Despite increasing availability of off-Grounds housing due to an increase of 45 percent in units the last three years, students sign leases for the next academic year as early as October, because of peer pressure and strict competition from landlords, says UVA sophomore Colin Hood. He's concerned that it penalizes freshmen who may not be well equipped to make that decision yet.
Political Ads Beneficial in Mobilizing the Vote
There's an old adage: turn up the flame if you want the pot to boil. That's the approach that candidates in recent political contests have been following with increasing enthusiasm, unleashing a growing torrent of incendiary ads with each election cycle. As U.Va. politics professor Paul Freedman sees it, hotter is better, not just for the candidates, but for democracy as a whole.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6703
Mead Grants to Foster Faculty-Student Interaction
Dreams are coming true for 10 University of Virginia faculty...
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Dr. Susan Anderson, Martha E. Snell and Tierney Temple-Fairchild
Director of outpatient services at the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center, a professor of special education, and founder of the Darden-Curry Partnership for Leadership in Education
What Do 'Special Needs' Families Need?
"Virginia Insight" on WMRA Public Radio / Oct. 13
http://www.wmra.org/inchive.html
Alan Beckenstein
Darden professor
How to make money from Wall Street's woes
National Business Review (New Zealand) / Oct. 10
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Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business a...
By William R. Ruddiman, a professor emeritus of environmental sciences
...This book takes the familiar subjects of introductory courses in Physical Geology and Earth System History and transforms them by posing a provocative premise and adding endlessly innovative touches. The premise is that our current civilization lasts for a short while and then collapses with no survivors. Some 100 million years later, extraplanetary scientists arrive and begin to reconstruct the Earth's history.
... Two color photographs of the Earlysville Oak appear in the just released coffee-table book, 'Remarkable Trees of Virginia.' Published by the University of Virginia Press, the book celebrates in text and Llewellyn's color photographs more than 100 trees that for a variety of reasons stand out ...
... Professor Sara Rimm-Kaufman, of the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, headed a three-year independent study of Responsive Classroom using six urban schools in the Northeast. ... "We found that children taught with the Responsive Classroom approach for two or three years showed greater increases in math and reading test scores than children in comparison schools," Rimm-Kaufman said. ...
Mary Nguyen has $10,000 (and growing) in college debt. Does she regret it? Not a bit. Does she worry about paying it back? Yes. ... After filling out her FAFSA, she received grants to cover costs for her first year at U.Va. Her second and third years have been covered by federal loans. The only thing aid didn't cover was textbooks and about $200 in expenses. ...
... "We wondered how the economy was going to impact us," said Rusty Necessary, vice chancellor for enrollment management at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. "But to our surprise, our freshman enrollment this fall was up over 6 percent from last year. And we also found that more students were coming from farther away - greater than two to three hours away, but still in Virginia." ...Why the big enrollment jump? ... students at UVA-Wise "are graduating with the least amount of debt of any liberal arts school in the nation," a factor noted by U.S. News & World Report's annual colleg...
The University of Virginia has announced the details of this year's Fall Convocation. University Librarian Karin Wittenborg will be the featured speaker for the annual event, which will take place on Friday, October 24th, at 2 p.m. at the John Paul Jones Arena. ...
The financial markets are reeling... How are UVA's finance-minded undergrads doing? Not panicked-yet. ... [The McIntire School] recently held a 'very successful career fair' and, before the drop in the financial markets, developed a program called Careers in Finance 101. That program now looks prescient, since, as Fitch explains, 'it's meant to provide information on jobs in finance beyond the typical investment banking role. We've had three sessions so far with three more to go.'
... So you might ask what a man who may have visited more college campuses than anyone thinks are the finest. His list of favorites include several Virginia schools, including UVA and the University of Richmond, as well as Colgate, Princeton and Stanford.
... 'In Europe, the concept of the social contract is much more social - that is, socialist - than we've been comfortable with in America,' said Robert F. Bruner, a finance expert at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. 'The obvious danger with anything that really starts to look like the government taking ownership or control of a significant piece of an industry is, Where do you stop?' ...
The UVA Health System has announced a change in vendor policy that effectively bans all gifts, meals and promotional items that are given to UVA employees by those companies that work closely with University staff. Principally, that means pharmaceutical reps.
... Psychologist Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia thinks there's something more meaningful to this categorization-type of thinking. He suggests the "Obama equals something" illustrations that involve technology could indicate a trend that is tapping into the power of brands. In an unpublished study by Project Implicit, a public research project where people explore their own biases and attitudes, Nosek reveals they've found that "liberals are more pro-Apple and conservatives more pro-Windows ...
Woodson Institute's Influence Transcends U.Va.
The mission of U.Va.'s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies is to not only enhance the teaching of African and African-American studies at U.Va., but also to establish a research center that would make important contributions to scholarship. And the cornerstone of that effort is the institute's fellowship program.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6689
HR to Hold Town Hall Meetings on New University Staff Plan
U.Va.'s Department of Human Resources will hold three town hall meetings across Grounds...