When you’ve grown up emulating and patterning your entire game after Andre Agassi, and then you’re suddenly told -- don’t! -- it’s probably a bit disconcerting. Denim shorts and mullet haircuts -- those were the easiest Agassi traits for Virginia senior Michael “Showbiz” Shabaz to kick to the curb. It was the tempering of an all-out, swing-for-the-fences, go-for-broke mentality that provided the real challenge.
The tiny Virginia Quarterly Review, published by the University of Virginia, won two awards: for a multimedia package on Afghanistan, and for fiction-writing for a Paul Theroux story titled “Minor Watt.”
Hispanics are the fastest-growing and second-largest minority group in Virginia, according to a new report released today by demographers at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Black Entertainment Television co-founder Sheila Johnson has stepped down from the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors after taking a job with the AOL Huffington Post Media Group.
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, or in this case, the No. 1 ranking. The University of Virginia baseball team is ranked No. 1 in the country and has owned that designation for more than a month. In 2010, the Cavaliers spent 13 weeks as the No. 1 team in the nation.rr
Loudoun County Public Schools received welcome news from the state Department of Education this week that it will continue to receive funding for professional development for math teachers through partnerships with George Mason University and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia had decided to take part in a nationwide EPA Energy Star Contest, by trying to reduce the most energy on a UVa dining building. University officials selected the O'Hill Dining Hall to compete in the contest. The building was constructed in 2005, and is one of the largest on grounds. To cut down on energy consumption, light fixtures and exhausts hoods in the kitchen will be replaced.
The tiny Virginia Quarterly Review, published by the University of Virginia, won two awards: for a multimedia package on Afghanistan, and for fiction-writing for a Paul Theroux story titled “Minor Watt.”
The New York Times Knowledge Network and New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University are teaming up to offer online courses in subjects ranging from homeland security studies to global health care.
Ah, it’s commencement season. And just in case you don’t want to sit through an hours-long ceremony to gather inspiration, here are the highlights so far.
The U.S. appeals judges in Virginia assigned to review the cases are Diana Gribbon Motz, Andre Davis and James Wynn Jr. … Motz [is] a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia law school. … Wynn, a 1975 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earned degrees at Marquette University Law School and the University of Virginia Law School.
Web chat hosted by the Washington Post with Charles Kolb, president of the Committee for Economic Development and Law School graduate.
The Honorable J. Samuel "Sam" Johnston has been a well-known figure in Central Virginia courtrooms over the last three-and-a-half decades. Now, he wants to share some of the more comical moments he has witnessed in his 34 years as a judge. … Johnston is a graduate of the University of Alabama and graduated law school from the University of Virginia.
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics
Haitian diaspora allowed to vote
Agence France-Presse / May 10
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
The Reluctant Republican Can't-idates
NPR / May 10
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GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney plans to lay out health care proposal in Ann Arbor
Degtroit Free Press / May 11
Chris Sprigman
Professor of law
Why super-injunctions don't happen in US
BBC / May 10
Paul Walker
Associate professor in the McIntire School of Commerce
Enterprise Risk Management Gets Elevated – Again
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How do you live in this landscape? The house’s first answer to that question: Pay attention to the weather. That means designing for the climate (a key strategy that Sherman imparts to his students at UVA’s School of Architecture).
Molecular "motors" are at the root of most biological movement. They propel cell components, whole cells, and even our muscles on command. Barbara Imperiali and a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA), the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, USA), and the National Institutes of Health (USA) have now provided the motor protein myosin with an "on switch" that is activated by light.
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia will host a panel on WikiLeaks at 2 p.m. Thursday. Among the participants will be former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, who resigned in March after criticizing the military’s treatment of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the accused leaker of the WikiLeaks documents.
Sheila C. Johnson, a co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, will serve as the media group’s strategic adviser for multicultural and African-American initiatives, according to a company statement.
A Charlottesville biotech company has received $450,000 in investor funding to help bring to market the company’s first product, a kit to help physicians and medical personnel extract DNA from fecal matter. … Phthisis Diagnostics was founded in 2005 in association with the University of Virginia.
For those students looking to make moving out a little less burdensome, the fifth annual Sofa Shuffle allows them to drop off donations of furniture and other household items to The Salvation Army.