Pat Glading's time at the University of Virginia will soon come to a close. Glading has spent the past four years as a midfielder on the UVa lacrosse team. On Saturday, Glading will be one of 13 players who will be honored prior to Cavaliers' final home game of the season against Bellarmine. But Glading has been coming to Charlottesville since he was a 9-year-old kid. He's the last in the line of Glading brothers to play for Dom Starsia's lacrosse program.
Three constitutional law professors have filed a brief backing Attorney General Mark R. Herring’s refusal to defend Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage. “An attorney general is not an automaton who must blindly support Virginia’s law, especially when he concludes that it conflicts with the (U.S.) Constitution as the supreme law of the land,” write A.E. Dick Howard and Daniel R. Ortiz of the University of Virginia and Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond.
(With video) Researchers at the University of Virginia are looking for autistic teens and young adults to join their Learn to Drive program. Participants use a video simulator to help them feel comfortable with the chaos of the road. It's almost like a big arcade game. But for some teenagers and young adults with autism, this simulator is actually their key to being able to do the thing many of us do every day: drive a car.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, adds as “wild cards” the possible candidacies of Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez.
When Helen Wan started writing a book more than a decade ago, she thought it would be a collection of short personal essays about her experiences in the work force as a woman and an Asian-American. "I specifically remember trying to go into bookstores to find a book about how either a woman or a minority–or even better, a woman of color, an Asian-American woman – can navigate corporate culture authentically and successfully, but I could not find one," Wan says. So she decided to write one.
On Thursday night, the Wayne Theater Alliance hosted a history lecture by Clann Mhór, a five-person local research group that is studying the history of the Blue Ridge Railroad and the Crozet Tunnel. The presentation was led by Michael Brittingham, a retired University of Virginia professor.
John Hawley, a theoretical astrophysicist based at the University of Virginia, is Steve Hawley’s younger brother. When they were kids in Salina, Steve would buy a newer and bigger telescope “and pass the hand-me-down telescope to me,” John said.
Angry parents have been killing each other since the beginning of time, and domestic violence has been a public health issue for more than 30 years. But little is known about the effect of family murders on children. That’s because surviving children are not classified as victims, making them hard to find and follow. However, the number of kids affected is significant: A 2007 report, Adult Perspectives on Growing Up Following Uxoricide, estimated more than 4,000 children nationwide had lost a parent to domestic violence annually — more than the number of some childhood cancer cases...
Sitting in the A’s dugout Friday afternoon and talking with the media about his long-term deal with the organization, Sean Doolittle took a moment to absorb the news. “It still hasn’t totally sunk in yet. It’s still a little bit surreal,” the left-handed reliever admitted. That’s perfectly understandable. Rare is it for a reliever to receive a five-year contract. Even rarer for one who’s not a closer. Even rarer for someone whose professional pitching career began in earnest a mere two years ago.
When a 33-year-old Todd Wagner quit his job as a lawyer to follow his entrepreneurial dream, the corner-office partner told him he would be back in a few months, “begging for a job.” Fast forward two decades and Wagner is one of America’s most influential dot-com billionaires. Aged 53 with an estimated net worth of US$1.3 billion according to Wealth-X, Wagner made the bulk of his fortune through selling his first business, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo in 1999 after setting it up just five years before.
Although Dietrich Bonhoeffer was just 39 years old when he was executed for participating in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he left behind enough of his inspiring thoughts and beliefs to fill 16 volumes. Now, after eight years of meticulous research and writing, University of Virginia professor of religious studies Charles Marsh offers a definitive biography of the man many consider a saint and martyr.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, chair of the media-studies department at the University of Virginia, describes Ms. Hargittai as a "pioneer of empirical Internet studies." It is "absolutely untrue" that young people understand how the Internet works when they enroll in college, he says. "That myth is in the direct interest of education-technology companies and Silicon Valley itself. If we all decide that young people have some sort of savantlike talent with digital technology, than we’re easily led to policies and buying decisions and pedagogical decisions that pander to Sili...
(Commentary) I noted with interest the other day the awarding of a second Pulitzer Prize for History to former UC Davis Professor Alan Taylor, now at the University of Virginia. It’s hard to win a Pulitzer. I was a finalist once, and I can assure you that winning one in editorial cartooning is a far different pursuit than winning one in history. For example, cartooning is stuff I make up, and historians really frown upon that device.
The first time Bill Minor got his hands on some of the letters Charles Minor Blackford, a distant relative, exchanged with his wife during the Civil War, it was while doing research at the University of Virginia’s special collections library. “They lock you in a room with a legal pad,” he said, laughing. Those letters eventually became the subject of “Love Letters of Lynchburg,” a CD commissioned by the Historic Sandusky Foundation, and have since evolved into a series of live readings held across the country, from Minor’s current home in Pacific Grove, Cali...
The University of Virginia's College at Wise will host the formal inauguration of Donna Price Henry as the eighth chancellor of the college at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the David J. Prior Convocation Center.
Hidden in the Twittersphere are nuggets of information that could prove useful to crime fighters - even before a crime has been committed. Researchers at the University of Virginia demonstrated tweets could predict certain kinds of crimes if the correct analysis is applied.
By the time Nicole Muller graduates from college, she will have collected close to a million pounds of food for food banks across the country. This month, the office of Gov. Terry McAuliffe recognized her efforts with the Governor’s Volunteerism Award.
Earth Week will be celebrated locally with a citywide picnic, an expo at the University of Virginia and a guided paddle tour on the Rivanna River, among other activities. This year, Earth Week began April 12 and will wrap up April 27, coinciding with UVa’s “One HellUVa Planet” Week.
A University of Virginia study from 2005, With Sadness Comes Accuracy; With Happiness, False Memory, found that happiness tends to generate false memories while unhappiness dredges up accurate ones.
“The common thread is that there’s a Democrat in the White House who’s not that popular,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan research group at the University of Virginia. “It wouldn’t be surprising if any of those states went Republican.’