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.”
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.