Journalist and University of Virginia alumna Katie Couric returned to Charlottesville to help award a number of scholarships to young women in the name of her sister.
The fifth edition of “The Princeton Review's Guide to 332 Green Colleges" was published last week. Randolph College is one of 14 colleges in Virginia recognized, including Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, University of Richmond and the College of William and Mary.
In this week's Stephanie's Heroes, three University of Virginia undergrads are going the distance to improve education for children with learning disabilities. They plan to travel to Zambia to help new teachers and implement new lesson plans that could make a big difference for students. Lauren Baetsen, Emily Nemec and Amanda Halacy will soon be leaving Grounds at U.Va. and heading thousands of miles away to go to the Special Hope Network in Lusaka, Zambia.
Many universities, including the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, have successfully used this strategy to rebalance their finances, DeLong said, though it is too early to say whether it will be successful for UC Berkeley.
Scriptural Life after Death: When the Plain Sense of History Challenges the Plain Sense of Scripture
By Peter Ochs, Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies and author of “The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Postcritical Scriptural Interpretation”...As I've been meditating on Hauerwas's Cross-Shattered Christ during my week of Passover observance and his Holy Week, I am struck by how often members of my own people, Israel, still not spiritually recovered from the Shoah, think that this theme of birth - death - resurrection is about someone else's religion, rather than their own. In this, the first of a three-part meditation, I sug...
Chicago has traditionally been a hotbed of conservative and even hard money economics, especially at the University of Chicago. However, the Chicago Fed under Charles Evans has placed itself firmly in the dovish camp on monetary policy, and in 2015 Evans will rotate into a voting seat on the FOMC, so that he can back his sentiments with a vote.
Next month, as it does every year, the Virginia Military Institute will honor ten cadets who were killed at the Battle of New Market - boys who were not supposed to fight, but ended up filling a gap in the confederate line. They and 237 other cadets get credit for winning that battle and keeping union troops out of the Shenandoah Valley. Now they’re the subject of a surprising film - written and produced by a man with no movie-making experience. Tom Farrell, CEO of Dominion Power, put in a call to his roommate from the University of Virginia - David Kennedy - whose day job is consu...
Donna Price Henry is being inaugurated as the eighth chancellor of the University of Virginia's College at Wise. ... The U.Va. Board of Visitors will attend the inauguration, then hold a special meeting Wednesday at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon to set tuition rates for the next academic year.
Dean Robert Bruner of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business is an astute observer of graduate business education and the MBA game. In a recent post on his excellent blog, Bruner opined on the winner-take-all theory as it applies to higher education and business schools in particular.
(Editorial) Law students at the University of Virginia converted classes to on-the-job training when they filed a lawsuit to gain access to a secret settlement document – and won. Hats off to the U.Va. law students for using their credit hours to push their case for openness.
The 13-day negotiations conducted in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, leading to the historic Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, are on display in Lawrence Wright’s new play, “Camp David,” at Arena Stage. For readers interested in learning more about what went on in the Maryland countryside that September, we asked William B. Quandt for his recommendations on further reading. Quandt, a professor emeritus in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, was part of the U.S. negotiating team at th...
For VCU and the University of Virginia Medical Center, another major provider of care to the uninsured, the cuts are expected to total $386 million though 2022. “There is no question the safety-net hospitals are going to struggle,” said Dr. Thomas A. Massaro, a retired pediatrician at U.Va. who teaches health policy at the university’s law school and the Darden School of Business.
In Virginia, only the governor can restore a felon's right vote and it used to take half a decade before they could apply for that right. That all changed as Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Friday that he is cutting the waiting period for violent felons to apply for reinstatement of rights from five years down to three. Attorney General Mark Herring (D) spoke on the issue while visiting the UVa Law School on Friday.
Three constitutional scholars, including the principal architect of Virginia's current constitution, have filed court papers supporting Attorney General Mark Herring's decision not to defend the state's prohibition of same-sex marriage.
It’s been a busy first 100 days for Virginia’s new Attorney General Mark Herring – and he says his fight to change the state’s stance on gay marriage tops his list of accomplishments during that time. Friday, Herring visited University of Virginia law students to talk about some of the issues he's faced in office thus far.
Friday, some survivors of sexual violence got together to break a little glass, make art, and heal at the same time in Charlottesville. This concluded a week of Take Back the Night activities at the University of Virginia.
Ginsburg recalled that the justices went through many rounds on that case. “And one time, I had a footnote that referred to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville,” Ginsburg said. “You had a footnote back saying, ‘Well, you have to forgive this ignorant person because she doesn’t know that there is no University of Virginia at Charlottesville; well, there is only a University of Virginia.’” Scalia laughed, saying that Ginsburg didn't realize it was the main campus of the school.
We certainly feel like we've put in a good day's work, after gardening for hours on end. But is gardening really considered good exercise? For the most part, yes. According to the University of Virginia, gardening rates up there with other moderate to strenuous forms of exercise, like walking and bicycling. It all depends on what gardening task you are doing and for how long.
Larry Sabato, the director of U.Va.’s Center for Politics, discusses the significance of 8 million people signing up for “Obamacare.”
For some scientists, however, purely scientific explanations of heavenly visions do not suffice. Emily Williams Kelly is a psychologist who works at the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies, which treats the study of NDEs as legitimate science. Her résumé is impressive: she has degrees from Duke, the University of Virginia and the University of Edinburgh—not institutions one usually associates with the study of the supernatural or paranormal. Kelly has spent her career researching, as she puts it, “the interface between the brain and the mind.”