Archive for September, 2011
"Variety, Archaeology and Ornament: Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice," a symposium being held in conjunction with an exhibit at U.Va.'s Art Museum, will begin tomorrow. The exhibit is co-curated by U.Va. architecture professor Cammy Brothers.
U.Va.'s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy has recently partnered with five other schools at U.Va. to create five dual-degree programs that will allow students to obtain a graduate degree from the partner school and a master's from Batten in fewer years.
Six U.Va. graduate students with scholarly interests ranging from Victorian poetry to Spanish military architecture are part of the Praxis Program, a pilot initiative in the U.Va. Library's Scholars' Lab designed to provide technical training and experience to a small group of interdisciplinary graduate students interested in digital humanities projects.
The unpublished papers of several Founding Fathers will be made available online through a three-year, $2.5 million agreement between the University of Virginia, through the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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