The GO Virginia Region 9 Council met Monday at the University of Virginia Research Park to discuss the council’s makeup, purpose and governing documents. The 23-member council includes government officials and businesspeople from Central Virginia, as well as UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan.
Five ACC teams – North Carolina, Florida State, Louisville, Virginia and Duke – were among the 16 preliminary tournament seeds the panel revealed during a made-for-television bracket preview. Virginia was the 10th overall seed and placed in the West Region.
“There’s a moral panic in America that free speech is under assault at universities, but it’s absolutely not true,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of modern media studies at the University of Virginia.
The supersmart, know-it-all entrepreneur. They say they know what the market wants, what the market is, who is the customer, what she wants, and how much she will pay for it. All this, when they haven’t yet got one paying customer – and many a time, the product is nonexistent. In predicting the future, these entrepreneurs are nailing the first, fat nail into their startups’ coffins. Darden School Professor Saras Sarasvathy is sitting on enough data to tell me this.
Charlottesville police are looking for a masked man who attempted – but failed – to rob someone at about 9 p.m. Sunday, in the 2400 block of Arlington Boulevard.
Patrice Grimes, an associate professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education, lent her expertise and understanding of education for African-American students in the country prior to Brown v. Board of Education to a new documentary film project.
Senior Goldman Sachs banker Jim Donovan is under strong consideration for deputy Treasury secretary and could serve as Mnuchin’s No. 2 if confirmed by the Senate, people familiar with the matter said. For the last eight years, Donovan has also served as a professor of corporate strategy at the University of Virginia law school.
State leaders are teaming up to find out how they can change the lives of low-income families. Hundreds gathered Friday at UVA’s Darden School of Business for the second annual “Pay for Success” seminar. Pay for Success is a field of public policy that focuses on paying for the outcome of a community program, rather than the program itself.
Nobody’s perfect, and everyone makes mistakes – including eyewitnesses to crimes. The difference for eyewitnesses is that those mistakes could cost an innocent person their freedom. That’s one of the reasons why the Laura and John Arnold Foundation awarded a nearly $1.4 million grant to three UVA researchers and one from the University of Utah to seek improvements in eyewitness identification procedures.
Paul Saunier Jr., who helped lead the charge to desegregate the University of Virginia in the late 1960s, has died. Saunier, a former Richmond Times-Dispatch writer who went on to become an administrator at UVA, died of natural causes on Wednesday afternoon, according to family members. He was 97 years old.
Though the tweet may not have been hard to believe coming from Trump, his approach to potential conflicts of interest is unprecedented, according to Russell Riley, a presidential historian and professor at UVA’s Miller Center. "I genuinely can’t think of anything that comes close to this particular intervention in relation to the question of conflicts of interest," Riley said.
A UVA professor and a local biotechnology company have been recognized with Outstanding STEM Awards. Dr. William Petri, Jr., Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine, is one of three people recognized as a Virginia Outstanding Scientist, who have made globally significant contributions to their fields.
A UVA doctor and a Charlottesville biotech company have received 2017 Outstanding STEM Awards from Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office. Dr. William Petri is the chief of UVA’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health and has conducted pioneering research in the field of gastrointestinal infections and their consequences in children in the developing world.
The International Diabetes Closed Loop trial at the University of Virginia aims to enroll 240 adults with type 1 diabetes. The participants will come from 10 different clinical sites throughout the world – including Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Stanford University Hospital and the Mayo Clinic in the United States, as well as medical centers in France, Italy and the Netherlands.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has announced the winners of Writer’s Eye 2016, the 30th-anniversary edition of the museum’s annual literary competition.
UVA’s Miller Center, says Trump is sending a message with his overly long ties and his “devil-may-care” attitude about style. “He’s saying, ‘I don’t give a damn how I look or how I act. That’s what the American people wanted, and it’s what Washington needs,’” Perry said.
UVA’s new lacrosse coach jogged out of University Hall to meet a group of reporters for his first news conference of the coming season, sweat seeping through his gray T-shirt.
Virginia’s Innocence Project at the University of Virginia is still waiting to hear if a California lab can find DNA in evidence from a 1990 Virginia Beach rape. Attorneys from the project, who look at potential wrongful convictions, believe the wrong man has been behind bars all this time.
A Charlottesville committee charged with reviewing designs for public spaces learned more Thursday about UVA’s plans to redevelop land in the Ivy Road corridor.
The House of Delegates Education Committee on Wednesday rejected a Senate attempt to weaken legislation requiring Virginia residents to fill the top leadership positions on university governing boards. House Bill 1402 by Del. R. Steven Landes, R-Augusta, requires both the rector and vice rector, or chair and vice chair, to be residents of the state. The change is necessary to increase accountability of boards, Landes said.