The Rich/Call family was honored for the continued commitment to the Alexandria community and beyond. ...Sara Rich has been civically involved since 7th grade when she successfully petitioned the school district and city council for women’s softball fields equivalent to the men’s in the city. After graduating from the University of Virginia, Sara took a teaching position at the American School of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was in Kinshasa that she became interested in connecting international educators with the Congolese teachers. Her work in the Democratic Re...
"You don't usually have the number of people who are involved in this race," says Geoff Skelley, analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "The Virginia Democratic Party is not weighing in on this. They are very much keeping out of it, probably behind the scenes too."
By Joby Ryan ’05, Director of Career Services, U.Va. School of LawThe unseemly habit of shouting “not gay” when University of Virginia fans sing the “Good Ol’ Song” has got to stop. It is not worthy of our school or our basketball team. It is not worthy of our community.
The stage is set for a battle on two fronts in the General Assembly next week over expanding health insurance to hundreds of thousands of uninsured Virginians. ...Other speakers told the panel that the expected state savings from accepting federal expansion dollars would free up funding that McAuliffe has designated to serve other needs, such as law enforcement, local government and education. Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, supported the governor's budget from both perspectives — money for competitive salaries to attract and retain faculty, and help for ...
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spoke to students in a packed auditorium Wednesday afternoon at the University of Virginia, part of a multi-state campaign many political observers see as a prelude to a 2016 presidential run.
University of Virginia students got to take a break from studying with some barnyard animals. A petting zoo was on UVa grounds for the second year in a row on Wednesday afternoon.
...As Harbach knows, the MFA culture in this country bleeds into the NYC publishing culture, just as fiction bleeds into nonfiction, and poetry bleeds into prose, and the good things about literature programs bleed into the bad.
Last summer, the University of Virginia law school found just 6 percent of law enforcement agencies responding to a survey had adopted a two-year-old model policy for witness identifications created by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services. One in five departments had no policy at all despite a 2005 state law requiring that rules be in place.
The University of Virginia is looking for Southwest Virginians who may have graduated in a different field, but are now interested in training to be a nurse. The university announced earlier this month that it will bring its master's entry program, a clinical nurse leader program, to the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, starting in 2015.
Revolutionize email? It seems so, if Pluto Mail can deliver. The law student-created startup promises to have unsending, editing (after sending), and auto-expiring features, all of which sound enticing to anyone who has ever accidently sent an email with an unfortunate typo or accidental recipient. Meet Harvard Law students Lindsay Lin and David S. Gobaud, the impressive duo behind Pluto Mail. As you might expect, these aren't your ordinary law students. According to the Harvard Crimson, Gobaud has an undergraduate degree in computer science from Stanford, worked for Google, and laun...
You will most likely have many good colleges options already, but if you really want to go to a college that waitlisted you, follow as many of these 10 tips as possible. ...More importantly, read each college's requests for waitlisted students. If a college, like the University of Virginia, details its expectations, then follow them. ... Thanks to UVA for confirming many of the ideas included in this post.
Many Northern Virginian students are biting their nails, waiting for their college admission letters this week. But in a sea of overachievers, NoVa students are coming across a pervasive issue with in-state colleges — what is being dubbed the "the Northern Virginia Problem." Many residents of Fairfax, Alexandria City, Loudon, Fauquier, Prince William and Arlington counties are spreading the word that top Virginia universities — the University of Virginia, Washington and Lee and William and Mary are becoming harder and harder to get into.These top Virginia universities are...
A 20-year media veteran, Sheikholeslami formerly served as general manager of the digital division of The Washington Post, helping to build the newspaper’s website and other digital properties. More recently she was chief product officer for Everyday Health, a portfolio of 25 websites ranging from fitness guru Jillian Michaels to the Mayo Clinic. ... At Chicago Public Media, Sheikholeslami will head up the radio station and its digital products, and will be charged with developing programs such as "This American Life" and "Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me," which...
State budget gridlock is affecting more than just local government, it's also creating uncertainty for leaders at the University of Virginia. UVA President Teresa Sullivan joined dozens of others at a public hearing in Richmond Tuesday, asking Senate lawmakers to find a timely compromise on the state's two-year, $97 billion budget. Continued stalemate, Sullivan said, could seriously impact the university's ability to stay competitive for years to come.
By Robert Centor, MDBeing the product of a liberal arts education (psychology major at the University of Virginia) and being a life long reader, music lover, as well as going to movies and watching some selected TV shows, gives me a broader understanding of the human condition. The first thing (and perhaps most important thing) in developing one’s bedside manner comes from understanding who the patient is. Observers since Osler have quoted him often. Particularly like this quote: “It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a...
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told the News & Observer that the lead position could give Tillis an advantage of “a percent or two or less,”
[W]hen we think we're reasoning, we may instead be rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We may think we're being scientists, but we're actually being lawyers. Our "reasoning" is a means to a predetermined end—winning our "case"—and is shot through with biases.
Shortly after the land that would eventually become Reston was purchased, Chuck Veatch, a fresh-faced University of Virginia graduate, joined Simon’s development in 1964. ...One of the biggest principles of Reston that did not go away was its progressive nature in a state that was segregated at the time. Reston was one of the only places in the state that had no segregated housing, according to Veatch and local real estate agent Eve Thompson. As long as someone had enough money to buy a home or rent a condominium, they were approved for it. "That was a major breakthrough," said...
Virginia lawmakers are still at odds with each other over a budget, and the sticking point is Medicaid expansion. ... Democrats tried to make the expansion more palatable by creating a privatized version of Medicaid expansion called "Marketplace Virginia." That failed, as did McAuliffe's compromise offer of creating a two-year pilot project. "That pilot program suggestion was perhaps a turn back to the left by the governor in the sense that it was actually traditionally Medicaid expansion," says University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Geoff Skelley. "It ...
The crisis in Ukraine was a dominant headline for weeks, but as the United States works with foreign diplomats to ease the tension, the issues have taken a back seat. But for some students at the University of Virginia with strong ties to Ukraine, it's still a major concern. Tuesday night, NBC29 spoke with one of those students, Mateo Diachok.