An associate dean at the University of Virginia has been named dean of the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, officials announced Monday. Janie Heath, who is also the Thomas Saunders III Endowed Professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, will take over as dean at UK on Aug. 1, pending approval from the UK Board of Trustees.
With a snow day on Monday, students at the University of Virginia have some extra time to celebrate a big weekend for the men's basketball team.
Renowned Japanese architect Toyo Ito was recently named the recipient of the 2014 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Hosted by the University of Virginia School of Architecture, the annual award recognizes achievements in fields that Thomas Jefferson – the 3rd U.S. president, author of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of UVA – excelled in and highly regarded.
All these years later, Wally Walker remembers the joyful faces of the University of Virginia fans ringing the court, in an arena that no longer exists. So many people. Some familiar, some not. But all of them smiling, cheering, disbelieving. It was all he could do to take it all in as he stood on the floor while a teammate shot free throws late in the championship game of the 1976 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament against lordly North Carolina. The Cavaliers were about to do it. Against all odds they were going to beat Dean Smith and Phil Ford and all the rest, and everybody wanted to join ...
Marine Capt. Sean Gobin, a 38-year old Rhode Island native, started the Warrior Hike nonprofit group. He left the service as a 12-year veteran with two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Gobin, now an MBA student at the University of Virginia, walked the Appalachian Trail in 2012 to raise money for a fellow Marine veteran who lost both legs in combat in 2011. He decided to expand the idea and created the Warrior Hike.
Bob Gibson, director of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, said Heilman served an “excellent” tenure as registrar for Albemarle. “And now [he] does important work for our country by volunteering to help other countries run clean and fair elections,” Gibson said. Gibson, who will speak at the league’s luncheon on the ongoing changes in Virginia politics, had nothing but kind words for Heilman. “From European nations to Asian nations,” Gibson said, “he has helped democracy and fair elections be adopted a...
Warning that the steady rise in student loan debt will cause the country's next great economic crisis, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner outlined measures Monday that he said can help students and their families better manage college expenses.
“Perry is without doubt a much better politician than the bumbler who came across in 2012,” Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Monday. “The GOP presidential contest is so wide open, two years before the nominating battle begin, that no high-ranking, ambitious officeholder should be ruled out,” Sabato said. “Plus, there’s a reason why so many Texas politicians have had a high profile in the national GOP. Texas is by far the largest state that reliably votes Republican, plus it is a very conservative state tha...
(Editorial) Lest there be any doubt, Virginia showed the nation that it can speak basketball fluently. Not just jump shots, 3-pointers and layups, although the University of Virginia demonstrated those well enough in a win over Duke University on Sunday. But also in the parties and events (to say nothing of the hotels and restaurants) that help make a successful college basketball tournament.
According to the latest Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball summary from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, Democrats hold the 10 Senate seats most likely to switch parties in 2014.
Jim Tucker, M.D., is a Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor of Personality Studies for the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia Health Systems. He is the author of “Return to Life,” a collection of first-hand accounts from children who claim they have been reincarnated. Tucker has performed his own research on numerous children and is ready to explain his findings as well as his explanation theory.
Driven by history-making Atlantic Coast Conference titles and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the University of Virginia men’s basketball team is poised for some potential money-making slam dunks. It’s could be a boost for others, too.
Quinn Curtis, a U.Va. associate professor of law, recently teamed with Yale law professor Ian Ayres to author several papers on 401k fees. While these papers have generated their fair share of controversy, as Curtis explains, their intent is really, rather than arguing over investment theory or even the definition of “high” fees, their paper hopes to shed light on the method the courts currently use to judge fiduciary issues pertaining to retirement plans.
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 someone who occupied not just one category of "outsider" status, but two: woman and minority.
A coalition of left-leaning academics has established a group aimed at opposing scholarly boycotts, with the self-described goal of "challenging the false choice presented to the academic community that it must either undermine the legitimacy of Israel or accept violations of the rights and dignity of Palestinians." The group's signatories include leading scholars such as Siva Vaidhyanathan of the University of Virginia.
"[Rick] Perry is without doubt a much better politician than the bumbler who came across in 2012. ... The GOP presidential contest is so wide open, two years before the nominating battle begin, that no high-ranking, ambitious officeholder should be ruled out." — Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, on Gov. Rick Perry's chances for a second act on the presidential stage
As this all shakes out, consumers can expect to see volatility, with bubbles in prices and new altcoins popping up. "The everyday consumer should probably be very cautious," says economist Peter Rodriguez, an associate professor at the University of Virginia.
The phenomenon of a three-day shiva, where the mood is livelier, is not new, notes Vanessa Ochs, professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia and the author of the 2007 book “Inventing Jewish Ritual.” “For the past several decades we’ve seen people sitting only one or three days shiva, and often the atmosphere takes on more of a cocktail reception, with catered food and even alcohol,” Ochs explained. “As I see it, it’s simply an appropriation of certain aspects of American Christian social behaviors following ...
“There’s no question that these guys are in the vanguard of where medicine has to go,” said Tom Massaro, UVA’s Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law. A pediatrician, Massaro now lectures on health policy at the University’s law school and the Darden School of Business.
"Putting a man in a position of either lying to Congress or disclosing national security secrets, the fault there was with the senator, not with Clapper," said Bob Turner, associate director of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia. "Clapper has a duty to protect secrets. I don’t see that as covering it up or lying to the American people. It was to keep enemies from knowing our capabilities."