The University of Virginia has removed the assorted items that friends of Morgan Dana Harrington attached to the Copeley Road bridge. The UVA Board of Visitors voted September 14th to create a plaque that honors the Virginia Tech student whose skeletal remains were found in Albemarle County.
University of VA Student Health Director Dr. James Turner, executive director Department of Student Health and executive director National Social Norms Institute, on how new legislation will help college insurance plans.
By Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and James P. Comer, associate dean of medicine at Yale University
Good teachers have always understood that students don’t learn in a vacuum: Kids can’t learn efficiently if they have to walk a gauntlet of gang thugs every day on the way to school, or if they suffer mental problems, or they were up half the night cowering from domestic violence. Now a growing amount of developmental research confirms that as many of half of all students become chronically disengaged, contributing to the high...
This year’s Virginia Film Festival will feature guest appearances by Guillermo del Toro (writer and director of “Pan’s Labyrinth”), actor-filmmaker Josh Radnor (known for his role as Ted on CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother”) and Vince Gilligan (creator of AMC’s critically acclaimed “Breaking Bad.”). ... Kielbasa noted that this year’s festival will not have a single theme, but will instead explore a number of themes and ideas. It will also emphasize contemporary films, with classic movies playing a smaller role than in years past.
Andrew Basham and Taylor Williams
met in 1996 during their first year at U.Va. and started Spy Rock Real Estate Group in January 2009
Building new careers from the ground up
RichmondBizSense | Oct. 5
Bethany Harrison
graduated with a BA in English
Lawyer Snapshot: Bethany Harrison
Jacksonville Daily Record | Oct. 4, 2010
Anne Harris
An undergraduate student in the College of Arts & Sciences
Matthew Affron
Professor of art history and curator of modern art at the U.Va. Art Museum
Picasso exhibition to debut in US
Associated Press | Washington Post | Oct. 4
Joseph and Claudia Worrell Allen
professors of psychology and authors of "Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How Can We Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old"
Confidence in the real world
The Morning Call | Oct. 5
Bob Gibson
Executive Director, The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
Teaching Public Service
“Virginia Insight” on WMRA Public Radio | Oct. 4
Thomas Hafemeister
Associate pro...
By Daniel Willingham
Professor of psychology and author of "Why Students Don't Learn"
A small scientific step was just made that could help the 21st century skills movement be a bit more grounded. I have criticized the movement in the past for, among other things, advocating the emphasis of certain skills without any clear plan for how those skills ought to be taught. For example, “collaboration” and “working effectively in groups” are often deemed 21st century skills. Advocates point out that more and more projects in the workplace are team...
By Lisa Russ Spaar, professor of English and poetry writing
We live in a time of rampant, mercurial self-portrayal. We can, if we wish, post, profile, tag, chat, friend, transform, lie, project, stalk, date, connect, complicate, simplify, vex, blog, tumble, and identify ourselves with dazzling velocity through a protean real-time landscape of social networks, ranging from the ubiquitous Facebook to virtual communities enmeshed by an interest in couch-surfing, opera, anime, and an array of signifying passions whose devotees, virtual and real, are forming and communing and falling ap...
... Agriculture is Virginia’s largest industry according to a 2008 economic impact study completed by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
The industry has an economic impact of $55 billion annually and provides more than 357,000 jobs in the Commonwealth.
A national push on comparative effectiveness research is under way as a result of federal stimulus and health reform legislation. ...Americans have mixed feelings about comparative effectiveness research. Two studies from national opinion surveys by Alan S. Gerber of Yale University, Eric M. Patashnik of the University of Virginia, and colleagues find that people see the value of information generated by comparative effectiveness research, but fear that it may be used to ration care, or limit doctors’ ability to tailor their care. Although people want information to help them...
The Lexington/Rockbridge Health Department, Virginia Department of Health, is pleased to announce a new partnership with the University of Virginia Medical Center to provide maternity care for area clients. The Health Department and UVA will provide for prenatal, postpartum, and nurse office visits. Clients will deliver at the UVA Medical Center, but receive their care locally at the health department.
Education programs should more explicitly train teacher candidates in the rudiments of developmental science, and need policy support from states and the federal government to do so, asserts a report released this morning by a panel convened by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. “There’s just been an explosion of knowledge in development science over the last 10 to 14 years,” said Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. “We know so much more about 4-year-olds’ capacity in mat...
That's the conclusion of a report issued this morning based on a conference held last year by more than 80 transportation experts, including two former Department of Transportation secretaries, Norman Y. Mineta and Samuel Skinner. Read the complete story by Ashley Halsey III, who is attending a press conference this morning where Mineta, Skinner and officials from the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will discuss 10 recommendations by the group, including finding ways beyond the gas tax to pay for transportation infrastructure and prioritizing projects with long-term ec...
A handful of students in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at the University of Virginia law school watched one of their instructors argue a clinic case Monday in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Jim Ryan, a law professor who also directs the school’s Program in Law and Public Service, said he thought the court seemed sympathetic to their client’s position. “That is a product of submitting strong briefs, which are really to the credit of the students in the clinic,” Ryan said.
Anand Patel
Earned a law degree from U.Va., where he was editor-in-chief of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology
Catch a star
Dentistry IQ | Oct. 3
Samuel Hughes Melton
Medical School Alumnus
UVA alumnus named Family Physician of the Year
C-ville Weekly | Oct. 1
Laura Pittaluga, a first year UVA student, Christina Mims, a third year and Robert Manosa, a second-year law student