It’s easily the best known of UVa’s outreach programs in the Appalachian portion of the state. Hundreds of volunteers head from UVa to the rural fairgrounds where the clinic is held, where they meet up with volunteers from across the state.
Since 1993 Barker has portrayed Jefferson full-time at Colonial Williamsburg, which that spring was celebrating the 250th anniversary of the politician’s birth.
George Borum, Law '49
"He was a fierce advocate regarding minority rights and the African-American community in general," said James K. Cluverius of Henrico County, a lawyer with the firm Hirschler Fleischer, who worked with him for 30 years. "He was a brilliant lawyer, widely admired and without peer as a tough negotiator."
For the 3rd straight year, UVA men's golf coach Bowen Sargent has been named the Coach Of The Year in the state of Virginia.
[Manoj] Sinha joined Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and met Chip Ransler. They worked together on formulating a business model that could generate sufficient cash for a sustainable business.
A Republican governor – a very Republican governor – has an idea for solving one of his party's conundrums. The party should listen to Luis Fortuno, the Reaganite who resides in Puerto Rico's executive mansion. … Fortuno, 49, who has degrees from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia's law school, looks half his age.
The ice park will turn into the Main Street Arena, headed by Mark Brown, a University of Virginia graduate and real estate investor who owns a Downtown Mall building across from the ice rink.
Cheryl Burgan Apprey, director of graduate student diversity programs
Mass. Minority Professor Program Marks 20th Year
Associated Press via WBZ-TV, Boston, July 16
Tom Guterbock, sociology professor and director of the Center for Survey Research
Immigrant detention center to open soon in Prince Edward
Washington Post, July 19
Jonathan Haidt, psychology professor, and Edward Freeman, Olsson Professor at the Darden School
Can the MBA Brain be changed?
Psychology Today blog, July 17
Larry Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama Wins Unlikely Allies in Immigration...
Excerpts from "The Quantum and the Lotus," a book-length dialogue between Tibetan Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who was a geneticist before leaving science to become a monk, and Trinh Xuan Thuan, a University of Virginia astronomer.
A 2005 University of South Florida study looked at whether children and young adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could better focus by listening to binaural beats. But the results were inconclusive. The University of Virginia recently received a $357,000 grant to look at pain and anxiety therapies, primarily binaural beat stimulation.
Primary payer or insurance status is an important independent risk factor for postoperative outcomes following major surgical operations in the United States. Payer/insurance status should be considered during individual patient risk stratification,” said Damien J. LaPar, MD, a surgical resident and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Nationwide, most hearing impaired and deaf students finish high school with a fourth-grade reading average. Changing that statistic has become the mission of two University of Virginia faculty members.
After three years of negotiations with Albemarle County over development proposals for the Fontaine Research Park, the University of Virginia Foundation says it will offer an expansion plan that is less than half its original size when it goes before the Planning Commission later this month.
The city of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia are on a mission to energy-retrofit a community eyesore, transforming it into a community resource.
At the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, students can channel their inner actors with "Leadership and Theatre: Ethics, Innovations and Creativity." Actors, like business leaders, need to be true to themselves before they can persuade an audience, course instructor Ed Freeman says.
Princeton will not be following U.Va.’s lead by making available an early action application alternative any time in the foreseeable future.
If Kevin Arico has learned one thing during his first month as a professional baseball player, it’s that he’d better know when the team bus is loading up for its next trip. … Arico, who signed with the Reds June 22 following his junior season at the University of Virginia, has been pitching for the Single-A Dayton Dragons of the Midwest League and just recently was informed he’d assume the relief closer role — the same job he handled so well during his final two years at Virginia.
Phil Plait (College, 1995, Ph.D. in astronomy)
Back at my alma mater, the University of Virginia, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli continues to tilt against his windmill of climate change: he still wants to investigate climate scientist Michael Mann for possible fraud.
Carlton Reeves (Law, 1989)
A Republican senator challenged judicial nominee Carlton Reeves' temperament at his confirmation hearing Thursday, but other lawmakers praised Reeves as even-handed and qualified.