"That is ... honestly, it's just not possible," said Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor at Sabato's Crystal Ball, the publication headed by University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato. "That's a bunch of bunk."
The new home of the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital is gearing up to open to the public Saturday. The Battle Building is a seven-story, $140 million complex that encompasses more than 200,000 square feet. It will hold all 36 of UVa’s pediatric care specialists, 12 operating rooms and obstetricians’ offices.
Each floor contains interactive walls - sort of like a Rubik's Cube. They're based on children's story books. “Every child has a story. We really wanted to build on that. If you have a special needs child or if you have a non-special needs child, that child has a story. Using the storytelling theme, children can get engaged. It keeps them busy. It helps them relax while they wait for an appointment, and it's just fun,” said Karin League, associate chief of UVA Children’s Hospital.
By Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the U.Va. Center for Politics... as of right now, the best explanation seems to be a combination of factors that have more to do with Cantor and his position than with larger forces in American life.
Laura Ingraham '91 went to law school at the University of Virginia, which she said stirred her interest in state politics. Before becoming a famous ...
She is not just a successful businesswoman but also an adventure sportsperson. Although her professional life revolves around architecture, design, decor, service and staffing in hotels, Nirupa Shankar has trodden many paths that even men would not dare to venture into.
The Library of Congress is to announce on Thursday that the next poet laureate will be Charles Wright, the author of nearly two dozen collections of verse that fuse the legacy of European modernism with mystical evocations of the landscape of the American South. Mr. Wright, 78, a retired professor at the University of Virginia, has already won just about every other honor in the poetry world, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. But reached by telephone at his house in Charlottesville, he still sounded a bit wide-eyed with ...
At such large public universities as the University of Virginia, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, nonresidents make up 30 percent or more of enrollment, according to the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a Washington, D.C. think tank.
Because of its disparate-impact argument, “the floodgates could open for litigation calling for even greater judicial control over California’s schools,” wrote Joshua Dunn, an associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and Martha Derthick, a professor emerita of government at the University of Virginia, in a recent online article for the journal Education Next. “Anyone could challenge any law, however neutral in design, with a claim that it was somehow related to an unequal outcome.”