The list of colleges that have stopped printing their yearbooks is endless – Purdue University, Virginia Wesleyan College, the University of Virginia, the University of Missouri and DePauw University. At Townsend University in Maryland about two dozen students out of 20,000 bought their yearbooks
A new traffic signal at the intersection of Route 250 West and the Northridge medical complex will become fully operational Monday after morning drive. … VDOT officials say the signal is necessary due to the expansion of the Northridge medical complex that now includes the Transitional Care Hospital, resulting in increased traffic using those facilities.
Mario di Valmarana came to the University of Virginia in 1972 to teach in the School of Architecture for three months. It became his academic home for 27 years. … Mr. di Valmarana, who continued his service on the board of the school's foundation after he retired in 2000, died Oct. 13 at his home in Venice. He was 81.
It takes more than just team spirit to be a cheerleader at the University of Virginia, it also takes a competitive edge and the skills to go with it.
[Maryland] Gov. Martin O'Malley picked Emmet Davitt, a staff attorney on the Public Service Commission, to be the new state prosecutor. … He graduated from the University of Maryland's law school and earned his undergrad degree from the University of Virginia…
Sonya Donaldson, Ph.D. student in English
When Sonya Donaldson walks into your classroom, you know that you are about to benefit from more than 18 years of experience in the technology trenches. She’s the former technology editor of Black Enterprise who now teaches a first year course called, “Technology and Identities” in addition to classes on twentieth- and twenty-first century literature.
A Charlottesville charity broke ground on a new little league field on Saturday, but not without a little help. The Carson Raymond Foundation began renovations on its second ball field, which is located at Johnson Elementary School. The University of Virginia Baseball team chipped in to help take down an old backstop and clear grass.
James W. Ceaser
Harry R Byrd Jr. Professor of Politics
Above all others: Obama's arrogance
Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury, Nov. 21
Jennifer Rubenstein, a professor at the University of Virginia, recently raised questions about the role of vision and imagination for successful international development practitioners there.
Having had a childhood that virtually parallels the story of Steven Spielberg’s 1987 movie, Empire of the Sun, retired UVA law professor Earl C. Dudley, Jr., begins his memoir, An Interested Life, with the Japanese bombing of the Philippines that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Has it been 21 years since John Casey, who teaches English literature at the University of Virginia, was awarded the National Book Award for his first Rhode Island-based novel, “Spartina?” Time goes fast when you read a lot.
By J.E. Lendon, professor of history
Just when you think the performance is over, the orchestra starts up again: there seems to be no end to the ugly symphony of Chinese scorn for the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo.
W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, believes New Jersey has more or less stumbled into a set of conditions that foster more stable marriages and fewer cases of divorce.
The [Prince William County] board's action Tuesday came after supervisors were briefed on a University of Virginia study that looked at the policy's implementation and impact. The report said there was evidence the policy had had some effect because the Hispanic noncitizen population in Prince William has decreased.
The University of Virginia's Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning received a federal grant to study the relationship between improving fine motor skills and a student's overall cognitive skills, particularly in math. Researchers think the quality and timing of fine motor skills development may affect the quality and timing of students' cognitive development.
A group of local children are adding a little color to their life and their parents are joining in on the experience as well. The University of Virginia hosts a Family Art Jam to bring creativity into homes.
A team of University of Virginia entrepreneurs is $20,000 richer on Saturday. The students won the 2nd annual Entrepreneurship Cup for a camera they developed to help doctors catch eye diseases in their patients before it's too late.
Federal stimulus money boosted work-study programs and plugged funding gaps at three colleges and universities in Lynchburg, while feeding millions of dollars into research at the region’s biggest universities, Virginia Tech and University of Virginia.
"Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press). A masterful researcher and writer, Chernow benefitted from an ever-expanding treasure trove of George Washington-iana at the Washington Papers project at the University of Virginia. He vividly portrays all the Washingtons: the young man, vain, ambitious and prone to overreaching; the general, struggling to keep his troops clothed and fed; the president, shouldering the weight of the new republic. This book would be a terrific gift to any lover of American history.