The latest computing survey results from the University of Virginia's freshman class show evidence of continued Apple marketshare growth in the higher education market (via Daring Fireball). The chart above shows that Apple has made steady gains since 2003 in the percentage of incoming UVA freshman who own a Mac.
Rouss Hall, a historic 24,000-sf building designed by Stanford White, served as the home of the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce from 1955 to 1975. Thirty years later, the university unveiled plans to have the business school return to the small, outdated 110-year-old facility, but this time with the addition of a 132,000-sf companion building to be named Robertson Hall. The two facilities would connect around a central courtyard to create one large, 156,000-sf complex, at a cost of $39 million.
State colleges and universities, battered by declining endowments and state funding cutbacks, are facing a new and potentially far more troubling financial challenge. Out-of-state students, who pay a huge tuition premium to attend, are doing something no one ever thought they would: They're staying home. ... Just how good? At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for example, in-state residents pay $5,626 in tuition and fees. Out-of-state students pay $23,514. Similarly, at the University of Virginia, out-of-state students pay about $20,000 more in tuition and fees than Virginia res...
Unranked, not a problem. The University of Virginia’s double-trouble for opponents on the tennis court are now national champions. Dominic Inglot and Michael Shabaz become the first doubles team from the ACC to win the NCAA doubles tennis championship on Monday, defeating the #2 seeded team from the University of Tennessee 3-6, 7-6(4), and 6-4 in College Station, Texas.
The third time was the charm. Displaying its trademark never-say-die mentality, Virginia mounted its third rally in four games, capturing the ACC baseball championship with a 6-3 victory over top-seeded Florida State at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Perfect in four games, the Cavaliers claimed just their second ACC tournament crown and their first under sixth-year coach Brian O'Connor.
The University of Virginia Library has compiled the population and other statistics for all of the federal censuses from 1790-1960. You can select which statistics to view and compare, and view all 50 states or by county within states. These databases are statistical only, they are not digital images of actual census enumerations, and contain no information on specific households.
Cherie Greer
Former women's lacrosse All-American
Sport Briefs
Richmond Times Dispatch /May 21
Daniel McDowell
A graduate student currently pursuing a Ph.D. in foreign affairs.
Liquidity Swaps Presage Battle for Currency Supremacy
World Politics Review / May 21
David Chen
Director of the Coulter Translational Research Partnership
Agency’s chief of staff to businesses: Rivanna Station workers ‘will fit in’
Charlottesville Daily Progress / ‎May 21‎
Anita Clayton
A professor of psychiatry and coauthor of "Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy."
Coping with sexual woes
Fox 31 KDVR.com / May 22‎
Ariell Reshef
An economics professor
Bear Stearns to Algebra I Means Lost Dollars in Trickle-Down
Bloomberg / ‎May 22‎
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center For Politics
Charlottesville-Right...
It is graduation time and the newly minted MBAs are hitting the job market this spring are in an unusual position. They started their education just as Wall Street crumbled and now they're finding their way in a very different economy. To see how that has changed the graduating class, we recently visited the University of Virginia's Darden school of business.
... Even the University of Virginia, home to some of the deepest pockets in the NCAA, is projecting a five percent reduction in its athletic department budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
FOXBORO - It has been a strange journey that has taken Chad Gaudet from Ivy covered Memorial Stadium in Hanover, N.H., to jam-packed Klockner Stadium on the lacrosse-mad campus of the University of Virginia. While a devastating injury wiped out one athletic career, the Winchester-born, Burlington-raised Gaudet has risen to the highest ranks in another.
Matthew Crawford
A fellow at U.Va.'s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
The Case for Working With Your Hands
New York Times Magazine / May 24
W. Bradford Wilcox
A professor of sociology and a senior fellow at the Institute for American Values
The Real Pregnancy Crisis
The Wall Street Journal / May 22
Everyone knows older kids pick up certain language from their peers. Now researchers find the same is true for preschoolers. In a study conducted among more than 1,800 children in 450 classrooms across the country, investigators from the University of Virginia and Ohio State University found kids learned to both speak and understand words faster when their classmates had better language skills. The effect was especially strong for kids who came into school with better language skills to begin with.
Last winter The Wife took me on a walking tour of her alma mater, the University of Virginia. After an hour tour of the grounds, we wondered to the center of the university.
Thousands of people donned caps and gowns to sit on the lawn to celebrate the completion of their time at the University of Virginia last weekend. What the graduates, family and friends in attendance may not have known is how much effort went into making the event green. In this weeks UVa Today segment, Lindsey Daniels stopped by CBS19 News at 6 to explain exactly what preparations it took to make this the greenest graduation to date.
Philip Zelikow
A history professor who was counselor to Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and executive director of the 9/11 commission,
Former University of Virginia baseball coach and athletic administrator Jim West has died. The University says West died Wednesday of complications from a stroke.
Tired of spoiled athletes dominating the headlines? Then you want to hear about Cedric Peerman. Peerman is the University of Virginia running back who was taken by the Ravens in the sixth round of the NFL draft.
Karsten Nohl
A former U.Va. graduate student
Popular Smart Card Can Be Hacked, Researchers Show
Government Technology / May 20
http://www.govtech.com/gt/689811?topic=117671
Nathaniel Pendleton Jr.
Darden graduate who received an honorary degree from Whytheville Community College
Whytheville Community College Graduates Class of 2009
TriCities.com / May 19, 2009
http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/education/article/whytheville_community_college_graduates_class_of_2009/24310/