After graduating in 1973 from the U.S. Naval Academy with an aerospace engineering degree, serving five years in the U.S. naval fleet service and earning a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981, Jim Ewing has done a few things: established an intellectual property practice; climbed an 18,000-foot mountain; and created a gargoyle.
The University of Virginia's Center for Politics provided a sneak peak at an upcoming review of the predictions in 13 key election models that are due to be released in the October edition of "PS: Political Science & Politics," the journal of the American Political Science Association.
The Navy awarded its top leadership prize to the former commanding officer of a destroyer and the CO of an attack submarine, the chief of naval personnel announced Monday. Cmdr. Chase Patrick, the Pacific Fleet winner, was chosen for his time in 2011 commanding the destroyer Chafee, based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A 1994 graduate of the University of Virginia, Patrick commanded Chafee until October, 2011.
When Craig Romney arrived from a mission trip to Chile ten years ago, he came home with a better understanding of Latino culture and the Spanish language. Political scientists such as Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, believe Romney must win close to 40 percent of the national Latino vote, although there is a slight margin for error.
The man who named the Anthropocene has had a change of heart. Twelve years ago, Paul Crutzen, a Nobel laureate and atmospheric chemist, coined the term "Anthropocene" as shorthand, an argument wrapped in a word. If humans, through agriculture, began to inch global carbon emissions up millennia ago -- as the University of Virginia's William Ruddiman argues -- does that work as a start date?
U.Va. environmental scientist Karen McGlathery's research on seagrass restoration in the chesapeake Bay is featured.
Gerald P. McCarthy, who has nourished Virginia's environment with cash for 35 years, is stepping aside. McCarthy, 69, said Tuesday that he is retiring next year as executive director of the Virginia Environmental Endowment. One his favorite projects, McCarthy said, was the Institute for Environmental Negotiation at the University of Virginia, which helps settle disputes outside the courtroom. A grant of about $25,000 helped get the institute started.
Unlike many other parents I know, I went against the tide, the redshirting tide. When my son finished kindergarten, I expected that he would move with his classmates into first grade.
The University of Virginia has been under a microscope since the forced resignation and later reinstatement of President Teresa Sullivan. Two new committees, formed after this summer's events, met for the first time on Friday. Their goal is to come up with a plan for how the university should move forward, including how it is governed.
Study abroad programs have become increasingly popular for U.S. college students, but for those who can't decide on just one foreign location, there's another awesome—if expensive—alternative: Semester at Sea. Sponsored by the University of Virginia, the program takes several hundred students per semester on a four-month, round-the-world adventure on a cruise ship called the MV Explorer.
Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement following the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors unanimous election of George Martin as vice-rector of the school: “I’ve had the good fortune to know George Martin for many years ..."
(By Bruce Holsinger, professor of English) Aside from lingering outrage among students and faculty, one factor drawing out the University of Virginia’s leadership crisis has been the regular surfacing of internal e-mails from key players.
On Friday, John Paul Jones Arena hosted the first Commerce Career Day at the University of Virginia open to all UVA students. UVA students got a chance to show off their professional side and hand off resumes while networking with over 80 organizations.
Prosecutor says he will retry former Virginia death row inmate Justin Wolfe on capital murder charge
A Prince William County man will again face the possibility of a death sentence, the case’s new prosecutor said Friday, dashing hopes of the man’s supporters that a capital murder charge would be dropped after a federal appeals court vacated the original conviction. Wolfe’s attorney, Matthew Engle of the University of Virginia Innocence Project, said in Prince William Circuit Court on Friday that he thought it was “extremely unlikely that this will be able to go forward with capital murder charges.”
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors wrapped day three of its meetings Friday. One of the big items discussed was how much the University is paying members of the faculty.
(By Andrew C. Wicks, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and director of Darden’s Olsson Center for Applied Ethics) The big idea: James Bowman of Coopertree Investment Partners is asked to deposit $800,000 into a bank account in hopes of arranging a meeting with a coveted investor in China.
Gerald A. Berlin, former president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, fought legal battles ranging from censorship of the musical “Hair” to helping author Susanna Kaysen gain access to her psychiatric records for her best-selling memoir, “Girl, Interrupted."
Some are questioning if the Obama administration is too tentative in how they address terrorist activities and if the tone of their statements is more apologetic than forceful. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato says whatever Obama and Romney are saying today may not matter seven weeks from now on Election Day, especially if the violence subsides quickly. But if the violence spreads or intensifies, Romney may have the advantage.
The Danville-Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce and the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia will host a forum on uranium mining in Virginia on Oct. 2.
In a state that's a must-win for Mitt, a conservative third-party candidate could throw the election to Obama. Former congressman Virgil Goode tells Patricia Murphy why he's running. "If it is a very close election, then Virgil Goode could take enough votes away from Romney to give Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to Obama,” says Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “But notice the ‘if’—it has to be very close.”