A Falls Church family has turned the pain of the sudden loss of family member into something positive. Margo Schulman and her family started, “Shine On” Week at Jeb Stuart High School in Falls Church, the alma mater of Casey Schulman who died two years ago at the age of 22. Casey Schulman was a student at the University of Virginia when she died in a boating accident during a snorkeling trip that was part of her semester at sea in the Caribbean in 2012.
Karl Kuhn's world is all about the K. He has his wife Katrina, plus their two young boys: Kason and Kruse. And as pitching coach at the University of Virginia, Kuhn's Kavaliers... er, Cavaliers... are annually among the nation's leaders in Ks - baseball shorthand for strikeouts. But as top-ranked U.Va. enters a marquee ACC weekend series at No. 5 Florida State tonight - and then visits Norfolk's Harbor Park on Tuesday to play Old Dominion - the "whiff" is only part of why these Cavs (35-7) work so well.
Former University of Virginia and Tampa Bay Buccaneers standout Ronde Barber headlines the inductees in Portsmouth today and Saturday for the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame Weekend. Barber, a three-time All-Pro cornerback who is the only player in NFL history with at least 40 interceptions and 20 sacks, will join his twin brother Tiki, a 2011 inductee, in the hall. The Barbers are the first brothers to be inducted.
Hillary Clinton's remarks about men aging and tiring more quickly than women are typical of her lopsided views on the sexes, according to Dr. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
(Guest post by Hannah Barefoot, Master’s of Landscape Architecture candidate) Renowned botanists Francis Hallé and Peter Del Tredici came to the University of Virginia to teach landscape architecture students about the architecture of trees.
Assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Virginia, Laura Smart says the human brain is wired to allow it access to the very thoughts that it's trying to suppress. And, under stress, it is even less able to suppress them, driving you to reveal a secret, most likely by accident.
At least two NCAA committees in recent weeks have been focusing on when academic misconduct rises to the level that it requires NCAA investigation. Members of those committees say their work is not specific to the scandal at UNC, but they are aware of it. “You can’t say that it’s not there and on people’s minds,” said Carolyn Callahan, an education professor at the University of Virginia and a member of the NCAA’s Division I Academic Cabinet. She said her committee has been working on the issue for two years.
With three members objecting, the University of Virginia board of visitors Wednesday approved a 4.3 percent increase in tuition and total mandatory fees for in-state undergraduates that opponents said far exceeds the rate of inflation.
The University of Virginia’s governing board approved a 4.3 percent increase in tuition and fees Wednesday for first-year in-state students, overwhelmingly supporting the price hike despite objections from critics who called it excessive.
Sammy Zeglinski’s career as a professional basketball player has taken him all over the world and back, yet the allure of coming back home to Philadelphia is always inescapable.
The University of Virginia’s Darden School also reported that the highest sign-on and guaranteed year-end bonuses were in six-figures as well.
The conservative group Americans for Prosperity organized a public forum in Charlottesville this week to discuss Medicaid expansion. The featured speakers were two Republican Delegates who strongly oppose the idea, but it seemed they had come to the wrong place, as supporters packed the auditorium. About 150 people gathered outside the Albemarle County Building holding signs that encouraged honks of support for expanding Medicaid. Thousands of people in this city work for the University of Virginia Medical Center, Martha Jefferson Hospital and other healthcare organizations that cu...
It’s unclear whether Walker’s new Democratic challenger, Mary Burke, will fare better. Although an early March Rasmussen poll of Wisconsin voters showed a 45–to–45 tie, a poll by Marquette University Law School a few weeks later found that Walker was leading Burke 48 to 41. Political prognosticators, such as University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato, call the race as “likely Republican.”
Carolyn Engelhard, assistant professor of public health sciences and director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia, agreed. "There are some good things to be said about health savings accounts, but the downside is that they're applied across the board," she said. "If someone is low-income but has a lot of medical bills, they are going to have more out of pocket costs than someone who, say, makes $100,000 and is healthy. It is a blunt instrument, it does reduce unnecessary care, but the bad thing is that if the $2,000 is exceeded and your deductible is $...
(By Michael Signer, faculty member in politics) OK, I admit I opened Matt Kibbe’s “Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto” expecting to hate it. Kibbe is president and CEO of FreedomWorks, a leading Tea Party organization. You just have to read Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein’s extremely even-handed It’s Even Worse Than It Looks to see why the Tea Party wing of today’s Republican Party is largely responsible for Congress’s current dysfunction.
As a senior at the University of Virginia, Monica Wright earned ACC Player of the Year, ACC Defensive Player of the Year, and National Defensive Player of the Year honors. She was the second overall pick in the 2010 WNBA Draft and is already a two-time champion with the Minnesota Lynx. And yet, for the 25-year-old Wright, her on-court success -- while fulfilling -- wasn't the only thing she wanted to accomplish. "I just really feel a call to reach out to kids," she said.
University of Virginia students this fall will face another cost increase to attend the school.
Henry Li, 23, a senior at the University of Virginia in the United States, rejects the use of Chinglish. “None of my friends, even if they are Chinese, uses these Chinglish buzzwords or slang when foreigners have no idea of them,” he says in a Skype call. “If I want to say something, I just use the normal words. Why waste time remembering these new phrases?”
An experimental, inexpensive iPhone application transmitted diagnostic heart images faster and more reliably than emailing photo images, according to a research study presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. “Simple cellular technology can save lives,” said David R. Burt, M.D., the study’s lead author and an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “This system may make pre-hospital ECG transmission a more inexpensive and reliable option. That ca...