Charlottesville’s City Council approved a special-use permit Wednesday that will allow a 648-bedroom student-housing complex to be built at the corner of West Main and Roosevelt Brown Boulevard. A divided council voted 3-2 to grant the permit, which allows Campus Acquisitions to build a multi-story, mixed-use building near the University of Virginia Medical Center.
Cash crises, political grudge matches, suicide. None of it stopped David Walentas from forging a ten-digit fortune by creating an entire neighborhood in New York’s underdog borough. And he’s about to do it all again.
According to research by Chloe R. Gibbs, an assistant professor of public policy and education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville only 1 in 10 3- and 4-year-olds was enrolled in formal early education when Head Start began, compared to more than 40 percent today. About a third of students entering the program had never been fully inoculated against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, or polio—common childhood illnesses at the time. In 1967 alone, Head Start programs identified and treated 900,000 dental defects and 2,200 active cases of tuberculosis, Ms. Gibbs found.
Amaree Cluff and Brad Frazier join the cast from the University of Virginia MFA in Acting program as part of a new partnership between the Virginia Repertory Theatre and UVA.
“People see themselves as reasonable,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “And they want to vote for people they see as reasonable.”
"The main thing that's confusing about FCPA enforcement is that the outcomes are so divergent," says Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor who is working on a book about corporate prosecutions. "From the outside it's hard to understand why some companies get purely SEC enforcement, others get a nonprosecution agreement, others get a deferred- prosecution agreement, and others plead guilty and are convicted."
(Commentary by Neil Snyder, Ralph A. Beeton Professor Emeritus) I can't say anything specific about the McDonnell case because I don't know the facts, but I can say this: holding politicians accountable for their actions is long overdue.
The University of Virginia released numbers for early admission, and more than 3,500 students received offers, from more than 13,500 applications.
Wednesday, Larry Sabato from the University of Virginia Center for Politics is talking about the corruption scandal that's made headlines across the nation. Sabato says the allegations are pretty shocking - even though just about everyone saw it coming.
Before the new year gets any older, this reporter wants to give a shout-out to a colleague who just left the higher education beat after a notable four-year run of coverage of American college life. Jenna Johnson, now on Maryland politics for The Post, produced a memorable array of stories on higher ed from 2009 through 2013. Jenna’s byline was all over the 2012 University of Virginia leadership crisis and its still-volatile aftermath and the death of U-Va. student Yeardley Love and the subsequent trial of ex-U-Va. student George Huguely V.
Some schools would not hire Tourre because of his record. Patricia Werhane, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, put it bluntly: “We would not hire him at Darden. But I might bring him to speak.” (Business schools often bring in convicted felons and disgraced executives in an effort to scare students straight and warn them about ethical and legal pitfalls.)
Five years ago, the War Powers Commission at the University of Virginia proposed legislation that would require the president to get permission from Congress to commit U.S. troops to combat operations lasting more than a week. The proposal could become reality this year, as Congress discusses a bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Timothy M. Kaine, D-Va., and John McCain, R-Ariz., based on the proposal. Kaine was at the university’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy on Wednesday afternoon to talk about the legislation, which he called “an obsession of mine.”
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be at the University of Virginia on Thursday afternoon to talk about a range of topics, including civil rights, mass incarceration, national security and privacy.
During a visit to the University of Virginia, Sen. Mark R. Warner said student debt is weighing down entrepreneurship and business innovation.
Sen. Tim Kaine talked to students at the University of Virginia Wednesday about a bipartisan bill he's introduced in Congress, but he also gave reaction to the federal charges that former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife are facing.
Stem cells can turn into heart cells, skin cells can mutate to cancer cells; even cells of the same tissue type exhibit small heterogeneities. Scientists use single-cell analyses to investigate these heterogeneities. But the method is still laborious and considerable inaccuracies conceal smaller effects. Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen and the University of Virginia (USA) have now found a way to simplify and improve the analysis by mathematical methods
Starting next fall, Yale will join a pre-existing partnership between Harvard, Princeton and the University of Virginia for a set of joint admissions outreach trips, focusing on areas of the country that have traditionally been underrepresented in these schools’ recent application cycles.
Researchers at the University of Virginia say more than one in 10 Virginians receives food stamps. The research is from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service's Demographics Research Group. It found that so-called SNAP payments totaled $1.2 billion in 2012.