“The conservative wing of the party, which is huge anyway, has firm control of the Virginia GOP,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Despite being more generous in dollar terms and subsidizing employees’ education without requiring that they commit to staying at Starbucks after graduation, the restrictive nature of the new Starbucks plan compares unfavorably with other tuition assistance plans American companies offer, according to Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and a commentator on online education models.
Brad Wilcox, associate professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, spoke about the impact today’s economy has on marriages. Citing numerous studies, he said the country’s poor were less likely to remain in stable marriages.
A federal judge is allowing parts of a $40 million lawsuit to proceed against Virginia ABC agents who attempted to stop a University of Virginia student for suspected underage possession of alcohol last year in Charlottesville. In a 20-page ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson dismissed all or parts of nine of the 12 counts in Daly’s suit: conspiracy to commit malicious prosecution, the counts against the state, and some of the assault counts against the agents. At this point, Hudson would not grant the Virginia attorney general’s motion to dismiss charges of false a...
Parents of the University of Virginia baseball team enjoy their makeshift home away from home in Council Bluff, Iowa. The RV site is located a few miles from Omaha, the site of the College World Series.
OMAHA, Neb. — It took 15 innings, but Nate Irving and Daniel Pinero finally got the job done for Virginia. Pinero's sacrifice fly scored pinch runner Thomas Woodruff in the bottom of the 15th to give Virginia a 3-2 victory Tuesday night in a game that matched the longest in the College World Series' 66-year history. The Cavs need one more win to reach next week's best-of-three finals.
Four University of Virginia researchers are sharing a $550,000 award to help drive economic growth in the state. The funding is from Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. It provides awards from a fund to advance science and technology-based research, development and commercialization. The $550,000 matching grant is going to computer science professor Kevin Skadron, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Patrick Hopkins and pharmacology professor Mark Kester. U.Va. says cell biology professor John Herr received an award from the eminent research recruitment program. &nb...
Represented by lawyers at the University of Virginia School of Law, Elonis argues the judge made a mistake during his trial by telling jurors that if they believed a reasonable person would interpret Elonis’ writings as threats, they could find him guilty.
John P. Elwood is the counsel of record, joined by students with the University of Virginia School of Law Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Mr. Elonis served his sentence and was released in February.
Students at the University of Virginia are going to have to find a new shortcut to get to grounds. The City of Charlottesville plans to build a fence around the railroad tracks that cut through the Corner district. Many people cross over the tracks every day as a shortcut, but it's against the law to trespass on the railroad property. The city says it's a safety concern, so the plan is to build a permanent, 7-foot fence along the tracks from Rugby Road to 14th Street to prevent people from jumping the tracks.
Senator Tim Kaine spoke at the University of Virginia Monday, kicking off the Young African Leadership Initiative. The 6-week long program gives 50 fellows from Africa a chance to attend leadership, academic and mentoring programs. UVa. is hosting 25 of the fellows as part of the Presidential Precinct.
The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF) is giving $283,000 in grants to ten local non-profits. Two of the grants support access to post-secondary education and are to agencies who have not received grants before: Virginia College Advising Corps: $50,000 will support the placement of college advisers in CACF area high schools to help low-income, under-represented, and first generation students matriculate to post-secondary education.
A White House summit on college opportunity in January featured more than one Cinderella story. A young man named Troy Simon told the invited group of educators and advocates how he lived for a year in an abandoned building in New Orleans and did not learn to read until he was 14, but made his way to Bard College, where he was a sophomore studying American literature. He introduced Michelle Obama, whose journey from her modest Chicago neighborhood to Princeton University serves as the emotional core of the administration’s campaign to broaden college access. … None of the re...
Glucagon, which is produced by a healthy pancreas, isn’t routinely given to diabetics, said Sue Brown, an adult endocrinologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, who works with artificial pancreas technology and wasn’t involved in the trial.
Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, said that in California and elsewhere more is known about who is a good teacher in this age of annual testing of students and more robust teacher evaluations. He said he believes that's spurred the California lawsuit and other movement on the issue. He predicts more states will move toward longer probationary periods to grant tenure and more renewable contracts.
An award-winning poet who writes about God and nature is now America's poet laureate. The Library of Congress announced its choice of Charles Wright on Thursday.
When the Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington, announced last week that retired University of Virginia professor Charles Wright would succeed Natasha Trethewey as the U.S. Poet Laureate, he called attention to Wright’s “combination of literary elegance and genuine humility.” But the quiet, spiritually minded, explicitly apolitical Wright is also a sharp choice to serve as “the nation’s official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans,” perhaps as exemplified by his declaration of purpose as laureate: “I’ll probably stay here at h...
On a snowy morning in 2010, Jolene Morton headed to work early, thinking she would be safer with fewer cars on the roads. Shortly after arriving, she started slurring her words while talking on the phone and then she dropped the receiver. In a flash, everything went blank. “All I saw in my head was a dark room with dust bunnies,” Morton says. She struggled to speak as her supervisor helped her lie down on the floor. Morton, at 33, had suffered a stroke, long considered a rarity in someone so young. … Nina Solenski, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Vir...
The Senate halted a bill from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) that would have allowed students with old government loans to refinance them. Instead of continuing to pay interest at, say, the 6.8 percent rate that prevailed for many years, they could take the 3.86 percent rate the government is offering current borrowers. Ms. Warren’s plan had some appeal, and Democrats will no doubt harp on its rejection in the coming campaign. It seems only fair to let more debtors in on the deal that the government is offering current students. But those paying higher rates already got a good deal, tak...