The University?s Young Women Leaders Program recently was awarded the Virginia Mentoring Partnership?s 2009 Outstanding Mentoring Program Award.
University President John T. Casteen, III announced Friday that Harry Harding will serve as the founding dean of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.?The dean in a sense defines a new school,? Casteen said, adding that ?Harding has a wonderful opportunity.?Though Harding is new to the University, he is no stranger to the spheres of leadership, public policy and education, Casteen said.
Though he did not testify, second-year College student Ronald Johnson was acquitted of charges of cheating in an open Honor trial Saturday afternoon.
A significantly higher percentage of medical students suffer from depression than most young adults, the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges reported in the February edition of Academic Medicine.The study, titled ?Depressive Symptoms in Medical Students and Residents: A Multischool Study,? showed that 21.2 percent of medical students suffer from depression, while only eight to 15 percent of the general young adult population is affected.Kimberly Ephgrave, a University of Iowa surgery professor and a contributor to the study, said she was not surprised by the results.
Members of The Cavalier Daily gathered Saturday to elect the newspaper?s 120th managing and junior boards.Former Operations Manager Andrew Baker, a third-year College student, was elected as the paper?s new editor-in-chief.?I?m very excited to work with the new staff,? Baker said.
The Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies (IAS) is conducting an assessment of the writing programs in each of the University?s undergraduate schools in order to follow the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia?s (SCHEV) requirement for the University to evaluate the success of its students in ?core competencies,? said Jonathan Schnyer, IAS Associate Director and University Assessment Coordinator.How it worksThe assessment, upon request by SCHEV, will examine not only the writing skills that students have when they graduate, Schnyer said, but also the ?value added? in terms of what students learn during their four years at the University.
Nine days after the passing of former University Admissions Dean John Blackburn, the University named one of Blackburn?s prot
University faculty, museum staff, administrators and students gathered yesterday at the University Art Museum to witness the introduction of its new director, Bruce Ambler Boucher.?It?s a great honor to have been chosen by the search committee to become the next director of the University Art Museum,? Boucher said, thanking the crowd for being indoors with him on the unseasonably warm winter afternoon.?In Chicago we call this a spring day,? he joked.Boucher has been the curator of European sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago for the last seven years while also teaching at the University of Chicago.
A bill asking the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to consider the possibility of establishing a four-year, public institution of higher education in Virginia Beach was withdrawn yesterday from the Virginia House of Delegates? Subcommittee on Studies due to lack of funding from the commonwealth.Del.
David Slutzky, chairman of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, recently announced his decision not to challenge Del.
With a solid foundation of well-respected work that includes 2005?s The Mysterious Production of Eggs, and 2007?s Armchair Apocrypha, the arrival of Andrew Bird?s newest self-produced effort through Fat Possum Records, Noble Beast, was greatly anticipated.
Recent estimates from the University?s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service suggest that economic factors are responsible for Virginia?s increasingly slow population growth rate in recent years.The population growth rate had been about 1.2 percent from 2001 to 2004 but declined to 1.1 percent beginning in 2005 and has been slightly less than 1 percent for the past two years, said Qian Cai, Cooper Center demographics and workforce section director.?The population is still growing,? she said.
Thriller coming to BroadwayThe Nederlander Organization, owner of the historic Broadway theater, has recently acquired the rights to adapt Michael Jackson?s iconic ?Thriller? music video to the stage.
Following a joint meeting with the Commission on the Future of the University Monday, Faculty Senate members gathered yesterday to further discuss six newly introduced initiatives and what kind of faculty involvement they will require.Faculty Senate Chair Edmund Kitch started by opening a discussion about Monday?s presentation of the six cross-campus initiatives, which include diversifying the University?s faculty, improving higher education instruction, improving academic departments? access to new technology, incorporating more high-level computing systems into faculty resources, better connecting faculty members from different fields through technology, and building programs to make University students global students.
Here?s a fun fact for the day: Did you know British singer Amy Winehouse is still alive and kicking?
More traffic fatalities occur in the outer suburbs of Virginia than in the commonwealth?s inner suburbs and cities, according to a recent study by William Lucy, a University urban and environmental planning professor.Lucy said he was not surprised by the results of his most recent research because they are consistent with other data he has collected since the 1980s regarding the topic, noting that his goal was ?to see the dangers of leaving home and traveling.?He said people familiar with the rural roads they travel on each day often do not realize those areas are where they are more likely to get in a fatal accident.?I really think people aren?t making wise decisions,? he said.
After a year of praise, accolades and one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2008, Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon had to be feeling the pressure, fully aware that any new material would be scrutinized and expected to bear the weight of greatness once again.
Nearly all of the water that flows to the taps and shower heads University students and Charlottesville residents use comes from the South Fork Reservoir.South Fork, however, has been shrinking since it was dug in the 1960s because of sedimentation.
When I first saw commercials for the movie Inkheart during Winter Break, I felt both apprehension and excitement.
Student Council voted unanimously last night to drop a proposed resolution to support a referendum imposing an increase in the student activities fee to fund Council?s Newspaper Readership Program.The resolution was dropped because Council members agreed that a proposed deal with The New York Times may be more cost-effective and readily achievable.
