The Avett Brothers and Cheerwine want to give something back, and servicemembers will be among the main recipients. The folk-rock band and the soft-drink brand, sons of the South born in North Carolina, are teaming up for The Legendary Giveback, a concert benefiting three family-aid charities: Big Brothers Big Sisters, University of Virginia Children’s Hospital and Operation Homefront, a national nonprofit that assists military families.
When Eric Davis, a graduate student of Florida State’s College of Motion Picture Arts, received his undergraduate degrees in biology and Spanish from the University of Virginia in 2007, he assumed he’d be in medical school by now.
Last summer’s leadership crisis at the University of Virginia was exceptional, but also part of a national trend, said Hunter R. Rawlings III, president of the Association of American Universities in a Monday address at UVa.
Determining exact ownership may not be possible, according to Frank Warnock, a professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Purchases of foreign securities by China and nations in the Middle East sometimes are routed through London and appear in U.S. government data as U.K. holdings.
"The most important job Biden did for Obama is reawakening the depressed Democratic base," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Biden has primed them for a better performance from Obama."
The Federal Reserve's new round of monetary stimulus is unlikely to do much for economic growth without a damaging rise in inflation, Richmond Fed Bank President Jeffrey Lacker said on Friday in an appearance sponsored by U.Va.'s Frank W. Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor and chairman of the department of media studies at the University of Virginia, who also teaches in its law school.) Universities are and have always been vast copy machines. Evolved from medieval monasteries and their vast libraries and scriptoria, universities have always had as central functions of their mission the copying, transforming, and preserving works of art, thought, and science and making them available to their patrons.
Some University of Virginia professors have been given some extra cash to see how safe Virginia schools really are. The $500,000 grant will assess and develop ways to improve school environments for Virginia students.
At the highly selective University of Virginia — where federal data show that 60 percent of undergraduates are white, 12 percent Asian, 7 percent black and 5 percent Hispanic — officials declined to be interviewed about the possible impact of the 2003 decision being overturned. But U-Va. indicated in a statement that officials may consider “race/ethnicity, economic hardship, accomplishments in the school or community, aspirations, interests and experiences” in the calculus of assembling a diverse class.
“Romney is counting on evangelicals. The irony is that this is a shotgun marriage between two very different religions but they are completely dependent upon one another for victory,” said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“They’re giving money to someone who is not an advertisement for their products. Maybe they’re trying to turn over a new leaf,” quipped University of Virginia poli-sci professor Larry Sabato of the Romney donations.
“I’ve heard her name come up from time to time,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “But I think she’s dead third on a list of Democratic New Yorkers for a presidential nomination. If the other two don’t run, maybe that’s how she gets her shot.”
The University of Virginia recently installed a plaque in front of the University Chapel which honors Henry Martin. Martin was born a slave in 1826. He was a free man when hired by the university in 1847 as a janitor and to ring the bell in the university’s Rotunda.
Tens of thousands of students have registered for new free online courses offered by the University of Virginia, though the figures could fall quickly when the teaching starts.
The date was Oct. 24, 1962, and then-Air Force Capt. Wayne Colton, a junior officer and three enlisted men were huddled in a hardened missile silo deep beneath a field on an air base in Plattsburgh, N.Y.
The injections can be used to determine where a pain is coming from prior to having surgery, said Dr. Ward Gypson, an associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. ... A prudent physician will provide the shot no more than three times in six months, said Dr. Susan Miller, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist who does epidural injections at the University of Virginia Health System.
While the Cavaliers took on Maryland inside Scott Stadium Saturday, University of Virginia students were outside to defend a national title. The Hoos are the reigning champions of the Game Day Challenge Recycling Competition, and this year they're hoping to keep the lead.
“It would be a pretty big surprise if the Democrats come back and won the majority,” said Kyle Kondik, a House political analyst at the University of Virginia. He predicts the party’s gain won’t go beyond seven seats: “I have had it lower than that this summer, but right now that seems to be their threshold.”
“Both sides make different arguments, but the end of the argument is the same,” says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, who analyzes House races.
Three of the Middle East region’s banking and finance academic institutions have now forged a strategic partnership with the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.