“The primary purpose of the standstill agreement between ISE and its creditors is to provide an orderly process for the sale of the MV Explorer, as ISE is returning to its original business model of two voyages per year,” Lauren Judge, a spokeswoman for ISE, said in an email to Inside Higher Ed.
In almost five years on the nation's most influential business court, J. Travis Laster (Law ’95) has built a reputation for being as tough on bankers as on the corporate directors they advise. He has censured boards he viewed as careless, ripped advisers he viewed as conflicted, rejected settlements he viewed as flimsy and halted transactions he viewed as unfair.
"The big picture of all this is, if our design does what we expect it to do, and if NASA could incorporate all this into their astronaut suits and just protect them from the radiation, it really makes a lot of headway into prolonged space travel," said Sajan Sheth, who will be attending the University of Virginia this fall. "We could've had something to do with that, which is incredible."
“Taking on debt is as American as apple pie,” said Karin Bonding, a finance lecturer at the University of Virginia. “However, living within your means gives you a freedom that can surely be called debt freedom. You owe nothing to anyone. That’s my definition of financial freedom.”
A new report recommends that the first two years of public universities and colleges be free nationwide, and a nonprofit called Redeeming America’s Promise goes even further with a proposal to give every lower- and middle-class student a scholarship to cover the full cost of college. “It’s very difficult to separate the politics from the economics,” said David Breneman, a professor in the economics of education at the University of Virginia. Breneman pronounced the free-college proposals “not realistic,” especially at four-year institutions (“That&rsqu...
If you’re looking for some good summer reading, a professor at the University of Virginia has the answer. He’s read War and Peace 15 times, and he wants you to enjoy it at least once. To help you tackle that 1,500 page tome, he’s written a book called “Give War and Peace a Chance.” It’s easy to see why people would be scared away from Tolstoy’s classic story. It has 361 chapters, nearly 600 characters, and in its time UVA Lecturer Andrew Kaufman says, it broke all the rules.
Charles Marsh, the acclaimed author of Reclaiming Bonhoeffer discusses his new book, Strange Glory: A life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which the Wall Street Journal calls “truly beautiful and heartbreaking.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was executed by the Nazis just weeks before the end of the war in Europe.
they paraphrase two other scholarly commentators (Matt Motyl of the University of Virginia and Ravi Iyer of the University of Southern California), who note that "successfully monitoring and attending negative features of the environment, as conservatives tend to do, may be just the sort of tractable task…that is more likely to lead to a fulfilling and happy life than is a constant search for new experience after new experience."
"It's making for great video theater ... and Perry has been projecting leadership," said Larry Sabato, the founder and director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
By Larry J. Sabato, university professor of politics and director of the Center for PoliticsSuppose the Republicans could construct an ideal contender for 2016—someone who could actually win without repealing the essential components of the GOP platform. What would the candidate look like?
The University of Virginia Medical Center is close to becoming sole owner of Culpeper Regional Hospital. Culpeper Regional has filed the terms of the agreement with state Attorney General Mark Herring. His office has about 60 days to review the request. Barring any objections by Herring’s office, UVa officials expect to take control of the 70-bed hospital by September.
According to law professor Brandon Garrett of the University of Virginia, who has analyzed corporate monitor assignments for his upcoming book “Too Big to Jail,” half of all corporate monitors appointed in Justice Department deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements with corporate defendants since 2001 are former prosecutors. It could be, Garrett said, that these are exactly the right people for the jobs they landed and not the recipients of largesse from old friends in the Justice Department. The problem, Garrett told me, is that “there is no way to know.&rdq...
A study by the University of Virginia from 2010 found that about 80 percent of those with autism relied on friends and family for transportation.
His curiosity was aroused to the point of insatiability. He read everything he could lay his hands on about ESP, parapsychology and reincarnation—subjects that did not formerly interest him at all. He read the works of Dr. Ian Stevenson, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, who wrote the pioneering book “Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation,” ...
In a series of 11 studies, researchers at the University of Virginia found that people did not like spending six to 15 minutes alone in a room. In fact, in one experiment, 67 percent of men chose to administer electric shocks to themselves while sitting alone, and 35 percent of women chose to do the same.
How are schools dealing with this dilemma? In an interview with Vox, Benjamin Castleman, assistant professor of education at the University of Virginia, noted that many students don't have the knowledge, resources or support necessary to efficiently complete the college enrollment process, from filling out housing forms to taking placement tests. In his research on summer melt, Castleman has emphasized the powerful role text messages can play in preventing students from procrastinating - a key driving force for this unfortunate phenomenon.
Lisak, the forensic consultant, said the idea for this large meeting was in the works for a more than two years, but it couldn’t actually come to fruition until Dartmouth was willing to both host and pay for it. Another institution will have to step up in a similar fashion in order to organize the next summit, Lisak said, so that educators can share their findings from this week. The University of Virginia organized a similar summit in February.
A.E. Dick Howard, a state constitutional expert from the University of Virginia, has billed the state $9,250 for his budget consultation with the Attorney General's Office.Howard, whose consultation has concluded, charged the state for 18.5 hours of work at his rate of $500 per hour.
Darryl K. Brown, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said, “They certainly have the power to grant transactional immunity and they certainly don’t do it often.