The vaunted rooms on and around U.Va.'s storied Lawn are being gently redone for the sake of historical authenticity.
The co-founder of Black Entertainment Television was the guest speaker Friday at the UVA Women's Leadership Conference that continues through the weekend. Sheila Johnson says women need to empower other women with the tools and inspiration to be successful.
On Sept. 15, as the Wall Street crisis began, two University of Virginia professors -- historian Melvyn Leffler and political scientist Jeffrey Legro -- led a discussion at the University's Miller Center of Public Affairs on the topic "To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine."
... the sound of the Big Bang is all around us, echoed in a stream of photons emitted by the universe's creation and still spreading. Known as Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, these were officially identified in 1965 by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson. Using software that extrapolates the nature of the sound from oscillations in the radiation, University of Virginia astronomer Mark Whittle has recorded this echo.
University of Virginia officials seemed optimistic over the last week that the school's multi-billion-dollar endowment investments will weather a threatening financial market. ... Overall, UVa's endowment has been a positive performer for the last two fiscal years, returning 25 percent in 2007 and 6 percent in 2008...
Beth Matlock Austin and Jason Matlock
Former scholarship athletes at U.Va.-Wise who are both now high school coaches
Brother, Sister Find Success In Coaching
Bristol Herald Courier (TN) / Sept. 26
http://www.tricities.com/tri/sports/high_school_prep/article/brother_sister_find_success_in_coaching/14377/
Tim Foley
Politics graduate biking across the country to profile fifty voters in fifty days
Election Cycle Tour Stops in Charlottesville
WVIR NBC-29 / Sept. 25
http://www.nbc29.com/global/story.asp?s=9072097
Laurel Care Gravatte
2004 nursing graduate and executive director of the Free Clini...
At a memorial service held at the UVA Chapel on Monday, September 22 for writer and UVA professor George Garrett, who died after a battle with bladder cancer on May 25, UVA president John Casteen called the author of 11 novels, eight short story collections, eight books of poetry, as well as plays, essays, screenplays, and biographies a 'great man of letters' and a 'reader and teacher without peer' and credited him with conceiving of and shaping the university's program in creative writing, which is consistently ranked among the best in the country.
Cindy Aron
A professor of history and author of "Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States"
Bailout Blues: Bargain Ferrari, Island Sojourn Offer Relief
Bloomberg / Sept. 26
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aNFgOKxh_Lxg&refer=muse
Robert Bruner
Darden's dean and co-author of "The Panic of 1907"
JPMorgan's Dimon rises as Wall St flounders
Reuters / Sept. 25
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINN2511673720080926?rpc=44
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
How to Grade the Presidential Debates
WebMD / Sept. 25
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Virginia Film Festival to Reveal the 'Aliens!' Among Us
Charlottesville is preparing for an alien invasion of epic proportions as the Virginia Film Festival scans earth and sky for tales of strange visitors from other worlds and cultures. The festival, themed "Aliens!," scheduled for Oct. 30 through Nov. 2, will feature 80 films and more than 100 guests covering the spectrum of the alien experience.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6535
U.Va. Engineers Aim to Solve 'Burning' Computer Problem
If you've balanced a laptop computer on your lap lately, you probably noticed a bu...
... There are many ways to watch this debate - which is supposed to focus on foreign affairs and national security. We asked a few key people, via e-mail, exactly what they will be watching for. Here then is a Field Guide to Watching the Presidential Debate.
The Professor
Larry J. Sabato teaches politics at the University of Virginia
Barack Obama's very simple task is...
The schedule's set for stunning. When the 21st-annual Virginia Film Festival opens Oct. 30 with its 'Aliens!' theme, Charlottesville will be the landing zone for films and discussions about immigrants, exiles, extraterrestrials and outsiders of all kinds. ... This year's opening-night film is 'Lake City,'' a Southern gothic story about a mother and son that was filmed mostly in Richmond. Charlottesville residents Sissy Spacek and Dave Matthews star in the film, which was created by three University of Virginia alumni - co-director Perry Moore, producer Mark Johnson and one of the executive pro...
UVa's International Healthcare Worker Safety Center has been hosting a group of physicians from India all week. Their goal is to train these doctors so the delivery of healthcare is safer for them back home. "Our target is really the whole world," said Janine Jagger...
U.Va. Engineers Aim to Solve 'Burning' Computer Problem
If you've balanced a laptop computer on your lap lately, you probably noticed a burning sensation. That's because ever-increasing processing speeds are creating more and more heat, which has to go somewhere -- in this case, into your lap. U.Va. researchers Avik Ghosh and Mircea Stan aim to lay the scientific groundwork that will solve the problem using nanoelectronics.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6526#
Studio Art Exhibit Inaugurates Ruffin Gallery
U.Va.'s McIntire Department of Art has inaugurated its new Ruffin ...
Tim Foley
Politics graduate biking across the country to profile fifty voters in fifty days
UVA Student Bikes and Blogs Across the Nation
WCAV CBS-19 / Sept. 24
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/29713039.html
Jessie Randall
English and studio art graduate who founded a fashion design firm, Loeffler Randall, that has won honors from the Council of Fashion Designers of America
An eye for detail / Jessie Randall has what it takes to make the perfect accessory
Boston Globe / Sept. 25
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/articles/2008/09/25/an_eye_for_detail/
Jesse Quinlan
Fourth-year majoring in aerospace engineering who designed a new skatepark in Stanley, Va.
Former congressional candidate Al Weed... is meeting with undergraduates to talk about climate change and what people can do about it as individuals, and as communities.
Brian Balogh
A professor of history and co-director of a Miller Center program
New Software to Drive Discussion Post Obama-McCain Debate
Appscout from PC Magazine / Sept. 25
http://www.appscout.com/2008/09/new_software_to_drive_discussi.php
Thomas M. Guterbock
Director of the Center for Survey Research and principal investigator for Prince William County's annual resident satisfaction survey
Resident Survey Finds Shifts In Satisfaction With County
Washington Post / Sept. 25
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092400091.html
Jonathan Haidt
A social psycholog...