RICHMOND, Va. - This holiday weekend usually signals the end of summer, but the threat of tick-borne illnesses in Virginia will continue well into the fall - and experts say it's important to be vigilant. ... A study of this tick-related meat allergy is in progress at the University of Virginia.
Seasoned biopharmaceutical professional Silvia Taylor has taken on IR, PR and corporate communications. Taylor graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in international relations and business, and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Several of college football's most fabled programs have suffered self-inflicted wounds in recent years. The list of the fallen includes Penn State, Ohio State and Southern California. The University of Virginia and Virginia Tech earn places among the admirable powerhouses. Diehard Cavalier fans would not dispute Tech's higher power rating. For both schools, the grid of shame offers reason for pride.
On Saturday, September 1, WTJU will host a rock concert at the UVA Amphitheater, a welcome for new and returning University students. The goal is to increase student awareness and listenership, as well as to inform the student body that it has the opportunity to get involved with the station.
Today is the finale of the Republican National Convention, and had the weather cooperated, today would have been the start of the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, which was to have been held in New Orleans.
Dean of Nursing Dorrie Fontaine, president of the Virginia Association of Colleges of Nursing, comments on Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's announcement of an agreement between Virginia’s community colleges and Western Governors’ University.
A new study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests that BPA, a chemical found in plastic bottles and the lining of cans, effects the behavior of laboratory mice exposed during gestation and the effects persist three generations later.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The crowds may be smaller and the candidate grayer, but college towns are still proving to be President Barack Obama's best shot at enthusiastic audiences.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan is calling for measures aimed at improving faculty and changes in curriculum, including peer review and merit-based raises.
President Obama drew an overflow crowd Wednesday in this picturesque college town, just as he had three times before, but a measure of the magic was gone.
Blog by alumna Alex Singer, who is playing professional soccer for 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam of the Frauen Bundesliga in Germany.
Wharton was championing nothing less than an American Renaissance, said Richard Guy Wilson, an architectural historian at the University of Virginia and the author of “Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount,” out next week from Monacelli Press ($45).
Anonymous News Release The Tribune Star Thu Aug 30, 2012, 05:00 AM EDT ROCKVILLE — A former small-town newspaperman who now spends most of his time writing novels, John Pesta (M.A. English), will give an informal talk about his first book at 6:30 p.m.
Meeting President Barack Obama was nothing like fourth-year student Mathias Wondwosen expected. “He was ten times cooler than I ever thought he would be,” he said..
Although universities are usually slow to change, in recent months several high-profile institutions have begun to experiment with offering courses to unprecedented numbers of simultaneous learners anywhere in the world for free. With the recent spate of announcements from highly selective universities including the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, and the University of Virginia participating in MOOCs, it is an area to pay considerable attention to in the coming months as higher education seeks to redefine itself in the digital age.
A conversation with Charles Way, director of player development for the New York Giants. A University of Virginia graduate, Way earned a degree in civil engineering and a reputation as a classy hard worker.
Improving faculty, curriculum and research are University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan's top priorities. That's the message she delivered to faculty Tuesday night at a town hall meeting inside the Abbott Auditorium at the Darden School of Business.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan said she believes the board of visitors is committed to her presidency, even though the decision to reinstate her was difficult.
Credit: GRAHAM MOOMAW/THE DAILY PROGRESS Tiffany Tsai, a fourth-year student at the University of Virginia, helps to paint Beta Bridge in anticipation of the president's campaign stop.
Items representing hundreds of years of Charlottesville history are now on display at the University of Virginia. Curators say the exhibit represents the best and worst of the city's past.