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Faculty and students partner with community organizations to develop research grants or service learning projects that respond to public needs. Publicly engaged teaching and research lies at the heart of the country's top public research institutions.
View these stories below to see a snapshot of UVa's academic engagement with local, state, national, and international communities.
U.Va. Architecture School Students Help Community Envision a Sustainable South Bronx
July 17, 2008 | UVAToday
New York City's South Bronx neighborhood is poised to become a model for urban sustainable development on a large scale, and a group of University of Virginia Architecture School graduate students have helped citizens and community leaders there visualize their dreams.
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Engineering Program Addressing Water Resources Challenges
July 8, 2008, UVAToday
Virginia and its citizens are facing a unique set of problems for ensuring the sustainability of water systems for humans and natural ecosystems. U.Va. School of Engineering and Applied Science graduate students and faculty are helping partner organizations address these challenges.
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From Sea to Shinning Seed
June 11, 2008, Eastern Shore Post
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) ... along with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) ... have been actively harvesting eelgrass behind Wreck Island off Oyster. ...Karen McGlathery, [associate] professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, acts as project leader for a group of UVA students who stay during the summer and work closely with TNC and VIMS. ... [See page 8 of PDF]
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Course Seeks Sustainable Solution to Food Shortage Crisis
Tanya Denckla Cobb's spring course, "Healthy Communities, Healthy Food Systems: Global-Local Connections," led students in a novel endeavor to figure out where Charlottesville's food comes from, be it local or from thousands of miles away.
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Degree-Earners’ Next Stop: Clinic in Guatemalan Valley
May 18, 2008, Daily Progress
Hanging in a corner of Megan Dunning’s room on the Lawn at the University of Virginia is a framed photograph of young Guatemalan children learning how to sneeze into their sleeves.
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University of Virginia Architecture Students Share Visions for New College
Institute in Martinsville
April 15, 2008, UVAToday
Fourth-year architecture students from
the University of Virginia experienced the power of architecture to bring
community together and saw the ability of education to be an economic
development tool in a fall studio design class.
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University
of Virginia Receives President's Honor Roll Award for Service
February 20, 2008 – A federal program has named the University of
Virginia to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
With Distinction for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged
youth.
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Students Take on a Community Goal: Help Charlottesville Become America's
Healthiest City
Februray 6, 2008, UVAToday
Charlottesville has a goal: to become America's healthiest city by 2015. To
that end, city officials sought the assistance of two urban and environmental
planning classes in the University of Virginia's School of Architecture.
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Engineering
takes the stage / UVa students turn knowledge into special-effects craft
December 04, 2007, Charlottesville Daily Progress
In the short comedy “Three Magic Purple Balloons,” a magical
orb vanishes, a telephone rings on cue and a levitating veil changes color
from silver to red. The original play, written and directed and performed
by University of Virginia drama students, is part of a series of 10 one-act
plays being performed at the university. Each of the plays features special
effects designed and built by first-year engineering students.
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more...
ecoMOD3
Expands Modular, Sustainable, Affordable Housing Research
August 21, 2007, UVa Today
Some University of Virginia students cheered and clapped as a crane
lifted the prefabricated modules into place at their new home in
the Castle Hill-Fifeville neighborhood in Charlottesville.
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Hi-Tech
Homes Preserve Past
August 15, 2007, WCAV Charlottesville News Plex
Using nails, drills, and levies, UVa students worked together to
assemble three modular units they have spent years designing.
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UVA
Students' Work Assesses Mental Health Resources
May 14, 2007, Daily Progress
A group of University of Virginia students has contributed an entire
school year analyzing a local initiative aimed at improving mental
health services and how it relates to the criminal justice system.
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Students
Take Alternative Spring Break
April 3, 2007, UVa Today
Some U.Va. students went to tropical climates for spring break, but
instead of lounging on the beach, they spent their week helping people.
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more...
Innovation
Through Collaboration: New Ways of Thinking and Learning
UVA TopNews
Innovation is a complex phenomenon where talented and motivated people
exploit the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.
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Historic
Significance: Local Residents Try to Protect Their Neighborhood
Daily Progress, November 20, 2006
Two local residents - one from Albemarle County, the other from Charlottesville
- are banding together to preserve the neighborhood they both inhabit.
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Public
Viewing of the EcoMod3 Design Project on Dec. 8
December 7, 2006, UVa Today
The ecoMOD project at the University of Virginia is holding a one-day
public viewing of the ecoMOD3 prototypical house design -- the SEAM
house it -- on 4th Street, SW in the Fifeville neighborhood of Charlottesville.
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Crossing
Over: Teacher's Students from CHS and UVa Learn from Each Other
October 23, 2006, Daily Progress
Charlottesville High School senior Miko Jones walked into a classroom
at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education last
year and asked himself: “What am I doing here?”
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Curry's
Pianta Gets $10M for National Preschool Study
August 25, 2006, Inside UVa Online
The Curry School of Education has been awarded $10 million from the
U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences
to determine if a new method for training preschool teachers results
in their students, especially disadvantaged children, learning language
and literacy skills better.
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U.Va.
Engineering Student Helps Make America 'Really Ready'
August 22, 2006, Top News
What would you do in the event of an emergency?
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Gautier
Gets a Solar Habitat Home
WLOX-TV Mississippi, August 14, 2006
Architecture student Joy Wang is installing new windows today at
a home in Gautier.
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more...
Center
for Digital History Partners in $1 Million Grant for Teaching
American History
Top News, August 14, 2006
The evolution and growth of democracy in America has deep roots in
Virginia.
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History
Teachers Get Boost for Study
Daily Progress, August 7, 2006
History teachers in five local school divisions will get a chance
to “live and breathe” the story of Virginia’s role
in American history, thanks to the University of Virginia’s
Virginia Center for Digital History and a $1 million grant from the
U.S. Department of Education.
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Cuban
Trade: U.Va. Fund Helps Bring Art to Country
University of Virginia Magazine, August 7, 2006
When Jill Hartz, director of the U.Va. Art Museum, and a group of
museum members first visited Havana in January 2002, they found a
thriving art scene.
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