Like much of UVa Grounds these days, the Rotunda is in transition. This fall, the university is hoping to put the final touches on a year-and-a-half-long Rotunda roof renovation. It’s one of several projects the school has either finished or is close to finishing.
(Commentary) The University of Virginia this week announced that it, too, was reducing spousal benefits. Exactly what role did Obamacare play in these latest decisions? It plainly wasn’t irrelevant.
Holly Buchanan, a 34-year-old Portsmouth nurse practitioner who is using the study as her doctoral thesis at the University of Virginia, and Talreja, a Virginia Beach native, are looking for ways to get their hometowns thinking about nutrition.
SWA’s Summer Student Program challenges students to reconfigure established systems of infrastructure and landscape, adapting regional developments within a preexisting cultural environment. In its fifth year, the program has dealt mostly with California’s diverse terrain, and now turns its focus to the bedraggled yet beloved Los Angeles River. (Among those submitting projects was Rachel Vassar of U.Va.)
"If you've seen one EMS service you've seen one EMS service — because no two are alike," says Dr. Robert O'Connor, board member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and chair of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) On the very same day as the AFL-CIO was predicting the death of the 40-hour week, the University of Virginia announced plans to boot working spouses off its health plan beginning Jan. 1 because the Affordable Care Act has made it unaffordable: it’s projected to add $7.3 million to the university’s bill in 2014 alone.
“I think it brought a lot of attention to the civil rights issues throughout the nation,” said Paul Gaston, professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia, and a local civil rights activist in the 1960s. “I think people in Charlottesville were already energized against segregation, but it became a reference point.”
A. Bruce Dotson was appointed by county supervisors. He is an at-large member of the Albemarle County Planning Commission and retired professor of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning at UVa’s School of Architecture, according to a release.
Among those listed was former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, who went on to earn a law degree at U.Va.
Cases like Johnson's demonstrate the need to ensure accurate eyewitnesses, said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia School of Law professor who wrote a book about false prosecutions. “You'd hope that cases like this would encourage the push for the adoption of more accurate lineup procedures,” Garrett said.
Charlottesville bike shops are taking their gear to grounds at the University of Virginia. UVA's Department of Parking and Transportation will host its third annual On Grounds Bike Sale Monday.
“If Jackson’s goal is to focus on job creation and not social issues, he’s had a funny way of making that clear,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He was slow to transition from a red-meat-loving convention to a moderate general electorate, and it has cost him. Of course, his trail of controversial statements is long and would have been harmful anyway,” Sabato said.
As engineering professor W. Bernard Carlson signed and dated a copy of his recently published book, the recipient asked a question. "Why did you do it?" the person wondered. Why indeed had the chair of the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia spent 15 years working on a biography of Nikola Tesla? There already were any number of books about one of the world's favorite "mad scientists."
"The religious community would have done much better to ask for protection for their religious liberty instead of trying to stop same-sex marriage and try to prevent it for everybody," said church-state expert Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia, who is recommending the more pragmatic course. "The more same-sex marriage seems inevitable, the less likely we are to see religious liberty protection in blue states."
When new Aeros pitcher Kyle Crockett arrived in Akron earlier this month, he was relieved to see a familiar face in the Akron clubhouse in former college teammate Will Roberts. Sure, it was great to catch up with a teammate from his days at the University of Virginia. But even better, Roberts offered to let Crockett crash in his apartment – rent free – over the final month of the Aeros’ season, which wraps up in nine days.
Students and families crowded Grounds at the University of Virginia on Friday and Saturday for a time-honored tradition: move-in weekend.
A number of studies have demonstrated that some obese individuals have lower cardiovascular risk and an improved metabolic profile, while a subset of "normal-BMI" people are metabolically unhealthy and have increased mortality risk. A team of researchers at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, found better post-surgical short-term survival rates among obese people than patients of normal weight3. Patients with a BMI of 23.1 or less were more than twice as likely to die within 30 days of surgery than those with a BMI of 35.3 or more.