Students at colleges of osteopathic medicine could qualify for state scholarships in exchange for committing to work in rural Virginia under the terms of a new bill working its way through the General Assembly.Sen. Bill Stanley, R-Franklin, is angling to revive a program created to attract doctors to underserved and poorer parts of the state. In the past, the scholarship only was available to medical students at the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Eastern Virginia Medical School.
The University of Virginia plans an internal review of academic integrity in its athletics programs to ensure athletes are receiving an education that meets the school’s standards.U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan has commissioned the Task Force on Academic Integrity in Athletics, headed by law professor Alex Johnson, to conduct the review.
The University of Virginia is honoring the legacy of Dr. King through the end of the month. The theme of this year's community MLK Celebration is "Giving Voice" against injustice. Teach-ins, film screenings, and discussions are scheduled around UVA and Charlottesville.
Two fraternities that had initially resisted approving updated agreements with the University of Virginia said Friday that they had signed the new contracts under pressure from the school’s administration.The Kappa Alpha Order and Alpha Tau Omega fraternities joined the 29 other U-Va. houses in signing the Fraternal Order Agreements with the university by Friday’s deadline. Inter-Fraternity Council president Tommy Reid said that all 31 members of the organization had agreed to accept the new rules, which were designed by the university to discourage binge drinking at parties and en...
A University of Virginia junior who is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity was elected president of the influential Inter-Fraternity Council this week.Ben Gorman, who previously served as a vice president on the IFC, was elected to a one-year term on Tuesday, according to the Cavalier Daily student newspaper.
(By S. Fred Singer is professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project) Contrary to persistent claims by environmentalists, Methane is not an important greenhouse gas (GHG); it has a totally negligible impact on climate. Attempts to control methane emissions make little sense; the just-announced [Jan 14] White House plan to reduce emissions by 40 to 45% by 2025 ignores well-established ‘text-book’ science.
(By Deborah Hellman is the D. Lurton Massee Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law)Citizens United may have been just what the United States needed — a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court so dramatically wrongheaded that people across the country paid attention to it and said, “Hold on, something is wrong here.”Though the actual ruling simply extended the flawed approach to campaign-finance laws that the court had been following for decades, Citizens United shined a light on the justices’ reasoning and demonstrated its shortcomings by taking that r...
The tallies are in, and Sen. Harry Reid has pulled the short end of the stick: He’s been rated the “most vulnerable” of all Democrats by Larry Sabato, the political scientist who oversees the University of Virginia’s Crystal Ball polling site.
Sign your kids up for dance class, STAT. That is, if you want them to learn computer skills and survive the 21st century. Choreography's not so different from computing, says Jennifer Chiu, an assistant professor of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education at the University of Virginia. Both require rhythm and precision alongside abstraction. Plus, it's "potentially transformative" to get otherwise uninterested young people addicted to computer science.
(By Harold A. Gould is a Visiting Professor of South Asian Studies in the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia ) It has been widely publicized that Barack Obama is the first American president who will be guest of honour at the Jan. 26 Republic Day festivities since this dazzling celebration commenced in 1950.I personally witnessed this grand event in 1960 when Queen Elizabeth II was the honored guest. As Al Jazeera reported (Jan 7), “Modi has been courted by the United States as a key partner in the attempt to rebalance U.S. diplomatic weight towards As...
Some researchers explain why - compared to previous generations - some of the defining qualities of today's marriages make it harder for couples to cultivate a flourishing relationship. The simple answer is that people today expect more out of their marriage.Other researchers, like sociologist Jeffrey Dew, support the notion that time is a crucial factor in sustaining a successful marriage.Dew, who is a professor at the University of Virginia, found that Americans in 1975 spent, on average, 35 hours a week alone with their spouse while couples in 2003 spent 26 hours together. Child-rearing...
An impressive body of psychological research suggests that the men who killed Brown and Martin need not have been conscious, overt racists to do what they did (though they may have been). The same goes for the crowds that flock to support the shooter each time these tragedies become public, or the birthers whose racially tinged conspiracy theories paint President Obama as a usurper. These people who voice mind-boggling opinions while swearing they're not racist at all—they make sense to science, because the paradigm for understanding prejudice has evolved. There "doesn't nee...
As the University of Virginia's head basketball coach during the 1990s, Jeff Jones scheduled opponents from across the commonwealth. And not just at home. On the road and at neutral sites, too. Understand that Jones' Cavaliers ruled the state then. Among other programs, Jones is most aware of, naturally, Virginia, his alma mater — he was the point guard on the Cavaliers' 1981 Final Four squad — and former employer. Moreover, his son, Jeff Jr., is a Cavaliers walk-on."Clearly they're good," Jones said, "but after watching how they kind of dismantled Cl...
When Julian Bond and Phyllis Leffler began their oral history project on black leadership, many of the people they interviewed said, “Well, where are the black leaders? King is gone and no one has come to take his shoes.”The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was such an obvious symbol, Leffler said, that people were looking for another towering figure. “People put him on a pedestal, venerated him. But that can lead you to not recognize other kinds of leadership in our midst.”At the University of Virginia, she and Bond, a civil rights icon who was on the faculty with her, spen...
Ministers, community leaders and members of the Charlottesville community packed Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church for the 30th annual community celebration of Dr. King’s life. Along with music, there were plenty of speakers who talked about Dr. King's dream becoming a reality, including University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan.
Some high school students got the chance to take a look inside the University of Virginia Medical Center on Monday.Dozens of students spent the afternoon at the U.Va. School of Nursing's Simulation Center. They learned how to take blood pressure readings and care for critically injured patients.
A bill introduced by the majority leader of the House of Delegates on Tuesday is intended to reduce the growth of student fees spent on athletics at the state’s 15 public colleges, and it would likely force ODU, Norfolk State and James Madison to reduce their athletics budgets or increase revenue from other sources. Most colleges in Virginia use different accounting methods, making it difficult to compare their budgets. Cox’s bill would require state agencies to come up with a standardized formula to determine the true expenses of athletics. Colette Sheehy, the vice president of ma...
He’s the ultimate Democratic insider, the most powerful liberal you’ve probably never heard of, especially if you live outside the nation's capital. To Beltway insiders, John Podesta needs no introduction; when two presidents -- and a woman who wants to be the next one -- know your name, everyone else in this town probably does, too. “He’s just a very important player in Democratic and liberal circles,” Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, tells Whispers. “He’s in a lot of w...