William Keyse Rudolph
Who received his master's in art history from the University of Virginia
Brian Balogh
Professor in the Corcoran Department of History
Charlottesville--Right Now: Brian Balogh joins Coy Barefoot
Cvillepodcast / March 14
Dewey Cornell
Linda K. Bunker Professor at the Curry School of Education
Testimony: school shooter didn't understand crime
NECN / March 14
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Carneal hearing opens
Paducah Sun / March 14
Nancy Damon
Program director for the Virginia Festival of the Book
Charlottesville--Right Now: Nancy Damon joins Coy Barefoot
Cvillepodcast / March 14
Rita Dove
Commonwealth Professor in the creative writing department
Rita Dove Gets Honored...
Debbie Ryan is not the only women's basketball coach in the University of Virginia's history, it just seems that way. It seems that way because she spent the past 34 years in the job, has won 736 games and lost just 323.
University of Virginia hall of fame women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan is ending her 34-year career. She announced her decision to retire on Saturday. Monday Ryan talked about her legacy and where she sees her life, and the team she leaves behind, going from here.
University of Virginia aerospace engineers are working on a project that could change the way we travel. The project involves a one of a kind high speed scram jet engine and a number of organizations are interested, including NASA.
Outpatient Imaging Affiliates, LLC (“OIA”), a national owner and operator of outpatient imaging centers, announced today its acquisition of seven outpatient imaging centers from Diagnostic Health Corporation (“DHC”). The centers are located in Tennessee, Alabama and Colorado; the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition of these seven locations continues OIA’s controlled growth strategy that includes the recent Mobile PET/CT expansion and center acquisition in Philadelphia through its joint venture with Thomas Jefferson University. OIA also rec...
Virginia coach Debbie Ryan said when she told her team she was resigning after 34 years, they were "all in" to keep playing if they receive a WNIT bid. Ryan met with reporters Monday, two days after she announced she was stepping down.
University of Virginia researchers are hoping that a test flight at a NASA facility will help them better formulate techniques to evaluate designs for scramjets, a cutting-edge technology that uses compressed air to reach speeds many times faster than that of sound.
Admissions data, knowledgeable faculty and bar passage rates propelled the University of Virginia past Georgetown, William and Mary, and George Washington University to the 10th spot in U.S. News & World Report's list of best law schools. But when it comes to getting a good job, it's all about a private school reputation, right? Wrong. Hiring partners at private law firms ranked the Charlottesville public school sixth among law programs, according to first-time rankings from the magazine.
Oni Buchanan
A concert pianist who received her bachelor's degree in music from the University of Virginia
Concert pianist to perform free recital at Columbia College
The Times and Democrat / March 10
Fran Crippen
A championship swimmer who graduated in 2006 with a sociology degree.
Family, friends, swimmers don't forget Fran Crippen, fight to make open water ...
ESPN (blog) / March 13
Will Scribner
A 1971 graduate of the architecture school
Creating a community of ideas
Richmond Times Dispatch / March 14
Katey Shirey
Who earning degrees in physics and sculpture at U.Va.
Teac...
Dr. Talissa Altes
An associate professor in the Department of Radiology
UW-Madison researcher’s Collaboration Award boosts cystic fibrosis research
University of Wisconsin-Madison / March 10
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor and associate dean, Graduate Academic Program
Robert Fatton on Jean-Bertrand Aristide
PRI's The World / March 10
Richard Netemeyer
Ralph A Beeton Professor of Free Enterprise at the McIntire School of Commerce
James G. Maxham, III
Chesapeake & Potomac Professor and the Associate Dean for Bachelors of Science in Commerce
Strategy: The “Ap...
Debbie Ryan defeated entrenched chauvinism and fought cancer to a draw. But she was unable to conquer time, her own expectations or the changing personality of her sport. Ryan, the University of Virginia's iconic women's basketball coach, announced Saturday that she will step down at the end of the season.
The University of Virginia is losing its longest tenured head coach. Women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan resigned Saturday, effective at the end of this season. Ryan is stepping down after 34 years leading the Cavalier program. She also served as an assistant coach for two years before becoming head coach.
The University of Maryland and the University of Virginia have come up with an online Nitrogen Footprint Calculator that estimates how much nitrogen a person is responsible for releasing into the environment.
FOR those single women suffering angst over “Will he call or won’t he?” it seems counterintuitive to think that such uncertainty could possibly hold any appeal. … A group of female students at the University of Virginia were told they were evaluating whether Facebook could work as an online dating site; 47 women learned that male students from the University of Michigan and U.C.L.A. had viewed their profiles as well as those of 15 to 20 others. The women were then shown Facebook profiles of four “likeable, attractive” men.
Every year it seems that college costs go up, the number of applications topples last year's highs and acceptance rates continue to plummet. Is there really anything new happening in the college admissions world? … The University of Virginia, another prestigious institution that had eliminated its early-decision program several years ago, decided to offer a nonbinding early-action option last November.
Forecasts for population growth point to an enrollment increase in Virginia’s public schools of 40,000 by 2015, according to the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia. At the same time, the Cooper Center estimates about one-third of the state’s teachers are eligible to retire, or soon will be.
From the moment the guard at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center escorted my students and me into the multi-purpose room, where a group of incarcerated adolescents, aged 16-20, in maroon jumpsuits awaited us, we knew that this was not going to be Russian literature class as usual. … In this course pairs of University of Virginia students lead weekly discussions with small groups of residents at either a juvenile treatment or correctional center.
The leaking Rotunda roof is probably the most famous example of repair work needed at the University of Virginia, but across the school more than $195 million in maintenance has been put off. School officials are working to cut that figure, but the effort has been impeded by budget cuts from Richmond. The ratio of needed work to total infrastructure has improved marginally, but the total cost of the work needed has continued to mount.
A Kindle trial at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business found that while students liked the device for reading books, only one in 10 used it for studying. Michael Koenig, director of MBA operations at Darden, sees much greater potential for touchscreen tablets such as the iPad, RIM’s Playbook or Samsung’s Galaxy Tab.