Roofers are working right now to replace the last of the nearly 190-year-old coverings on Thomas Jefferson’s academical village. Crews from Charlottesville’s W.A. Lynch Roofing Co. are replacing the slate roofing on the East Range Rooms just off the University of Virginia’s lawn. Most of the slate dates back to the 1830s.
Gunn was critical of how detainees were treated at the camps, and in a speech before the University of Virginia School of Law in 2007 he expressed regret that it took the revelations out of the Abu Ghraib prison to focus attention on Guantanamo.
The talk at the College World Series was about how few home runs were hit at TD Ameritrade Park. Well, one was hit Wednesday night -- and the folks in Nashville undoubtedly will be talking about it for a long time. John Norwood's tiebreaking homer in the top of the eighth inning carried Vanderbilt to a 3-2 win over Virginia in the third and deciding game of the CWS finals, giving the Commodores their first national championship. (With video highlights.)
The best season in University of Virginia baseball history ended in heartbreak Wednesday as the Cavaliers fell to Vanderbilt, 3-2, in the College World Series, losing their bid for a national championship. UVa won 53 games, second-most in the team’s 126 years.
“I knew within 10 minutes that this was the guy I wanted to try to hire as our baseball coach at the University of Virginia,” Virginia’s athletics director Craig Littlepage recently recalled. “What impressed me was that he was just so well-prepared for what we would encounter as, potentially, the head coach of the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia baseball players can hold their heads high. It was a successful season even though they came up one win short of a national title.
Mark Smith is one of those fans.
They’ll feel like they didn’t do enough, McCarthy and Papi will, but here’s hoping the folks back home will see they did plenty. ... The Scranton area didn’t just send two players to a team that finished as the second-best in the nation. They sent the second-best team in the nation two of its best players. Maybe, its best.
Few regions have fallen for the sport's quadrennial party like ours. For the U.S.-Portugal match, which ESPN says was the most-watched soccer match ever in the States, Norfolk was the No. 9 market, behind Washington, D.C., Columbus, Ohio, New York, Boston, Hartford/New Haven, Conn., Providence, R.I., Atlanta and Baltimore. For the first 32 matches overall, Richmond was No. 11. Such ratings do not surprise in a state with quality club, high school and college programs. Indeed, the University of Virginia has won six NCAA championships, five under former coach Bruce Arena, who later guided th...
The report finds pronounced differences between colleges that energetically recruit low-income and working-class students — able kids eligible for the federal Pell grant program — and those that do not. Among the poorer performers are the flagship campuses of public universities, which are increasingly behaving like private universities. To take just one example, the report notes that 13 percent of freshman students enrolled at the University of Virginia in 2011 received Pell grants, while comparable schools like the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the State Universi...
A student at the University of Virginia is calling on state officials to extend state employee health care coverage to same-sex partners. UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan is one of many university officials, faculty and students who lent their support to a recommendation from graduate student J. Brendan Maupin Wynn, who sent a letter to Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring on Tuesday. ... McGregor McCance, a spokesman for the university, said Sullivan signed the letter personally, not as a representative of the university. But Sullivan has said in the past that the university’s inab...
Over 4,300 students took part in the 2nd annual MBA Ally Challenge, a year-long competition run by the nonprofit Friendfactor to encourage emerging business leaders to take action to create a more LGBT-inclusive business culture. The results, announced today, placed Columbia Business School in 1st place, followed by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia earned the Most Improved award.
Earlier this month, W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, addressed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the increasingly “separate and unequal” character of marriage in the United States. First Things asked him the following questions about his address to the bishops.
... After every activity you accomplish in a day, take 30 seconds to ask yourself how it made you feel. Did it cause your energy to go up, down or to stay flat? "If it's flat or down, write down the name of the activity in one column in red pen," says James Clawson, Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and co-author of the energy-management book Powered by Feel. "If it's up, write down the activity in another column in green." Do this for one week straight. Then look at the results. ... All of us run on various int...
Roger Collins is taking on a new job with the University of Virginia. He'll be doing outreach for the school's Asia Institute.
War and Peace is long, old and Russian. Hm. War and Peace is accessible, relevant and human. Better. Your life can be more meaningful if you give Tolstoy a chance. Tell me more. The University of Virginia’s Andrew Kaufman has a clear ambition in Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times. After writing for literary journals and publishing the academic Understanding Tolstoy (2011), he’d like to share his love with regular folk. The result is an enthusiastic primer to Tolstoy’s most famous work, which shows how genuinely exciting it can be to read.
"This has been a frustrating night for conservative insurgent forces. There has been a lot of money spent and not much in the way of results to show for it," said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, says if the wealthy really want to understand those with more modest means, they should resurrect Sen. Bob Graham's 100 "Workdays."