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Secretary of State John Kerry delivers his first foreign policy address at the University of Virginia.

Vice Provost for Global Affairs Jeffrey W. Legro introduces speakers at the "What Ever Happened to the Arab Spring" panel discussion.

Professor Emeritus of Government & Foreign Affairs William B. Quandt makes a point during the discussion.

Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics Robert Fatton speaks at a conference on international development.

Secretary of State John Kerry delivers his first foreign policy address at the University of Virginia.

U.Va. Alumna Seeks to Bridge Gap Between Rich and Poor

4/26: Distinguished Alumna Describes Creating New Kind of Capitalism
“Investment is the tool, but what we really need is leadership with moral imagination,” Jacqueline Novogratz said about finding ways to end world poverty. The founder and director of the non-profit venture capital firm, Acumen Fund, Novogratz describes the need for a new kind of capitalism that takes into account people’s selflessness, and not just selfishness.

4/23: U.Va. Advances Engagement in China with Creation of New Position in Shanghai
The University of Virginia is expanding its operations overseas with the creation of a new representative position in Shanghai, a move Executive Vice President and Provost John Simon says marks a significant step in increasing U.Va.’s presence in China and more broadly, in Asia.

4/08: Science-Education Innovator Will Bring Methods to U.Va. in April
Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur has said he’s less interested in teaching than in helping students learn – making a subtle distinction between the two. He will visit the University of Virginia to give a presentation and workshop about “peer instruction,” a method for teaching large lecture classes interactively.

4/04: U.Va.’s Rossman Receives Fellowship to Study Stalin’s ‘Great Terror’
University of Virginia history professor Jeffrey J. Rossman has received a one-year Collaborative Research Fellowship for $45,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies. Rossman will be working with Lynne A. Viola, a professor at the University of Toronto, on reframing the history of Soviet mass violence in the 1930s and 1940s.

4/03: Environmental Sciences Professor Uses Small Copter for Weather Research, Teaching
On a recent morning, University of Virginia professor Stephan de Wekker watched a small, remote-controlled hexacopter lift off the ground at a farm near the Blue Ridge Mountains. Doug Chestnut, a Web programmer in the University Library, used the controls to pilot the copter, which has six rotors and equipment for measuring weather conditions, toward a pair of 30-foot poles standing nearby.

3/29: Francesca Fiorani Receives $80,000 Grant From the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Francesca Fiorani, an art history professor in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, will receive an $80,000 grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in support of the “Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting” digital archive.

3/27: Physicist Bloomfield Teaches Thousands of Online Students ‘How Things Work’
Bloomfield is teaching a MOOC – massive open online course – to about 5,000 students worldwide this semester through Coursera, an online education company started last year by two Stanford University professors. He is one of five U.Va. professors in the College of Arts & Sciences and the Darden School of Business offering MOOCs this semester.

3/21: $5 Million Gift to Double Nursing Master’s Program Enrollment, Provides Critical Support for Faculty
A new, $5 million commitment from Washington-area financier Bill Conway and his wife, Joanne, will transform the Clinical Nurse Leader master’s degree program at the University of Virginia School of Nursing and open new opportunities for students.

3/21: Arras, Bioethics Panel Face Toughest Test Yet With Anthrax Vaccine Research on Children
In 2011, the U.S. government conducted a bioterrorism preparedness exercise to study the likely results of a large-scale release of weaponized anthrax spores in a city such as San Francisco. The casualty estimates were staggering: almost 8 million people would be affected, nearly a quarter of them children.

3/18: Nancy E. Dunlap Appointed Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine
The University of Virginia has named Dr. Nancy E. Dunlap as dean of the School of Medicine. A pulmonologist, Dunlap is physician-in-residence with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices in Washington, D.C. The appointment is effective May 1.

3/18: ‘Mindset’ Author to Speak at Annual Ridley Lecture
Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of student motivation, will speak at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education on “Mindsets: Helping Students Fulfill Their Potential.”

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