The University of Virginia portion of the Historic Garden Week tour includes Pavilion Gardens, West Lawn Pavilion Homes, Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library and Morea Garden and Arboretum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Carr’s Hill from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Locally, the University of Virginia has also been testing drones to offer a supplement to weather balloons for atmospheric sounding measurements at low levels of the atmosphere, as discussed on the Smartdrones website and in the video below.
Dr. Janie Heath, associate dean and professor of nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, and an expert on the effects of tobacco on smokers, offers this insight into the problem: "When we look at 95 percent of individuals that smoke cigarettes, they all started that initiation before age 21. So, there's the likelihood of these younger ones starting on electronic cigarettes, and wanting to have more and more of a hit."
By Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business, adapted from his blog.Following a meeting at the White House attended by 13 deans of leading business schools, Bruner wonders: What are the opportunities and challenges around advancing women into positions of leadership in business? What should business schools do about them?
No. 8 University of Virginia Law School reported that 16.2% of its 2013 grads are working at school-funded fellowships. Schools say that the post-graduate programs they fund help ease graduates into a brutal legal job market and support lawyers interested in public interest law, which is much less lucrative than the private sector. "Law school is more expensive, and so it is becoming more of a financial sacrifice to go into public service," Paul Mahoney, dean of UVA Law, told Fortune.
As your pregnancy hormones ramp up, so does your bra size. "You can expect to gain about two pounds in your breasts due to increased fluid, tissue swelling, and early milk production," says James E. Ferguson II, M.D., professor and department chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Harvey L. Lindsay Jr., chairman of Harvey Lindsay Commercial Real Estate, who was named this year's First Citizen of Hampton Roads by Lead Hampton Roads, is one of the area's most prominent commercial real estate developers.
William Galston, a former staffer for Bill Clinton, and Bill Kristol — former staffer for Vice President Dan Quayle and editor of The Weekly Standard — were at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center on Friday to talk about the roots of polarization in American politics.
The annual tradition that's popular with University of Virginia students and alumni is centered on hundreds of tailgate plots. The student-run Alcohol Drug Abuse Prevention Team (ADAPT) offered free water, food and sunscreen to help their peers. “We encourage students to always make a plan to get home safely, and to be safe during the day but this is a good way to provide a ‘Plan B’ to students,” said Margaret Lowe, ADAPT co-chair. “It's very important that we promote student safety.”
Building on more than a decade of research by Benton Calhoun, U.Va. associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, a Charlottesville-based startup company called Psi-Kick is preparing to manufacture the world’s lowest-power wireless semiconductor chips — no batteries necessary.
“The supply of new models and new ideas is really important, and so I think it’s a very positive thing,” said Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, of the Walton investments. Neither Dr. Pianta nor the Curry School have received funding from Walton.
A regular election in the same district — which stretches from McLean west to Winchester in Northern Virginia — would have had roughly 187, or nearly 19 times more, polling places compared to the firehouse primary, according to Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of the University of Virginia’s Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
Such cooperation isn’t exclusive to the Washington and Idaho delegations, said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, because local interests trump ideology.
University of Virginia education professor Dewey Cornell added one additional qualifier to the bullying definition: “There has to be a power imbalance between the victim and the perpetrator,” he said. “These things are difficult to legislate, and they require nuanced judgment by school authorities in many cases.”
Larry Sabato discusses the political fallout from racist remarks by tax-scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy, who had been hailed by some conservatives.
Former U.Va. dean and professor Bernard Mayes and alumnus Matthew Chayt share Mayes’s odyssey to find a gay-friendly senior assisted living facility or in-home caregivers.
Not all men, but some will begin to question their masculinity when he makes less. A study from the University of Florida and the University of Virginia discovered that a man’s self-esteem and ego take a hit when his female partner prospers, and it can negatively impact his outlook on their relationship.
As the GOP prepares for the 2016 presidential election, it "has to try mightily to show it is mainstream and ready to govern again," said Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "This helps."