It’s not uncommon for NBA players to report for a new season with a transformed body or game. Mike Scott is back with both.
“This is a very promising time for women who suffer from hot flashes,” said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, a researcher at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She was involved in developing one of the new drugs, Duavee, which will be available early next year.
Littlejohn's has been a staple on The Corner at the University of Virginia for nearly four decades. Now, the deli is about to branch out. A ten-store, multi-state expansion is in the works, beginning with an addition close to home.
“I think people are going to add it to the list of sketchy business dealings that McAuliffe has been involved in or has been accused of being involved with,” said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of political newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “If Cuccinelli could make GreenTech matter or some of the other stuff matter, is this going to really break through if that stuff didn’t?”
About 30 of the 36 incumbent governors are expected to be on the ballot in 2014, the largest number in half a century, predicted Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center on Politics in Charlottesville, in a June analysis. "The biggest difference between 2010 (when the four governors were elected) and 2014 is incumbency: the lack of it in 2010 and the abundance of it in 2014. Since 1960, four out of five incumbents who have made it into a general election ballot have been reelected," he said.
Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration sought to penalize a commercial drone operator with a massive fine. It ordered Raphael Pirker to pay $10,000 for an October 17th, 2011 incident during which it says Pirker operated his aircraft — in this case a 4.5-pound Ritewing Zephyr-powered glider — "in a careless or reckless manner" that put nearby lives and private property in danger. He had been hired to obtain aerial photos and video of the University of Virginia campus for a company called Lewis Communications, and the FAA found numerous faults with Pirker...
If you drive around the University of Virginia's drama building, you might be surprised by what you see. A sculpture more than 10 feet high is being built out of tree saplings and branches in front of the Ruth Caplin Theatre on the Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds.
Deepak Chopra and Arianna Huffington are slated to lead a meditation session on the Lawn on Tuesday.
In the decade leading to 2020, of the 30 occupations expected to see the most employment growth, nine are in healthcare, the BLS has reported. Job areas that will be especially hard to fill, the agency has said, include personal care aides, nursing aides, medical secretaries, licensed practical nurses and medical assistants. With this in mind, administrators at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville are bracing for increased competition for healthcare professionals by placing greater emphasis on workforce planning and labor forecasting.
Douglas Laycock, a leading expert on religious-freedom issues at the University of Virginia Law School and an attorney for the plaintiffs in Greece, N.Y., told the Register that the “prayers are explicitly Christian. … Citizens who attend the meetings to request board action on some local issue have no choice but to join in the prayers or go through the motions of doing so.” He argued that “conservative Christians who are constantly asking others to respect their religious liberty should also respect the religious liberty of non-Christians.”
R. Edward Howell, vice president and CEO of the University of Virginia Medical Center, will retire in July.
U.S. soccer star Abby Wambach married her longtime partner Sarah Huffman, and one of Wambach's former teammates couldn't be happier for the couple.
Three people have been appointed to new leadership roles at the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
Some fear that once Woodcock leaves the pace of drug approvals will slow. She also appears to have done little to develop a bench of potential successors - a challenge Woodcock acknowledges. "No-one is seeing that luminous, next-generation leadership," said Dr. Robert Meyer, a former top medical reviewer at the FDA who subsequently joined drug maker Merck & Co as a vice president and in March took an academic position at the University of Virginia.
No one was injured in a fire at a University of Virginia science building Tuesday night. Charlottesville firefighters were alerted to Wilsdorf Hall at about 10:45 p.m., said UVa spokesman McGregor McCance. McCance said the building sustained water damage but there wasn't yet an estimate of the cost of damage.
Experts from around the country are coming to the University of Virginia Thursday to tackle issues of exercise and nutrition for adolescents. Youth-Nex is a program in The Center to Promote Effective Youth Development, a part of UVA's Curry School of Education, which focuses on the health and well-being of young people. Their annual conference gets underway Thursday, bringing together top scholars, policy makers, and practitioners in the field.
University of Virginia soccer player Morgan Brian didn’t invent the concept of multi-tasking. But she appears intent upon perfecting it.
“Losing Alex Gulotta is a big loss for the Charlottesville and the Virginia Legal Aid community,” said University of Virginia professor Walt Heinecke. “He has done a phenomenal job at building a top-notch organization and protecting the rights of people who are less privileged.”