Mike Pettine Jr.'s $30,000 bet on himself has come down to the $3 million-a-year question. Did he tell his story well enough in a second interview Tuesday to be offered the Browns' head coaching job?
Where the savings come is in indigent care. DMAS in 2012 assumed a 50 percent reduction in indigent care costs, but made that assumption with little data from the state’s two main teaching hospitals, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.
If you've ever wondered how the land lies in terms of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the United States , listen to Veronica Scarisbrick interviewing our expert in this field. He's historian, Professor Gerald Fogarty SJ from the University of Virginia in the United States and he brings us the first in a two part series which takes us from 1783 to 1951.
(Commentary) “We are not Google’s customers: we are its product,” Siva Vaidhyanathan writes in “The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry).” “We – our fancies, fetishes, predilections, and preferences – are what Google sells to advertisers. When we use Google to find out things on the Web, Google uses our Web searches to find out things about us.”
University of Virginia research shows that slightly more than one in 10 people in the commonwealth receive monthly food stamp benefits. According to a census brief released Tuesday through the Weldon Cooper Center, 11.6 percent of Virginians get subsidies through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The center says the majority of households with people receiving benefits have at least one person who is employed.
On today’s Virginia Conversations, imagine taking a college course in geography and your instructor’s halfway around the world. Host May-Lily Lee talks with Kathy Thornton, UVA mechanical aerospace engineering professor, about the Semester at Sea program.
People of all socio-economic levels are putting off marriage to their late 20s and 30s for two main reasons: money and culture, according to "Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America," a report released in 2013 from the National Campaign To Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the RELATE Institute.
Treat Huey of the Philippines and Dominic Inglot of Great Britain faded in the crucial point of the match and dropped a 6-7 (7-3), 7-6 (8-6), 6-4, decision Tuesday to unseeded American Eric Butorac and South African Raven Klaasen in the Australian Open men’s doubles quarterfinals. It was a stinging loss for the long-time pair from University of Virginia, who recovered from a break of serve to force and eventually win the first set tiebreak.
"It's been quite a fall from grace for him," said Geoffrey Skelley of the UVa. Center for Politics. … Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics tweeted: “A sad day for Virginia.”
Longtime Indians TV broadcaster Jimmy Dudley will be inducted posthumously into the Indians Distinguished Hall of Fame for non-uniformed personnel. Dudley, an Indians TV broadcaster from 1948-1967 on WJW and WERE, is a member of the broadcasters’ wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Dudley, a native of Alexandria, Va., played baseball, football and basketball at the University of Virginia. He did play-by-play for the Cubs, and after serving in World War II, joined the Indians during the team’s World Series season of 1948.
U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner was scheduled to speak to about 100 students Tuesday afternoon at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. The program was delayed briefly and relocated to a different location on Grounds.
A group of University of Virginia students from both sides of the political spectrum are getting in on the action in Richmond. The group helped draft a new proposal to raise awareness about mental health resources on college campuses.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, suggested that the disclosures in the indictment set a new standard for misbehavior. "I'm not going to say the state hasn't had corrupt officials, but they have been relatively few - and none at the level of Governor and First Lady," Sabato said. "It's a real shock to those of us who have lived in the state all our lives and know the culture," he said.
At the luncheon, Star Scientific handed out $25,000 grants to Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia – grants that prosecutors allege were designed to set up the future funding of university research of Anatabloc with money provided by the state’s tobacco commission.
Added Audrey Cao, a University of Virginia senior who made the trip in 2013: “Just from the dynamics of their conversation, you can see that he is very comfortable with her.”
According to the University of Virginia's Environmental Health and Safety program, drains inside the vehicle maintenance buildings and bus washing areas drain to the sanitary sewer via an oil-water separator.
In 2011 and 2012, Star Scientific was also trying to persuade scientists at the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University to submit an application on the company’s behalf to the state’s tobacco commission, which distributes Virginia’s share of the 1998 legal settlement with major cigarette companies. The company needed university involvement to fund research on its Anatabloc pill because the tobacco commission does not accept applications from for-profit entities. According to the indictment, Maureen McDonnell in a February 2012 e-mail pressed an aide of the...