A University of Virginia graduate has been on a mission in part of Africa and now, her work has led to trying make a big difference in the life of one little girl from Uganda. Kate Casaday has been working as a missionary in Uganda since 2011. Three years later, she’s bringing a little girl named Lily home with her, at least for a while.
Greg Merritt, a tireless journalist with an independent streak who became synonymous with area high school athletics during a 25-year run as sports editor of the Eastern Shore News, died on Wednesday morning after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Tuition jumped by 5.2 percent on average at public four-year colleges and universities and by 4.6 percent at community colleges, according to data released Wednesday by the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia. According to Kirsten Nelson, a spokeswoman for the state council, also known as SCHEV, tuition rose in part because universities did not have a clear picture of how much money they would receive from the state because of the General Assembly budget impasse.
Many elite public schools are top schools at a better price than their private counterparts. At No. 37, California has the top-placing state school in the U.S., University of California, Berkeley, and is followed by University of Virginia (No. 40), College of William & Mary (No. 41) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (No. 45).
Members of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors are considering a policy that would limit their own ability to speak freely about decisions the board makes, including when members disagree with those decisions.
A proposed Board of Visitors policy at the University of Virginia would muzzle dissenting board members. The Special Committee on Governance and Engagement met Wednesday afternoon in Richmond to review the four-page draft policy.
(Subscription required) New proposed rules for the university’s Board of Visitors would prevent its members from publicly opposing the board’s decisions after the fact, and would strongly discourage them from making records requests of the university, among other things. A committee of the board is slated to discuss the measures on Wednesday.
(Video) A 30-minute special on the Young African Leaders Initiative, President Obama’s flagship program to invest in the next generation of African leaders. This summer 500 fellows from Africa are in the United States studying public management, civic leadership and business and entrepreneurship in a six-week fellowship. (U.Va. mentions at 1:30 and 11:29.)
Monticello and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson's beloved Virginia home, set among the rolling hills of rural Virginia, is a much-loved tourist attraction and historical site.
The “national retreat” from marriage could worsen social divides between the married and unmarried, according to one scholar who says religious groups’ failure to reach the working class bears part of the blame for the plummeting marriage rates. “We have seen that Catholic and mainline Protestant churches have not been successful in reaching poor working class Americans and bringing them into the pews on a regular basis, particularly men,” William Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project said.
At this point, most political prognosticators expect modest Republican gains, if there is any shift at all. The team at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics projects a slightly more bullish 5-8 seat pick-up for the GOP.
The impeachment talk “is something close to a no-lose proposition for the Democrats. They can raise money off of it AND make the GOP look extreme, which is strategy Nos. 1, 2, and 3 in the Democratic playbook,” says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics in an e-mail. “That said, I think Israel is being a bit overoptimistic in his hopes that this will really gin up [Democratic] turnout.”
They also learn bigger lessons. For example, camp participants learned how a vehicle is built correlates to the task at hand, such as building a vehicle that can travel the farthest, reach the highest speed or perform a task with precision, said Renee Manson, 25, University of Virginia Law School student.
An online startup retailer founded by two University of Virginia graduates is growing with its first physical address in Charlottesville. Country Club Prep is open now on the Corner near UVA. It's the first brick-and-mortar store for a company that's getting national recognition.
It was the start of a new season, a new chapter in his unexpected rise to stardom as a professional basketball player. He was in a new country, had already learned the language, and was looking forward to taking the next step in a career that some people never thought possible. The future was bright for former UVa player Jerome Meyinsse. Until suddenly it wasn’t.
Matt Schaub got right to work on the first day of Oakland Raiders training camp Friday.
M. Caldwell Butler, who as a first-term Republican representative from Virginia wept after he voted to impeach President Richard M. Nixon, whose landslide 1972 re-election victory had propelled Mr. Butler into Congress, died on Tuesday in Roanoke, Va. He was 89.M. Caldwell Butler, former Republican congressman from Roanoke, dies at 89Washington Post / July 29http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/m-caldwell-butler-former-republican-congressman-from-roanoke-dies-at-89/2014/07/29/174f2d7e-1741-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.htmlCaldwell Butler dies, recalled as being "free of politics'Roa...
PVCC President Frank Friedman said he’s also hoping to add two new health care career certificates in the next year. Both would help fill staffing needs at Martha Jefferson Hospital and the University of Virginia Medical Center. Friedman said he’s planning to offer a new central sterile processing technician certificate in January. Friedman said he’s less sure about the timeline on another planned certificate program, which would train pharmacy technicians.
A Virginia-based startup called PsiKick is developing an ultra-low-power microchip for simple sensing tasks. Depending on the application, it consumes between 1 and 0.1 percent of the power of comparable chips on the market, says PsiKick cofounder David Wentzloff. Wentzloff and cofounder Brenton Calhoun did their graduate work together in Anantha Chandrakasan’s Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems lab at MIT. The two went on to become professors at the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, respectively, but continued their collaboration. The startup plans to sell its fi...
A spokeswoman for Rubio pointed to a research brief about the role of fathers in college success by Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. The brief was published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute where Wilcox is a visiting scholar.