More than 60 percent of states pay their rank-and-file employees better than Virginia. And when compared to the average salary among Virginia's private-sector employees, the outlook for state government worker pay in Virginia is even worse, ranking 48th in the nation. Those startling statistics come from a recently released report from the state's Department of Human Resources Management using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Former Cavalier football standout, now a member of the NFL's New York Jets
Commentary: Ferguson finds fun and success playing for Ryan and New York Jets
Richmond Times-Dispatch / Dec. 5
Slaughter Fitz-Hugh
1986 Commerce School graduate and president and chief operating officer at CapTech, a Richmond-based technology consulting company
Getting to know: Slaughter Fitz-Hugh
Richmond Times-Dispatch / Dec. 3
Ebony Walden
Poet and Charlottesville city planner
Winter C Magazine: Urban planner Ebony Walden inspires through poetry
C-Ville Weekly / Dec. 5
Ann Beattie
English professor
Book review: 'Mrs. Nixon': Stories, real and imagined, of an enigmatic first lady
Seattle Times / Dec. 4
Richard J. Bonnie
Director of U.Va.'s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
Path to execution swifter, more certain in Va.
Richmond Times-Dispatch / Dec. 4
Joanne Boyle
Head women's basketball coach
Ex-UR women's coach Boyle returns to Robins Center
Richmond Times-Dispatch / Dec. 4
Harry Dorn-Arias
Transplant surgeon
Too promiscuous to donate an organ? Maybe, CDC says
MSNBC / Dec. 5
James E. Ferguson II
Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and...
Column by Dr. G. Paul Matherne, a pediatric cardiologist at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
Lauren Simenauer
Undergraduate in the College of Arts & Sciences finishing her bachelor’s degrees in biology and psychology
Commentary: What Would Ben Franklin Do? Influences of America’s First Environmentalist
Climate Progress / Dec. 3
University of Virginia students are making sure families have everything they need this holiday season. Saturday was Distribution Day for the Holiday Sharing program at the Madison House, the university's group of student volunteers. A group of 50 volunteers have been working since October to gather donations for 107 local families in need. The families came by Saturday to receive packages donated by UVa. groups and community members.
Stories abound of animals behaving oddly in the moments before an earthquake: dogs bark incessantly, birds gather in tight flocks, toads flee their ponds. What could they be sensing that humans don't? That question led a group of University of Virginia physicists to start grinding rocks and measuring gases in a lab experiment designed to mimic an earthquake and see what might be setting the animals off. What they found was dramatic: The rocks they crushed produced ozone gas at levels up to 100 times higher than a smoggy Los Angeles day.
Physicists from the University of Virginia may have determined a new way to detect earthquakes. Using ozone gas emissions from fracturing rocks, a team led by engineering physics professor Raul A. Baragiola determined that sensing the gas may give people an edge on quakes.
It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas over at the University of Virginia. The Virginia Glee Club performed holiday songs in Old Cabell Hall Friday night.
Separately, FBI and National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Thursday concluded an antiterrorism drill that focused on responding to a simulated terrorist action involving radioactive substances, the nuclear agency announced. The "Cavalier Thunder" tabletop exercise at the University of Virginia was the most recent in a number of exercises that provide national, state and local officials as well as emergency responders with key training in assessing dangers, determining priorities, responding to catastrophes and dealing with the aftermath of a radiological terrorist stri...
The University of Virginia is hosting farmers, chefs, health care workers, and policy makers for the second statewide Food Security Summit on Grounds. The two-day event starts Monday.
Hundreds of middle school girls, their parents and college-aged mentors gathered Saturday afternoon to celebrate the end of a successful semester and the 15th anniversary of the Young Women’s Leadership Program. The program pairs seventh and eighth grade girls from area middle schools with University of Virginia students who act as "big sisters."
Scientists at the University of Virginia report a breakthrough in identifying a growing concern for hospitals around the world: super bugs.
In Anne Coughlin's class on sex discrimination and the law, students find most battles concerning equal rights for women in the United States have been fought and won. However, one glaring exception still exists, she said – the military's ban on women taking on combat roles. Because of the exclusion, women are denied formal recognition, opportunities for advancement in their careers and respect, Coughlin said. Determined to change these realities, Coughlin and four second-year law students have teamed up to challenge the combat exclusion.
A week after beating Virginia, in-state rival Virginia Tech provided an unlikely gift for the Cavaliers. By losing in the ACC Championship Game to Clemson, the Hokies created an open door for the Cavaliers to move from the Music City Bowl to the Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A Bowl against Auburn. Despite a lopsided loss to Clemson in the ACC title game, the Hokies earned an at-large BCS invite to the Sugar Bowl, allowing the Cavaliers to jump up to the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Michael Phillips (College '05) chalks it up to being in the right place at the right time. That's how the public relations professional captured the photo [link: http://www.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/articles/47244-whoa-see-daniel-day-lewis-transformed-into-abraham-lincoln/1322747471_abe-lincoln-daniel-day-lewis-467.jpg] of Daniel Day-Lewis, still wearing his Abraham Lincoln makeup while eating lunch Wednesday afternoon at Arcadia restaurant on East Main Street.
Commentary by Tyler Spencer, College '08
In 2009, after graduating from the University of Virginia, I moved to DC to focus my energy for HIV prevention on the at-risk youth of Washington, DC. I noticed that while it wasn't the norm for teens to talk openly about HIV, sports and athletes were a hot topic. I worked with a crew of high school students in Southeast DC to adapt the South African soccer-based curriculum for use in DC, and then recruited a group of college athletes to be the first to teach the curriculum. Together we started The Grassroot Project, an organization of student-athletes ...
University of Virginia students held a candle light vigil to observe World Aids day. For a week there will events for students to attend to learn more about the virus. Student will also be to get tested for HIV/AIDS for free.