A bill was killed last week that would have allowed students to hire attorneys for representation when dealing with university disciplinary actions after officials at Virginia public universities expressed concern about multiple problems the bill would pose.
As soon as it happened, Kelsey Wolfe said she knew she was significantly hurt.
Depending on your, and your advisor's, preferences, you may want to write an individual development plan as soon as you begin your postdoc. This document should spell out your goals for up to five years ahead. "I can't emphasize enough how much doing a self-assessment tells you where you stand versus where you want to be," says Darwin Operario, a member of the National Postdoctoral Association's board of directors and a research associate at the University of Virginia.
Recovery House was designed to help students break an addiction they are facing, whether it’s drugs or alcohol. Recovery House allows students to balance both their education and recovery. Fairfield is the first Jesuit school to start a Recovery House. However, 17 other schools are involved in the program, including University of Virginia and Rutgers.
Jerry Stenger, the director of the state climatology office at the University of Virginia, calls today's storm "a classic scenario." He said the combined moisture and cold air sets up for a good snowfall. "The plentiful cold air will assure that this is likely to be an all-snow event,'' Stenger said.
(By Steven E. Rhoads, professor of politics) Valentine’s Day in the 21st century means fewer heart-shaped candy boxes for college women than they would have received in the 20th century. Some women with steady, longstanding boyfriends may get a treat, but casual sex — the hook-up — has made dating much less common.
Alton Lane sells custom suits, shirts, blazers and trousers largely by appointment. Shirts start at $89, and suits start at $595. Owners Peyton Jenkins and Colin Hunter, both University of Virginia graduates and both Anglophiles, named their company after an unassuming cobblestone street in London. They launched Alton Lane in 2009 with a 450-square-foot location in New York and have opened stores in Boston, Washington and Dallas.
There are plenty of other great public colleges in the United States worth checking out, ranging from the University of Texas at Austin to the University of Virginia.
Many Virginia state colleges, including the University of Virginia, Virginia Military Institute and the College of William & Mary are supporting a benefits bill. These schools along with JMU are supporting a bill that would allow waivers that would cut tuition by almost 50 percent for students of faculty members.
The University of Virginia will launch its newest free online course on an appropriate theme on Presidents Day. The course, “Age of Jefferson,” will be taught by Peter Onuf, a professor emeritus at U.Va. and co-host of the public radio show “BackStory with the American History Guys.”
Robert O’Neil, former president of and professor of law at the University of Virginia, and an expert on faculty free speech issues, said via email that the latest decision from the appeals court added to the view he shares that Garcetti should not be applied to higher education. The new decision has “a level of certainty and conviction -- a slightly sharper edge, if you will -- which further narrows adverse inferences from Garcetti,” he said.
Using existing structural capacity, the University of Virginia added 127,000 sq ft of new space to its Charlottesville teaching hospital, the University of Virginia Medical Center.
(Editorial) Seeking justice, they went through a succession of lawyers. They finally landed at the University of Virginia School of Law. It was the best thing that could have happened.
Andrew Walker discusses the article Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates with Dr. Bradford Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies.
Readers of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in the late 1990s might remember Andrew Leahey as a contributor to inSync, a section of the newspaper that featured young writers. Leahey’s now a recording artist based in Nashville. His work with inSync turned out to be a career springboard, though not in the way he originally intended.
A group of students at the University of Virginia may have just created the worst college a cappella group in the country – on purpose. According to UVA student newspaper The Cavalier Daily, student-singers founded the Virginia No Tones in order to give non-experienced singers a chance to do a cappella.
(By Steven E. Rhoads, professor of politics) Valentine’s Day presents an opportunity for both men and women to express their devotion to their beloved in meaningful ways. Sadly, some feminists want to use this day to protest male violence and, no doubt, other male failures. Their goal is to supplant Valentine’s Day with V-Day – Violence Against Women Day – until violence stops.
Each game establishes a higher standard for the University of Virginia men’s basketball team. And each higher standard invokes a name from the Cavaliers’ historic past.
(By Joshua Yates, research assistant professor of sociology and managing director of U.Va.’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Once upon a time in America thrift was a popular and celebrated character ideal. Parents exhorted thrift to their children; teachers taught it in schools; religious leaders commended it to their congregations; charitable institutions prescribed it to the poor and downtrodden; public officials extolled its virtue in promoting the general welfare; even advertisers paid obeisance to it in the hawking of sundry wares and goods.
“This plane did exactly what designers want it to do,” said Robert Salzar, principal scientist at the Center for Applied Biomechanics at the University of Virginia. “In the case of a survivable hard landing, the fuselage and the seating systems worked together to absorb the impact energy.”