Mark Miear holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Liberty University, a master’s degree in educational leadership from Lynchburg College, and a doctor of education in educational leadership from the University of Virginia.
An outdoorsman who enjoys fishing, hunting and training a flamethrower on nonnative plants around his cottage in southwestern Wisconsin, Carpenter “sees the big picture faster and better than most scientists,” said Michael Pace, an ecologist at the University of Virginia and a collaborator.
Ronald McDonald House of Charlottesville gives families a place to stay while their children receive treatment at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
The discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals a previously unknown mechanism by which cells that are about to die inform the cells that are about to eat them how to handle the cholesterol they contain. By stimulating or simulating this molecular messaging, doctors may one day be able to better regulate the body’s levels of HDL and LDL cholesterol – the so-called “good” and “bad” cholesterols.
Julia Ticona, a fellow in UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, writes the latest entry in a project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on changes in the workplace.
The MadiDrop, a new disinfecting water tablet, has the potential to help millions of people in developing countries.
A more-objective approach would suit UVA’s Josipa Roksa. Academic challenge might be more accurately captured, she said, by the number of pages students are assigned to read and write, for example, or the number of hours they report studying.
Brad Wilcox, who heads the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies, said the “I’m-OK-you’re-not-OK” perspective on marriage could reveal something about people’s worldviews. Wilcox, who also consulted on development of the survey, said half of kids spend some time outside of an intact marriage, “an indicator that all’s not well” in marriages. That fewer young adults than older adults see marriage as important could portend a future dip in ma...
I recently spoke to one of the people who had a hand in drafting the Constitution back then [1971], University of Virginia Professor A.E. “Dick” Howard. He confirmed Virginia’s Constitution purposefully included provisions “to put a nail in the coffin” of massive resistance.
WMRA’s Kara Lofton takes a detailed look at the current Guatemalan healthcare crisis and the attempt of one UVA physician to provide some relief.
Students at the University of Virginia are marking America Recycles Day by using things tossed out to make a point.
A new report has named the University of Virginia one of the top 25 colleges sending students on study-abroad programs for the first time in school history.
(subscription required)One man’s shattered shin does not compare to those tragedies, but everybody remembers where they were when it happened. “It was sort of a collective pain and shock we all felt,” Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan said. He’s now a professor of modern media studies at the University of Virginia. On Nov. 18, 1985, he was watching the game with his dorm buddies at Texas. “Monday Night Football” was America’s campfire. In that pre-digital age, everybody gathered around it.
In practice, however, corporate crime prosecutions are already relatively rare and frequently skip over executives and other top managers. “When employees are charged, it’s often lower-level employees,” University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett told HuffPost Live in September.
He says the massive ground search for University of Virginia student Hannah Graham in fall 2014 spurred the sheriff's office to look into UAS technology.
Some military experts in Charlottesville debated the president's foreign policy strategy in Syria on the University of Virginia campus Monday night.The Alexander Hamilton Society hosted a debate on whether the United States has an obligation to intervene in Syria.
“A character that looks like the changing demographic we live in can be a very positive influence,” says Shilpa Davé, an assistant professor of media studies and American studies at UVA. “It shows that heroes come in all shapes and sizes and from different backgrounds.”
Leonard Maltin, film critic and historian, writes about his positive experience at the Virginia Film Festival.
People gathered to sing songs, read poems, and play music. Solene Camus, language adviser at the French House, says the most difficult part was not being able to be there for family and friends during a horrific tragedy.
Getting on the ballot in Virginia is notoriously difficult. During the last presidential cycle, only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were able to meet the requirements. Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry tried but failed. Several Republican presidential campaigns filed a lawsuit challenging Virginia's rules, but the case was dismissed. Most of the Republicans didn't bother because it was so time-consuming and expensive. Since then, the number of signatures required was reduced from 10,000 to 5,000. But it's still a tall order. "Would it stun me if there was a name that we consider kind of ...