... Apparently an advanced degree from a prestigious university is
frequently discounted by other MBAs when the holder is African-American,
according to recent work by researchers Stephen Sauer of Clarkson
University, Melissa Thomas-Hunt of the University of Virginia, and Patrick
Morris of the May Group Family Fund and published in the journal
Organization Science. ...
A Charlottesville man who has been accused of robbing a University of
Virginia student will undergo a competency evaluation. After a hearing
Wednesday in Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward L. Hogshire ordered
Carlton William Arnold to undergo the evaluation. ...
... Campus police are trying to figure out how a UVA transit bus driver ran
off the road and into a bridge Wednesday. The crash happened around 7 a.m.
on Rugby Road. The driver says he parked the bus at a stop and secured the
emergency brake before walking to the back of the bus to pick up some trash.
However, the bus started rolling and did not come to a stop until it crashed
into Beta Bridge, a landmark on the UVA campus. The bridge and the bus will
need to be repaired. No one on the bus or the bridge was injured. ...
Well more than a hundred people gathered Wednesday evening in front of the
Rotunda at the University of Virginia for a vigil to combat bullying,
particularly bullying based on sexual orientation. The event was put on by
All Charlottesville Caring for Every Person Together. ...
The University of Virginia has completed its internal audit and management
review of the Virginia Quarterly Review, the university’s award-winning
literary journal that has been dealing with allegations of workplace
bullying ever since the suicide of VQR managing editor Kevin Morrissey on
July 30. ...
Now that he's about to lose the best recruiting poster the nation ever had,
NASA'S new teacher-in-chief says he's looking for innovative ways to inspire
future generations of scientists and engineers to pursue careers in space.
With the fiery televised launches and lumbering landings of space shuttles
coming to an end after almost 30 years, former astronaut Leland Melvin vows
to transform NASA's 18,000 employees and thousands of affiliated NASA
contractors into "an inspiration corps" that will help "make it prestigious
(for students) to be smart" and pursue careers in scien...
History buffs will soon be able to explore the private thoughts and official
writings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers
in a public, online clearinghouse of their letters, journals and other
documents. The University of Virginia Press is putting the published papers
of Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and
Benjamin Franklin on a National Archives website that is expected to be
accessible to the public in 2012. ...
Javier Lopez
Former U.Va. baseball player now pitching for the San Francisco Giants in
the National League Championship Series
A recent University of Virginia study that dismissed the effectiveness of
pop-up books was flawed from the start, argues best-selling children’s book
author Sally Blakemore.
Jefferson wanted to create a nonsectarian, publicly funded school that would teach many of the “practical” arts, such as engineering and liberal arts. And lest you think Jefferson was alone among the Founding Fathers in this vision — James Madison and James Monroe joined him on the original board of overseers. These men believed that an educated citizenry was essential for maintaining a modern, democratic nation.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison believed that founding the University of Virginia was among the most important things either had done. ... They both agreed that within the University, the most important part offered instruction in law and politics, subjects befitting America's best citizens.
Beating hearts under floorboards and ominous ravens — Edgar Allen Poe is remembered as one of literature’s darkest and most macabre figures. But U.Va. English professor Jerome McGann says Poe was actually more charming and humorous than his famous dark fiction suggests.
Kimberley Dozier earned a master's degree in foreign affairs, specializing in the Middle East, from the University of Virginia in 1993.
Richard Bonnie
Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law
Could mental health system have prevented slaying?
Daily Press, Newport News / Oct. 18
Ervin Jordan
Research archivist at the University Library
Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate
soldiers
Washington Post / Oct. 20
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
When political prognostication goes wrong
Slate / Oct. 20
Isaac Wood
Center for Politics
Democrats Bracing for Republican Wave in 2010 Election
US News & World Report / Oct. 19
William Wulf
AT&T Professor ...
Little children are particularly trusting of things adults tell them, a University of Virginia researcher says. Vikram K. Jaswal says children are more trusting of information an adult tells them than the same information conveyed without words.
The 2010 Venture Awards will be formally presented Thursday at the University of Virginia Medical Center. The annual grants are dispersed through the UVa Hospital Auxiliary Inc.
"The Parking Lot Movie" is a documentary film about the University of Virginia Corner parking lot that follows a select group of attendants. It will be shown Tuesday night on PBS.
University of Virginia like a few other public universities runs honours programmes and awards scholarship money to internationals.