(Editorial) Identity theft is a serious problem. UVa and its business partners must do a much better job of protecting students and faculty from this risk by keeping their sensitive information under lock and key.
If you're the nautical type, check out Semester at Sea, a traveling campus, complete with a 9,000-volume library, run by the University of Virginia. Adults 40 and older can set sail with college students on multimonth voyages that explore the Atlantic, travel through Europe, or even go around the world -- all while attending undergraduate courses right on board.
The University of Virginia’s chief operating officer will lead a task force reviewing policies and procedures to protect personal information following a massive error that resulted in 18,700 students’ Social Security numbers being printed on an insurance brochure sent across the country. President Teresa A. Sullivan announced the move late Monday afternoon in a statement emailed to faculty and staff. Pat Hogan, UVa’s executive vice president and COO, will lead the task force, Sullivan’s statement said.
“The difference is that peyote and hoasca have little or no recreational market, and that is not likely to change because they make you sick before they make you high,” Douglas Laycock, who teaches constitutional law at the University of Virginia, wrote in an e-mail in explaining why a court would be unlikely to approve of the church’s practice. “Marijuana has a huge recreational market. Diversion from religious to recreational uses, and false claims of religious use, would be major problems.”
(Commentary) This commentary –­ by Richard L. Beadles, a former president and CEO of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad and one of the founders of the nonprofit Virginia Rail Policy Institute – is adapted from the Virginia News Letter, published by U.Va.’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Lacrosse is North America’s oldest sport as well as its fastest-growing, and Major League Lacrosse has surpassed both National Indoor Lacrosse and the gimmicky, West Coast-based LXM Pro as the sport’s premier professional league. The All-Star Game in Charlotte last weekend thus featured the world’s finest players, including University of Virginia legends Kip Turner, Ben Rubeor, Chris Bocklet and Steele Stanwick – four of the 15 former pupils of Cavalier coach Dom Starsia currently in the league.
“We have a long, long way to go. An event of this size is going to be needed in Southwest Virginia in the foreseeable future," Health Wagon Executive Director Teresa Gardner said. “The fortunate thing is health-care providers like the University of Virginia Health System are stepping forward to bring in physicians and their mobile exam units to help meet the needs of those who come here.”
Skeel is criticized by Richard C. Schragger, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who says it is incorrect and unfair to blame the problems of cities like Detroit on their elected leaders. Detroit, like a lot of northern industrial cities, is also the victim of state neglect and laws that allowed affluent suburbs to shield themselves from the city’s financial problems.
"This is unprecedented in Virginia; it's un-Virginian," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(By Gregoris Kalai) I love TED talks. I have watched more of them than I could remember and Chris Anderson is one of my personal heroes. I even spoke at a TEDx event earlier in my life. With that, the lack of accountability and follow-through that TED enforces with its speakers makes its overall mission less potent than it could potentially be.
Albemarle’s ambitions come as no surprise to Glen Bull, professor of instructional technology at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. Bull said Albemarle County has a record of setting the bar in secondary education. “Albemarle, for more than 30 years, has been a national leader,” he said. “A number of innovations piloted at Albemarle have later been adopted nationally.”
Cherri Dulaney says she has confidence in the attorneys now working to clear her son’s name and get it removed from the state’s sex offender registry. But Edgar Coker’s father, Edgar Dulaney, noted at the conclusion of the two-day hearing this week, “We’re not done yet.” Since January 2009, a team of attorneys with the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia law school, the law school’s Child Advocacy Clinic and JustChildren/Legal Aid of Charlottesville has been working on behalf of the former Stafford County family.
According to the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the city’s small population grew 7.2 percent between April 2010 and July 2012, easily outpacing the region’s 2.6 percent growth.
“Truly, no one knows what will happen. No question that McDonnell does not want to become the first Virginia governor to resign because of scandal, and he's helped by having just a half-year left in his term,” said Larry Sabato, political science professor and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) Only if Virginia, the state, can get itself together in terms of its top leadership, will Virginia, the university, have a chance to climb higher in the national hierarchy of higher education. It is now necessary for the state government to have the courage and leadership to establish a new system of governance for UVa – and perhaps the other, older state universities, such as W&M and Virginia Tech – much as was done in setting up independent funding and budget procedures seven years ago.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, executive director of U.Va.’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership) Is politics becoming a losing proposition dominated by petty partisanship, unethical dunderheads and hedonistic hacks? Absolutely not, despite a raft of newspaper headlines that might suggest bad behavior outweighs public spiritedness and decency. Public service through politics remains an honest calling for the vast majority of elected officials across Virginia and the nation.
Researchers from two Virginia colleges – Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia – received research funding from Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals. The grants were announced in August 2011 – during a luncheon at the Executive Mansion organized for the launch of Anatabloc by Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell’s office. At U.Va., one research project on anatabine was conducted by researchers at the School of Medicine under a $40,000 grant. The U.Va. research, which also used laboratory animals, looked at the effects of anatabine on inflammatory bowel ...
The University of Virginia emailed students for the second time in as many days Friday in the scramble to respond following the hiccup that resulted in an insurer mailing 18,700 brochures bearing students’ Social Security numbers.
"Clearly, Americans as a group feel indebted to veterans and the military," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "I think it's even more true today than before because we have a volunteer service. Everyone doesn't serve in the military, so we tend to be particularly attentive to the needs of those who have."