The subject at the Aspen Strategy Group was “The Future of American Defense.” The speakers were Michelle Flournoy, a former under secretary of defense for policy, and Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia. Not until time was running out on this otherwise interesting review of American defense policy was a question raised about the future of American policy towards China. Both speakers quickly leaped at the question, labeling it, in no uncertain terms, as the most important strategic question facing the Obama administration.
Micron said it is working with Georgia Tech, the University of Missouri, and the University of Virginia to develop new applications for Automata. Although the company has not announced a date for final products, a software development kit is slated to come out next year, along with simulation tools.
In recognition of Virginia Board of Education president David Foster’s contributions to education through public service, the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education Foundation has selected him to receive its 2013 Distinguished Service to the Commonwealth Award.
Annual rates for general liability coverage can reach well into tens of thousands of dollars at large institutions, said Kenneth S. Abraham, a law professor at the University of Virginia. He said the Penn State case could encourage schools to rethink their liability coverage. "It may be that they take another look at it and buy some more coverage. That's certainly a possibility," said Abraham, a scholar in insurance law. "I don't think there's necessarily a wholesale race to buy more coverage."
After a final round of interviews Saturday morning, Charlie Tyson, a senior at the University of Virginia, was certain of one thing: He had no chance of winning.
A University of Virginia student organization is raising money for the restoration of the Rotunda with an online auction through next week. RestoreUVa aims to raise at least $20,000 during its auction, which ends Dec. 5.
Students in a University of Virginia School of Commerce class are giving back to the community in a huge way this holiday season. They have collectively raised more than $25,000 for 15 charities in the Charlottesville area through a class assignment.
Experts say there is no need to be discouraged because hiring is happening. Underwood says some of the hot jobs in Charlottesville are at University of Virginia football and basketball games. They provide steady seasonal work and the pay is above minimum wage.
Unless the president reverses this course toward increasing distrust and credibility, those hoping to ride his coattails into the November 2014 elections may be in for great disappointments. Although still a year away, pollsters and readers of the political tea leaves, John Giokaris at PolicyMic.com and Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, have started to weigh in with their prognostications for various Senate races.
But if Americans are sorting themselves into like-minded communities, are they doing so on purpose? In other words, are people voting with their feet by consciously moving to states or counties that reflect their own partisan preferences? Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Southern California suggest that, yes, they may be.
A graduate student at the University of Virginia is representing the next generation of international academic cooperation in disease research. Lufuno Mavhandu, 31, is visiting UVa’s School of Medicine from her home University of Venda in South Africa as she works toward completing her Ph.D. and furthering her research on HIV.
The University of Virginia is hoping to get more philanthropic support for its financial aid program, President Teresa A. Sullivan said. In a recent interview, Sullivan talked about the future of AccessUVa and rising costs that could lead to further tuition increases.
Robin Felder, associate director of clinical chemistry at the University of Virginia, US, welcomes the advance. Looking ahead, Felder anticipates that ‘aptamer technology promises to revolutionise the scope of continuous clinical analysis in personalised medicine. Wearable sensors will report critical health issues on a minute-to-minute basis allowing for therapies that are tailored to the individual and their personal challenges with health.’
Larry J. Sabato, politics professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Feeding Frenzy,” a book about the press seizing on storylines, said the turkey story fits the mold of a feeding frenzy. “The toughest stories to rebut or refute are those that reinforce a subtext that press and public have adopted about a president,” he said, adding that the press had such a subtext about Mr. Bush and Iraq. “This falls into the category of ‘too good to check.’ That’s usually the case for false or silly subtext stories.”
(By James G. Clawson, Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business) Is leadership born or built? What about the in-between position that says early childhood is an imprinting that’s hard to undo? That faction claims that unless the tendency to lead is learned early on, it’s not likely to happen later in life. I say leadership can be taught. But then, I have a unique definition of leadership.
Quotes from the 2013 University of Virginia Investment Conference, held at the Darden School of Business.
The opposing rulings, and others like them, made the Conestoga question one justices were likely to take up, said Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia expert in the law of religious freedom.
The Thursday afternoon gathering of male students outside Natalie Randolph's first-floor environmental science classroom at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School is hard to ignore. Even after the final dismissal bell, the rowdy group of boys is not quick to leave the Northwest D.C. campus. Four years ago, Randolph, who grew up in D.C. and received her bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia, took on the role of what many say was the first female high school football coach in the country.
This Thanksgiving, the family of Ladavian Terry, of Blacksburg, is celebrating his first birthday. That’s a landmark for any child, but it holds special significance for them — they weren’t sure he’d make it that far. Ladavian was born with a congenital heart defect last November, and received a heart transplant at the University of Virginia Medical Center in March.