The University of Virginia's Corks and Curls yearbook hasn't been printed since 2009. (A 2013 effort to revive it has been unsuccessful so far.)
Proceeds from the Men's Four Miler benefit the University of Virginia Department of Urology.
Finally, university president Teresa Sullivan enlisted [Dean Paul G. Mahoney] to deliver the diploma to Ted Kennedy’s family. He planned to send it to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, an organization that seeks to educate the public about government. “Then it dawned on me that, because the students had invited his grandnephew, it might be fun to personalize the transfer,” Mahoney said. “I think the audience enjoyed it.”
By Kathan Shukla, a PhD student in Educational Research at the University of Virginia.A decade-long anti-Modi campaign from India’s political left has fueled the new prime minister’s rise.
"When you want the money somebody might show up in the U.S. with a bag full of cash and give you some of the funds from your account'," said Andrew Hayashi, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Mary Faith Marshall, a bioethicist and professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, speculates that it’s probably a combination of a doctor’s hubris and a hospital lawyer not knowing the law.
For more reaction, we bring in our panel tonight, from The Weekly Standard, Steve Hayes is with us, Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, and from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, Larry Sabato is with us.
In the US, negative campaigning goes even further. “Most parties spend 70 cents in every dollar on negative adverts, and in the last election a total of $7 billion was spent on campaigning,” says U.Va. Professor Larry Sabato.
“If ever a president could benefit from firing somebody, it’s Obama,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “We don’t expect a president to know everything that’s going on in their administration,” he added. “But we do judge them for the actions they take once they learn of a problem.”
Originally developed as a web project in 2001, “Introduction to Old English” by Peter S. Baker, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is an introductory textbook for learning Old English. The electronic edition is freely available to all, and includes “Old English Aerobics” interactive exercises.
The University of Virginia has often been complemented for its good looks, – brilliant architecture and attractive students alike – lauded for its impressive commencement speakers and noted for its smart faculty quoted time and again by respectable news sources, but the Charlottesville school is not as well known for its presence on social media. Though with upwards of 33.9K followers and a follower ratio of 22.7, it's surprising that UVa has rarely been recognized for its prolific and effective use of social media. Well, that is until now.
Commencement speakers traditionally receive honorary degrees from the universities they deliver an address at, but rather than be given a framed token of appreciation from the University of Virginia Law School's, Massachusetts Congressman Joseph Kennedy left Grounds with a diploma in hand – for his great-uncle.
A UVA law professor married to the University’s president is coming under fire from an advocacy group that claims his recent legal arguments in favor of religious exemptions are aiding anti-gay and anti-woman agendas. Douglas Laycock, School of Law faculty member and husband of UVA President Teresa Sullivan, is one of the country’s leading experts on religious liberty, and is well-known for a legal stance that often puts him on opposite sides of polarizing political issues: He supports individual religious rights, but also a total separation of church and state, and he’s argu...
A University of Virginia spokesman says they have not received any directive from the governor to come up with a backup funding plan. But they say they are watching the situation in Richmond closely.
The Cavalier Daily at the University of Virginia is in “critical financial condition,” according to the student newspaper’s alumni association. The paper’s current managing board describes it more neutrally as the latest development in “a constant season of change.” Either way, the pub needs an influx of cash, fast, to pay bills and reboot.
The first thing John Kerry did upon taking office as secretary of state was to speak to a group of students at the University of Virginia. He told them that strong U.S. leadership abroad depends on having a strong country and a strong economy at home, saying, “I came here purposefully to underscore that in today’s global world, there is no longer anything foreign about foreign policy.”
Enough about us. How did the Brits feel about the American Revolution? That’s essentially the question historian Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy set out to answer, and now his book, “The Men Who Lost America” (Yale University Press), has won the George Washington Book Prize — snatching victory from the jaws of a very old defeat. The $50,000 award, announced at a ceremony at Mount Vernon on Tuesday night, honors the previous year’s best book about early American history.
Dr. Theresa Dankovich joins the show to talk about “The Drinkable Book” and innovations for purifying water.
Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said establishment Republicans seem to be getting the candidates they want to this point, but that may or may not translate to success in November: “Whether their candidates are the right ones remains to be seen.”