The McCormick Road bridge is scheduled to reopen to traffic at 9 a.m. Monday, the University of Virginia announced Friday.
The University of Virginia Health System and UVa’s Office for Diversity and Equity partnered with Martha Jefferson Hospital and the Virginia Department of Health to offer free screenings that included blood pressure, body mass index, diabetes, kidney disease, mammography, peripheral artery disease, pulmonary function, vision, hearing, cholesterol and youth sports physicals.
“You will always find resistance among public officials to any additional disclosure requirements, much less a ban,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Essentially, what was said then is being said now: ‘We don’t need any additional rules. This is a very clean state. It’s the Virginia tradition.’ And of course, the answer to that is: If the tradition was so strong, then how did we develop the problems that have been uncovered?”
Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said that McAuliffe has had enough business controversies “for any 10 regular people.” “Assuming Cuccinelli gets enough money and isn’t drowned by social issue controversies, E.W. Jackson and Bob McDonnell, his best chance may be in wrapping McAuliffe in seediness,” Sabato said.
Stephen DeKosky at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, noted that insurers are increasingly denying even FDG PET scans.
(By Robert F. Bruner, dean of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business) For our students with summer internships, the end is in view. MBA programs resume soon. Interns will work for just a few more weeks, and then return to school. Thus, it’s the annual moment for me to offer some advice to interns about to finish their summer jobs.
He has rebounded from problems displayed at the start of his term by staying on message about jobs and progress, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. “His style was initially grating, I think, and there was a hugely divisive battle over effectively making Ohio a right-to-work state for public-sector unions,” Kondik said. Today he said, “We rate the race as ‘leans Republican.' ”
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said a Sen. Booker would be "very likely to win a permanent seat on the Sunday morning shows." He also noted that many assumed U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) – a comedian before he was elected in 2008 – would be a spotlight hog, but "he sticks to his state issues. He doesn’t speak in sound bites."
“Lately there’s been a lot of discussion about surveillance,” said Anne Coughlin, a University of Virginia law professor who specializes in criminal law and procedure. “It seems to be very much on the minds of the public. And that’s exactly as it should be.”
Jennifer Robinson – managing partner for the Nashville office of Littler Mendelson PC, the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing companies – explains how an obsession with a band called the White Animals, who she first heard play as a U.Va. student in 1982, led to her current position.
“If there’s an anti-Romney in Virginia, it’s Ken Cuccinelli,” said Larry Sabato, a longtime expert in Virginia politics who teaches at the University of Virginia.
A Yale law professor has written to about 6,000 employers warning them that he is studying corporate 401(k) plans and is planning to release the results via Twitter. Ian Ayres is conducting the study with University of Virginia law professor Quinn Curtis. The findings will be released in the spring of 2014, Ayres says.
(Commentary) Virginia's leading universities, including the University of Virginia where I graduated, are among the nation's finest. Yet, it's painful to know that our highly prized faculty and staff with same-sex partners are still denied equal health benefits that are available to all other married couples. Our university leaders and boards can put this right and extend equal benefits, as the overwhelming majority of America's Ivy League and top schools already do.
(Essay by Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, adapted from his latest book, “Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education,” to be published this month by Bloomsbury USA.) Soon college students all over America will be trundling to their advisers' offices to choose a major. In this moment of financial insecurity, students are naturally drawn to economics, business, and the hard sciences. But students ought to resist the temptation of those purportedly money-ensuring options and even of history and philosophy, marvelous though they may be. All...
University of Virginia researchers have found that the number of people 55 and older joining health clubs has increased 562 percent since 1987.
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges plans to announce Thursday the formation of a national commission to review how schools are governed and make recommendations for change.
In March 2013, CCAM unveiled the new 62,000 square-foot research facility which features computational and engineering research labs, high bay production space for commercial scale equipment and tools required for research in surface engineering and manufacturing systems. “We refer to it as a sandbox,” said Dr. Barry Johnson, the Senior Associate Dean for the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Chairman of the Board of Directors of CCAM. “We can play with the technology, but do so in a real environment so that when we prove that somet...
A few elementary school students are participating in the "Maker Movement" program, which is a national program geared to teaching kids skills in math and science fields. About 50 kids from three elementary schools in Albemarle County came out to the University of Virginia School of Engineering to wrap up the program.
Executive MBA programs have been around since the 1940s, but top-ranked business schools have recently started to offer the global option. The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia graduated its first global executive MBA class in May.
(Editorial) This week's thorns go to the following: The University of Virginia, for including the Social Security numbers of 18,700 students on the address labels of health insurance brochures sent across the country, visible to anyone who handled the mail.