“We have a number of urgent care centers that have opened up around where I practice, and almost every day, we have patients transferred to us from one of them,” said Dr. Robert E. O’Connor, the chairman of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and vice president of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Public corruption may be common enough, but the type that Nagin is accused of is the kind the public rarely tolerates, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Rand Paul will likely run for president in 2016 — but the soft-spoken Kentucky senator's libertarian positions could roil the GOP mainstream, according to Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
“It's July, but what's significant is that Burke is raising substantial amounts of money,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
In a solicitation that seeks 250 residents to volunteer at Redskins training camp, Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones calls the chance to work unpaid "an incredible opportunity to … promote civic pride." But to J.H. Verkerke, a University of Virginia law professor specializing in employment regulations, it looks more like "an amusing instance of a for-profit company using free labor in its commercial activities."
Research has established that children from neighborhoods with a high number of single parents have less upward mobility, but Bradford Wilcox, director of graduate studies in the sociology department at the University of Virginia, told the Christian Science Monitor that this report "also suggests the converse."
NASA has announced the winners of a competition to design a new UAV for tracking and collecting data on hurricanes. The University of Virginia took third place with The Big WAHOO – a tip of the hat to the school’s unofficial nickname and also an acronym for Worldwide Autonomous Hurricane and Oceanic Observer – which has a flight endurance of 7.5 days, an operational lifetime of 15 years and a total lifecycle cost of about $493.7m.
Timothy Wilson, psychology professor at the University of Virginia (U.Va.), and colleagues from U.Va. and Harvard conducted 11 experiments to determine how well people tolerate a few minutes of quiet time. They tested a broad age range, from college students to folks pushing their 80s, and found a consistent result: people have a hard time tolerating even a few minutes alone with nothing vying for their attention.
Nerds winIs your child uncool? Were you? Don’t fret. New research suggests belonging to the cool crowd isn’t something to be celebrated. A University of Virginia study found that teens who exhibited “cool” behaviours—like sex and delinquency—were more likely to have relationship issues, substance abuse problems and run-ins with the law later in life.
A group of people who have all received a new lease on life are preparing for this year's Transplant Games of America in Houston, Texas. The Transplant Games is a multi-sport festival event for individuals who have undergone life-saving transplant surgeries.A pair from central Virginia hit the Spring Creek Golf Club this week for a special practice round before leaving for the competition. The two members of Team Virginia are ready to take on challengers from all over the country. They were brought together through similar lifesaving experiences at the University of Virginia Medical C...
By Olivia Rappe, a Master's candidate at the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy.To put it concretely, social entrepreneurs are people with innovative solutions for society’s most pressing social problems. ... The following five criteria were devised in 1980 by Ashoka, the world’s largest platform for social entrepreneurs and are still some of the most accurate and consistent predictors of social entrepreneurial success.
The University of Virginia-Charlottesville didn't have a film program, but Tyler Davidson took all the film classes the school had to offer while he was there.
In a reversal of fortunes for the president of one of the nation's largest and most prominent public universities, Bill Powers will continue to lead the University of Texas at Austin until next summer. This week, Powers seems to have been saved from the sudden -- and still somewhat unexplained -- threat because of the response from faculty, students and alumni.
A survey of colleges and universities finds a lack of coordination between many campuses and local law enforcement in handling sexual assaults, and that many schools have gone years without investigating such cases. Many colleges and universities across the country aren't following the law as they handle sexual violence on campus, a new Senate report said Wednesday.
We have listed, below, the 5 best college towns in the country, places that strike that perfect balance between fun, safety, and a chill, adolescent atmosphere.1. Charlottesville, VirginiaHowever, the number one spot is reserved for a more Southern town. Indeed, Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia, does the best job of any city on the list of combining traditional metropolitan interests with the interests of the students who frequent it. The result is a harmonious whole, balancing the resources of an urban area with the desires of the students who live there. From the historica...
Carmel Berhanu had good reason to be anxious when she submitted her application to the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, one of the top undergraduate business programs in the country. With applications to the school at an all-time high, she and her classmates were scrambling to gain an edge in the competitive admissions process. Her like-minded peers excluded her from study groups, were cagey about helping out with class projects, and were tight-lipped about their applications, said Berhanu, who just completed her sophomore year at the University of Virginia.&nbs...
Most of the action focused on Mann's former employer, the University of Virginia. The former state attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, decided that Mann must be guilty of some form of research fraud, and he sued to get Mann's records. That case was thrown out because there were no actual allegations of fraud. Separately, a private think tank called the American Tradition Institute (ATI) attempted to obtain the e-mails using a state Freedom of Information Act request, arguing that the University of Virginia is a state school. That attempt was also denied.Now Mann has achieved a small bit ...
More than a dozen people with ties to the University of Virginia have been subpoenaed in former Governor Bob McDonnell’s corruption case. The McDonnells’ defense team is targeting UVA to tell a jury the former governor and his wife did not promote Anatabloc, a Star Scientific dietary supplement.