George Gelnovatch and Steve Swanson had always been friendly, but back in 2005 they took their relationship to another level. Gelnovatch, the Virginia men’s soccer coach, and Swanson, the UVa women’s coach, teamed up to coach their 8-year-old sons in a local SOCA league. Virginia is the only school that still has both a men’s and women’s team alive in the NCAA Tournament. Tonight, the men host Connecticut in the NCAA quarterfinals, while the women square off against UCLA in the College Cup semifinals in Cary, N.C.
It's not just doctors, but the entire community supporting one 3-month-old at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
“There’s no question that job approval is the most important by far,” says Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. “It is the ultimate summary statistic—a prism through which we get a sense of everything, how the country’s going, the economy, the president himself all rolled into one. .  .  . The other measures are interesting, but they are a ‘slice of life.’ As Carter showed, you can be trusted and personally liked but still lose.”
(Editorial) With high school seniors across Fairfax County sending out college applications this month, the annual debate pitting in-state and out-of-state applicants to Virginia’s top universities is heating up. Things will only get hotter when word gets out that a South Lakes or Langley student with a 4.22 grade-point average and gold-plated SAT scores was wait-listed by the University of Virginia and rejected outright by William & Mary. Real or imagined, the perception from many Virginia families is that thousands of spots at the state’s top public schools are reserved for o...
As college applications are sent out, applicants are dealing with anxiety over admission to Virginia’s top universities. While the stomach-knotting is new to these applicants, it has become a recurring issue in the state government. Now, a proposal to cap out-of-state admissions to Virginia public universities is gaining momentum locally.
A national report shows athletic spending for athletes has far outpaced academic spending for full-time students at Virginia Commonwealth University in recent years, while at the University of Virginia, the opposite has occurred. The figures are contained in a database and report released Wednesday by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which compiled data self-reported by public institutions on NCAA financial reports and on reports required by the federal government.
Traffic on West Main Street will be one-way westbound today through Monday because of construction on the new Battle Building at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital.
University of Virginia professor John Mason wrapped up his last class of South African history just before hearing the news that Mandela passed away. Mason met Mandela in the early '90s and says his presence was powerful. "He had a psychological aura about him that, here's a man that had already accomplished so much in his life. Here's a man who had suffered in ways that most of us can hardly imagine and had come out of it with no bitterness and no hatred and in fact he had defeated hatred,” Mason said.
South Africa's transition from decades of white minority rule and a system of racial oppression known as apartheid was not without bloodshed, but Mandela helped keep political negotiations on track at a time when many worried the country could spiral into civil war. "There were several occasions during which Mandela was the figure who kept South Africa together," says John Edwin Mason, a University of Virginia historian. "It was as though Mandela was head of state, even though he had yet to be elected president."
A holiday tradition keeps going strong in the University of Virginia’s Cabell Hall Auditorium. The ninth annual Family Holiday Concerts, set for 8 p.m. Saturday and 3:3 p.m. Sunday, will bring the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra and UVa’s University Singers to the stage.
The awe-inspiring John Singleton Mosby, nicknamed the Gray Ghost, was a far cry from the boy who was a frequent target of bullies during his school years in Charlottesville, Va., or the young man who was expelled from the University of Virginia and spent a year in jail for shooting George Turpin after Turpin physically attacked him.
“There’s a saying that if you’ve seen one emergency medical system, you’ve seen one emergency medical system – no two are alike,” said Dr. Robert E. O’Connor, a vice president of the American College of Emergency Medicine and chairman of the department at the University of Virginia. Charges and payments, he said, “are all over the place.”
Siva Vaidhyanathan knew that serving as department chair meant devoting big chunks of time to others' pursuits. He had wanted to wait to take on the job until later in his career. But in a department of a half-dozen professors, he had little choice. "I knew it was my turn," says Mr. Vaidhyanathan, 47, a full professor who is near the end of a three-year term as chair of the media-studies department at the University of Virginia.
More than 70 percent of college graduates in 2012 had student loans, and their average debt surpassed $29,000, according to an independent analysis of federal data made public Wednesday. Both figures were higher than what was found in a comparable profile of graduates four years earlier.
"It's like a gift every time that I come here, and watching the first wall come up, my breath was taken away with just how amazing this all is,” said Jen Eccles, co-founder of Faith. Hope. Love. Between raising five kids and working as a pediatric nurse at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Eccles somehow finds time to volunteer. After collecting almost $10,000 toward Project Love, she and other volunteers share joy that soon guests there will have access to safe children's play areas, counseling services and a kitchenette.
Graduate students from the University of Virginia School of Architecture will be putting on a public presentation called the “Community History of Lovingston” as part of the final project in production for a Community History Workshop course. The presentation will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Nelson Memorial Library in Lovingston.
Students are unlikely to spread the bacteria to their families when they return home, however, because private homes are so much less crowded than dormitories, said Jim Turner, a University of Virginia professor who oversees the College Health Surveillance Network.
On this edition of UVa Today Bob Beard talks with Amy Rodgers, a fourth-year at the University of Virginia. Rodgers tells us about the 13th Annual Lighting of the Lawn, a well-known Christmas tradition at the university.
In the already murky realm of college ratings – in which every campus quality from academic rigor to architecture is boiled down to a number – perhaps no designation is more opaque than the "best value" school.
The national prognosticating Cook Political Report rates his race as “toss-up,” as does University of Virginia political scientist and handicapper Larry Sabato.