Would you expect MBA programs to be one of America's hotbeds for activating people to show support for their LGBT friends? Neither would I, but 12 of the country's top business schools – including U.Va.’s Darden School of Business – are proving me wrong.
Fifty years after John Kennedy's assassination, authors continue to find him fascinating. In addition to the 40,000 books already published about Kennedy, there are a shelf's-worth of new titles, including: … “The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy” by Larry Sabato (Bloomsbury). The director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia argues that the assassination was inevitable, if not in Dallas, then someplace else.
A University of Virginia student is being honored for his award-winning sneakers. Oliver Vranesh is the winner of Complex Magazine's "Next Sneaker Design Star" contest.
When you keep a secret, you naturally try to push it out of your mind so that you don't reveal all at exactly the wrong time. The problem: That only makes you might only think about it more, according to research from the University of Virginia.
(By James Mumford, a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) ‘I am walking in some mountains’. That’s the out-of-office that pops up when I email Johnny Flynn to request an interview. The folk star and West End actor is on holiday. But he’s not doing the Three Peaks Challenge. No, he’s tracing St Paul’s third missionary journey across southern Turkey, a 30th birthday present from Bea, his wife and teenage sweetheart.
The University of Virginia Medical Center has negotiated a deal to join a managed care Medicaid program launched last year by Carilion Clinic and Aetna Insurance. Known as MajestaCare, the program is similar to a health maintenance organization for Virginians who qualify for Medicaid, said Larry L. Fitzgerald, the medical center’s associate vice president for business development and finance.
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner is bringing educational leaders from across Virginia to the nation's capital for a conference aimed at promoting research in science, engineering and medicine. Warner's office says in a news release that participants in Friday's conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., include representatives from Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Now the tables have turned. Herring, who is clinging to a 164-vote lead, is declaring victory and Obenshain is the one saying the race isn't over yet. Both have created transition teams just in case. "Well, it's definitely headed for a recount, so it's not surprising to me that Obenshain wouldn't concede," says Geoff Skelley of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Kenneth White, associate dean for strategic partnerships and innovation at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, said while that's true, there's nothing wrong with it. “They have to compete in the marketplace just like any other hospital does," said White, who has studied Catholic health care for more than two decades. “To compete on their identity and mission, vision and values I think is a great thing to compete on."
This year's report found fewer New York companies with no women board members in 2012, down to 10 companies from 15 in 2010. Some experts said they are unimpressed. "The pace is painfully slow," said Erika Hayes James, an associate dean at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. "It'd be difficult to say we've really made a difference when the numbers are so small."
"The debate over military service got heated at times, and in some ways it’s the highest-stakes example of the religious exemption," said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at University of Virginia and a recognized expert on religious freedom. "(During the Revolutionary War) the population wasn’t very large, national existence was on the line and there was some resentment of the Quakers."
The migration, which includes Hispanic and black voters, is driving a “fundamental political realignment” that threatens Republicans’ viability in areas where they once thrived, said Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service in Charlottesville.
Area groups are slated to host events to raise funds for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The Organization of Young Filipino Americans at the University of Virginia has launched a campaign for the Philippine Red Cross. Comedian Rex Navarrete will put on a show in Newcomb Theater tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. The show is free, but donations are encouraged and a collection will be taken.
Joey Lewis, a Charlottesville Police Department detective, received the American Legion Post 74 Law Enforcement of Year Award on Wednesday for his effort in arresting a man who attempted to abduct a University of Virginia student last November.
After leaving the world of corporate law to return to his family’s farms in southern Virginia, M. James Faison realized he didn’t exactly have a green thumb. That’s when his entrepreneurial spirit kicked in.
In the spring of 2010, Jack noticed that leaves on the west edge of the vine, nearest Mother Vineyard Road, were dying. A subcontractor for Dominion Power had sprayed an industrial herbicide along the road to keep brush away from power lines and had inadvertently sprayed the Mother Vine. Jack called in specialists from North Carolina State University and the University of Virginia for help. They advised a radical approach: trimming the vine ahead of the poison while fertilizing it heavily to boost its immunity to the chemical. Those efforts worked.
Today, an increasing number of MBAs are becoming social entrepreneurs, actively engaged in projects that serve a real social need–even when they aim to make a profit. Take, for instance, University of Virginia Darden School MBA Manoj Sinha, who grew up in Bihar, India. Sinha wanted to give back to his community, so he started Husk Power Systems, a nonprofit that uses rice husks to bring energy to large swaths of rural India.
Growing up in Harare, Zimbabwe, during the height of a recession, Veneka Chagwedera was acutely aware of unfairness in the world. As she approached her high school graduation in 2006, Chagwedera watched as thousands of children dropped out of school due to economic and social pressures.
At many research universities, the deep federal budget cuts known as the sequester continue to cloud the future of laboratories and the scientists who staff them. This week university presidents meeting in the nation’s capital denounced the sequester, as they have since before it took effect in March, and urged Congress to roll it back so that federally sponsored research can resume at a normal pace.
The latest Tom Hanks film, “Captain Phillips,” opened last month – taking in $26 million in its first weekend at the box office. Here in Virginia, some people – including former FBI crisis negotiator John Flood, now assistant director of the University of Virginia’s Office of Emergency Preparedness – take a special interest in the tale of a U.S. cargo ship from Norfolk captured by pirates off the Somali Coast in 2009 – its captain held hostage.