A forum at the University of Virginia on Sunday focused on insider threats to American security. Educators, government workers and business leaders got together in the Rotunda Dome Room to talk over the topic.
John Miller was the keynote speaker in the Dome Room at the University of Virginia Rotunda. Miller is the Deputy Director of National Intelligence. He discussed topics about "Insider Threats" to American society.
A Crozet native who says he's had the best job in the country is in the home stretch of a 44-year-career. Leonard Sandridge will step down from his duties as the University of Virginia's executive vice president and chief operating officer this spring.
The University of Virginia will honor retiring Executive Vice President Leonard Sandridge on Monday. Sandridge is stepping down in May after 44 years with UVA.
A pair of popular University of Virginia professors will give their “Last Lectures” Tuesday, though the lectures will not, in fact, be their last. Anthropology professor Richard Handler and politics professor Robert Fatton will speak for about a half hour each starting at 7:30 p.m. in Old Cabell Hall’s auditorium.
Kudos to Gov. Bob McDonnell for proposing to use $2.69 million in state bond money to replace the roof of the Rotunda. The Jefferson-designed building at the University of Virginia isn’t just important to the state or the nation — as impressive as that might be. It’s also of global significance, having been designated part of a United Nations’ World Heritage site.
While the number of farms in Virginia decreased between 1997 and 2007, the number of farms with horses climbed to 13,520 from 10,972. The trend is among the key findings of a new study on the economic impact of the state’s horse industry conducted by the Center for Economic and Policy Studies at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Friday, flowers still lay outside the University of Virginia’s physics building, where the most recent UVa student to die fell four stories, as students gathered to remember their fellows who were lost in the past year.
Dr. Marcus Martin has been appointed vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity at the University of Virginia. Martin is a former chairman of the UVa Health System’s Department of Emergency Medicine and was the first African-American to lead a clinical department at the UVa Medical Center.
Rita Dove
Commonwealth Professor of Poetry
One African American [Rita Dove] Among the Ten New Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education / March 31
Gary Gallagher
History professor
The Civil War: Remembering the Civil War
Cspan/ March 31
Jonathan Haidt
psychology professor
Wired for Elevation: A Survival Tool for Self-Improvement
The Huffington Post / April 1, 2011
R. Edward Freeman
professor and corporate governance specialist, Darden School
Analysis: Buffett, and replacing the irreplaceable
Reuters / March 31
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Sokol's Departure Raise...
A recommendation, among five steps proposed for a more productive U.S.-China relationship, were made following a conference at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
The University of Virginia acappella group the Hullabahoos are gearing up for their spring concert. The show runs Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2.
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing — a 50,000-square-foot research facility created in partnership with the commonwealth of Virginia, University of Virginia and Virginia Tech University — broke ground on Thursday in southern Virginia.
Nearly 200 people gathered in a white tent next to a cleared site that will soon house a 50,000-square-foot collaborative research facility. It will provide a place where students and faculty from three of the state’s research universities — Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia and Virginia State University — can work with global manufacturers.
The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia has acquired one of only seven known copies of the 1829 pamphlet by African American David Walker entitled, Appeal in Four Articles, Together With a Preamble to the Colored Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America.
Debbie Ryan's Virginia coaching career ended Saturday with the Cavaliers' 79-74 loss to Charlotte in the quarterfinals of the WNIT. While UVa decides on the best candidate to replace Ryan at the head of the program, the now-former head coach decides what's next for her as well.
Nearly 1,000 friends, family members and fellow students gathered inside Trinity Presbyterian Church on Thursday to remember and celebrate the life of 19-year-old Thomas W. Gilliam IV.
The death of first-year student Thomas W. Gilliam IV, who fell from the roof of a University of Virginia building illegally accessed, has resonated with repercussions…. In the final analysis, responsibility lies squarely with those individuals who choose to take risks.
U.Va.’s law school recently received a $150,000 grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund to back the Access to Justice Partnership, which will tackle the ever-growing number of requests for legal help spurred by the recession.
The UVA Athletics Department announced a $5 million pledge from alumna Amy Griffin. The donation allows the Virginia Athletics Foundation to proceed with the design and construction of a new track and field facility that is expected to cost nearly $14 million.