... Various programs at Sorensen are aimed at high school and college students, first-time candidates, and community leaders. At the heart of each lie three areas of concentration: ethics in public service, the power of bipartisanship, and a concentrated study of public-policy issues. The institute is nonpartisan, takes no sides on issues, endorses no candidates, and gets involved in no mediation between political figures. ... The Sorensen Institute is working to change the political culture, to provide alternative methods of arguing policy and pursuing public office. Bravo to them. The rest i...
The University of Virginia Medical Center is poised to make a $40 million investment in the Culpeper Regional Hospital after months of talks about forming a partnership.
... The American History Guys are three of the country's most renowned historians - [Edward] Ayers, Peter Onuf and Brian Balogh. All have connections to the University of Virginia and highbrow credentials. ... The erudite and congenial hosts of the radio program "BackStory with the American History Guys" hope to share their enthusiasm with audiences across the nation. ...
After more than a year of planning, University of Virginia officials have outlined what they hope will become lasting ways to distinguish the school locally, nationally and internationally over the next decade. UVa President John T. Casteen III suggested the idea for the strategic plan, known as the Commission on the Future of the University, in spring 2007. Earlier this month UVa's Board of Visitors got its first review of the plan, approving $4 million in the current fiscal year for the effort and $8 million in each of the next two years.
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
Revising the Social Contract
Political Affairs Magazine / Oct. 16
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7579/
Rita Dove
An English professor and former U.S. poet laureate who will receive the Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday
Rita Dove Will Get Lifetime Achievement Award
WINA 1070 AM / Oct. 17
http://www.wina.com/Local-News/3077192?contentId=2915088
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News Briefs: Charlottesville
Richmond Times Dispatch / Oct. 17
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/state.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-17-0117.html...
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, talks to NOW about the changing political landscape in the key swing state of Virginia, and explains why he finds Sen. Barack Obama's popularity there "remarkable."
Under a new policy, the University of Virginia's 7600 medical community employees are no longer allowed to take gifts from companies that do business with UVa's Medical Center and School of Medicine.
Wednesday night, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain engaged in their final debate of the 2008 campaign season. A watch party at UVA paid close attention to the debate. To hear their analyses, watch the attached video.
A couple hundred students and faculty attended a talk about Islam by author David Horowitz on UVA grounds. The two-hour lecture was part of the nationwide Islamo-Fascist awareness week that Horowitz started.
... The University of Virginia Health System offers these suggestions for how to take care of a blister and prevent infection:...
... To try to find the keys to presidential temperament, our assistant managing editor Michael Duffy, along with Lisa Todorovich from the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, organized a roundtable of presidential historians: Richard Norton Smith, who has run five presidential libraries, Beverly Gage of Yale, and David Coleman and Russell Riley of the Miller Center. Excerpts from their conversation follow Nancy Gibbs' wise and penetrating cover story. You can listen to the whole thing on TIME.com
TIME recently gathered four presidential historians--George Mason University's Richard Norton Smith, Yale University's Beverly Gage, and Russell Riley and David Coleman of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia--to discuss presidential temperament: what it is, who had it and how much it matters in the White House. An excerpt of their conversation:
At the height of a presidential campaign that has, once again, drawn stark lines between Democrats and Rpublicans, a Virginia organization is showing the way to restore civility to government. WVTF's Sandy Hausman reports on how the Sorenson Institute in Charlottesville gets political people to stop name-calling and start talking with one another.
... the University of Virginia, long recognized as a leader in educating minority students, tied Columbia University among top-rated universities this year for enrolling the highest percentage of African-American students, at 11.4 percent, and the university also announced this spring that for the 14th straight year, its African-American students posted the highest graduation rate, 83 percent, among those at all flagship state universities. ... Diverse speaks with presidents Dr. John T. Casteen of the University of Virginia... about improving diversity within the faculty ranks and the student ...
Dewey Cornell
Education professor and director of U.Va.'s Youth Violence Project
School Efforts to Stem Violence Offer A Textbook Case of Limits on Speech
Wall Street Journal / Oct. 15
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122411642705338721.html
Rita Dove
Professor of English and former Poet Laureate of the United States
Talking Volumes announces next two authors / Memoirist Michael Greenberg and poet Rita Dove will be among those appearing at the Fitzgerald Theater in 2009.
Minneapolis Star Tribune / Oct. 15
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/31072759.html
Robert Emery
A professor...
... Research from the University of Virginia Health System in 2006 showed people infected with rhino virus - the virus that causes influenza - can contaminate objects like light switches, door knobs and countertops with the slightest of touch, leaving behind a virus that can live and potentially infect for days.
... There also was a surge in new registrations in Virginia's college towns. Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia, increased its registration rolls by 15 percent. Williamsburg, home to the College of William & Mary, had a 20 percent increase. Overall, about 60 percent of the new registrants are 34 or younger, a demographic Obama hopes to carry handily.
... Vesla Weaver is a political science professor at the University of Virginia. She says Obama has done a good job diluting the issue of race, "He really has distanced himself from the kind of stereotype of most black candidates but without being disingenuous, without kind of selling out (black voters) his base."
..."I didn't think Obama was as comfortable this time as he was in the other two debates, but I didn't really hear any gaffe, any major mistake," said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia.