... an alternative route to the millions of digitized books and journals supplied by leading Google Book Search library partners has arrived. The HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org) is a collaboration of 25 research libraries already participating in Google Book Search to produce a shared digital repository for preservation and access to a curated collection. ... HathiTrust members currently include the ... University of Virginia. ...
A Rixeyville filmmaker will debut her movie Tuesday at the University of Virginia as part of the American Sign Language and Deaf Culture lecture series. Jennifer Witteborg’s 56-minute film, “Spotlight: Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind,” is free and open to the public. It begins at 7 p.m. in the Minor Hall Auditorium. ...
By Michael Berry, Darden professor
When gold hit $700 people said it would fall. Wrong. And wrong again at $1,000. ...
... Since Aug. 22, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville has had 509 flulike illnesses among its 24,640 students. Most students live on campus, which could be a factor in the higher number there, U.Va. said. ...
Gil Harrington stands in her daughter's bedroom in their Roanoke County home. Morgan Harrington ... a 20-year-old Virginia Tech education major, disappeared Saturday night after leaving the John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia. ...
... When I first started coaching at the University of Virginia, that was the offense we used, the Delaware Wing-T. It's about utilizing your personnel to the best of their abilities. ...
Lake Washington football coach Ray Roberts is going to have his jersey retired by the University of Virginia on Saturday. There will be a ceremony during the Cavaliers' game against Georgia Tech. ...
Rebecca Deeds
B.A., English
Hoping for a change of address
Washington Post / Oct. 21
Jeanne Liedtka
Darden professor
National Design Week: The Business of Design
BusinessWeek / Oct. 20
Larry Sabato
Professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics
Debate's moderator donated to campaigns
Boston Herald / Oct. 21
and
On the Agenda: Obama Campaigns in Gubernatorial Races
FOXNews / Oct. 21
This week Darden Professor Jeanne Liedtka joins us to discuss her new course on Corporate Innovation and Design. The course gives students an opportunity to learn and apply a set of techniques around design thinking. In this week’s Darden news: “Welcome Aboard,” “Alumni Leaders Gather,” “Amazon to Visit Darden,” and “The Value Investing Conference.”
Local movie buffs with a passion for films such as Pink Flamingos and Hairspray will be in luck on Friday...
Polls opened Monday for the nation’s largest, student-only mock election, run annually by the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ Youth Leadership Initiative. ...
The United States is a country founded on the principles of freedom, justice, and tolerance. These fundamental ideas are revisited in Journey into America, a documentary that explores American identity through the Muslim lens. Professor Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, traveled with a team of young Americans for nine months, visiting over 75 cities and 100 mosques in the United States. ... When the team visited the University of Virginia, they encountered a statue of Thomas Jefferson. In the hands of the third US President was a book dated 1786 and ...
... Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old education major, went to the concert at the University of Virginia's John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville with several girlfriends but disappeared from their sight around 8:40 p.m., according to police, who are calling it a missing person case. ...
[CNN interview with mother of missing Va Tech woman at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/21/virginia.missing.student/index.html#cnnSTCVideo]
Charlottesville writers dominated in poetry at the 12th Library of Virginia awards October 17 in Richmond. UVA English prof Lisa Russ Spaar won the poetry prize for Satin Cash, her fourth collection. The Weinstein Poetry award went to Charles Wright and Eleanor Ross Taylor. ...
The federal government has begun a study of how much swine flu vaccine to give to people with asthma. ... The study also is being conducted at Emory University in Atlanta; the University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute; the University of Virginia; ...
The economic slump has not slowed the upward spiral of college costs, the College Board reported Tuesday. Tuition and fees now average $26,273 at private colleges and $7,020 at public four-year institutions, with prices rising faster in the public sector. ... Locally, tuition and fees at the public University of Virginia rose 4 percent, to $9,872, this year. ...
Karen Booth Adams
B.S., psychology, 1990
Serial entrepreneur enjoys investing in others’ ventures
Richmond Times Dispatch / Oct. 19
Carla Zeballos
U.Va. alumna
Eliana Papadakis named 2010 WOMAN ONE Award recipient
Cherry Hill Courier Post / Oct. 19
John Griffin
Visiting professor
Valuation of Guru Holdings: Apple Inc (AAPL)
Gurufocus.com / Oct. 19
Bob Gibson
Executive director of The Thomas C. Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
The Race for Governor
WMRA "Virginia Insight" / Oct. 19
David Newkirk
Darden CEO
Executive education fights back
Forbes / Oct. 15
Jack Oakes
Darden director of career services
GMAT: The MBA job seeker’s best friend
Business Week / Oct. 19
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Deeds fights to hold Obama’s Va. coalition
Richmond Times Dispatc...
The University Of Virginia School of Nursing is getting a $1.2-million federal grant. It's a first of its kind for the program. The money will pay for a project that will help improve access to quality health care and to help eliminate health barriers and disparities in rural and underserved parts of the state.