In a session on the Free Exercise clause at the conference sponsored by the Freedom Forum, Doug Laycock, a University of Virginia First Amendment professor, said in some ways the state of religious rights has improved since RFRA became law, but "in some ways it's worse."
Students at the University of Virginia want you to take an extra second Friday and make sure your soda can makes it into the recycling bin. Members of UVA's Sustainability Department celebrated America Recycles Day on the UVA lawn by building a mural out of university recycling bins.
U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will deliver the commencement address at the University of Virginia on May 18, the school announced Friday.
For a physically demanding job like firefighting, fitness is a basic requirement and may protect against injury, U.S. researchers say. After tracking men and women in the Tucson, Arizona, fire department for five years, the study team found firefighters with the highest aerobic capacity tended to have the fewest work-related sprains, strains and other injuries. Even though the least fit firefighters were in better shape than the general population, the study shows "those that are ‘less fit' in an otherwise fairly fit population of firefighters and medics are still susceptible to...
Riche T. McKnight, a partner at the law firm of Winston & Strawn and a former executive director in the Morgan Stanley litigation department, is among the candidates to succeed ousted NBA Players Association chief Billy Hunter, two people with direct knowledge of the search said.
"When you come into the White House, that is the moment of great promise," said Russell Riley, presidential scholar and associate professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. But ultimately the demands of working for a president take their toll and attrition sets in.
Experts in the world of finance are sharing their views with a group of listeners at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. A sold out crowd gathered Friday morning for the 6th Annual UVa Investing Conference. Experts spoke on a variety of topics, including hedge funds, bonds and stocks.
(Book review) Going to college in the 19th century was not all somber black robes and quills scratching away at paper. As former Richmond Times-Dispatch reporters Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos vividly illustrate in their excellent “Rot, Riot and Rebellion,” a campus crawling with adolescent, privileged young men away from home for the first time was as horrifying a prospect 200 years ago as it is now. In fact, it was worse. After a lifetime of work on the project, Thomas Jefferson saw his University of Virginia open in 1825, only to watch helplessly as it seemed to head down the wro...
The University of Virginia gave its medical students a welcome break from studying Friday. Therapy dogs came to UVA's Medical Library to relieve some stress and spread some love.
Concerns about a pilot federal program being considered by Charlottesville housing officials echo those that derailed an earlier, more ambitious federal initiative to prod housing authorities to seek private financing to pay for fixes. Chief among them is whether banks will bite based on terms the feds would stipulate, what rates lenders might set and the threat to affordable housing posed by possible foreclosure. “In the extreme, it is so risky that no lender would do it,” said Ed Olsen, a University of Virginia economist.
University of Virginia Center for Politics political analyst Kyle Kondik said the Bush-Obama parallel resonates because of the issue of competency. “They’re similar because it was a question of incompetence, as opposed to a policy disagreement with the American people,” Kondik said. “It’s more about the execution of the policy than the policy itself.”
The Blue Ridge Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is scheduled to hold its 22nd annual fundraising banquet, Dinner of Champions, on Tuesday. The dinner, held at the Boar’s Head Inn, will honor two local leaders in the nursing field. Dorrie Fontaine, dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and Amy Black, chief nurse executive at Martha Jefferson Hospital, will receive the Silver Hope Award.
As Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off, advisers to both leaders lobbied for war. "They walked to the abyss, they looked over and they were both terrified," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics. "We know this is true … Krushchev's son told me himself."
The attorney general's race in Virginia is not officially over and most likely it'll be headed for a recount. But regardless of the recount results, the race could end up being decided by the state's General Assembly. Under state law, the losing candidate can contest an election to a joint session of the state legislature. "It's unlikely but possible," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
The president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States is slated to speak at the University of Virginia School of Law on Tuesday about the protection of animals.
Edward Freeman, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, was the highlight for Eddy Almand. “I was just really inspired by his talks on taking the traditional capitalist idea of money and greed and changing that thought. I thought that was inspiring,” he said.
What also was noticeable on opening night was that the mostly student audience was often raptly attentive to the show, apparently totally engaged with it. That’s not what might be expected with most Ibsen plays, so the work done on this show clearly has hit home with its young audience. That says a great deal for the quality of the show, and its success with the intended audience. It is, overall, a show that educates, and does a fine job of it.
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors approved the core elements of a five-year strategic plan Friday, making way for a revamped student advising system and a push to hire new faculty.