The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) has awarded 32 grants totaling $132,100 to assist Virginia organizations in their efforts to research and interpret Virginia's rich history, to explore issues of importance to Virginians, and to showcase Virginia's folklife and cultural heritage. … University of Virginia Center for Digital History, Charlottesville, Virginia and Liberia: A window into Slave and Free Black Life in the Old Dominion - A Digital History Project. $9,000 to support research and development of a website on the history of approximately 3,700 African Americans who ...
For all their lack of orthodoxy, Montessori schools are achieving success, according to a study published in the September edition of the journal Science. Researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found Montessori kindergarten students outperformed those in a control group in reading, math and social skills.
The celebration began Wednesday night at 7:00 with a speech given by Claudrena Harold, Assistant Professor of History at UVa. The main focus of the commemoration will be the importance of Dr. King's legacy today. "His message is still very, very relevant today, if you think about all the things that our country and the world is going through, Dr. King's message or his messages, we should still take to heart," Dion W. Lewis of the Office of African-American Affairs said.
[...] But information released from a major research study of junior faculty satisfaction suggests that there are plenty of ways that public institutions...can be among the most desirable places for young professors to work....Two universities (Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia) and two colleges (Goucher and Kenyon Colleges) were outstanding in three categories.
A gem of a show at the University of Virginia Art Museum, through March 18, presents more than a dozen related abstract compositions created by Fernand Leger (1881-1914), the French modernist artist, between 1912 and 1914. Curated by Matthew Affron, associate professor in the McIntire Department of Art at UVa, the exhibition is composed of a series of exquisitely choreographed geometric images clustered and suspended in space. They suggest cones, tubes, pipes and other mechanical parts animated with acrobatic enthusiasm.
Draft Report Calls for National Standard for Certifying Math and Science Teachers
The Chronicle of Higher Education / January 24
America needs a nationally coordinated effort to improve the teaching of science and mathematics in schools and universities and to produce qualified schoolteachers in those subjects, and colleges should play a key role in that effort, says a draft report requested by Congress. The draft report was approved last week by the Commission on 21st Century Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, which reports to the National Science Board, the poli...
University scales back priority registration for athletes, scholars
Job market outlook bright for '07 grads
Transfer discount moves forward
U.Va. Commemorates Life of Martin Luther King Jr. Today
Luce Foundation to Fund Tibetan and Himalayan Historical GIS
Darden Professor's New Book Focuses on Strategic Creation
Patrician Slusher
Who has a master's degree in counseling from the University of Virginia
People in the News
Loudoun (VA) Times-Mirror / January 23
http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=17741901&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506048&rfi=6
Julie Bargmann
Assocaite professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture / School of Architecture
Architects Turn Sites into Sights / Virginia Firm to Help Milwaukee Reclaim Old Industrial Areas
Milwaukee (WI) Journal Sentinel / January 23
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=556266
George M. Cohen
A professor at the Law School
Bye, Bye Enron, Regulators Say
CFO Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge / January 23
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/01/23/2270235.htm
Steven Majewski and Richard Patterson
Astronomy professors
Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Galactic Collision
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The Cavaliers will start the year ranked ninth in the country: that's Virginia's highest pre-season ranking in school history. The Cavaliers finished last year with a school record 47 wins but had a disappointing performance in the NCAA tournament. This season the 'Hoos return 8 of 9 position players and should again have one of the best pitching staffs in the ACC.
The population figures keep painting Richmond as a shrinking city. Mary Thompson sees a different portrait every time she steps out her front door. "I don't worry about those numbers, because I believe there are a lot of good things happening in the city," Thompson said yesterday in response to a University of Virginia study showing that Richmond lost 2.9 percent of its population between the 2000 census and July 1, 2006. The study by U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service showed that Richmond's population decreased by 5,758 people since 2000, falling to 192,032.
The population of Virginia increased 8 percent from 2000 to 2006. "By and large, this shows a continuation of a trend that has been in existence since the early 1990s," said research associate Mike Spar of U-Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, which conducted the study. "The state is generating a lot of jobs and attracting a lot of migrants."
Virginia's population has grown eight percent since 2000. According to a University of Virginia research center, most Virginians live in metropolitan areas in northern Virginia and are moving away from rural regions and older central cities. The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service reports the state's population last year was 7.6 million, up 564,000 since 2000.
Virginia's population is increasing less quickly than it did in the last decade, according to population estimates released Monday by the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center.
Junior faculty members, generally, are a satisfied lot, according to the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education. But those at Brown University, Davidson College, Kenyon College, Stanford University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA seem downright ecstatic about their jobs.
… Recently, BusinessWeek.com reporter Kerry Miller tagged along with 60 juniors from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, School of Engineering, and College of Arts & Sciences for the third day of their five-day tour of 17 New York investment banks.
Fourteen of the country's new statehouse speakers picked up that advice at a weekend leadership seminar -- a sort of "Speakership 101" -- hosted by the nonprofit State Legislative Leaders Foundation (SLLF) at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia's fundraising campaign raised $1.12 billion through the end of 2006, according to the just-completed compilation of gifts received through Dec. 31. UVa's $3 billion campaign needs to raise roughly $1 million a day to stay on track. In December, UVa received more than $40 million in pledges.
Skrutskie Earns National Academy's Watson Medal
Nobel Laureate Hänsch to Speak in U.Va.'s Dome Room on Thursday
U.Va. Sociologist Considers the Meaning of Victimization