... More than 70 banking and small-business officials attended the seminar Thursday on addressing the financial needs of small businesses. The Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond and the Tayloe Murphy Center at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration hosted the event to give the latest financial information on small businesses and see what the local needs are.
UCARE, or University and Community Action for Racial Equity, has hosted focus-groups since the spring on the student-initiated proposal, seeking feedback from the University and the community on the purpose, location and aesthetic of a new memorial.
Martin Davidson, associate professor of leadership and organizational behavior, associate dean and chief diversity officer at the Darden School, wrote this article in the "On Leadership" column.
Jonathan Haidt, psychology professor, argues that this moral sense is like our sense of taste. We have natural receptors that help us pick up sweetness and saltiness. In the same way, we have natural receptors that help us recognize fairness and cruelty. Just as a few universal tastes can grow into many different cuisines, a few moral senses can grow into many different moral cultures.
At the height of a nightmarish spring — which included one of his players being charged with murder in the death of a women’s player, and then, shortly after, losing his father to an illness — Virginia men’s lacrosse coach Dom Starsia admits he gave brief thought to numerous options, including walking away from the sport that he had coached for over 30 years.
The Cavalier head coach is preparing to open up his first preseason camp at Virginia
College football season is right around the corner. ABC 7's Tim Brant traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia to speak to the University of Virginia's new head football coach Mike London.
... Virginia Coach George Gelnovatch, who led the Cavaliers to a national title last season, said there would always be players who are late bloomers or need a college environment to mature. He believes that the bulk of a player's technical development occurs between ages 6 and 16 -- even before they reach college.
VN Dalmia
1984 Darden School alumnus
The international alumnus reminisces about the rigorous education he received at the Darden School.
My Wonder Years
Donald Hornstein
Law School alumnus
Pawning the family heirlooms
cnnMoney.com / July 21
Larry Sabato
politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
USDA Flap Shows 'Post-Racial' Future Has Not Arrived
NPR / July 21
A partnership between the University of Virginia and INOVA Fairfax Hospital has received a $2.5 million federal grant to set up a center that will study older drivers and passengers.
... A partnership between the University of Virginia and INOVA Fairfax Hospital has received a $2.5 million federal grant to set up a center that will study older drivers and passengers.
University officials say the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration grant will establish an Engineering Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network Center. The grant will help U.Va.'s Institute on Aging continue to focus on research that will promote independent living for aging Americans.
State Sen. Tim Barnes, D-Adams, returned home last week after being named one of 50 state lawmakers from across the country to the 2010 Program for Emerging Political Leaders, sponsored by the State Legislative Leaders Foundation and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia recently debuted "Faulkner in Virginia," a website that offers audio recordings of the lectures, Q & A sessions and—dare we?—the sound and fury of UVA's first Writer-in-Residence, William Faulkner.
Newsweek and NPR weigh in on the site, which launched last week. You can also read a preview article about the site published in UVA's Arts & Sciences blog, in which a UVA alum recounts photographing the Nobel Prize winner as he emerged from the ABC store on Main Street. Give it a listen.
... Dominion will ask property owners, environmental organizations, natural resource managers, community leaders and other local stakeholders for their input prior to the design and engineering of a solution. They are working with the University of Virginia's Institute for Environmental Negotiation, who will serve as a facilitator to help Dominion and the community stakeholders assess the situation, develop opinions and propose options for enhancing the electrical system.
The University of Virginia welcomed five new employees to its facility management division. To earn the job, the employees put in four years and 8,000 hours of on-the-job training as part of UVa's apprentice program.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli yesterday sought to clarify the reason for his demand for documents related to the climate-change research of former University of Virginia scientist Michael Mann.
... The University has worked with CBORD (a provider of campus and cashless card systems, food and nutrition service management software, nationwide student discount and off-campus commerce programs, housing and judicial process management software, and integrated security solutions) for years on providing students and staff with a one-card solution. The University of Virginia Identification (ID) Card had combined many features ...
... The weeklong camp was created by a California company, internalDrive, for children ages 7 to 17 who love technology. The program began in 1999 as a way to promote technology education, and camp events have been held in Charlottesville each summer for the last several years.