Tony Bennett didn’t take shortcuts as he guided the Cavaliers to the top of college basketball, and he’s stayed true to his system as he tries to keep them there.
The University of Virginia has formed a partnership to advance research on new and environmentally friendly energy sources. The partnership is with MAXNET Energy, a new initiative of Germany’s Max Planck Society.
Students from the University of Virginia used their spring break to make a difference in Tournament Town. While in town cheering on their team in the ACC Tournament, students partnered up with Community Housing Solutions. Sixteen students from Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship built a permanent access wheelchair ramp for stroke survivor, Elton Spivey. Students also repaired a weak and damaged roof at a home on New Orleans Street.
Some students spend Spring Break hanging out with friends, soaking in the sun and partying it up at the beach. But this week... many students are spending their time hammering... sawing and working as a team as volunteers for habitat for humanity. Students are also here from Maryville University, Memphis University, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.
Fifty black law students from some of the nation's top schools hunkered down with 80 African-American, Latino and African middle schoolers in Portland Thursday to coach them through legal exercises. "Cases aren't obvious. You have to look at it very deeply," said eighth-grader Jared Melgarejo, after being coached for hours by University of Virginia law student Josephine Biempka and Harvard law student Rob Hickman. "You need to break stuff down and look for the main parts."
“While the development of some cognitive abilities is achieved by age 16, the parts of the brain most responsible for decision making, impulse control, and peer susceptibility and conformity continue to develop until about age 25,” said committee chair Richard J. Bonnie, Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “A balance needs to be struck between the personal interests of young adults in being allowed to make their own choices and society’s le...
In 1607, a ship set sail from London carrying 40 soldiers, 35 "gentlemen," and 30 laborers and artisans to the Americas. They set up Jamestown, the first permanent British colony in the New World. A century before their arrival, an estimated 54 million people were living in the Americas, both North and South. By 1650, the population crashed to 6 million. "[The Europeans] brought with them so many diseases that the indigenous people had no immunity to," said William Ruddiman, a paleoclimatologist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia. "[About] 85 to 90 pe...
With Elizabeth Warren repeatedly stressing she will not challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, the latter matchup will come in the U.S. Senate race in Maryland. A bitter battle is shaping up on the Democratic side to succeed Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who has been in office for the past 18 years. “It’s turning into a de-facto progressive-establishment matchup,” said Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Relationships take luck, hard work and a certain amount of know-how. But where does that know-how come from? Wrestling with this idea, working myself up into a full-blown self-destructive panic, I thankfully stumbled upon Timothy Wilson’s new book, “Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By.” A professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, Mr. Wilson has given us a guide in the style of Malcolm Gladwell explaining how we create our personal narratives and how to change those narratives in order to be happier. He offers several techniques, but my favorite comes early ...
Efforts to enhance education with technology did not begin with the digital age. In reality, educational technology has enjoyed a much longer history, arguably starting in the 15th century with the introduction of horn-covered textbooks, as University of Virginia academic and former technology entrepreneur Bill Ferster argues. Ferster’s book, “Teaching Machines’” readability and its appealing mix of theory and narrative, historical and contemporary developments make it a valuable choice as a course reader for lecturers, instructional designers and indeed for anyone enga...
James C. Roberts, a major benefactor of the U.Va. School of Nursing, died Sunday at age 82.
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) Amid all the debate over American income inequality, a bigger threat to fairness and social cohesion has gone unrecognized: namely, the widening divide between haves and have-nots when it comes to nurturing children and preparing them for adulthood. In “Our Kids,” Robert D. Putnam, the author of “Bowling Alone” (2000), a best seller about the decline of American civic life, argues that children’s access to the core institutions that foster their developme...
John D. Arras, a plain-spoken philosopher who preached that doctors should consider fairness and morality, as well as medical issues, in making life-or-death decisions about patient care, died on Monday in Galveston, Tex. He was 69.
University of Virginia Health System and Novant Health are in talks to create a Northern Virginia regional health system that will include UVa Culpeper Hospital, officials said Wednesday.
Patients at U.Va. Culpeper Hospital could soon see more specialists without traveling. University of Virginia Health System, which oversees the hospital, is exploring a partnership with Novant Health. A proposed agreement between the two would create a regional health system that would include U.Va. Culpeper Hospital and Novant Health’s Virginia facilities.
American politics once stopped at the water’s edge. Now, it doesn’t even slow down. By trying to deter Iran’s leaders from cutting a nuclear deal with the U.S. and Europe, 47 Republican senators this week caused the most serious rupture in the tradition of bipartisan foreign policy in at least a generation. Nixon promised the U.S. ally a “better deal” than what President Lyndon Johnson was offering. Johnson learned of Nixon’s activities and called Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois to tell him to stop, according to a recording of the conversation on...
It’s not every day someone receives an e-mail that could potentially change his or her life, but that is precisely what happened to Josh Farris on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 2014. It was 4:10 p.m., to be exact. That’s when Farris, a senior at Eastern Montgomery High School, first learned that he had been awarded a full-ride, four-year scholarship to the University of Virginia. Farris’ scholarship to UVa is being made possible by QuestBridge, a national non-profit program that recruits and supports academically strong, low-income students by providing educational and life opport...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said a letter by 47 Republican senators sent directly to Iran's government "was out of step with the best traditions of American leadership" and undermined sensitive, international talks with the Islamic Republic to curb its nuclear program. Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, said the letter by U.S. lawmakers to a foreign government is both extraordinary and unusual, and represents an escalation of the political battle started last November when Republicans took control of both houses of Congre...
Somewhere in Roma Downey's sprawling mansion in Malibu hangs a simple but arresting piece of art, inspired, according to the artist, by a glimpse of the hereafter. A swathe of silk embellished with swirls of Swarovski crystals, it's worth a fraction of the value of the Londonderry-born actress's investment artefacts, but it resonates deeply with her spiritual leanings. The encounter is related in Roisin Fitzpatrick's uplifting account of her near death experience (NDE), which has been validated by a leading expert in the field of NDE research, Dr Bruce Greyson, a professor of p...
Whether or not Hillary Clinton managed to persuade ordinary voters with her “Email-gate” press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday—assuming ordinary voters even cared—she did nothing to de-escalate a decades-long war with the news media that has been waged, with varying degrees of intensity, since she was first lady of Arkansas and her husband Bill was governor.University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato—who explored the dynamics of the media “Feeding Frenzy” in his 2000 book of the same title—said Clinton’s frac...