Officials from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia recently briefed Wythe County supervisors on a study they conducted to determine how an agricultural exposition center will impact the county.
By Mark Edmundson, a U.Va. English professor and author of the just published book "Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game."... Through football, my father explained the world to me. Through football, my father began to teach me what he thought I ought to value and why.
By Mark Edmundson, a U.Va. English professor and author of the just published book "Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game."... What exactly have we become that makes football the American game?The best answers are sometimes the simplest. Football is a warlike game and we are now a warlike nation. Our love for football is a love, however self-aware, of ourselves as a fighting and (we hope) victorious people. ... The rise of football over baseball is about a change in America's self-image. We've been ready to fight always (ask the Indian tribes or the Spanish who contr...
By Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden School of BusinessWe’re about to enroll the Darden School of Business’s Class of 2016, among whom many students are looking to end one career path and embark on another. Alumni I’ve been speaking with recently, took vacations, found the time to stop and reflect, and confronted the itch to change employers. And for the Darden Class of 2015, who have had summer internships, this week is probably the closing act: Companies will start to make full-time offers.Common to all of these groups is a fundamental question: Should I work for this co...
By Ed Hess, a Darden Professor... Carl Frey and Michael Osborne of the University of Oxford predict that 66 percent of the current U.S. job force has a medium to high likelihood of being replaced by technology over the next decade or two. Good jobs could well be in short supply.
By Ashley Deeks, a professor of lawIn the wake of Thursday’s statements by Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey and Friday’s comments by Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, it sounds like the U.S. Government is at least considering whether to conduct air strikes against ISIS in Syria. A decision to do so clearly is not a done deal.
The University of Virginia's Pegasus program is celebrating 30 years of life-saving flights over central Virginia. UVA Health System hosted more than 100 people for a birthday party in honor of the chopper.King Family Vineyards hosted the party and everyone from UVA hospital administrators, doctors, and pilots were there to look back and see the growth the Pegasus program has made in the past 30 years.
Yiqi Cao, a fourth-year Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia, will speak at TEDx Charlottesville about food culture and its ties to family history. She joins Les Sinclair on 1070-WINA Radio to give us a preview.
Bob Brown, a law student at the University of Virginia, spent the summer working at a public relations firm in Washington, D.C. The company had the prized task of creating the campaign materials for the Democratic National Convention that August.The convention, in Atlantic City, N.J., would be a treat for Brown, who was a progressive Democrat and felt that times needed changing, particularly in Virginia. The Portsmouth native had been an undergrad at U.Va. in 1958 when the commonwealth shut several schools in the state, including some in Norfolk, rather than allow blacks and whites to take cla...
Jared Brown, a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Virginia, spoke about his 2010 arrest and subsequent 15-day sentence for misdemeanor assault. Brown said his arresting officer told him that his actions would cast an indelible mark on his future, which Brown took as a challenge.“[The officer] assumed that where I had been was more important than where I was going,” Brown said to resounding cheers from the crowd. “In spite of my record, in spite of my past, in spite of the belief shared by many that I would become a statistic, I have gone on to receive a quality educati...
At last month’s Gold Coast Marathon in Queensland, Australia, Jeffrey Eggleston entered into a new realm in the marathon. The Boulder, Colo.-based runner clocked 2:10:52 to take second in that race. It was a significant milestone for Eggleston, a PR, and proof that the 29-year-old may be the new face of American distance running.But everything hasn’t always fallen into place for Eggleston, who will compete at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon on Aug. 31.
Last-minute chores before fall classes start at the University of Virginia can wait. Danielle Collins first has a date with one of the world's greatest women's tennis players on one of the world's greatest stages.The NCAA champion will play Romania's Simona Halep at 11 a.m. today inside Arthur Ashe Stadium at the U.S. Open in Flushing, N.Y.
By W. Heywood Fralin of Roanoke, chairman of the Virginia Business Higher Education Council.... Virginia long has been a model for stable and predictable revenue growth. Yet, this spring we experienced a severe and unexpected budget shortfall, requiring the cancellation of millions in planned investments, especially in higher education. ... How Virginia’s leaders respond to these dire developments will set the course for our commonwealth for years to come. Will they make the hard choices necessary to invest in our state’s workforce and economic future? Or will they bypass the inves...
By W. Taylor Reveley IV, president of Longwood UniversityFor a generation it has been typical to view the purpose of college in economic terms and today the issue of the cost of college is typically considered in that context, with debate about which degrees are worth the price. It is a worthy debate.America’s founding generation thought deeply about higher education, too — George Washington was the first American chancellor of the College of William & Mary; Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, and James Madison was one of America’s first graduate students...
... Overall, there are eight categories. For academics, there is an overall academic rating, a professor-quality rating and rating for the school’s ability to graduate freshmen in four years (a good thing). There’s also an admission rating. The harder the school is to get into, the higher this rating is.Beyond academics, there is a social life rating, a student-attractiveness rating, and a combined rating for the campus and the surrounding area.Finally, there is a rating for the cost of tuition and fees ...For each school’s grand total, TheDC just added up each raw score...
A new public awareness campaign at the University of Virginia aims to prevent sexual misconduct by showing bystanders how to recognize potentially dangerous situations and offer help. The university launched the "Hoos Got Your Back" campaign on Friday. The campaign involves students, faculty, staff, merchants and other members of the U.Va. community.