The University of Virginia is hosting 25 participants in the White House's Young African Leaders Initiative. The group is among 500 Washington Fellows who will participate in a six-week leadership, academic and mentoring program in cities across the U.S.
The University of Virginia Children's Hospital celebrated its newest addition Saturday, an 11 story outpatient center just for kids and their families. A dancing dragon set a festive mood at Saturday's open house for the new University of Virginia Pediatric Outpatient Care Center.
With the cutting of the ribbon the doors of the new Battle Building at the University of Virginia (UVA) Children's Hospital, were open to the public and hundreds of people gathered to see all that the new facility has to offer.
Last fall, I was asked to join an initiative that wants to answer a simple question that demands some very complex answers: How can we reinvigorate the American Dream in the 21st century? To answer that question, the University of Virginia’s Miller Center launched the Milstein Symposium. The multi-year effort develops nonpartisan, innovative and action-oriented ideas that tackle some of the most pressing economic issues our nation faces today. Each year, three commissions focus on topics such as entrepreneurship, education and infrastructure.
The University of Virginia will officially cut its ties with the Semester at Sea study abroad program by 2016, ending an academic sponsorship overshadowed by a UVa student’s death. A reason for the impending breakup, to occur 10 years after the relationship began, was not provided by university or Semester at Sea representatives when asked Saturday.
It would have taken but a few moments for the workers to etch their names and a few words into the fresh cement. That fleeting shot at immortality more than 150 years ago has inspired some interesting sleuthing at the University of Virginia. The names have come to light as a result of the renovation of the Rotunda, which is expected to continue through the summer of 2016.
Italian-made, hand-stitched, replete with bishop sleeves, collar neck and sheer bodice transitioned by a cummerbund into a drop-waist ballerina hem and made of 100 percent parachute silk; it's obvious why Hilda Franklin “Frankie” Bell said yes to this dress. … Dick Bell and his brother Frazier, 63, met recently at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Medical Library Historical Collections and Services to view the dress. They also proffered mementos from their parents' service as part of a mobile army surgical hospital during the Second World War.
Last fall, I was asked to join an initiative that wants to answer a simple question that demands some very complex answers: How can we reinvigorate the American Dream in the 21st century? To answer that question, the University of Virginia’s Miller Center launched the Milstein Symposium. The multi-year effort develops nonpartisan, innovative and action-oriented ideas that tackle some of the most pressing economic issues our nation faces today. Each year, three commissions focus on topics such as entrepreneurship, education and infrastructure.
Last fall, I was asked to join an initiative that wants to answer a simple question that demands some very complex answers: How can we reinvigorate the American Dream in the 21st century? To answer that question, the University of Virginia’s Miller Center launched the Milstein Symposium. The multi-year effort develops nonpartisan, innovative and action-oriented ideas that tackle some of the most pressing economic issues our nation faces today. Each year, three commissions focus on topics such as entrepreneurship, education and infrastructure.
Italian-made, hand-stitched, replete with bishop sleeves, collar neck and sheer bodice transitioned by a cummerbund into a drop-waist ballerina hem and made of 100 percent parachute silk; it's obvious why Hilda Franklin “Frankie” Bell said yes to this dress. … Dick Bell and his brother Frazier, 63, met recently at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Medical Library Historical Collections and Services to view the dress. They also proffered mementos from their parents' service as part of a mobile army surgical hospital during the Second World War.
It would have taken but a few moments for the workers to etch their names and a few words into the fresh cement. That fleeting shot at immortality more than 150 years ago has inspired some interesting sleuthing at the University of Virginia. The names have come to light as a result of the renovation of the Rotunda, which is expected to continue through the summer of 2016.
The University of Virginia is hosting 25 participants in the White House's Young African Leaders Initiative. The group is among 500 Washington Fellows who will participate in a six-week leadership, academic and mentoring program in cities across the U.S.
The University of Virginia Children's Hospital celebrated its newest addition Saturday, an 11 story outpatient center just for kids and their families. A dancing dragon set a festive mood at Saturday's open house for the new University of Virginia Pediatric Outpatient Care Center.
The University of Virginia will officially cut its ties with the Semester at Sea study abroad program by 2016, ending an academic sponsorship overshadowed by a UVa student’s death. … “As often happens with sponsorships, there comes a time to explore other opportunities,” Semester at Sea spokeswoman Lauren Judge said. “It was a mutual agreement.” University spokesman Anthony Paul de Bruyn sent a prepared statement acknowledging both the school’s role as sponsor over the years and that the relationship with Semester at Sea is ending.
Total corporate criminal penalties in the United States overall increased about 647 percent between 2001 and 2012 to about $4.3 billion, according to figures compiled by University of Virginia law school professor Brandon Garrett.
And, points out Alex Johnson, who teaches law at the University of Virginia, history counts, too. "You have to recall," says Johnson, who also serves as director of UVA's Center for the Study of Race and Law, "that this trial took place about three years after the Rodney King trial, so you can't look at the OJ Simpson trial in isolation."
James Kraska is Senior Fellow at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law. “In the United States we think of the Law of the Sea as something that we can use to manage our fisheries and our offshore resources and pursue marine environmental protection. China has very much of a legal dimension to its strategy that incorporates and uses the Law of the Sea for strategic purposes.”
“You avoid a debate if you believe you are leading, or if you don’t want to give a lesser-known opponent equal footing with you,” said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Larry Sabato, one of America's keenest political analysts and the director of the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics, says he was utterly blindsided by the ..
Political science professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia tells us that of 435 congressional seats, only about 10 percent are really up for grabs.