Every $1 that Virginia spends on higher education results in $1.29 in new tax revenue and more than $17 in increased economic activity, according to a University of Virginia report released Thursday. The report by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service details the economic impact of the state’s public higher education system, which consists of 15 four-year institutions, one junior college and 23 community colleges.
(Editorial) In July, Kaine and Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain announced a bipartisan drive to reform the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Their effort drew on the good work of a study of the War Powers Resolution sponsored by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. The call proved prescient.
Police are investigating whether a University of Virgina student who died after collapsing at a D.C. club over the weekend took a drug known as "Molly." Two people who were with Shelley Goldsmith at the club EchoStage told first responders that Goldsmith had taken the drug molly, several law enforcement sources told News4. They also said she had come up on a bus from U.Va.
Haley’s Wednesday morning confession – although it drew several slightly lurid comments – probably only serves to make her constituents feel more like she’s somebody they can relate to, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “There’s Anthony Weiner, and then there’s this,” he said. “Haley’s post is pretty harmless. Most people will find it amusing. People who like her will say the post humanizes her. People who hate Haley will cite this as proof of – well, something – that jus...
(Book review) The University of Virginia may be the only educational institution in the country that is so widely known as “The University” — a sobriquet that has existed since the late 19th century. It is hard to imagine that a university with a $5 billion endowment that has produced so many successful graduates almost didn’t survive its first 20 years. In “Rot, Riot and Rebellion,” Rex Bowman, a former Roanoke Times reporter, and Carlos Santos provide an account of the struggle to found the university and the 20-year-long struggle to prevent its foundering...
The business was born in line at a Corner bar in 2010, when Jones watched security turn away an underage University of Virginia student trying to gain entry with a fake ID, according to court records. Jones told the student he could do better, Heaphy said. Jones did. Soon, word of mouth spread interest in Novel Design to customers across the state and around the country, court records state.
(Video) On this edition of UVa Today Bob Beard talks with Nargis Cross, an Assistant to President Teresa Sullivan. Cross is trying to breathe new life into the University of Virginia's Rotunda, encouraging the first-years to take advantage of the iconic building.
The University of Virginia Health System is currently signing up patients with chronic health problems to have a nurse track their progress daily from the comfort of home. It's a partnership between UVA and a Charlottesville-based high-tech startup. The UVA Health System's first coordinated care center, or C-3, is now open in Charlottesville to provide follow-up care for patients sent home from the hospital.
According to researchers at the University of Virginia, the intensity of smiles in Facebook profile pictures can accurately predict the well-being of undergraduates over the course of their college careers.
In a “sneak peek” at the 2014 Best Colleges rankings, the magazine lists the McIntire School of Commerce among its top 10 Best Undergraduate Business Programs. The full rankings are scheduled for release Tuesday.
(Guest post by John O'Brien, associate professor of English, and Brad Pasanek, assistant professor of English). Are you a reader? A student of America’s founding? Interested in book history? We have an app for that. And we would love to show it to you. But a funny thing happened on the way to the App Store: Apple has rejected it, multiple times. Our attempt to produce an app designed to let readers interact with facsimiles of rare documents — in this case, the first printed editions of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, his only full-length book — is...
Charlottesville police say the drug is not a problem in the city because it is typically seen in nightclubs, something Charlottesville doesn't have many of. But at the university, Molly is seen more often than people might expect.
The article cites research from the U.Va. School of Law into 1920s-era “stock pools.”
A record-breaking night on UVa grounds -- and it's something to high-five about. The University of Virginia's Dean of Students Allen Groves handily broke the Guinness World Record for "Most High-Fives By an Individual in One Hour" with more than 2,000 high-fives. The group needed 1,739 high-fives to break the record.
(Commentary) The article cites the Darden School of Business’ parking a deck as an example of design that allows it to blend in with its surroundings.
Among the columns that landed a husband-and-wife journalism team ion hot water was a June 19 column on marriage that failed to attribute a passage to a report by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
A pair of teenagers who allegedly tried to rob two university students at gunpoint are behind bars after their would-be victims fought back putting their assailants in hospital. When police arrived at the scene of the alleged robbery in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 27, they found Johnny Calderon Junior, 19, and Gerald Allen, 18, with beaten-up and bloodied faces. They were being held in the custody of two University of Virginia Students after allegedly trying to rob them at the 2300 block of Fonaine Avenue.
In this commentary, Robert F. Turner from the University of Virginia School of Law says President Obama clearly has the constitutional power to launch missile strikes at Syria without congressional approval. But in historical terms, consensus and policy issues are important considerations.
(By Brandon L. Garrett, a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law) What could really help to make amends for those 27 years – and all of the years lost by a dozen other Virginia DNA exonerees similarly misidentified by eyewitnesses – would be to finally put an end to the shoddy lineups procedures that can cause such wrongful convictions in the first place. Unfortunately, police agencies in Virginia have gone backward and not forward over the past decade.