During its 2010 annual meeting, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
presented an award for extraordinary impact on the engineering profession to
a University of Virginia professor. Anita Jones received the Arthur M.
Bueche Award for leadership in the development of science and technology
Head Start, the nation's most important education program for 3- and 4-year-olds, is failing too many poor students.
Sometime in the coming decade, Oregon's revenues from gasoline taxes will start to fall as motorists drive increasingly fuel-efficient vehicles, including vehicles that don't use gasoline at all. Oregon's experiment with vehicle-mile data collection figured prominently in the report, published by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
After a year of training and planning, Albemarle and Charlottesville schools are rolling out new initiatives designed to combat distractions keeping students from reaching their academic potential including bullying. Using federal funds, the school divisions hired 18 mental health counselors, nine of whom are full-time, and the rest are part-time interns from the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia Women¹s Center is sponsoring events this month in
collaboration with other groups to highlight domestic violence. The center
will offer a basic self-defense course for women. Pre-registration is
required for the course, which costs $25, though need-based discounts are
available.
Trees are the Answer! That theme was shared by thousands of gardening and
plant enthusiasts who flocked to historic Blandy Experimental Farm the 17th
annual ArborFest fall festival and plant sale. Over fifty plant, gardening,
and food vendors offered their products and services during the two day
fundraising event for the University of Virginia¹s State Arboretum.
From their seats in the gallery of the Supreme Court of Virginia courtroom,
University of Virginia law school second-years Brett Blobaum and Carolyn
Nguyen watched as the justices asked questions that they had posed and
researched for their professor.
Local third-graders got out of their classroom and into the woods to learn
the “bear” necessities about bears. Project Parallax is a collaboration
between faculty at the University of Virginia and the school system, aiming
to identify and develop talent in elementary students in science,
technology, engineering and math.
The University of Virginia is changing the way it teaches doctors and
nurses, starting with this weekend's dedication of a new state of the art
medical education building.
The Roanoke Higher Education Center decided as its 10th birthday approached to try to confirm the center's belief that its presence in the Roanoke Valley boosts the regional economy. The center hosts 12 colleges and job training organizations as tenants, including the University of Virginia.
Thursday a group at the University of Virginia opened a dialogue about bullying, abuse and prevention before tragedy strikes closer to home.
A company with roots at the University of Virginia has received nearly $2 million in federal grants to continue developing blood-clot diagnostic technology. The university said Thursday that HemoSonics LLC, founded in 2004 by three U.Va. researchers, recently received the funding from two U.S. Small Business Administration programs.
Wonder which celebrities will be attending the Virginia Film Festival? Festival director Jody Kielbasa joins Coy Barefoot to discuss breaking news regarding the upcoming event.
Piedmont Virginia Community College president, Frank Friedman, welcomed University of Virginia president, Teresa Sullivan, during a reception Thursday. Both say they're looking forward to continuing and strengthening the relationship between the schools.
Faculty and staff at Piedmont Virginia Community College were treated to a special guest on Thursday. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan was on campus for a welcome reception.
Tony Bennett has been through an entire season as the University of Virginia men's basketball coach, but there was a hint of deja vu as he sat at the podium Wednesday to introduce his second squad at media day. "This feels like my opening press conference, when I got introduced as the head coach," Bennett said. "With this many newcomers, there is a starting over."
Who's got the best deputy job in Washington? It would have to be deputy national security adviser Tom Donilon (Law. '85). Donilon had been mentioned as a possible White House chief of staff, but now that the position has gone to Pete Rouse, history gives Donilon the nod to replace departing national security adviser Jim Jones.
Many public colleges have seen big increases in the number of applications as students and their parents are becoming more attracted to the lower sticker prices they find at the publics in their own states. For many students, public colleges can be a far more affordable choice than a private college, with in-state tuition being the best bargain.
"Shortsightedness and under investment" in U.S. transportation planning and construction have led to congested roads and transit systems, unsafe infrastructure and environmental damage, according to a new report from a recent conference chaired by two former Transportation secretaries. The report by the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs urges the United States to rethink how it funds transportation improvements, most notably moving away from a reliance on gasoline taxes.
In a recent post, I showed an easy way to boil down the difficult new National Research Council doctoral rankings into a simple top-to-bottom list.