Exhibits coordinator Mercy Quintos Procaccini discusses the library's new Poe exhibit.
The 15th Annual Virginia Festival of the Book officially gets started today. It's a five-day event features dozens of authors, many based in Charlottesville. Jessica Feldman is just one of those local authors. She'll be discussing her work, "What Should I Read Next?", a collection of suggested readings from dozens of UVA faculty members.
Anuja Chumble, William "Bud" Hervey and Brandon Wayne Hylton
First-years from the Martinsville, Va. area who will return there through this year’s summer internship program offered by the New College Institute
By R.K. Ramazani, professor emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs
... The Way Forward for the United States
The United States should recognize the legitimacy of the Iranian Revolution unequivocally. The United States should also assess realistically Iran's projection of power in the Middle East, particularly in the Persian Gulf, where Iran seeks acknowledgment of its role as a major player. Thirdly, the U.S. administration should reconsider its reliance on more than three decades of containment and sanctions, which have not weakened the regime, but have grievously harmed the Iranian peopl...
In 1803, when half-black, half-white violinist George Bridgetower traveled to Vienna to meet Ludwig van Beethoven, he probably didn’t anticipate the fallout between them that would ensue over a woman — or being commemorated in a book of poems more than 200 years later. Pulitzer Prize-winner and former American and Virginia poet laureate Rita Dove, an English professor at the University of Virginia, explores Bridgetower’s life and legacy in her newest book of poems, “Sonata Mulattica.” Dave Matthews Band violinist Boyd Tinsley will accompany the launch of “So...
A tornado drill Tuesday morning made Albemarle County employees jump into action. Albemarle, Charlottesville and the University of Virginia along with agencies across the state participated to raise tornado awareness. Departments gathered to talk about the safest place to be when a twister threatens.
Former Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher, installation artist Robert Irwin and Innocence Project co-founders Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld have been named this year’s recipients of Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, the University of Virginia’s highest honors.
Virginia’s No. 14-ranked baseball team scored four runs with two outs in the seventh to rally from a 4-1 deficit and extend their school-record winning streak to 16 games with a 5-4 victory over Marshall, Tuesday afternoon at Davenport Field. U.Va.'s 16-game winning streak is a school record, and makes them the only undefeated team in NCAA Division I.
... Those senior moments we've heard about actually start happening shortly after the brain’s abilities peak at 22, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.
... Those conversations paved the way for "Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education," a book of 40 essays chronicling how people around the nation were affected by the desegregation of schools. ... [Authors Richard J. Bonnie and Mildred W. Robinson] will participate in a Virginia Festival of the Book event, Stories from the Civil Rights Movement, at noon Thursday at the UVa Bookstore.
In the college admissions essay she wrote for the University of Virginia, Autumn Adkins said she hoped to open a boarding school for low-income students. Now she's getting a chance to run one. Today, Girard College is scheduled to announce that Adkins, 36, will become the first African American woman to serve as president in the Fairmount boarding school's 160-year history.
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
Trust People To Be Great / Anyone who leads, who mentors others, has the ability to influence the future for the good
The Complete Lawyer / Mar. 17
http://www.thecompletelawyer.com/alternative-dispute-resolution-adr/trust-people-to-be-great-3151.html
Jeffrey Holt
Associate professor of neuroscience and otolaryngology
Callirobics
WVTF Public Radio (Roanoke, VA) / Mar. 16
http://www.wvtf.org/news_and_notes/index.php
Terry Rephann
A regional economist at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Virginia's Farm Economy
WVTF Public Radio (Ro...
... In recent years, the finance sector grew far larger than economic fundamentals said it should be. Thomas Philippon, an economist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, estimates that it was 8.3% of GDP in 2006. He thinks that a more natural level would be around 7%. What’s more, he and University of Virginia economist Ariell Reshef estimate that, controlling for education and employment risk, finance workers were paid about 40% too much in 2006.