February 15, 2012
President Sullivan Cites Wage Progress at UVa
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan outlined to Faculty Senate members on Friday the steps her administration has taken to improve wages for the University's lowest-paid employees.

February 15, 2012 | Arts and Sciences
'R-E-S-P-E-C-T': Find Out What It Means in the UVa Workplace
For the University of Virginia community, what "respect" means is outlined in a new "Commitment to a Caring Community of Dignity and Respect," which charges employees to "treat everyone else with kindness, dignity and respect, regardless of position or status."

February 15, 2012 | Arts and Sciences
Study: Sex Differences in Infant Care Trump Gender-Neutral Ideology
When both male and female college professors have the freedom to take post-birth parental leave, the men almost never do half of the infant care from birth to age 2, even when they believe that child care should be shared equally.

February 14, 2012
UVa Art Museum Exhibits Japanese Woodblock Prints
Drawing on its rich collection of Japanese prints, the University of Virginia Art Museum will feature an exhibition, in two parts, of 19th-century Japanese color woodblock prints.

February 14, 2012 | Architecture
UVa Architecture School to Host Cultural Heritage Lecture
Architect and historian Michele Lamprakos will give a lecture Feb. 17 at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture on "Urban Heritage in the 21st Century." The talk, which is free and open to the public, begins at 5:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall, room 158.

February 14, 2012
Construction Reroutes Traffic at Edgemont and McCormick
Edgemont Road, near its intersection with McCormick Road near the University's of Virginia's Slaughter Recreation Center, will be closed for about a month to accommodate utility installation for a building under construction nearby.

February 14, 2012
Apply Through March 1 for Inaugural Sandridge and Faculty/Staff Scholarships
Full- and part-time University of Virginia faculty and staff who have a child or grandchild who will be – or is applying to be – a U.Va. undergraduate in the 2012-13 academic year, take note: She or he may be eligible to apply for the inaugural Leonard W. and Jerry S. Sandridge Scholarship and/or the Faculty and Staff Undergraduate Scholarship.

February 14, 2012 | Arts and Sciences
Arts, Humanities Get Their Turn in the Spotlight as Obama Honors UVa's Dove
University of Virginia English professor and poet Rita Dove and seven other artists were awarded the 2011 National Medal of Arts by President Obama on Feb. 13.

February 14, 2012 | Arts and Sciences
Houston A. Baker Returns to UVa for Black Fire Project
African-American studies scholar Houston A. Baker Jr. of Vanderbilt University will give a lecture on Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom as part of a University of Virginia Arts in Action project, "Black Fire: The Struggle for Social Justice and Racial Equality at the University of Virginia, 1969-1985."

February 14, 2012 | Darden
Mind Space, Open Space Coexist in Darden's Newly Renovated Camp Library
The transformed Camp Library at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business challenges the way visitors imagine the library experience.