarily a bad thing. "Last year people complained that there were too many choices in some time slots," says Nancy Damon, book festival program director.
… Using the University of Virginia's Valley of the Shadow digital archive as a guide--and funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for financial support--Spielvogel developed an online reenactment and multiplayer role-playing simulation that takes place during the American Civil War.