Hundreds of high school students and their robots took over the University of Virginia on Saturday. The first Tech Challenge brought together more than 40 robotics teams from across the commonwealth.
Article mentions the business incubator at Darden.
At Darden, the case-writing powerhouse at the University of Virginia, plans are afoot to move away from the PDF format in which cases are distributed electronically, to XML, which enables documents to be output into different formats.
Andrew Selee, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, spoke at U.Va.'s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
The project got started with the help of seed money from Youth-Nex, a UVa center focused on healthy youth development. Diane Whaley, a UVa professor who focuses on exercise psychology, worked with nursing professor Amy Boitnott and pediatrics professor Dr. Mark DeBoer on Salud, a UVa-based program that is trying to improve the nutrition and exercise habits of children who live in the largely Latino community of Southwood Mobile Home Park.
John Quale’s EcoMOD studio in the School of Architecture is featured.
Despite the general psychological principle that we like people who like us, researchers at the University of Virginia studied whether uncertainty stokes romantic interest. Pretending that they were studying Facebook's usefulness as a matchmaking resource, researchers told 47 UVA women that several college men had read their profiles and rated them on their girlfriend potential.
Historian Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the story of this evolution in her new book, “A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle-Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America” (Oxford University Press). Hale, a University of Virginia professor, traces the role of the outsider and examines its seductive appeal to an increasingly prosperous and bourgeois society, and the growing social usefulness of appearing to be the rebel.
University of Virginia researchers found that the recession "deepened" the commitment to marriage for 29% of the people surveyed. Among those considering divorce before the economic slump, 38% said they opted to stay together, at least temporarily, because of the downturn.
Schenkkan, who studied drama at U.Va., was a founding father and tireless defender of public broadcasting, starting in the 1960s. He spent five decades nurturing public radio and television in Austin.
The Virginia Supreme Court's first black chief justice, Leroy R. Hassell Sr., died on Wednesday in a Richmond Hospital after succumbing to a long illness.
Composer and writer Paul Bowles, who was born at the very end of 1910 (Dec. 30) in New York and educated at the University of Virginia, made his living as a composer until the end of World War II. At that point, he moved to Morocco and lived for the rest of his life in the far northern city of Tangier, where he died in 1999.
David Breneman
Former Dean of the Curry School of Education
At Closed-Door Summit, For-Profit Colleges Discuss How to Make the Sector More Accountable
Chronicle of Higher Education / Feb. 11
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Think Again: The 'Problem' of Liberal Academics, Again
Huffington Post / Feb. 11
William Quandt
Professor of Politics
Egyptian military makes its move, inches Mubarak toward door
CNN / Feb. 11
Josipa Roksa
Now College is the Break
Wall Street Journal editorial / Feb. 11
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Webb Announcement Opens Se...
Jeffrey Sikkenga
Senior fellow in the Politics Department's Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy, associate professor of political science at Ashland University in Ohio and adjunct fellow at the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs.
Grace Elizabeth Hale
Associate professor of history and American studies
AACSB report on globalization of business schools, chaired by Darden Dean Bob Bruner, released; Bruner quoted
Robert F. Bruner
Dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration