University of Virginia Architecture students have taken the top prize for a humanitarian home design. The five students won $5,000 for their work on a Haiti home plan.
Richard Bonnie
Professor of law and public policy
Drug experiment / What happens when an entire country legalizes drug use?
Boston Globe / Jan. 15
Edwin Burton
Economics professor
Editorial: State workers should pay to play
Hampton Roads Daily Press / Jan. 15
Ming-Jer Chen
Darden professor
In China, family outranks business
Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer / Jan. 16
W.G. Clark
Architecture professor
A place between places / W.G. Clark designs a home on the borderland
C-Ville Weekly / Jan. 11
Robert Fatton
History professor in the College of Arts & Sciences
Haiti's 'Baby Doc' in surprise ret...
Harold Gould
Visiting Scholar in U.Va.'s Center for South Asian Studies
A disintegrating Pakistan: Choices for US and India
Ummid.com / Jan. 16
Larry J. Sabato
Politics professor in the College of Arts & Sciences and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Commentary: Making sense of Tucson
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Jan. 16
A Charlottesville artist is working to brighten the lives of some of central Virginia's youngest hospital patients. Over the past two months, Renee Balfour has been conducting free art lessons for children. The oil paintings that come out of those sessions are then sold, with the proceeds benefiting the University of Virginia Children's Hospital.
A survey to measure resident satisfaction in Chesterfield County showed some of the highest ratings since polling first was conducted in 1986. ... The biannual survey is conducted for the county by the Center for Survey Research at the University of Virginia.
Concerned parents looking to send their kids to a college free from repressive speech codes can now add another option to their list. Last semester, the University of Virginia eliminated the last of a series of policies that unconstitutionally restricted the free speech of students and faculty members.
The Miller Center announced Monday that following this academic year ending in June 2011, George Gilliam will step down from his duties as the Centers Assistant Director for Public Programs and Chair of the Forum Program, which he has headed since 2004.
Avery Catlin, vital in the introduction of computers to the University of Virginia and the first person to hold the key position of executive vice president of UVa, died Saturday at Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge.
On Sunday, a service to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., marked the start of celebration here in Charlottesville. Maurice Jones, the new city manager joined forces with the University of Virginia to pay tribute to the civil rights leader and to call the community to action.
Health care workers at University of Virginia volunteered their Martin Luther King holiday to give future medical professionals some hands-on experience. It is just one of the many ways UVA will be honoring Dr. King throughout the week.
… “We must maintain faith in the future,” Dr. Marcus Martin, the University of Virginia’s vice president and chief officer for equity and diversity, quoted King as saying. The quote comes from King’s visit to UVa in 1963. … Martin also read a letter from UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan. “We have come a long way … but we still have a long way to go to create the completely colorblind society envisioned in King’s dream,” the letter read, in part.
Gov. Bob McDonnell announced legislation Monday that would expand the number of slots for Virginians seeking to attend state colleges and establish a long-term link between higher education and job creation. … McDonnell said the commission's work already is having an impact. He praised the University of Virginia for its plan to add about 1,000 spaces for in-state students as the kind of innovation needed across the higher-education system.
If the purpose of a college education is for students to learn, academe is failing, according to "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," a book being released today by University of Chicago Press. … "How much are students actually learning in contemporary higher education? The answer for many undergraduates, we have concluded, is not much," write the authors, Richard Arum, professor of sociology and education at New York University, and Josipa Roksa, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia continued its two-week celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with keynote speeches from Dr. Vivian Pinn and Dr. Louis Sullivan on the importance of increasing diversity and their own paths to success.
Federal Judge John Roll, who received a master's degree from U.Va.'s Law School, will be laid to rest today.
Mo Gaffney
Doctoral student in elementary education at the Curry School
Covenant School names new head of Lower School
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Jan. 14
John T. Casteen III
President emeritus
Press release: President Obama Appoints John Casteen and Timothy Broas to Woodrow Wilson Center Board of Trustees
PR Newswire / Jan. 13
Dewey Cornell
Forensic clinical psychologist in the Curry School
Forensic Psychologists Praise Obama's, Boehner's Response To Shooting
Dow Jones Newswires / Jan. 13
Emma Edmunds
Director of strategic communications in the Office of Development and Public Affairs, and project director of a Danville oral history project
Website tells Danville civil rights history
Danville Register & Bee / Jan. 13
Christopher Holstege
Me...
Highlights research by Jennifer Klein and Dewey Cornell, a Curry School graduate student and professor, respectively, that found no statistically significant differences in self-reports of bullying between large and small schools.