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• College comedians are raising the Rooftop

  - 2008-03-10

  WASHINGTON -- Emily Murphy is performing in front of a crowd at the Marvin Center on the campus of George Washington University. She's holding a bunch of balloons, telling the story of a female medical exam gone awry. Something about a salad tong flying through the...

  Tags: Murphy, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Virginia

• Business by Design -- By Jeanne M. Liedtka.

  - 2006-03-17

  Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 17 AScribe Newswire -- The following commentary is by Jeanne M. Liedtka, executive director of the Batten Institute and Johnson and Higgins Research Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School...

  Tags: Persuasion, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, University of Virginia

• Institutional Culture and Civic Responsibility: An Ethnographic Study

  - 2006-01-01

  Student citizenship development is an important goal of higher education that is rarely considered through a cultural lens. This ethnographic study of a research university is an examination of campus ideologies and cultural forms that address five dimensions of civic responsibility. The findings illustrate how the beliefs and cultural equipment...

  Tags: administrator, education, ideology, Lawn, M., PRODUCTIVITY, University of Virginia

• Step forward for scholars

  - 2005-07-01

  The University of Virginia Press (upress.virginia.edu) is using an XML content server from Mark Logic (mark logic.com) to support The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, an online academic research tool found at http://ro tunda.upress.virginia.edu/dmde.The Dolley Madison Digital Edition is described as the first complete publication of the nineteenth century First Lady's...

  Tags: Government, PRODUCTIVITY, scholar, University of Virginia, XML

• New UVA policy adds sexual misconduct, ousts victim confidentiality requirement.(University of Virginia )

  - 2005-04-01

  The University of Virginia has revised its sexual assault policy to streamline the process and address concerns about revealing the results of student disciplinary hearings. The university's sexual assault policy came under scrutiny from students last year after the Department of Education ruled...

  Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, University of Virginia

• "The urgency of engineering education reform"

  - 2002-07-01

  Excerpts from the LITEE* 2002 Distinguished Lecture, Auburn University, AL March 22, 2002 Let me start by saying a little bit about the academies of engineering. I have come to understand that people have some strange ideas about the academies, so let me try to straighten them out. What is...

  Tags: computer, education, engineering, Government, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Virginia

• Famous words

  - 2001-01-01

  Famous Words From Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein to Rene Descartes and Thomas Jefferson, Gabriel Robins, Walter N. Munster associate professor of computer science at the University of Virginia, has tapped into his literary side. His Good Quotations by Famous People is a great site to tap into the minds...

  Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, professor, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia

• WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE WPI President is se selected for international appointment.

  - 1999-09-13

  M2 PRESSWIRE-13 September 1999-WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE WPI President is selected for international appointment C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:090999 WORCESTER, Mass. -- Edward Alton Parrish, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been selected to represent the Institute of Electrical and Electronics...

  Tags: computer, federation, IEEE, president, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Virginia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Teaching and learning to teach through technology. (model programs demonstrate use of technology in teacher training at University of Virginia, University of New Hampshire, Arizona State University and University of Georgia)(IBM Higher Education supplemen

  - 1992-03-01

  Presentations given at 'America 2000: An Educational Strategy' conference in 1991 demonstrate the effective use of computer technology in teacher training. The Teacher Link program at the University of Virginia, sponsored by a grant from IBM, links preservice teachers and their supervisors to university faculty members. The program illustrates the...

  Tags: Arizona State University, IBM Corp., MARKETING, mathematics, PRODUCTIVITY, teacher, Technology, technology, training, University of Georgia, University of Virginia

• Video network controls students' screens. (the University of Virginia's School of Education uses Applied Computer Systems' LINK screen image projection system)

  - 1990-06-01

  The University of Virginia School of Education uses Applied Computer Systems Inc's LINK video hardware device to project the screen image generated by an instructor's computer to all cable-attached student monitors. LINK is software independent so it does not take up RAM space, connecting instead between the computer and the...

  Tags: Components, computer, HARDWARE, MARKETING, monitor, network, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Virginia, video