Tony Bennett has done pretty well for someone who wasn’t sure he wanted to coach. Malcolm Brogdon has done pretty well, too, for someone who wasn’t even on the radar of University of Virginia coaches. Together, they led the Cavaliers to the Sweet 16 and have been named the Richmond Times-Dispatch coach and player of the year.
Professors from the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia have spun out technology from their respective universities to create a new venture-backed startup, PsiKick. Startups pulling technologies from a number of different universities isn't unheard of. However, fledgling companies taking technology from premier research institutions doesn’t happen often. "It might be more rare that it's this equal (the standing of the research universities supplying the technology)," says Mark Maynard, marketing manager for the Office of Technology Transfer at the Univ...
Norma Eleanor Williams of Ridgefield, Conn., passed away March 19, 2014, at the age of 69. ... She started a landscape architectural firm that specialized in historic preservation. One of her projects was the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s house in Cambridge, Mass. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Olmsted Heritage Alliance and served as its first president.
The University of Virginia’s men’s basketball season ended with a loss in the regional semifinals, yet fans wept tears of gratitude for a stellar year. ... Tony Bennett has earned accolades as Virginia’s head coach. He stresses the virtuous things. As Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski says, he is building not just a team but a program. That’s the way to go.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who for five years has advocated trying terrorism suspects in U.S. civilian court only to be slapped down by Congress, took a victory lap in New York on Tuesday, proclaiming that last week's conviction of Sulaiman abu Ghaith in Manhattan federal court proves he was right all along. ... "If we had been allowed to follow the decision that I made, Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his confederates would be on death row right now instead of awaiting trial in a military commission," Holder said at the University of Virginia in February. "I was right o...
By Sen. Barbara Favola...In a recent study funded by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services with the University of Virginia’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, (A Study of Face-To-Face Emergency Evaluations Conducted By Community Services Boards In April 2013), we learned that nearly 50 percent of the voluntary admissions to psychiatric hospitals could have been avoided if early treatment and community-based services had been available; 25 percent of involuntary admissions could have been avoided.
At Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the average GPA has now reached 3.73, a .07 rise from the average of 3.66 in 2009. The largest rises in GPA have occurred at the University of Virginia’s Darden School (up .13 to 3.51), Arizona State’s Carey School (also up .13 to 3.46), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (up .11 to 3.41), the UPenn’s Wharton School (up .10 to 3.60), and Michigan State’s Broad School (also up .10 to 3.30).
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, could be the wave of the future for colleges and universities, but the University of Virginia is approaching the trend with caution. ... The administration is concerned about the possibility of cheating and fraud.
The bank, No. 2 on the InformationWeek Elite 100 ranking, beefed up its IT development to outpace the competition. ... The day we spoke, Capital One CIO Rob Alexander was headed to the University of Virginia, an hour west of Capital One's Richmond, Va., headquarters, to speak to a group of computer science students to whom Capital One had made job offers. The company wants to compete with technology companies like Google and Microsoft for top development, engineering, and infrastructure talent, Alexander says, and "we recognize that's a significant challenge."
Brendan Richardson is CEO and co-founder of PsiKick which has developed a method of producing ultra-low-power, ultra-energy efficient wireless circuits. PsiKick is headquartered here in Charlottesville and based on technology licensed from the University of Virginia, University of Michigan and University of Washington, co-led by Benton Calhoun (CTO & co-founder of PsiKick), assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at U.Va. They’re announcing a major financing milestone headed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and others. This funding enables PsiKick to accelerate i...
Social media users rely strongly on mobile phones and thus, most people do develop an unhealthy attachment to wanting to always be in the know. A study from University of Virginia showed students to be particularly affected by this addiction. It appears like we’re connected but without an authentic connection with each other.
For nearly the entire season, Jeff Jones, a walk-on forward, has sat on the bench, playing only 21 minutes over 10 games. ... While he has made limited contributions to the statistics sheet, Jones said he derived satisfaction from being a member of the team, and attending his father’s alma mater at that — and from going all-out at practice to help the regulars improve.
“Dispatches from the Eastern Front” Author Gerry Warburg, professor of public policy and assistant dean for external affairs at the Batten School, discusses the digital imprint of the presidency of Barack Obama. He speaks with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.”
A breakout star on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" is returning to a stage at her alma mater, the University of Virginia. The University Programs Council started selling tickets Monday to see Sasheer Zamata. The 2008 UVA grad is coming back to grounds for a standup show on April 13. Earlier this year, Zamata became SNL’s first African-American female cast member in six years.
A pair of professors, one at the University of Michigan, has completed the first round of funding for PsiKick, a two-year-old start-up aiming to sell ultra-low-power chips that can be embedded in a T-shirt or other clothing, do not need a battery or wires and can run on heat, vibrations and sunlight. ... David Wentzloff, U-M assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, started the company in 2012 along with partners Benton Calhoun, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, and Brendan Richardson, the company CEO. ... PsiKic...
Most of the data in a story we published earlier this month turned out to be incorrect when it comes to the highest starting salaries for law school graduates. The data was published by the National Association for Law Placement in a new study and picked up by Forbes. They took the data from Payscale [but] law schools collect better data than Payscale itself. With all of that said, here is the updated list of top starting salaries for law school graduates:10. University of Virginia School of Law$117,500Class size: 364Employed: 356Number reporting salary: 348 (98%)Note: Virginia places high bec...
The UVA turnaround program will focus on improving academic achievements at each of the district’s three failing elementary schools. ... UVA officials claim that hundreds of failing schools across 16 states have benefited from the turnaround program over the last decade. The program pairs UVA business and education experts with school systems to institute new practices that lead to increased student success.
“Both of these banks have had other experience with mergers, so … aside from the occasional glitch, I would suspect that it would be very smooth,” said Bill Sihler, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics thinks that Senate races in as many as seven traditionally blue states could be competitive this year.
Joe Harris and Akil Mitchell have been a symbol for the Virginia men's basketball team, and for the first time in four years, next season the duo will not grace the court for the Wahoos. HooNation takes a look at the future by remembering the past.