After 14 years leading Richmond-based Dominion Energy Inc., Thomas F. Farrell II is retiring as the utility's executive chairman, effective April 1, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings submitted by the Fortune 500 company last week. Farrell has served on the boards of visitors for Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia, for which he also served as rector. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a law degree from the University of Virginia.
(Podcast) Virginia head coach Todd DeSorbo chatted with Brett Hawke on his podcast, “Inside with Brett Hawke,” about the recent national championship he won at the women’s NCAAs in Greensboro and his assessment of the men’s meet, where his team finished in ninth place.
The uproar around the video gave spiritual leaders the opportunity to take a look at how the church has regressed into bigotry, leading many people out of the church altogether. Some, such as Ashon Crawley, associate professor in the religion and African studies departments at the University of Virginia, remembers the church upbringing that made him feel that his queerness meant his life was insufficient.
Dr. Lorna Breen was on the front lines of the pandemic early, and after contracting the disease herself, she tried to recover from COVID by herself at home while trying to run an emergency room remotely. “When she went back into that workforce, many 12-plus hour shifts in a row, the volume of just death and dying on an already depleted worker -- because she was not really recovered from COVID -- was just way too much for any one person to bear,” said Corey Feist, Breen’s brother-in-law and CEO of the University of Virginia Physicans Group.
(Co-written by David Leblang, Ambassador Henry Taylor Professor of Politics, director of the Batten School’s Global Policy Center and faculty fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs) Apprehensions of family units from Honduras arriving at the U.S. southern border grew exponentially between 2012 and 2019. Our work at Duke University and the University of Virginia points to an interaction of climate factors and violence as the drivers of this outcome.
A study at the University of Virginia shows that those who receive CAR T-cell therapy for leukemias and lymphomas suffer many fewer relapses and are much more likely to survive when the treatment is paired with a stem cell transplant.
A new study out of University of Virginia Health is giving hope to children with cancer, many of whom tend to relapse. Researchers at UVA Health found that children and young adults in remission who receive CAR T-cell therapy and a subsequent stem cell transplant are not as prone to relapsing.
University of Virginia researchers have been able to find a new treatment combo that has shown to significantly reduce relapse of the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Graduate programs at the University of Virginia have been highly ranked among public institutions of higher education.
(Commentary co-written by Ryan T. Wright, C. Coleman McGehee Professor of IT in the McIntire School of Commerce) Although phishing tests can be helpful to protect users, using questionable tactics has the potential for harming relationships between a company and its employees. The authors suggest that managers avoid this damage by employing phishing tests with three criteria.
When the weather is good, [UVA alumnus] Bob Blue likes to kayak or canoe from his South Richmond home through the James River rapids to his office at Dominion Energy Inc.’s headquarters on the city’s riverfront. Blue, 53, is about to embark on a journey like no other through uncertain waters as the undisputed leader of one of Virginia’s most powerful companies and political institutions.
In the Amazon and other parts of Brazil, wildfires don’t generally occur naturally, at least not on a large scale. They often occur when humans light blazes to clear land but then cannot control them. “You don’t get the ignitions without the humans,” Deborah Lawrence, a UVA professor who studies the links between tropical deforestation and climate change, said.
Since its founding by Brad Zizmor and Dag Folger in 1996, New York City’s Architecture + Information has made a name for itself designing workplaces that respond to individual needs on major scales. Its first CEO, [UVA alumna] Kate Thatcher, wants to take that mission further, pushing A+I not just to envision blockbuster headquarters for Equinox and large-scale projects for Vornado in complex neighborhoods like Penn Plaza, but to rethink the profession itself.
(Commentary by Zak Gelfond, mathematics and economics major) The social-justice movement has taken a sudden interest in violence and discrimination against my community, Asian-Americans. But this interest was sparked only when anti-Asian hatred could be framed as an expression of “white supremacy” following the horrifying mass murder in Atlanta. The broader story of violence and discrimination against Asians is much more complex.
A new interactive platform that will let donors and volunteers directly connect with and support community organizations has launched. ReImagineCVA already includes a directory of more than 200 nonprofits that are participating. “One unique and very compelling feature of ReImagineCVA is the breadth of nonprofits participating in the platform, ranging from large and well-established to small and newly emerging, so that donors and community members can get a very comprehensive view of the many different types of organizations active in our region,” said Ben Allen, executive director of UVA’s Equ...
Virginia voters are spoiled with choice this spring. A total of 32 statewide candidates have cleared both parties’ certification process in a field larger than any in modern history. “There's absolutely no precedent for this,” said Larry Sabato, director of University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and author of a book about nomination fights in Virginia. “There's not a single year that even comes close.”
“The internationalization of Asia and Latin America and the financial opportunities there breed an easier path for Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans to have a place in this industry,” said Martin Davidson, professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business, who also consults with Wall Street firms on diversity. He added: “That’s not to say that things are wonderful for Latinos and wonderful for Asian Americans, because there are significant challenges for those folks as well.”
Officially, the U.S. government is being “cagey” on definitively saying the Russians caused the SolarWinds breach, said Kristen Eichensehr, professor of law and director of the National Security Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law.
When the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center set out on the design of its University Hospital Expansion project in November 2013, the plan called for expansion of its emergency department, surgical suite and a new six-story inpatient tower. Construction began in May 2014, and by January 2020, the expanded ED and surgical floor were done. But when the new inpatient tower was only months from its expected completion date, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, prompting UVA to rethink the project’s design and make some last-minute changes.
Blue Ridge Health District residents 65 and older who are pre-registered for the COVID-19 vaccine can now schedule an appointment with the UVA Medical Center.