Last Friday, my list of America's Brainiest Cities ran over at The Daily Beast. Boulder topped the list, which comprised a mix of larger knowledge-intensive metros like Washington, D.C., Boston, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Austin, and Seattle, and college towns like Ithaca, Charlottesville, Madison, Iowa City, and Durham, North Carolina, among others.
The University of Virginia was one of the first universities to rent textbooks four years ago. Jon Kates, the executive director of UVA's bookstores, told News 7 the textbooks that are most expensive are often offered for rental. Kates says students at UVA could easily save $200 and $300 per semester. UVA surveyed students and 95% who rented were pleased with the program.
Judge Paul M. Peatross Jr. ruled that Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has failed to show a sufficient basis for obtaining information about the research of Michael E. Mann, who has since left Virginia and become director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.
Jennifer Burns
A professor of history and author of "Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right"
Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Great Recession
Christianity Today / Aug. 27
Jonathan Haidt
A professor of psychology
Harvard Researcher May Have Fabricated Data
New York Times / Aug. 27
William Lucy
Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning
Tiny houses simpler, easier on the environment
The Missoulian / Aug. 28
Karen Rheuban
Medical Director of Telemedicine
UPMC among few in state using 'tele' technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / Aug. 29
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and...
... The reason for this curious exercise was a research paper, recently published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology with a provocative title "If money doesn’t make you happy, you probably aren’t spending it right." Written by Elizabeth Dunn of the University of British Columbia, Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia, the paper offers eight principles on how to spend money so that it improves, or as the authors prefer to call it, “buys” happiness. Choosing to spend money on experiences rather than things was t...
... [Dr. Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist who studies accounts of past lives, and director of U.Va.'s Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic] is carrying on the pioneering research of his mentor, Dr. Ian Stevenson, who beginning in the 1960s collected more than 2,000 accounts of children between the ages of 2 and 7 who seemed to remember previous lives vividly without the help of hypnosis.
To provide students at Washington and Lee University with easier access to key master's programs at major universities, W&L has signed an articulation agreement with the University of Virginia for its master's in accounting.
... And one upside of the Great Recession is that it may have helped some couples band together – dining in, starting gardens, embracing thriftiness and the like – according a report from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
... The fact that Banker Steel survived and even grew through the recession’s financial challenges made the company one of 15 finalists in the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards, a statewide competition launched by University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business this year. Thomas A. Johnson Furniture, also in Lynchburg, is another.
... The Miller Center of Public Affairs is celebrating its 35th year as a non-partisan gathering place designed to promote and expand the discussion of public policy.
Friday, more than 600 students are at sea with a very special guest for the semester. The University of Virginia's Semester at Sea program kicked off Friday leaving from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Along for the ride is Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
After preaching before the packed pews of St. Paul’s Memorial Church on Sunday morning, the University of Virginia’s new president, Teresa A. Sullivan, responded to community members’ questions about recent tragedies, the culture of drinking, the role of staff and more. Sullivan said she wanted to know the community’s concerns about the university and recent events. The sermon and Q&A were part of the church’s annual Convocation Sunday, a university-focused service at the start of the fall term.
Robert Fatton
Professor of politics
Edward D. Hess
Darden Graduate School of Business
A new school year and a new president at the University of Virginia. Teresa Sullivan was appointed August 1. On Thursday, she met with UVA Alumni.
The Hope Community Center in Charlottesville has more than 1,100 volunteers for their many outreach programs. Most of them are University of Virginia students. Now they are back on grounds and they are getting ready to help out again.
The University of Virginia wants to help the commonwealth allow more Virginians to graduate from college and potentially grow their revenues as well. ...UVA says their degree completion program can help reach that goal. The program is a part of UVA's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. It offers evening classes for working adults in Charlottesville, Hampton Roads and northern Virginia. Now, they want to expand to Richmond and then eventually to southside and southwest Virginia...
As new UVA president Teresa Sullivan takes the reins after the two-decade tenure of her predecessor John Casteen, there's no shortage of pressing matters for her to tackle -- many of them attracting national news coverage -- and in her first weeks on the job, she's hit the ground running...