No previous experience fully prepares one to be president. The most important training presidents receive is on the job. But presidents and their aides can learn much about the first year from those who have gone before. What follows—drawn almost entirely from the Presidential Oral History Programof the University of Virginia’s Miller Center—are 10 lessons that any new president can apply, or at least be informed by, culled from the experiences of those who already have served in one or more administrations.
With law school application season in full swing, StartClass set out to identify the top 25 law schools in the country. Ranked No. 8, the University of Virginia School of Law was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. It is the fourth-oldest active law school in the United States.
Governor Terry McAuliffe paid a visit to the University of Virginia Thursday afternoon to recognize and celebrate central Virginia's entrepreneurs as part of “Techtober,” which highlights new and emerging technology industries around the state. The governor held a roundtable at UVA’s i.Lab, a collaborative department that aims to foster entrepreneurship and innovation.
The 12th annual Corner Crawl took place Wednesday evening. The charity fundraiser is hosted by the University of Virginia sorority chapter of Kappa Delta and benefits both Prevent Child Abuse Virginia and Prevent Child Abuse America.
It took an architect lying on the floor, sticking his head into a hole and looking up to realize: There was something there. The something initially was nothing — an empty space. But an empty space in the Rotunda that Thomas Jefferson designed at the University of Virginia is something. It’s one of the most studied buildings in the country, said Brian Hogg, senior historic preservation planner in the Office of the Architect for the University, so renowned that it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
On Wednesday, nonpartisan research and development company WestEd’s Center on School Turnaround released a series of materials on hiring and retaining leaders for turnaround schools. The materials — developed in partnership with the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, Public Impact, and the University of Virginia Darden/Curry Partnership — are intended to serve as a professional learning module for district administrators to improve their school turnaround efforts.
Part of a US university’s original chemistry lab has been discovered by builders after it had remained hidden behind a wall since the mid-19th century. The chemical ‘hearth’ – a small semi-circular alcove containing the remains of a furnace and stone work surfaces – was discovered on the ground floor of the University of Virginia’s Rotunda building by workmen carrying out renovation work.
Did you know that Oct. 15 is Global Handwashing Day? Hand-washing is a vital public and personal health activity and one that grew up alongside germ theory in the late 1800s. The University of Virginia Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library has a terrific online exhibit, “Coming Clean; Hand Washing and Public Health.”
When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia's iconic Rotunda during the turn of the 19th century, he dedicated the ground floor for the study of science. Nearly 200 years later, workers renovating the building have stumbled across an elaborate chemical hearth that dates back to Jefferson's era.
Living without a car is getting easier in Charlottesville with the arrival of two new Zipcars. The Boston-based car rental company just added two more vehicles to its Charlottesville fleet. University of Virginia students, faculty and staff get a discount.
Firefighters in Charlottesville are going door to door making sure University of Virginia students are playing it safe. A majority of students don't live on UVA grounds, instead they rent apartments and houses around Charlottesville. City firefighters are focusing on these areas, checking up on smoke alarms, and giving students safety tips.
Some new flags with strong messages about domestic violence are now decorating the lawn at the University of Virginia. The flags symbolize warning signs people had wished they'd seen in abusive relationships. The flags are joined by T-shirts made by men and women in Charlottesville in early October.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are participating in a massive, international experiment, to study the origins of the universe. Neutrinos, subatomic remnants of the early universe, are high-energy particles that pass at nearly the speed of light through everything- our planet and our bodies. These ghostly particles are of intense interest to physicists because they may be a key player in how the universe came to be.
In an early reincarnation claim, a young boy became a sensation about 200 years ago after declaring that he remembered living a previous life as another boy who had died at the age of 6. A commemorative exhibition featuring the reported reincarnation, dating to the Edo Period (1603-1867), is on show at the Shinsengumi Furusato History Museum here through Nov. 15 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Katsugoro’s birth. A research project on pre-existence and rebirth is currently under way at the medical department of the University of Virginia and elsewhere. The University of Virginia...
In obese women most at risk for cancer, bariatric surgery slashed participants' weight by one-third, produced a mean weight loss of more than 100 pounds, and eliminated precancerous uterine growths. "If you look at cancers in women, about a fifth of all cancer deaths would be prevented if we had women at normal body weight in the US," said Susan C. Modesitt, MD, of the University of Virginia (UVA) Cancer Center.
A new study suggests the nation's Affordable Care Act is helping HIV positive patients. Researchers at the University of Virginia looked at close to 4,000 low-income Virginians with HIV. Nearly 79 percent of people who use the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program are able to suppress the virus. But suppression rates are almost 7 percent higher for HIV patients who switched to Affordable Care Act coverage two years ago.
(By Brandon Garrett, professor of law at the University of Virginia) "If you only look at the big banks, you will be missing the forest for the trees," said Hillary Clinton in the debate Tuesday night, responding to calls to break up the major banks. Corporate crime is a broader problem touching every industry and not just Wall Street. Clinton has proposed for the first time a top-to-bottom plan for policing and preventing corporate crime and financial misconduct. We have not seen the likes of it in this campaign or elsewhere. The plan addresses systemic risk in financ...
(By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia) Last year at this time, Democrats were in the final month of their losing battle to hold the U.S. Senate. But while licking their wounds after the election, they consoled themselves with a 2016 comeback vision. Democrats already had a candidate so credentialed she was likely to sweep to the nomination and be in a solid position to bury the eventual GOP nominee. Demographics and destiny were on Hillary Clinton’s side, and she’d help the party recapture the Senate too. What...
How did we get to the point where it is more likely you’ll end up in the can if you knock off a 7-Eleven than if you’re responsible for the financial ruin — even the death — of countless people? The author of the book Too Big to Jail, University of Virginia Law School professor Brandon Garrett, says a lack of resources when going up against heavily lawyered big businesses contributed to the Justice Department’s don’t-prosecute predilection. But he adds this: “I’m puzzled that the misbehavior of high-profile i...
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy spurred numerous conspiracy theories, many of which doubted whether sniper Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and asserting that the CIA was involved. “For a complete nobody, Oswald certainly did seem to hang out with well-connected people,” University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato, author of “The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F.Kennedy,” told Business Insider in 2013.