Sykes Enterprises says it is in the process of adding 285 new jobs by the end of the year. The company is partnering with Mountain Empire Community College and the University of Virginia’s College at Wise to recruit potential employees from their students.
Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, who was the 2017 NCAA singles champion and helped the Cavaliers win the ITA Indoor and NCAA outdoor national titles, gave No. 23-seeded Mischa Zverev all he could handle but couldn’t complete the upset. Earlier in the day, former Wahoo J.C. Aragone loss to No. 28-seeded Kevin Anderson in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.
J.C. Aragone traveled to New York this month without any guarantees. For him to even land a spot in the qualifying tournament for the United States Open, he needed several other players to drop out. But there he was on Monday, taking his place on one of the sport’s biggest stages against Kevin Anderson, a former top-10 player who ended the party with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 victory.
UVA students hope a new initiative will deepen the connection between the UVA community and some of the Charlottesville neighborhoods closest to Grounds. This year, five third-year students – Ameenah Elam, Dominique DeBose, Isabella Hall , Sade Akinbayo and Sarah Bland – are the first to live in The Perkins House, a house in Charlottesville’s 10th and Page neighborhood named in honor of civil rights activist John M. Perkins.
Through direct contact with constituents, research on actual bill proposals, and writing memorandums to the Senator himself, these interns are doing work that matters – and affecting the lives of Delawareans every day. “I get to do real work, in a field that I’m actually interested in, and then give my opinion. It’s amazing,” said Alaina Robinson, a summer intern at the Dover office and student at the University of Virginia.
UVA psychiatrist Jim Tucker is arguably the world’s leading researcher on the topic of reincarnation. In 2008, he published a review of cases that were suggestive of reincarnation in the journal Explore.
Attorney General Mark Herring is issuing an advisory opinion saying he believes city officials can remove many of those old statues. Micah Schwartzman, a UVA law professor, said, “I don’t think it’s clear that the state court will be bound by it. That state court judge may continue to interpret the law as he has before, although I don’t think he shouldn’t. I think the attorney general’s view is persuasive.”
In July, he performed steps away from the Old State Capitol during the Amaranth Apple Festival. This conversation took place there – weeks before the deadly events in Charlottesville, which Carson witnessed. He just started at the University of Virginia as a professor of “Hip-Hop & The Global South.” During this interview, he discusses the oppressive, racist legacies present across the country, often on university campuses and in academia.
The league has embarked on what it calls “The Engineering Roadmap,” a $60 million program designed to improve head protection equipment. “This is a comprehensive and dedicated plan intended to spur innovation and significantly improve head protection for NFL players in three to five years,” explains Dr. Jeffrey Crandall, director of UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics and chair of the NFL's head, neck and spine engineering subcommittee.
The UVA Health System and the Foundation Radiology Group have signed an agreement to expand access to high-quality medical imaging.
(Co-written by Brenton D. Peterson, Ph.D. candidate in UVA’s Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics) Based on our new research examining the impact of natural disasters on American presidential elections, we believe that Harvey’s effect will largely depend on the preexisting partisanship of the counties hit.
(By UVA law professor Brandon Garrett, author of the forthcoming book, “End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice”) The American death penalty has a big innocence problem, and it is not going away. Last Wednesday, Missouri planned to execute Marcellus Williams. The problem was that he may be innocent. Governor Eric Greitens wisely put that execution on hold while a panel investigates further.
Scientists at The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with UVA graduate students, will use the Short Prong project to test four different oyster castle designs of varying widths and heights.
William Antholis, executive director of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, and politics professor Philip Zelikow comment on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s standing in the Trump administration.
With 17 seniors on the roster and 14 returning starters in the fold, the Highland Cavaliers were pegged for a fourth-place finish in the Mountain East Conference preseason football coaches poll and could be a dark horse in the rugged 11-team NCAA Division II league. The team opens the season on Thursday night at Glenville State.
In the weeks leading up to the 2016 football season, new Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall focused his attention on his team and figured that would be the best approach as FCS foe Richmond loomed.
Commentary by Aaron Spence, superintendent of Virginia Beach City Public Schools since June 2014. He attended UVA, where he received a bachelor’s degree in French studies, a master’s degree in secondary education and a doctorate in educational administration and supervision.
Carson Price is the featured artist for September at the RTD Gallery at the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Her work will be on display starting Sept. 1. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from James Madison University and the University of Virginia, respectively, and then worked within the local nonprofit sector, including stints at The First Tee-Chesterfield, Camp Hanover and the Wilton House Museum.
Uber has chosen Dara Khosrowshahi, the chief executive of travel booking website Expedia, to be its new chief executive. “A lot of start-ups get going on the energy of the founders, but now they have to really professionalize,” said Lynn Isabella, an associate professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
A new exhibit at the University of Virginia's Brown Library aims to raise awareness for a problem plaguing ocean ecosystems. It features 18 sculptures made from discarded fishing nets retrieved from the ocean.