On March 22, 2013, Paxson MacDonald's doctor had the difficult task of telling her that she had a rare brain tumor called glioblastoma. The outlook was bleak, with most patients succumbing within a year. As the first anniversary of the diagnosis nears, one particular worry continues to push to the forefront of MacDonald's thoughts. Who will take her place as the advisor and go-to person for the Zeta Tau Alpha Run for Life 5K race?
State employees fare well in the two-year budget rewrite the House Appropriations Committee will release today, which includes money for raises for some employees, bonuses for others, and full funding of pension rates recommended by the Virginia Retirement System. … The House budget also includes significant boosts for hospitals that had suffered cuts in reimbursements under the budget McDonnell proposed in December, as well as free clinics and community health centers. The committee has proposed an additional $81 million in matching state and federal Medicaid funds to adjust for inflat...
"To be fighting over money and profit is to dishonor everything their father stood for," said Deborah E. McDowell, director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies and Alice Griffin professor of English at the University of Virginia.
The public memorial service will take place at the John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia on Monday, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
A Ritchie County native made headlines in scientific publications across the nation when the results of his Arctic research expedition were published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. The results of the study have proven so ground-breaking that they have been spoken about in more than a dozen scientific publications, including the Los Angeles Times environment homepage, Scientific American magazine, NASA publications, Live Science publications, EarthSky.org and ClimateCentral.org. Chris Moore, a native of Ritchie County, was raised locally on Mellin Ridge between Harrisville and Smithville.
Two professors at the University of Virginia – Alan Taylor and Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy – are among the three finalists for this year’s George Washington Book prize. The $50,000 award, one of the country’s most lucrative literary prizes, recognizes the best new book about early American history.
Ashrafian says that the man who served as Leonardo’s model for his illustration of human perfection probably had a hernia. If the model was a corpse, the hernia may have been what killed him. If he was a live model, he may ultimately have died from its complications. Other experts agree with Ashrafian, including Jeffrey Young, director at the University of Virginia’s Trauma Center. … The possibility that Vitruvian Man had a hernia is just that, a possibility. “The cool thing with art is it is all in the eye of the beholder,” says Peter Hallowell, director of bari...
According to the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, men and women are currently getting married three and four years later, respectively, than they were in 1990. They’re getting married seven years later than they were in 1960.
W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia and Jeffrey Dew at Utah State University point out that while many, many recent studies have focused on how couples’ access to and use of different resources (such as education, income, and division of labor) impact their chances of staying together, very few have focused on “other factors now influencing marriages, including positive attitudes and behaviors that may be associated with high-quality, stable marriages.”
Black History Month celebrates talented African-Americans, but it also should be a time to reflect on distorted white history that has ignored damage inflicted by racist ideologues, like how Thomas Jefferson’s hypocrisies helped give us the Civil War and the Tea Party, writes Robert Parry.
A thank you letter to President Obama landed a young Huntsville couple an invitation to a White House state dinner and a seat at the president's table this week. Caleb and Kourtney Ballew attended the star-studded dinner the president held for French President Francois Hollande.
Your favorite president may not fall among the five most impactful in U.S. history. The enduring influence of presidential policies and philosophies are the ranking criteria used by James Savage, a University of Virginia professor of politics and public policy.
At first, she didn’t know what to think of the birthday cards that started showing up, addressed to her at the nursing home in which she lives. So many people from her past and others who were complete strangers – it was a little bit overwhelming, surprising, and, possibly, unnerving. Dealing with poor health as she was, she wasn’t feeling very much like celebrating, anyway. “I wasn’t too excited about turning 90,” Mary Louise Taylor admitted to me. “I was excited about having my new body and dancing with Jesus.”
(Editorial) Two key points emerged from a panel discussion at the University of Virginia this week regarding sexual assaults on campus. First, the campus community needs to be explicit about the kind of behavior it expects. Standards of conduct especially need to be impressed upon young men. Second, the role of alcohol in sexual assaults must not be ignored. Alcohol is “still the No. 1 date rape drug in this country,” said keynote speaker Linda Fairstein, a former prosecutor.
Outpatient clinics at both the University of Virginia Medical Center and Martha Jefferson Hospital were closed. Eric Swensen, a spokesman for the UVa Medical Center, said about 2,000 “designated” employees were working at the hospital Thursday. Most made the commute themselves, although the hospital provided accommodations for some. Only a few employees had to be picked up, he said.
Most children endure small-scale challenges. Even those in stable homes need strategies to deal with disappointment. That’s one reason children benefit from being involved in their communities, religious institutions, civic organizations or even local sports leagues, said W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. They provide a sense of place and purpose.
Miller was expected to lose his seat, which was identified as the easiest for Democrats to pick up in 2014, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor for Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, an organization that closely tracks elections.
“If you’re thinking about a prenup, or — worse yet — your intended is pushing a prenup on you, you might as well go ahead and just cancel the wedding,” W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, wrote in the New York Times last spring.
University of Virginia student Ian Feeney said he received demerit points on his license for one of the tickets issued in the city last year. He failed to yield right-of-way to a pedestrian. Feeney said that he did not know that the ticket was considered the same as one that would be written to the driver of a vehicle. “I didn’t think it would lead to a ticket impact on my driving record,” Feeney said.
South Asian interest collegiate a cappella came into being in the mid 1990s as Bollywood films were beginning to cater to an international audience and feature more hip-hop, rap, and pop music and dance numbers, says Shilpa Davé, an assistant professor of media studies and American studies at University of Virginia.