Larry J. Sabato, politics professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Feeding Frenzy,” a book about the press seizing on storylines, said the turkey story fits the mold of a feeding frenzy. “The toughest stories to rebut or refute are those that reinforce a subtext that press and public have adopted about a president,” he said, adding that the press had such a subtext about Mr. Bush and Iraq. “This falls into the category of ‘too good to check.’ That’s usually the case for false or silly subtext stories.”
(By James G. Clawson, Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business) Is leadership born or built? What about the in-between position that says early childhood is an imprinting that’s hard to undo? That faction claims that unless the tendency to lead is learned early on, it’s not likely to happen later in life. I say leadership can be taught. But then, I have a unique definition of leadership.
Quotes from the 2013 University of Virginia Investment Conference, held at the Darden School of Business.
The opposing rulings, and others like them, made the Conestoga question one justices were likely to take up, said Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia expert in the law of religious freedom.
The Thursday afternoon gathering of male students outside Natalie Randolph's first-floor environmental science classroom at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School is hard to ignore. Even after the final dismissal bell, the rowdy group of boys is not quick to leave the Northwest D.C. campus. Four years ago, Randolph, who grew up in D.C. and received her bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia, took on the role of what many say was the first female high school football coach in the country.
This Thanksgiving, the family of Ladavian Terry, of Blacksburg, is celebrating his first birthday. That’s a landmark for any child, but it holds special significance for them — they weren’t sure he’d make it that far. Ladavian was born with a congenital heart defect last November, and received a heart transplant at the University of Virginia Medical Center in March.
"A lot of evidence has shown that materialistic people tend to have weaker social ties and are not as socially integrated as less materialistic people," says James E. Burroughs, a professor of commerce at the University of Virginia and an associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Research. "What Pieters did is take this a step further by showing how it contributes to loneliness – a loneliness that reinforces this problem and drives people toward material objects because they're easier to deal with than trying to restructure one's life to bring meaningful relation...
Crowds are a given on the day after Thanksgiving. But as night fell and shoppers iced bruises and sorted plunder, the University of Virginia women’s soccer team found itself with one more bit of congestion to conquer. Black Friday at Klockner Stadium offered but a single invitation to the College Cup in stock, and the Cavaliers had waited far too long to leave empty-handed. A full year after a disappointing early exit in the NCAA tournament, with all the sprints, weight sessions, practices and games that came in the interim, they were going to leave with it in their possession this time....
Some ambitious people in Charlottesville got up early to exercise and make room for their big Thanksgiving feast. They laced up and headed out in the cold air to run in and volunteer for the 32nd Annual Boar's Head Turkey Trot in Albemarle County. The Boar's Head Turkey Trot benefits the University of Virginia Children's Hospital, which is in the process of constructing the new Battle building.
"This study presents data from a large bank of injuries in a young population and those data will ultimately help answer some of the questions of how and why there are differences," Susan Saliba said. Saliba is a physical therapist, athletic trainer and associate professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She was not involved in this study.
Here is the list of people we are giving thanks for in 2013: … Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Chair of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, who we at Tenured Radical first met when he was finishing his dissertation in American Studies at the University of Texas. Well, we weren’t surprised when his book, “The Googlization of Everything – And Why We Should Worry” pioneered early critiques of the Internet utopia. Siva continues to be one of the kindest, sanest, smartest and funniest voices on and off the web. And he has a really cute puppy too.
(Editorial) A new facility soon to serve senior citizens exemplifies the kinds of solutions that will be necessary in the shifting health care environment. We note that Virginia’s deputy secretary of health and human resources praised programs such as the new Blue Ridge Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly as examples of health care reform initiatives that do, in fact, work. The new program, part of a national PACE project, is a collaboration among the University of Virginia Health System, the Jefferson Area Board for Aging and the Virginia-based nonprofit Riverside Health.
Hackathons – sometimes called hack days, hackfests or codefests – seem to be popping up with increasing frequency on college campuses nationwide. Yale University, University of Virginia, New York University and Emory University all hosted their inaugural hackathons this month.
Two sisters in Albemarle County are hoping to make the holidays more special for the young patients at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital. They're making teddy bears to deliver to the kids spending the holidays in the hospital.
A push is underway in Virginia to take political redistricting out of the hands of politicians. Charlottesville has become a makeshift bivouac for a team working to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot in November 2016. “There’s an increasing understanding among the public and voters that hard party gerrymandering is counterproductive and hurts good governance,” said Bob Gibson, executive director of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
The UVa/Virginia Tech matchup is one of the biggest football games of the season, but before any play starts, the tailgating begins and University of Virginia fans believe they do it best.
Q&A with Emily Giffin, best-selling author and U.Va. law graduate.
(Commentary by Thomas R. Frantz and former U.Va. Rector John O. “Dubby” Wynne) With the election behind us, Virginia's leaders now turn to a host of familiar issues. Sustaining the momentum for higher education reform and reinvestment, should occasion bipartisan cooperation.