By guest columnist Daniel Willingham, cognitive scientist and professor of psychology at U.Va.
Several people have sent me this video, either because they thought it brilliant and wanted to be sure that I saw it, or because they thought it foolish and wanted me to criticize it. It’s a cleverly animated summary of a talk delivered by Sir Ken Robinson, a British author, former professor of education, and authority on innovation. Robinson suggests that what’s needed in education is a “paradigm shift." Maybe so, but Robinson makes a poor case. ...
Two of the three candidates vying to win Tuesday’s 5th District congressional seat squared off in a debate Monday at the University of Virginia, offering several hundred students their views on health care reform, offshore oil drilling and the national debt that young people are likely to inherit. ...
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell was on grounds at the University of Virginia for the second time in four days Monday morning for yet another dedication. The celebration was for the Sheila C. Johnson Center for Human Services, the only of its kind in the Commonwealth. The $5 million center, located on the ground floor of the Curry School of Education, was designed to house clinics specializing in communication disorders and various developmental issues. Clinicians say having all the resources, from diagnosis to treatment, under one roof is a rare commodity. ...
Fran Crippen
An 11-time All-American swimmer from a family of prominent swimmers
Race conditions called into question after Crippen's death
Associated Press / Oct. 24
Dr. Daniel Carey
President of the Medical Society of Virginia, director of the Cardio Cath Lab at Lynchburg General Hospital and a graduate of the School of Medicine
Virginia struggling to counter decline in physicians
Lynchburg News and Advance / October 25, 2010
Andrew Lustig
Who received a B.A. in Latin American Studies in 1995.
In slowdown, executives unite
Washington Post / October 25, 2010
Terence Fells-Danzer
A fullback on the football team
OUR VIEW: It's fun to cheer for players we know
Culpeper / Oct. 25, 2010
Adam Gillenwater
President of the University Democrats
On U-Va.'s campus, struggling to rekindle excitement of 2008
Washington Post / October 24, 2010
On college campuses where Barack Obama made politics cool again, most students have moved on. … The story is the same in Virginia’s Albemarle County, which includes 90 percent of the dorms at the University of Virginia. In 2008, 6,171 people registered to vote; only 2,714 new registrations came in this year, a number that could be troubling for the reelection efforts of Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello, who won 2008 thanks in large part to students who turned out for Obama.
Candidates across the U.S. are set to enter the final week of campaigning, and students at the University of Virginia say when it comes to the 5th District race, the youth vote is more important than ever.
Nancy Deutsch and Pam Tucker
Curry School of Education faculty members
Local educators turn eye to 'Superman'
Charlottesville Daily Progress / October 24, 2010
Paul Freedman
Associate professor in the Department of Politics who studies the influence of mass media on elections
Battle of television news titans
BBC News / ‎October 24, 2010
John Harrison
Law professor who teaches constitutional law
War of words on the Constitution
Delmarva Now October 24, 2010
Dr. Scott Heysell,
Fellow in infectious disease and international health
A Small Town With a Mighty Problem
Infectious Disease Sp...
Robert C. Pianta
Novartis U.S. Foundation Professor of Education and dean of the Curry School of Education
Stakes and mistakes in assessing teacher effectiveness
Washington Post (blog) / October 24, 2010
Jonathan Haidt
A professor of psychology and author of “The Happiness Hypothesis.”
In the Eyes of Others
New York Times / October 22, 2010
A bipartisan panel of transportation experts assembled by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and headed by former Transportation secretaries Norman Mineta and Sam Skinner just reported that the nation needs to spend $134 billion to $262 billion a year for 25 years to make its roads, rail systems and air transport world class.
One predictable result of the disappearance of jobs is falling marriage rates. The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia reports that the marriage rates were up during the prosperity of the late 1990s, but that they declined from 2007 to 2009, and "it seems quite likely, given the severity of the ongoing recession, that the incoming data will indicate that marriage rates have declined further – or at least remained depressed."
When corporations consider where to open new offices, it all comes down to location. For TASC — a government contractor for defense, intelligence and other federal agencies and Albemarle County’s most recent resident — it’s about location of its clients, location of its research collaborators at the University of Virginia and proximity of its offices to its Washington, D.C., headquarters.
The University of Virginia is continuing to beef up its safety programs after a string of attacks against students. In an e-mail sent out Thursday to the university community, UVa’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, Leonard W. Sandridge, wrote that the increase in incidents against students has prompted additional safety measures. Because of an increase in the number of students using the SafeRide program to get home, the school is adding three additional phone lines to SafeRide and doubling the number of people who answer those phones. The University Transit System w...
A University of Virginia student charity called Campus Kitchen is addressing poverty in a creative way. Their approach brings together several aspects of aid that support and enhance each other. The first goal is delivering hot, balanced meals to people struggling to overcome homelessness and other problems.
Ron Chernow has been called a self-made historian, and he owns up to the label. …
Scholars are still sifting through the results: Chernow made extensive use of the Washington Papers, a project at the University of Virginia dedicated to compiling everything ever written by and about George Washington.
The most serious, concerted effort to re-energize the Chesapeake Bay cleanup is under way. While not inexpensive, it could pay dividends for generations to come. … According to recent study by the University of Virginia, every $1 spent on the effort reaps $1.56 in economic activity. State officials estimate that nearly 12,000 year-to-year jobs will be created just to implement the best-management-practices technology.
We all spend a lot of time "ize"-ing or "ise"-ing. We try to "monetize" our work and to do so we usually spend a lot of money to "advertise" it. Creatives spend a lot of time "conceptualizing" new ways to do so and they're "incentivized" to come up with great ideas (as are all of us, hopefully!). There's a lot of "theorizing" about how to make all this work, but "actualizing" it usually isn't all that easy. …. Check out what the University of Virginia is doing with their new mobile app. Why is it such a good...
You wouldn't know it from driving past on U.S. 460 or Interstate 295, but this quiet crossroads community southeast of Petersburg is well on its way to becoming one of the world's most advanced manufacturing centers. … Rolls-Royce will be joined there by a manufacturing research organization that it's partnering with the University of Virginia to create, the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing. And the company is actively working to lure its suppliers to "co-locate" nearby.
A vigil last week at the University of Virginia Rotunda highlighted a problem that, despite rising societal concern in recent years, seems to be all too evident. That problem is bullying, especially based on sexual orientation.