This past year was a different one for Ellen Williamson, [a second-year engineering student]. For as long as she can remember, she and younger brother Max have been at the same swim meets competing and cheering for each other. …The brother and sister pair qualified for a combined eight races at the USA Swimming Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb. – Ellen in five and Max in three – and have been able to soak up the experience together.
Jonathan Cannon
Law professor
Commentary: For Ken Cuccinelli, losing big cases won’t work forever
Washington Post / July 1
James Hilton
Vice president and chief information officer
Colleges taking a team approach to eTextbooks
eCampus News (subscription) / June 29
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
Millions to be spent on health care messaging might have little impact
CNN.com, / June 29
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Va.'s economic health a tricky issue for Romney
Richmond Times-Dispatch / July 2
Ray Scheppach
Batten School professor of practice in public policy
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The poetry professor responds to questions such as "What is your worst bad habit?" and "To which brutality are you more immune, Southern summers or Northern winters?"
Features law professor Anne Coughlin, who is leading a U.Va. team seeking litigants in an effort to win women the official right to serve in combat roles. The most vociferous arguments against women on the battlefield are often rooted in closely held beliefs about chivalry, femininity and virtue. "It is the notion that there is something more precious about motherhood and womanhood and domesticity and femininity that often drives the resistance to opening combat to women," Ms. Coughlin notes.
Mark Bernardino returned to his old stomping grounds at the University of Virginia in 1976 for a one-year coaching gig, while pursuing his Master’s degree. Almost four decades later, the Cardinal O’Hara graduate and Drexel Hill native hasn’t left.
By Christopher Swift
Fellow at the Center for National Security Law
Although drones don't drive al Qaeda recruiting, policymakers must still balance the tactical benefits of targeted, proportional force with the risks of rapid military escalation and broadening executive powers.
The University of Virginia Student Council failed to reach a consensus on Rector Helen Dragas' re-appointment after a two-hour long emergency meeting Sunday afternoon. Some members demand she step down. Others say it's the system that needs to change, not leadership.
By Wednesday evening the school had collected $2.5-million in major gifts — including two anonymous $1-million donations specifically predicated on Ms. Sullivan’s reinstatement — and nearly $219,000 from 657 online contributors, far outpacing a typical day’s fundraising.
George Cohen, president of the Faculty Senate, discusses the leadership controversy at U.Va.
Thursday's landmark Supreme Court ruling on health care has pretty much blown out of the water any other news this week. But we shouldn't let that allow us to forget the astonishing turmoil at the University of Virginia during most of June, or the leading role Heywood Fralin of Roanoke took in resolving the crisis.
By Austin Ligon
As a member of the Board of Visitors search committee that recommended Sullivan for the job, there are more facts about her leadership I would like to offer as she resumes her work. They fall in three areas: strategic focus, experience and reputation.
The Times-Dispatch applauds Sullivan's reinstatement. And at the end, Dragas conveyed a dignity many of her antagonists lacked.
How the board conducts its business and the way its leaders were nearly able to topple a university president without a full vote are among the issues that continue to puzzle the U.Va. community — even as Sullivan was reinstated last week and Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed Rector Helen E. Dragas to another four-year term.
At the heart of the power struggle between Teresa Sullivan and the governing board of the U. of Virginia was a debate that struck a broader chord, about how quickly a historic institution can or should transform itself.
The 18 days of high-octane drama that enveloped the Charlottesville campus is a story of a raw power play gone awry. There were missteps and miscalculations, not just by Dragas and her allies, but also by Sullivan, who did not anticipate the backlash her ouster would ignite.
Members of the board of visitors are big donors to the University of Virginia — their combined total exceeds $77 million. Much of that comes from one of the board's two newly appointed senior advisers.
On Friday a former astronaut spent time with middle school students on grounds at the University of Virginia. And he had a simple message for them - science is cool. "Guess what? Geeks run the world. I am a geek and it's ok to be a geek," said Bernard Harris, the first African American to walk in space.
Four recent University of Virginia graduates have designed a modular plastic cast that could potentially facilitate better healing of broken limbs at a lower overall cost per injury. Working for more than a year, biomedical engineering students Kelly Anderson, Daniel Amante, Amanda Harton and Clara Tran created the product, which they call the PuzzleCast.
Gov. Bob McDonnell has reappointed Helen Dragas, the rector of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors who was instrumental in the controversial, short-lived ouster of the school's president, Teresa Sullivan.
Obituary of Atlanta businessman and entrepreneur, who graduated from the Law School. He died June 18.