A new smartphone application developed in Charlottesville promises to make it easier to order takeout and delivery with your friends. The Android app is called "Foodio." The University of Virginia students who created the app say it takes the hassle out of ordering food in a group.
In 1998, the Defence Department vetoed a delegation of prominent U.S. nuclear specialists to go to Iran to investigate its nuclear programme at the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, according to the nuclear scientist who was organising the mission. Prof. Theo Theofanous of University of California Santa Barbara, Professor John J. Dorning of the University of Virginia and Dr. Rusi Taleyarkhan of Oak Ridge National Laboratory had expressed their willingness to join Lahey on such a delegation.
As the commonwealth braces for effects from Hurricane Sandy, the local Emergency Communications Center will open at 8 a.m. to create a unified public safety response effort. Charlottesville, Albemarle County and University of Virginia officials met Sunday to discuss preparations and response strategies.
Barrett Early Learning Center is the oldest childcare center in Virginia. It received quite the makeover thanks to 100 University of Virginia students who volunteered their time Saturday.
With Florida and North Carolina trending toward Romney, the president needs Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico to make up those combined 44 electoral votes, said Kyle Kondik, an analyst with the University of Virginia. “Romney has to win Ohio or Wisconsin; Obama needs to win both,” Kondik said.
“I think they don’t understand the importance of financial responsibility,” said David Aramony, a student at the University of Virginia who works with Teamesteem. “I think it’s something you don’t realize until it’s too late, especially with how expensive a college education is. You’re graduating with $100,000 in debt. So, it’s important to get that financial responsibility ingrained early on,” he said.
Fifty years after the United States stood on the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, a historian spoke to a Pentagon audience about how President John F. Kennedy and other American leaders dealt with a still-dangerous situation immediately following the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. David G. Coleman, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, delivered his lecture Oct. 23 as part of the History Speaker Series sponsored by the Defense Department’s historical office.
Ronde Barber doesn’t think about Canton. Now, in his 16th year in the NFL, he’s too busy to think about future glory. The former University of Virginia star, now 37, keeps grinding away, hoping to help turn a young Tampa Bay Bucs team into a winner.
The following release was sent out to the University of Virginia community: To the University community: Central Virginia will start feeling the impact of Hurricane Sandy by Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said conflict is a natural part of marriage. It’s normal for couples to disagree on finances, children and even more routine topics like what color to paint the living room or what to have for dinner.
The Virginia Film Festival will hold its 25th anniversary celebration this week. The festival begins Thursday night with a gala at The Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville and continues through Sunday.
Greg W. Roberts, the dean of admission at the University of Virginia, answers readers' questions about early admissions. Part 1.
In the 19th century, politics was entertainment, notes Brian Balogh, a historian at the University of Virginia. It was a big deal when a presidential campaign came to town – a day full of speeches and picnics and rallies around bonfires. The candidate himself need not attend; in fact, until about 1896, anybody who wanted to see them in person generally had to travel to the candidate’s home.
“It’s unbelievable,” the University of Virginia’s women’s rowing coach Kevin Sauer said. “RWSA put the carp in and we never saw the hydrilla again.”
Schularick and [University of VIrginia economist Alan] Taylor have an update to their article on post-crisis economic performance. They previously showed that the United States is doing a bit better than one might have expected from the historical record. Now they show that the UK is doing significantly worse.
It seems extraordinarily odd that the best public university in the region is under the gun and may face sanctions from an accreditation agency for a bizarre, shoot-in-the-foot situation last summer.
From Inbox to you: this year’s Virginia Film Festival, though not quite as celebrity-studded as last year’s, still offers a chance to get up close with actors and producers (click to see programming schedule,) among them Charlottesville native Billy Campbell, star of the AMC series “The Killing” and the 1991 film "The Rocketeer."
On Tuesday, we had a delegation from the Association of American Universities, which is an invitation-only group of 61 top research institutions. Conversation bounced from the possibility of federal “sequestration” budget cuts — which has potentially “catastrophic” consequences for research funding, Daniels said — to the emergence of massive, open online courses, or MOOCs. Most striking was discussion of the leadership crisis at the University of Virginia (a member of AAU).
So the predictions are converging around the prediction that Democrats will probably make gains, but not retake the House. That comports with the predictions of non-modeling analysts like University of Virginia’s Kyle Kondik.
"'Congressional approval ratings as a whole may be low, but if you ask the average voter what they think about their member of Congress, they'd be more likely to give you a positive answer about him or her than the whole body," said Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "That's because voters are more likely to think their representative is doing an OK job while the rest of Congress is screwed up."