Richard Bonnie
Professor of Medicine and Law, and Psychiatric Medicine
Mental Health Reform
"Virginia Insight" on WMRA Public Radio | Feb. 3
Qian Cai
Director of the demographics and workforce group at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
N.Va. leads the way in growth
Richmond Times-Dispatch | Feb. 6
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Census 2010: Latino population in Culpeper balloons to 8.9 percent
Culpepper Star Exponent | Feb. 7
Carroll Dale
He raises money for athletics at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
Southwest Virginia native has Packer pride
Roanoke Times | Feb. 6
Gary W. Ga...
By Gary Gallagher, professor of history in the College of Arts & Sciences
Jefferson Davis has suffered generations of invidious comparisons with Abraham Lincoln. One of the most damning came from David Potter, a brilliant and influential historian of the 19th-century South. In an essay titled "Jefferson Davis and Confederate Defeat," Potter argued that "the discrepancy in ability between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis" was "as great or greater than the economic disparities" between the two nations and stood as a principal factor explaining Union triumph.
By Gregory Fairchild, executive director of the Tayloe Murphy Center at the Darden School of Business
The big idea: A small Chicago South Side business gambles that "green" will mean gold. The scenario: Lisa and Clarence Hall, an African American couple living on Chicago's South Side, are seasoned real estate developers in urban Chicago. After years of developing multifamily residential and mixed-use properties, they are interested in developing a commercial property: a derelict and vacant building owned by the city of Chicago. What's more, they want to transform it from an eyesore i...
Many teens work part-time during the school year, and in the current economic climate, more youths may take jobs to help out with family finances. But caution is advised: Among high school students, working more than 20 hours a week during the school year can lead to academic and behavior problems. That's the finding of a new study by researchers at the University of Washington, University of Virginia, and Temple University. It appears in the January/February issue of the journal, Child Development.
U.S. Census data released Thursday does not bode well for Hampton Roads and rural parts of the state where growth is lagging far behind Northern Virginia. Virginia's overall population grew by 13 percent to just over 8 million people in the time between the 2000 and 2010, according to census data. The state is now the 16th most densely populated in the country. According to data from the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, one-third of the state population is located in Northern Virginia while 16 percent is in metropolitan Richmond and 21 percent in Hampton Roads.
A Virginia medical school is examining athletes' brain injuries and how concussions occur in physically fit, healthy sports participants. The Director of the Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Institute at the University of Virginia School of Medicine Jeffrey Barth has explained, "if [a player] is not expecting it, the head snaps on the neck [when struck]"
A new survey reports that 38 percent of couples considering divorce or separation have now put off those plans due to the recession. (www.nationalmarriageweekUSA.org) “The Great Recession and Marriage,” new research from the National Marriage Project at University of Virginia.
Americans without a college degree bore the brunt of the recent recession, and so did their marriages, according to a new report by researchers at the University of Virginia. The "Survey of Marital Generosity," conducted on behalf of U-Va.'s Marriage Project, found that 29 percent of couples reported that the economic downturn had put financial stress on their marriages.
A look at just a few of the many recent university design-build projects that are giving architecture students across the country real-world lessons on how buildings get made. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia: Since 1999, architecture students at the University of Virginia have been designing and building real-world projects, first as campus improvement initiatives at the university itself and then through ecoMOD, a design-build-evaluate partnership of the UVA School of Architecture and School of Engineering and Applied Science that creates prefab, environmentally sound modula...
As Virginians we can be justly proud that our state has some of the top colleges and universities in the nation. We have colleges that are ranked nationally in sports and academic achievement. But now we have a new reason for pride: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has identified the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary as two of only 13 colleges and universities in the country (in a total of 439 institutions) with "speech codes" that do not violate the provisions of the First Amendment of the Constitution.
I have a full-scale copy of a map, originally printed in 1795 by A. Arrowsmith, "Hydrographer to H.R.H the Prince of Wales." I am captivated by the title: "A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, Inscribed by Permission to the Honorable Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson Bay In testimony of their liberal Communications. Additions to 1811." During the 2003 bicentennial events around the 1803 "hike" by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, my wife and I stood, mesmerized, before the original of t...
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The University of Virginia's Children's Hospital unveiled plans for a new facility at a celebration tonight in Keswick. The building will be used is an outpatient treatment for children receiving care at the hospital. UVA Children's Hospital CEO Ed Howell, said at Saturday's event, "Bringing all of the services together to support the child, to support family, to have support for the siblings, that's something that we've needed for a long, long time. And this will truly, dramatically change the care of children in central Virginia."
It’s bad enough to have a leaky roof. A leaky roof when money’s tight is worse. A leaky roof on top of your UNESCO World Heritage Site when money’s tight is probably worse still. That’s the bind the University of Virginia finds itself in as it lobbies for funds from the state to replace the ailing roof on the Rotunda. University officials are hoping that legislators will send them $2.59 million in state money to renovate the building. The idea is to combine the state allocation with $2 million of private funding, said Colette Sheehy, the university’s vice presiden...
Leonard W. Sandridge, executive vice president and chief operating officer. He has worked for the university since 1967, rising from the bottom of the school’s employment ranks to the second-highest post. He speaks about his tenure at the University with Daily Progress reporter Ted Strong.
Christina Smith
She wrote her thesis on the spiritual dimension of modern events in the Islamic world while pursuing a graduate degree at U.Va.
Jen Fier
A U.Va. grad with a master’s degree in special education
Dustin Cable
A policy associate at the Demographics and Workforce Group at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Virginia's Hispanics Garner Voting Clout as Numbers Increase, Census Shows
Bloomberg News | Feb. 4, 2011
Qian Cai
Director of demographics and workforce at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Northern Virginia counties are 'the engines' of state's growth
USA Today | Feb. 3, 2011
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Va.'s numbers of Hispanics and Asians skyrocket as white population dwindles
Washington Post | Feb. 4, 2011
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2010 U.S. census figures show population boom in Suffolk
The Virginian-Pilot...
What makes a great entrepreneur? What is about them that makes them stand out in the crowd? Ambition, creativity and a resilience to risk are all part of the recipe, but these are traits that cannot be taught at business school. A Darden professor has tried to approach this from a different angle. By attempting to discover how entrepreneurs think, Saras Sarasvathy hopes to be able to transmit this knowledge to aspiring entrepreneurs. Prof Sarasvathy, associate professor of business administration at Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia approached US entrepreneurs, who had at...
Rose Beauchamp, who serves as head of dance for the University of Virginia Department of Drama and artistic director of the contemporary dance theater group inFluxdance, said that the more society tends to move toward the virtual and the cerebral, the more important it becomes to remember that we were born for action.
Participating in dance as a multifaceted discipline, and even watching dancers in motion, can help reconnect people to a lost physical component of existence. It also can offer a new way of envisioning not just the problems of the day, but also potential solutions. Sunday’s...