Nox's George Bailey's Irish Crème, known as George, was the winner of the Best of Breed award for the Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs. While George is an avid competitor, he also serves as the official mascot of the University of Virginia's women's rugby team. His co-owner, Nancy Kechner [Curry '83 and '05 and ITS research computing consultant] is the coach of the rugby team.
[Spokeswoman Carol] Wood said the university has already taken a proactive approach to increasing wages for the university’s lowest-earning employees. “The university has made a strong commitment to increasing the pay of our lowest paid employees,” she wrote in an email to The Daily Progress. “Since 2006, the university has increased the wages of our entry level employees by 65 percent.”
Board of Visitors voted to remove all restrictions that prevented women from earning undergraduate degrees from Mr. Jefferson's university.
A University of Virginia architecture professor who specializes in modular housing briefed the James River Green Building Council Tuesday on his work to bring down the cost of constructing energy efficient homes. “The people who are at the lower end of the income level are the ones who need the most help in reducing their energy inefficiency, and yet they are also the ones who can least afford the services,” said John Quale, director of the ecoMOD research project.
The number of needlestick/sharps-related skin puncture wounds suffered by health care workers in the United States has fallen since a federal safety law took effect in 2001, researchers report…
The researchers, led by Elayne Phillips of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, wrote in a letter to the editor published in the Feb. 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
An oral history project that tells the legal story around the civil rights struggle is now available online. The University of Virginia Library says it is streaming The William Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project on its website.
The latest annual college fundraising figures out Wednesday show donations to colleges and universities rose 8.2 percent in fiscal 2011, crossing back over the $30 billion mark for just the second time ever, and improving many schools' financial footing after several lean years due to the economic downturn.
Capt. Paul Auchincloss
School of Nursing alumnus and physician assistant in the Army
(Untitled profile)
Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System / Feb, 14
Michael Coleman
Captain in U.Va. Police
Love Tragedy Spurs Legislative Changes
WVIR-NBC-29 (Charlottesville) / Feb. 14
Maurice Cox
Architecture School professor
Kimball Art Center thinks BIG / Bjarke Ingels Group chosen for maintaining community values
Park Record (Park City, Utah) / Feb. 14
and
BIG and Architectural Nexus design the winning proposal for the renovation and expansion of the Kimball Art Center
World Architecture News / Feb. 14
Frederick Hayden
Medical School professor
WHO meeting to focus on details of bird flu studies
Canadian Press / Feb. 15
Tim Ogilvie and Jeanne Liedtka
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Cites a University of Virginia study that found that every dollar invested in reducing runoff from agricultural lands will generate $1.56 in economic activity in the Commonwealth.
Perspectives on whether more business school grads are looking to choose Silicon Valley over Wall Street, with Peter Henry, NYU Stern Business School dean and Robert Bruner, University of Virginia Darden School of Business dean.
Building more affordable, modular homes in Virginia is getting a financial boost. The University of Virginia's School of Architecture recently received a $2.4 million grant from the Tobacco Indemnification Commission for its ecological modular housing project known as ecoMOD.
Virginia's failure to properly fund its state colleges and universities attests to a lack of vision. Public investments are at the core of vigorous, just and future-oriented societies. For example, the College of William and Mary receives only 13 percent state funding compared to 43 percent 30 years ago. The University of Virginia receives less than 8 percent state funding while Virginia Tech receives 28 percent state funding, half of what it received in 2000.
Anne Coughlin
Law professor
Judge declines request to make Huguely evidence easier to see, hear
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Feb. 13
Rita Dove
English professor
Weekly Poem: 'Chocolate'
PBS "NewsHour" / Feb. 13
James Roan
Psychology professor
Valentine's Day a paean to love - and good health
Palm Beach (Fla.) Post / Feb. 13
Larry J. Sabato
Politics professor and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Obama takes a stand in budget / Higher taxes for rich, targeted new spending
Boston Globe / Feb. 14
and
Citizens United Means Anyone Can Still Get in the GOP Game
U.S. News & Wo...
Two weeks ago the entire UVA School of Architecture got together to kick off Belmont Vortex, a learning experience in which roughly 300 students are working in 29 teams under Arroyo’s direction to generate submissions for the Belmont Bridge Design Competition.
Point your radio to 91.1 FM or your computer to wtju.net (do it, right now!) and you’ll hear the latest WTJU Rock Marathon, which kicked off Monday and will broadcast nonstop all week.
A new PBS documentary called "Slavery by Another Name" tells the story of the adapted forced labor practices that helped extend slavery long after the end of the Civil War. Gwen Ifill speaks with Douglas Blackmon, the film's co-executive producer and director of the forum series at U.Va.'s Miller Center, about this largely forgotten piece of history and the forces that propelled it.
Poet and University of Virginia English professor Rita Dove received one of the nation's most prestigious arts awards, the National Medal of Arts, on Monday afternoon in Washington, D.C. She accepted the award from President Barack Obama at the White House.
More than 300 people packed into Charlottesville’s Music Resource Center on Saturday to review the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture’s conceptual plans for redeveloping the city’s Belmont Bridge.
Tom Storrs
U.Va. graduate, former CEO of North Carolina National Bank
Storrs built the bank that changed Charlotte
Charlotte (N.C.) Observer / Feb. 13
and
Thomas Storrs, Who Set Stage for Bank of America in ’80s Deals, Dies at 93
Bloomberg / Feb. 12