Last fall, Leddy sent a letter about the painting to the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. “I am struck how the pose of the figure seems to make reference to a kind of history of portrait paintings, evoking artists such as Anthony Van Dyck, who were celebrated for their portraits of kings and notable figures,” said Jennifer Farrell, curator of exhibitions. Now the painting, whose artist is unknown, will be featured in an exhibition at Fralin that opens Aug. 23.
King's speech is the most famous part of the event. With a large TV audience watching, Barber said, technology might have been what brought the speech into the public eye. "There was a real media savviness about producing a march that would result in enduring, inspiring and fundamentally non-threatening visual images," said Aniko Bodroghkozy, author of Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement. "I think we are still inspired by these images 50 years later."
(Commentary) Has marriage become too expensive an institution for the working class? In a piece for Slate, The Washington Post’s Amanda Hess takes a look at a research paper “Intimate Inequalities: Love and Work in a Post-Industrial Landscape” by University of Virginia sociologist Sarah Corse and Harvard sociologist Jennifer Silva, who interviewed 300 working- and middle-class Americans.
(Commentary) James Caesar of the University of Virginia calls anti-Americanism "the political religion of modern times."
But other academics vigorously disagree with Mobbs and Watts attempts to explain Near Death Experiences invoking a purely scientific or non-spiritual account. For example, in a paper entitled Seeing Dead People Not Known to Have Died: "Peak in Darien" Experiences, Bruce Greyson from the Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia Health System, argues that in his collection of 665 NDEs, 138 (21%) included a purported meeting with a deceased person, whereas only 25 (4%) included an encounter with a living human.
Jeremy B. Tuttle, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, discusses why federal sequestration is leading him to end his research career.
Not many innovators attain legend status, but Nikola Tesla – who died penniless, yet made all of our electrical appliances possible – is definitely one of them. How did Tesla slip from celebrity to oblivion? W. Bernard Carlson, professor at the University of Virginia and author of Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, says Tesla was lost to history for many years largely because he was a radically different type of inventor than his peers. (Includes audio)
(Editorial) To curb growing costs, the University of Virginia plans to reduce by a projected $6 million per year grant money given to low- and middle-income students. To compensate, it will increase the number of federal, need-based loans available to those students, which will be supplemented by the normal streams of federal grant aid, state financial aid and work study. The decision is yet another sign that public higher education institutions, facing diminished state funding, are charging students more and helping them less.
Lisa Dodd just started wearing a white coat into a hospital emergency room, but she’s no stranger to medical traumas. She was 16 when she became a junior member of the Colonial Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad—and she got hooked. She didn’t mind climbing out of bed at 2 in the morning to help someone who was suffering. She’s getting the same kind of rush as an emergency room doctor at Riverside Tappahannock Hospital.
Kyle Crockett has defied expectations with the same M.O. that marked his careers at Poquoson High School and the University of Virginia: uncommon poise, on the mound and in the clubhouse, and superb control of three pitches. A slender left-hander with sneaky, but not overpowering, velocity, Crockett has thrived in three stops since the Cleveland Indians chose him in the fourth round of June's draft: the Class A short-season Mahoning Valley Scrappers, the Class A Lake County Captains and the Class AA Akron Aeros.
Gov. Bob McDonnell this week appointed Pamela Moran, superintendent of Albemarle County schools, to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, according to a Friday news release. Moran has served as Albemarle superintendent since 2006. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Furman University, and has a master’s and doctorate from the University of Virginia.
Ohio State trustees also announced yesterday that they’ll host a symposium of current and former college leaders to set the tone for the search. The panelists will include Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia.
The “Star Party” originally scheduled for Saturday evening has been pushed ahead a week due to forecasts of rain. University of Virginia astronomers and members of the Charlottesville Astronomical Society will be on hand from 6 to 10 p.m. Aug. 24 at Albemarle CiderWorks in North Garden. Families are invited to the event to gaze at the stars through telescopes, listen to lectures on astronomy and constellation mythology and go inside the portable Star Lab Planetarium.
Paul Stephan teaches law at the University of Virginia and has served as a consultant to the Department of State on matters of international law. In his opinion, Comar's lawsuit against Bush administration officials is unlikely to succeed.
University of Virginia political analyst Geoff Skelley says there are a few reasons why people like Bell are running unopposed in 2013.
Phil Gosselin was called up by the Atlanta Braves on Friday. Gosselin, who played collegiately at the University of Virginia, was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the fifth round of the 2010 MLB draft.
This interview prominently features research conducted by U.Va. psychologist Dan Willingham on effective learning strategies.
Frank Minnifield never needed his son to become a professional football player. Whether “doctor, lawyer or any of those things,” Frank, a four-time Pro Bowl cornerback for the Cleveland Browns, just wanted his son to do what he loved and do it well. But in or on any field, success was never optional. Frank and his wife, Diane, wanted to make sure their son knew from the start – and never forgot – that a lot was expected of him. So they named him Chase Onassis Minnifield: after Chase Bank, the 20th century shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and, of course, Minnifield, a ...
Starving and stranded in the Arizona desert, Carlos, an undocumented teenager from El Salvador, did something most like him wouldn’t dream of doing: He turned himself in to Border Patrol. Third-year University of Virginia law students Sabrina Talukder and Julianne Jaquith helped the boy secure his release from the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center in Staunton, and this month, he secured a special visa for victims of human trafficking.
(Editorial) Although area police were stigmatized as attempting to run roughshod over the community, a new proposal for a police firing range indicates that authorities are listening and trying to make acceptable accommodations. Albemarle County officials have offered to collaborate with Charlottesville and the University of Virginia and to build an indoor firing range for practice and training.