Features Pat Bernick, who has a master's in theater and has directed more than 100 theatrical productions in Hampton Roads in the last 40 years.
Daniel Ortiz
Law professor
Obama administration fights to save healthcare law
Reuters / May 10
Brad Wilcox
Associate professor of sociology
Education level inversely related to childbearing
Washington Times / May 9
Architecture professors John Quale and Louis Nelson led a public discussion for the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program (AHIP).
It was once the most popular form of entertainment in America—Virginia included. Now, it’s a painful reminder of a racist history—but a history that some say needs to be recognized and understood. Features English professors Stephen Railton and Eric Lott.
By Edward Hess, professor in the Darden School of Business
In the business world, everyone wants to succeed and make names for both themselves and their companies. While we all want to be good at our jobs, we don’t all know how to manage our lives proactively to make it happen. For small business owners in particular, applying small steps to your everyday life can help good habit formation—habits that will ultimately play a role in your business success. Here are six basic management tools to help you prioritize, focus, act, make decisions, and learn daily.
Following the recommendations of Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia Board of Social Services recently voted against nondiscrimination regulations that would have allowed gay and lesbian couples to adopt children. The vote is particularly significant for Charlottesville and Albemarle County, where adoption numbers have risen during the past three years and UVA researchers have published groundbreaking studies about the effects of sexual orientation on adoptive children.
Anyone in the university community can bring honor charges against a UVa student, but an exact and concrete definition of the university community as it applies to the honor system does not exist, said Honor Committee Chairwoman Ann Marie McKenzie.
A new repair station has been installed outside of Clark Hall, complete with air pump, allen wrench and other tools needed for basic bike repairs.
Features Darden School of Business in the annual survey of 65 open-enrollment and custom professional development programs. In this year's open-enrollment survey, Darden faculty took the No. 1 position for the seventh year in a row. The paper ranks Darden's executive education programs No. 5 globally.
The University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce (McIntire Undergraduate Business Profile) scores the best across each of the specialties, with an average rank of just over 12.
President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will celebrate American poetry and prose with a gathering of poets, musicians and artists at the White House Wednesday night. Professionals Elizabeth Alexander, Billy Collins, Common, [U.Va. English professor] Rita Dove, Kenneth Goldsmith, Alison Knowles, Aimee Mann and Jill Scott will read, sing and highlight poetry's influence on American culture.
For the past five years, UVA’s neurotrauma laboratory has gathered the school’s top doctors to study what has been called a “signature wound” in American military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Traumatic Brain Injuries—known as TBIs—have afflicted 200,000 soldiers since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001.
The University of Virginia has received several significant gifts recently. And, apart from the obvious — that this, and any, university can use more funding to improve the educational product — what is particularly notable about this spate of gifts is that they cover a wide swath of territory. That is a testament to the university’s true liberal arts foundation, and to the breadth of its offerings.
By Brian D. McKnight, associate professor of history and author of "Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia" and "Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia."
The narrative of the Civil War revolves around the metaphor of neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother. But in the mountains of the Upper South, this was no metaphor: counties, towns and even families split between the two sides, and then set upon each other with gruesome fury in one of the bloodiest — and least understood — theaters of th...
For their part, college administrators should remind their trustees, alumni, students and parents that commencement fees are inappropriate at a time when their institutions are facing budget crises and student costs are rising at unacceptable rates. Every available dollar needs to be channeled into the real business of higher education. [Note: U.Va. doesn't pay commencement speakers.]
Beneath Davenport Field is a room filled with pictures and memorabilia from past Virginia baseball players…. Will Roberts ensured himself a spot in the room March 29, when he threw the eighth perfect game in NCAA history, and the first by a Cavalier.
The U.Va. Club of Charlottesville helped organize an inaugural poker tournament to benefit the Rebecca Clary Harris Memorial Fellowship, which provides research fellowships to students studying immune therapy.
A year after her tragic death, it is the happy memories of Yeardley Love that her friends and close family, like her cousin, Sharon Robinson, remember most of all.
Qian Cai
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Women may soon be in charge of the American economy
Richmond Times-Dispatch / May 8
Dr. John DiMarco
Professor of cardiovascular medicine
Afib Ablation May Scale Back Stroke Risk
MedPage Today / May 8
Dr. Arthur Garson Jr.
Executive vice president and provost; pediatric cardiologist
School-Wide ECG Screening Feasible
MedPage Today / May 8
Parke Muth
Associate dean of admission
Test preparation company New Oriental Education is helping a rising generation of Chinese students to ace U.S. college entrance exams
Bloomberg/BusinessWeek / May 6
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About School of Law professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin's new book.