It took Branden Cogswell a little time to make some adjustments this season, but he is once again in fine form and showing off the skill set that helped him garner a reputation as one of the finest players in college baseball. A junior at the University of Virginia, Cogswell was a preseason All-America selection by Baseball America and Perfect Game. Cogswell, however, got off to a slow start at the plate this season while making the defensive adjustment from shortstop to second base.
The last time the University of Virginia Cavaliers danced in the Sweet Sixteen was back in 1995. So Friday night's game against Michigan State is big. "It's unbelievable," says University of Virginia alumni Zee Rahim. He graduated in 1997 and has followed his team closely through the good and the bad.
Edgar Coker’s life has taken some interesting turns of late. This week, he appeared at an event for the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia Law School. There he met fellow exoneree and NFL free agent Brian Banks and novelist John Grisham.
The prayer recited by Commissioner Robin Bartlett Frazier Thursday that she said is from George Washington has been proven to not belong to the first president, but is often used by Christian Conservative politicians, according to a scholar. John Fea, chair of the History Department at Messiah College, said the prayer comes from the so-called George Washington Prayer Book, which was found in a chest of papers by one of Washington’s descendants in the 1890s. The University of Virginia, which houses the Papers of George Washington, and the Smithsonian Institution have concluded, based on t...
Blame it, perhaps, on the highly competitive college admission process. Dolin cites incoming freshmen at the University of Virginia. In 2007, the average GPA for incoming freshman was 3.7. Today, it is 4.21.
It follows that there actually is a way for the government to provide birth control coverage that is less restrictive of religious rights—it just doesn’t want to extend that option to for-profit companies like Hobby Lobby. “It’s not clear why the government made this distinction,” said Douglas Laycock, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia. “I think they took seriously the claim of religious non-profits, and they didn't take seriously the claim of the for-profit companies, and that was probably a mistake. It might have avoided all ...
Today’s University of Virginia’s men’s basketball game against Michigan State University is not only a matchup between two nationally ranked teams, but two internationally ranked public universities.
For his part, Schlesinger said Carter was "just not a natural leader" even though he liked him personally. "He had a way of discerning things that needed to be done, and yet he was a poor leader in that he did not know the arts of keeping the public with him," Schlesinger said in a 1984 interview with the University of Virginia's Miller Center presidential oral history project.
The Virginia Women’s Chorus will present songs from “Frozen,” “Avatar” and “The Color Purple” as part of “Lights, Camera, Action,” a concert filled with movie and Broadway selections set for 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.
Dr. Bernard Beitman, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, proposes the establishment of a transdisciplinary study called “Coincidence Studies.” He wrote in a 2011 paper: “One of the biggest challenges in the development of the new discipline of Coincidence Studies is providing a systematic place in scientific research for subjectivity and for human consciousness. Meaningful coincidences depend upon the mind of the observer. The question of how to develop methods and an accompanying technical language that includes and respects the subjective element built into the fab...
"Adelson must have concluded the same as everyone else has, Christie’s stock has fallen and he’s at the same level as quite a number of others," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The Dance Program of the University of Virginia Department of Drama will take the stage in Culbreth Theatre with 12 pieces that use dance to explore real-world topics. The Spring Dance Concert will be presented 8 p.m. Thursday and again April 4 and 5.
He has composed everything from the opera “Einstein on the Beach” to the Academy Award-nominated film scores to “Kundun,” “The Hours” and “Notes on a Scandal.” Along the way, he has studied with Nadia Boulanger and Ravi Shankar and collaborated with everybody from David Bowie to Woody Allen. And while composer Philip Glass is at the University of Virginia starting Monday as the Music Arts Board’s 2014 artist-in-residence, his multidisciplinary reach will be reflected in the variety of events on the schedule.
Archaeologists at the University of Virginia are revealing some of the findings from an excavation of a cistern near the historic Rotunda. They now know what it was likely used for, and who built it. The cistern originally held around 75,000 gallons of water. Archaeologists have uncovered a plate and wall inscriptions that give them more background into its history.
The University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble celebrates the music’s multi-cultural revival and honors its roots in medieval minstrelsy and Jewish ritual. Director and clarinetist Joel Rubin, UVA’s renowned ethnomusicologist, is joined by Alan Bern, an accordion-playing Berliner who Rubin started a revival group with in the ’80s, setting the stage for klezmer kismet.