A Charlottesville basement fire Monday morning left nine University of Virginia students without housing, authorities said.
So what would a Republican candidate need to beat Mark Warner? Geoff Skelley of the University of Virginia Center for Politics says there are two major factors. "They are going to have to find somebody that can raise a lot of money pretty quickly and someone who can appeal statewide. The problem with beating Mark Warner is that he is probably the most popular politician in the state and he also has a lot of money."
Two startup companies that began in the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business i.Lab Incubator are now celebrating their success.
The Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 school board will discuss a University of Virginia school turnaround program tonight at its regular meeting. Since its inception in 2003, the UVA program has helped turn around failing schools in 16 states, including a number of Utah’s persistently low-achieving public schools. After implementing the program, Utah education officials said schools have achieved 20, 30 and 40 percent gains in areas such as reading, language arts and mathematics.
While Cuba remains off-limits to most U.S. travelers, the arrival of a ship full of American college students in Havana on Monday is being greeted as a milestone event in the half-century of contentious relations between the two countries. Operated by the Institute for Shipboard Education at the University of Virginia, the MV Explorer will spend three days in the communist-run country as part of the Institute’s Semester at Sea program, arriving nine years after its last visit.
Steve Swanson, who coached the USA to the championship at the 2012 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Japan, will hold his first training camp as the new head coach of the U.S. Under-23 Women’s National Team when the squad comes together for a camp from Dec. 14-21 in Sunrise, Fla. He most recently led the University of Virginia to an undefeated regular season and a berth in the NCAA Final Four where his squad fell in penalty kicks in the semifinal match to eventual champion UCLA.
Ninety minutes of regulation wasn’t enough to settle a Virginia-UCLA women’s national semifinal matchup on a picturesque Friday evening at WakeMed Soccer Park. A pair of 10-minute overtime sessions couldn’t seal it, either. For the first time since 2005, the College Cup had penalty kicks decide a winner in the semifinal round. For the first time since 2005, the Bruins are going to a national championship. UCLA won the shootout, 4-2, to break a 1-1 tie and deny UVa’s first trip to the final in program history. The top-seeded Cavaliers’ season ends at 24-1-1.
On a cold and rainy Friday night at Klockner Stadium, Jordan Allen’s goal in the 63rd minute propelled UVa to a 2-1 win over Connecticut in front of a crowd of 921. After starting the season 1-3, Virginia is headed back to the College Cup for the first time since 2009.
An SAR filing in the U.S. is required if a bank suspects a transaction of $5,000 or more could involve money laundering or terrorist financing. The definition of suspicious activity is vague and forces banks to use discretion in filing the reports, said Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. But a company also can be prosecuted for not having an effective anti-money-laundering program in place, he added.
"A court might say that contraception is relatively inexpensive and that failure to provide coverage for it is not sufficiently compelling to justify burdening an employer's religious liberty, while at the same time holding that failure to provide coverage for blood transfusions or vaccinations goes too far" because of the costs of getting those treatments and the potential health consequences of not having them, said Micah Schwartzman, a University of Virginia law professor.
For the most part, the sun still shines brightly on the most selective schools, which, so far, have been generally sheltered from the law school crisis, the report says. That goes for both prestigious private institutions, like Harvard, Yale, or Stanford, and public ones affiliated with flagship campuses, such as University of California, University of Michigan, University of Texas and University of Virginia.
(By Mike Lenox, professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and academic director at Darden’s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Rebecca Goldberg, a management consultant and educator at Goldberg Productions. Darden Professor Jared Harris co-authored the original case.) The big idea: As the holidays approached, video-game-console makers Sony and Microsoft released new machines. What factors and market dynamics will determine the winner in this latest gaming-industry battle?
Show up. It’s crunch time for recruiting, and finals mean another helping of stress. But a big—some say the biggest—part of business school is building relationships, and you can’t do that at home in your sweatpants. Even if you stop by for only a little while, that’s better than nothing, says Genie Ko, a vice president of the student association at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
With the 2013 election over, next year's election seems far away but not for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Friday the American Democracy Conference started looking ahead.
A team of three U.S. business school professors studied the differences between how North Americans and Asians settle conflict and negotiate--and if you plan to expand globally you may want to listen. Jeanne Brett, professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Kristin Behfar, an associate professor at the Darden School of Business at University of Virginia, and Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, a professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, say that both Westerners and Easterners need be aware of their inherent differences in business communication.
Two sisters are working to make this time of year special for kids who don't get to spend the holidays at home. Alyssa and Amanda Connor spent Friday evening making teddy bears to deliver to the kids at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital.
A candlelight vigil and private screening of the new Nelson Mandela film organized by University of Virginia students will be held Friday, Dec 6th. UVa. is one of only 10 colleges across the country to win the honor of hosting a private, pre-release screening of the new film, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM and in light of President Mandela's passing, the college students will be holding a candlelight vigil to honor his legacy immediately following the film outside the theater.
A climatologist at the University of Virginia spoke with NBC29 to break down the process of predicting a storm, which can be challenging in this part of the country. With 60-degree temperatures earlier this week, it's hard to believe central Virginia may see snow on Sunday. Climatologist and professor in UVA's environmental science department Robert Davis says things can change from one minute to the next, especially in this area.
Colleges and universities need to train a whole new generation of faculty leaders, University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan told a University of Georgia audience on Friday.