The University of Virginia is considering a move to accelerate the pace of its student enrollment growth, but only if the state agrees to pony up to help the university cope with the added costs.
[Carl L. Cash of Charlottesville is a wounded veteran of the Korean War]
Cash ended up in the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. While there, he was told that most of the men in his unit had been killed. The wounded Marine’s spirits were lifted considerably when he was visited by soldiers and sailors from Charlottesville who were stationed nearby. A surgeon from the University of Virginia raised his spirits even more. "This doctor from UVa operated on me, and if it hadn’t been for him, I’m not sure I would have made it,” Cash said. “I can’t remembe...
“We never used to see 20- and 30-year-old women with endometrial cancer, but with the obesity epidemic, I routinely operate on young women for endometrial cancer who are over 300 pounds,” said lead investigator Susan Modesitt, MD, director of the Gynecologic Oncology Division at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. In a study published last year, Dr. Modesitt’s team showed that obese women are at high risk for developing breast and endometrial cancers and often do so at comparatively young ages.
Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Susan Murley, based in Boston, and Robert Novick, based in Washington, will begin a three-year term as co-managing partners. Murley is currently chair of the firm’s transactional department, which is made up of 11 practice groups. She graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1986 and joined Hale and Dorr that same year.
George Hatcher, Jr. of Easton is the new director of advancement and visitor services for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland. … Hatcher earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with distinction from the University of Virginia before serving in the aerospace industry earlier on in his career.
Somdev Devvarman and Sanam Singh, who have a lot of things in common, including their alma mater the University of Virginia, broke the hearts of around 5,000 Chinese spectators at the Aoti tennis stadium and million others' around China, beating Gong Maoxin and Li Zhe 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 10-8 in the men's doubles final.
Defense attorneys for Justin Michael Wolfe last week presented the clearest picture yet of possible alternate theories in the March 15, 2001, murder of a Centreville man, that they say should free Wolfe from a death sentence … The Virginia Capital Defense Resource Center and the Innocence Project, which enabled a group of University of Virginia law students to analyze police records released recently from the case, worked closely with the King & Spalding attorneys on Wolfe's behalf.
Peter Onuf
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History
Half-truth: Rick Scott says Thomas Jefferson called regulations an "endemic weakness"
Miami Herald and PolitiFact, Nov. 22
Lili Powell
Professor of business administration in the Darden School
Charlottesville Right Now: The World Peace Game
WINA 1070AM, Nov. 22
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
Poll: Tea Party support grows; USA divided
USA Today, Nov. 22
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Senate Democrats View 2012 with Trepidation
Fox News (blog), Nov. 22
The University of Virginia wants to take its technology to the next level. The UVA Applied Research Institute has partnered with defense contractors to improve communication for first responders when disaster strikes.
By Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology
Is there a social cost to academic achievement? In other words, do adolescents punish high achievers by calling them nerds? At the roughest cut, the answer seems to be “no.” Academic success seems to go hand in hand with social success—it’s not a sizable effect, but it is present. A more fine-grained theory has it that the answer to that question varies with ethnicity.
When it comes to pay, is there something unique about the financial industry? Thomas Philippon, an economist at N.Y.U.’s Stern School of Business, thinks there is. After studying the large pay differential between financial-sector employees and people in other industries with similar levels of education and experience, he and a colleague, Ariell Reshef of the University of Virginia, concluded that some of it could be explained by growing demand for financial services from technology companies and baby boomers. But Philippon and Reshef determined that up to half of the pay premium was due...
Published by the University of Virginia Press, ["Carolina Cottage"] mixes the history of the archetypal coastal cottage, with its deep porch and natural ventilation, with personal detail about her own rescue of the Joseph Lane house, an 18th century cottage known as the second-oldest house in Wake County.
Georgia State is one of just a handful of business schools that have started experimenting with the iPad in the classroom. IMD Business School in Switzerland used the iPad in an executive education program in May of 2009, and schools like the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business said they are looking to develop course material specifically for the iPad.
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.