While political scientists may quibble, there seems to be a broad consensus among political pundits that 2014 turned out to be a Republican “wave” election. There are still 50,000 votes to be counted in the Alaska Senate race (although Republican challenger Dan Sullivan’s 8,100 vote lead looks very promising for an eventual win there). And the run-off for Louisiana’s Senate seat won’t come until December 6, but prospects look good for the Republican challenger there as well). Thus, we don’t yet know whether the ...
We've always known that Lil Wayne is a great rapper, but a new book takes that claim to another level. Written by University of Virginia Professor Kreston Kent, The Literary Genius of Lil Wayne: The case for Lil Wayne to be counted among Shakespeare and Dylan sets out to prove that Lil Wayne is literally the best rapper alive.
(By Jeff Goldsmith, an associate professor of public health sciences at U.Va.) Several developments — fewer uninsured, a focus on value, declining mortality, among others — indicate our health system is moving in a positive direction. Many health care executives and professionals are wary, glass-half-empty people, conditioned by long experience to dwell on business risks. However, today's health care environment is actually full of good news.
Malcolm Brogdon is fast becoming a rarity in this age of one-and-done college basketball phenomenons. He will begin his redshirt junior season Friday at James Madison as a preseason first-team all-ACC selection, a burgeoning star for No. 9 Virginia after leading the team in scoring during last season’s NCAA tournament, when the team advanced to the Sweet 16. He is also simultaneously pursuing an undergraduate degree in history and an accelerated master’s degree in public policy at the university’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, intent on remaini...
In late 1986, Washington was rocked by revelations that the Ronald Reagan administration had illegally aided a stateless army known as the contras in Central America. Thus began the Iran-Contra scandal. In 1996, the subject of Contra drug dealing reappeared in a series of investigative articles by reporter Gary Webb published by the San Jose Mercury News in California. Unemployed, shunned by his own colleagues and practically abandoned by progressive sectors that had lost interest in the Contra story, Webb took his own life in 2004. What’s truly tragic and ironic in this w...
So if running a winery is so expensive and hard, why would a neurologist from England sell his two homes and practice to move to Nelson County and open a vineyard? “We had always dreamed of owning a vineyard so we got rid of it all in one year and moved,” Andrew Hodson, owner of Veritas Vineyard and Winery in Afton said. Hodson is the co-chair of the Nelson County Community Fund and holds an “Opportunity Ball” each year to raise money for local non-profits. He also is on the board for the Blue Ridge Medical Center, co-chair of the safety committee for University o...
MacArthur Foundation “Genius” award-winner warned the Charlottesville philanthropic and nonprofit community Monday that the status quo wasn’t going to cut it when it comes to the way we view and support at-risk youth. “We are not going to make it the way we are going, we are going to lose this country,” said Pittsburgh native William E. Strickland, Jr, President & CEO, Manchester Bidwell Corporation. The Center for Nonprofit Excellence also hosted a breakfast with Strickland attended by about 50 non-profit leaders and University of Virginia students and facult...
When Robin Fray Carey married for the third time two years ago, she vowed to avoid the estate-planning conflicts she had seen in other blended families -- children from earlier marriages cut out of the will, kids barred from visiting a sick parent or attending the funeral. Carey has two sons from a prior marriage, and her husband, John Casey, has four daughters from his two earlier marriages; their kids' ages range from 22 to 45. Carey and her husband each have financial assets accumulated over a career, she as an entrepreneur and he as a novelist and professor at the University of Virgini...
Everyone's path to success is different.For some, it's mostly linear. Others encounter more twists, turns, and bumps along the way. Tina Fey was a childcare registrar at the YMCA before joining famed improv troupe Second City. After graduating from the University of Virginia, Fey moved to Chicago and hung around acting workshops and even worked as the childcare registrar at a YMCA before improv troupe Second City invited her to join.
Twenty years ago, it was tough to identify a half-dozen education professors at elite institutions who were sympathetic to the tenets of contemporary reform. Today, there are dozens of such faculty, at places like Stanford, Harvard, the University of Virginia, Michigan, the University of Southern California, the University of Pennsylvania, and Vanderbilt, who are fair-mindedly studying teacher pay, accountability, charter schooling, and much else that was once verboten. So things are getting better. Even faculty are more open than they once were.
College students know more than anyone how hard it is to try to be an adult. Students living on their own suddenly must make decisions on their own, but oftentimes they feel lost and too intimidated to make those important decisions. What the report found, according to Richard Bonnie, chair of the committee and a law professor at the University of Virginia, was that young adulthood is a critical period of development with long-lasting implications for a person’s economic stability, health and general well-being and should therefore be viewed as a separate subpopulation rather than groupi...
Laundry detergent pods are great: They’re tidy, efficient and attractive. They’re also insanely dangerous to kids, according to an unprecedented study on the seemingly innocuous household item. Published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, the study found detergent pods posed a significant health risk to children, particularly to babies and toddlers. Kristin Wenger, education coordinator for the University of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Poison Center, also noted that these pods are more harmful to young children. “There’s something about these concentrated ...
On Saturday, November 8, 2014, as part of the Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville Tomorrow sponsored a screening of the documentary Fed Up, which examines the role sugar plays in the modern food industry. Following the movie, Dr. Christine M. Burt Solorzano, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, hosted a Q&A with Katie Couric—the documentary’s producer—and Dr. Mark Hyman, author and regular contributor to the Dr. Oz Show.
For a full 24 hours, University of Virginia ROTC members are standing watch to honor lost and captured service members. ROTC members are marching silently in shifts at the UVA Amphitheater. The vigil is a team effort by 96 members of the Air Force, Army, and Navy ROTC branches.
On the eve of Veteran's Day students at UVa. honored prisoners of war and those who are missing in action. Beginning at 3:00pm Monday, 96 midshipmen and cadets from UVa.'s three ROTC branches took turns silently marching at the McIntire Amphitheater as part of a 24-hour long vigil. The students hope to serve as a visual reminder of those who have gone missing or were captured serving in our country's defense, and defending our freedom.
Most CEOs, in fact, keep their faith squarely out of the workplace, according to Andrew Wicks, a professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “They specifically hide their religious faith, precisely because they fear people making a big deal out of their religious views,” said Wicks, who teaches a course called “Faith, Religion, and Responsible Decision Making.”But Wicks says being open about faith is actually important because it is a powerful aspect of how business leaders define themselves.
A group of scientists are urging Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) to embrace strong targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Obama administration’s carbon pollution rules. In a letter on Monday, 15 scientists from universities across Virginia pressure McAuliffe to use the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon pollution standards for existing power plants to set ambitious reduction targets for the state. Dr. Edward Maibach, director of George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change, joined scientists from the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech ...