Amy Sousa, a 1996 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, provides a first-person account of her recent volunteering experience in South Africa, where she conducted diabetes health screenings and gave support to patients.
About 250 publicly traded companies were incorporated in Nevada as of 2011, but only 10 to 20 percent of them physically are headquartered here, said David Smith, a University of Virginia commerce professor.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, gave the edge to McAuliffe, but mostly because the expectations for the over-the-top businessman were so low. "Both candidates scored points, took hits, rattle off memorized sound bites," he said on Twitter just following the debate's conclusion. "With almost no one watching, not 100 votes were changed."
The first step in alleviating concerns about speaking in English is to, well, start speaking in English, experts say. But it's important to spend just as much time listening as you do talking. "You can tape-record yourself, and listen to yourself and how it sounds to another person," says Katherine Alford, assistant director of admissions at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
The Heritage Theatre Festival has been at the University of Virginia all summer and another show is about to hit the stage. "The Marvelous Wonderettes" is a musical that is filled with iconic songs from the 1950s and 60s.
"If I closed my eyes, I'd swear I was back in the 1980s listening to Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "We've seen this movie before, and we've heard the predictions for decades. This sounds no different than the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition."
(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.