A University of Virginia first-year student is preparing for his first novel to hit bookshelves around the world. Author Schuyler Ebersol wrote “The Hidden World” during a difficult chapter in his own life. A mysterious medical problem kept him homebound, but it opened up the doors to a fantasy world that he is now sharing through the book.
But there are cases where abnormalities in the brain cause criminal behaviour. In 2002, Russell Swerdlow and Jeffrey Burns, neurologists at the University of Virginia medical centre, reported the case of a 40-year-old schoolteacher from Virginia who developed sudden, impulsive paedophilia and was convicted of child molestation. He was signed up for rehabilitation, but was kicked off for propositioning staff. The evening before the man was sentenced, he complained of a headache and being unsteady on his feet. He was taken to hospital, where doctors found an egg-size tumour in his right orbitofr...
Thousands of people in Charlottesville spent the weekend watching movies. The Virginia Film Festival called it a wrap Sunday night. The festival's director said attendance topped last year's record-setting audience numbers.
"There is no war on Christmas," says Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia and scholar on the law of religious liberty. He calls it a "talking point" for the right, including some conservatives uncomfortable with the nation's growing religious diversity. "A certain portion of the Christian community are accustomed to imposing their beliefs on everybody because it didn't really matter; there were not that many non-Christians," he said in an interview. "But now there's 25%."
Although Kickstarter is one of the largest and best known crowd funding platforms, in 2012, there were about 800 such applications, said Sean Carr, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
The University of Virginia Medical Center could lose hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade, said CEO R. Edward Howell, as provisions of the new health care law kick in.
“I’m not sure he understands how thin the ice is that he’s going to be on,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It’s not just that Republicans are going to kill everything he tries,” Sabato said. “Once the Cuccinelli threat is removed, [Democrats] are going to go after him with a vengeance if he does anything wrong.”
The idea has caught on to the extent that there now are CLAW — Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers — offshoots in 25 cities across the nation, including Chicago, Brooklyn and New Orleans. And two local filmmakers, Brian Wimer and Billy Hunt, will be premiering their documentary film, "CLAW," at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Paramount Theater as part of the 26th annual Virginia Film Festival, which continues through Sunday.
For many Charlottesville residents, the notion of transforming decaying public infrastructure into an iconic destination of its own is well understood. In 1976, the city converted a portion its Main Street into a pedestrian plaza that is the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. A documentary being shown in the Newcomb Hall Theater Friday at the Virginia Film Festival features a similar project that blended towering trees and an urban landscape.
As the curtain rose on the 26th annual Virginia Film Festival young home-grown filmmakers shared the spotlight with directors from around the world.
A woman is undergoing hospital treatment Thursday afternoon following an early-morning fire at a Charlottesville apartment complex. It happened near the University of Virginia Corner and investigators say the fire began in the kitchen.
Francis Dall, a long-time football coach and administrator at Westfield, Lake Braddock and Fairfax, died Tuesday from diabetes complications. He was 58.
As Navdeep Martin was weighing which MBA programs to apply to, her most important consideration was time. So Martin zeroed in on part-time and executive MBA programs near her home in Washington and eventually narrowed her choices to Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. The Virginia program she was considering was of the executive MBA, or EMBA, variety. The Charlottesville campus was 120 miles away, but she would be required to show up only one weekend a month. Also, much of the first-year course work could ...
Scores of books and films have offered explanations, from the plausible to the bizarre, of how an inconsequential person such as Lee Harvey Oswald could have killed the most powerful man in the world. Yet three authors – Larry J. Sabato, a political-science professor at the University of Virginia; Thurston Clarke, a historian; and Philip Shenon, a former New York Times reporter – demonstrate in a trio of new offerings that gifted writers can keep to filling in remaining gaps.
The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business makes its debut in the EMBA ranks at No. 13. This year was the first that the new program was eligible to be ranked. Darden is unique in that a large portion of its first-year core curriculum is presented via distance learning.
The University of Michigan will seek $4 billion in its next fund-raising campaign, including $1 billion for scholarships and financial aid. If U-M reaches that goal, it would be the largest amount ever raised by a public university in the nation. The campaign will kick off Friday with a series of celebratory events on the Ann Arbor campus.
Two Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control agents violated policy when one pulled a gun and another tried to shatter an SUV window with a flashlight during a confrontation with a University of Virginia student wrongly suspected of buying beer underage, the agency said Thursday.
"I'm of the view that people need to be fully engaged in adult life in their mid-twenties," says Dr. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, as well as associate professor of sociology at the university. "People flourish in their careers and their lives in general if they get serious during this time of their life. If they are still jumping from one job to another, they are not getting those networking experiences that will serve them in their career."
As the possibility of a federal indictment swirled around scandal-plagued Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell this summer, Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli was planning a “dramatic” break from the sitting governor in which he would use the Virginia state Constitution to try to remove McDonnell from office, a prominent state political analyst reported Thursday. According to Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, Cuccinelli planned to employ a never-before-used section of the state Constitution to deem McDonnell unfit to govern.
The post-election analysis of Larry Sabato and his team at the University of Virginia Center for Politics contains a juicy “what-if” tidbit. According to the latest edition of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, losing Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, the state’s attorney general, was prepared to invoke a never-before-used section of the Virginia Constitution against embattled Gov. Bob McDonnell if McDonnell had been indicted for his role in a gifts scandal that remains under investigation.