Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor representing the complaining town residents, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, said that "Greece's practice forced citizens who might not agree with the prayer to either participate against their will or irritate council members from whom they hoped to receive favorable action."
“The Republicans could win the Senate without North Carolina, and the Democrats could keep it without North Carolina, but in all likelihood North Carolina is as good a bet as any state to elect a senator to the next Senate majority party,” said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
(With video) A Volkswagen at the University of Virginia is now a fully electric sport car. A team of undergraduates used the body of a totaled Jetta - donated by State Farm insurance - to redesign an electric car with safety in mind as their senior capstone project. They have been working to remodel the car since August.
Professor Paul Stephan (the University of Virginia School of Law) recently published “Courts on Courts: Contracting for Engagement and Indifference in International Judicial Encounters” in the Virginia Law Review. This is an important new article on the question of transjudicial communication and global governance, especially as it challenges the predominant scholarly position.
After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1973, Barry Parkhill had identical contract offers from the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and ABA's Virginia Squires. He chose the Squires primarily for the chance to play with a burgeoning legend named Julius Erving. "And he was [traded] right before my rookie camp opened up," Parkhill said. "So that was kind of a bummer."
Brent Urban is so humble, so stereotypically Canadian, it was only a few weeks ago that he finally spilled his little secret to best friends back home in Mississauga. The secret being that he might be the first Canadian selected in this week's NFL draft. The University of Virginia graduate has known, and his parents (Ann and Vic Urban) have known. But not many others in Canada.
John Griffin, a successful investor, recently donated $22 million to the University of Virginia so that the school could construct a new building. Yet it won't carry Griffin's name; he prefers that the school name the building after his mentor, Julian Robertson Jr.
traces of long-gone readers live on, preserved in the books themselves, in the stacks of the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library. The volumes aren’t housed in the library’s special collections but in the regular stacks, where they’re free to circulate—or to be discarded someday. Like countless other 19th-century volumes in libraries across the country, they enjoy no special protection. That worries Andrew M. Stauffer, an associate professor of English at Virginia. Mr. Stauffer is leading a new crowdsourced project, Book Traces. It’s designed to call gr...
A narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld decidedly Christian prayers at the start of local council meetings on Monday, declaring them in line with long national traditions though the country has grown more religiously diverse. The content of the prayers is not significant as long as they do not denigrate non-Christians or try to win converts, the court said in a 5-4 decision backed by its conservative majority. Though the decision split the court along ideological lines, the Obama administration backed the winning side, the town of Greece, N.Y., outside of Rochester. Douglas Laycock, a Universi...
Glycated hemoglobin or HbA1c is the standard measurement for assessing glycemic control over time in people with diabetes and blood levels of HbA1c are typically measured every few months in a laboratory. The relationship between HbA1c and average glucose levels could determine whether HbA1c could be expressed and reported as average glucose in the same units as used in self-monitoring which could increase individuals' motivation to improve diabetes control. Scientists at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) working with those at Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt,...
Packaging designer Walter Landor once said, "Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind." One of the most iconic and long-lasting brands was born in the imagination of a teenage boy, Antonio Gentile.
"[Mitch McConnell] strikes me as someone who takes down names and remembers who was with him and who wasn't," said University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato. "Local officials call a senator often, requesting this and that. The old saying in politics is that those who endorse early get the favors, and those who endorse late get good government."
Impact committee members studying youth employment had asked UVa Health System to start a pilot program of tuition waivers for 30 students to train in entry-level medical positions. They estimated the cost to be $90,000. UVa officials agreed to look into grants that would create a similar program with other funding coming from local organizations and “stakeholders.” They stopped short of promising a unilaterally funded program should the grants fail or stakeholders not be found.
Ensuring that school divisions certify that their students are learning non-SOL subjects adequately is a key piece of moving away from the tests, said Tonya Moon, professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. “The legislators dropped the assessments, but then put the onus on the school division that the children are getting the information,” she said. “Often the areas that are not on tests do not get taught.”
Students listen to the jazz band and cheered on their teachers as they danced. They also heard a motivational speech from University of Virginia football player, Khalek Shepherd. This was all in an effort to get students pumped for the big exams.
The son of movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn is one of the famous alumni of UVa, and a member of the class of 1947. He returned to his alma mater on March 2, 1964, as a visiting artist in the Emily Clark Balch lecture series. The film director and producer would spend a week at the school giving lectures, visiting classes and meeting with student groups. He, as would be expected, talked mostly about the film industry, but the story of his own life likely would have had listeners taking in every word.
Elizabeth Alleen Wilson is the youngest daughter of Kemmons Wilson, Jr. and the grandson of Kemmons Sr., founder of the Holiday Inn chain of hotels which the family still controls. Lizzy attended the University of Virginia, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
University of Virginia was one of four schools tied for second place in the All-America Student Analyst Competition — each school finished with five students in the top 100. More than 2100 students from 81 schools participated.
A third-year student at the University of Virginia has been awarded a scholarship that will pay for tuition and room and board for her final year. She was selected out of 50 nominees for the Sky Alland Scholarship. Allie Griswold was nominated for the award anonymously and after a long review process, was chosen to her surprise.