Mark Warner speaks to students on Lawn
By Dalia Mortada | November 3, 2008With the election just a couple days away, former Virginia governor and U.S.
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With the election just a couple days away, former Virginia governor and U.S.
Citing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama?s technological savvy and technology policies, Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt expressed his support for the Illinois senator yesterday at the Law School.Schmidt and Obama?s technology advisor Julius Genachowski made a stop in Charlottesville yesterday in an effort to garner support for the presidential candidate and his technology policies.
The College Board, the non-profit organization that administers SATs, PSATs and Advanced Placement exams, unveiled a new test for eighth graders last week.The exam, called ReadiStep, ?is a paper-and-pencil test with three multiple-choice sections ? reading, writing and mathematics,? College Board spokesperson Jennifer Topiel stated in an e-mail.
The University will recognize the creation of a new Center for German Studies this weekend with a two-day celebration including a panel discussion and lecture by Josef Joffe, editor-in-chief of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper.
Student-athletes nationwide are graduating at a higher rate than ever, according to a recent study released by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.The NCAA found that student-athletes who enrolled in college between 1998 and 2001 graduated at an average rate of 78 percent, NCAA spokesperson Erik Christianson said.
As the movement toward curriculum internationalization continues to gain supporters at the University and other institutions, another educational movement encouraging a return to a traditional education has begun to take root.An October 2007 Student Council report paved the way for recent developments in curriculum internationalization, including steps closer to the first-ever student-initiated major in global development.
Unveiled last week, a new Web site service called Knetwit will serve as a networking site for students and professors who want to upload their class notes, papers and other resources for others to use.The social networking and information-sharing site is free to join and use, and the more a person?s material gets downloaded, the more points a student earns to be redeemed for cash or merchandise from the Knetwit store.The creators of the site, Benjamin Wald and Tyler Jenks, call Knetwit ?knowledge-based social networking,? and Wald said it takes social networking one step further.
The Education School will launch the Curry Education Research Lectureship Series today, with the first of several speakers seeking to promote further discussion of education-related ideas.
The third annual Jefferson Trust grant recipients were announced Friday, with a total $470,000 to be dispersed among various University schools, departments and organizations. Jefferson Trust Executive Director Michael Clarke?
Students sat in Newcomb Hall Feb. 9, eagerly soaking up all the wisdom they could from the five panelists sitting in front of them.
