Programs

The Learning Barge is a collaborative design and fabrication initiative of students from the School of Architecture and School of Engineering and Applied Science that incorporates research and sustainable design principles to promote environmental education on the Elizabeth River, one of the most polluted estuaries of the Chesapeake Bay. The floating field station is powered by solar and wind energy, collects rainwater, filters gray water with native plants and utilizes recycled and renewable materials. The integrated educational component for K-12 school children, adults and seniors offers opportunities to experience the river firsthand and engage in hands-on exploration and learning. The project is a collaboration with an environmental non-profit organizatin, the Elizabeth River Project, based in Portsmouth, Virginia.

The Virginia Center for Digital History and the Center for Technology and Teacher Education at UVa maintain a collection of lesson plans for educators on diverse topics in American history, including African American life in Virginia during the Jim Crow era; the impact of railroads on Antebellum communities; attitudes about slavery; Civil War medicine; the African American soldier; Jamestown's economy; interactions between Native Americans and European settlers; the life of Dolley Madison; and the creation of elite Washington, D.C. society. These lesson plans are designed to help teachers implement the Virginia Standards of Learning and National History Standards.

Letters About Literature is a reading and writing program for students in grades 4 through 12.

The Outreach Services Program is responsible for developing and promoting health care information and library services for health care professionals, teachers, and consumers in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Madison House Boosters serve as teacher’s aids in local classrooms (K- 5th grade).

University of Virginia student volunteers work with teachers to lower the adult-to-child ratio in area day care centers. The volunteers provide assistance to day care staff and secondary care for children.

The McGuffey Reading Center at the University of Virginia is the oldest organization of its kind in the United States. McGuffey offers diagnostic and remedial services as well as teaching clinics, which are staffed by graduate students and supervised by resident faculty.

The Media Program organizes and conducts a variety of conferences and workshops, focusing both on media production and connections between media and culture.

The Medical Center Hour is the School of Medicine's weekly forum on medicine and society. Produced by the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, The Medical Center Hour is held on Wednesdays from mid-September through March at midday (12:30-1:30 pm) in the Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium. All programs are free and open to the entire university and the public.

The Men's Leadership Project at the University of Virginia is an innovative community-based leadership development and mentoring program designed to build and reinforce authentic and responsible leadership capacities of both undergraduate men and elementary school boys. MLP accomplishes this mission by training and pairing a diverse group of undergraduate men with a select group of fifth grade boys at Walker Upper Elementary School and a select group of sixth grade boys at Burley Middle School, both in Charlottesville, VA. MLP is especially committed to understanding a wide range of masculinities, fostering a gender-aware perspective on leadership development and mentoring, and encouraging active participation in respectful, healthy, pro-social and anti-violent community roles for those who identify as men and boys.