(By Douglas A. Blackmon of U.Va.’s Miller Center. This article was originally published by the Washington Monthly Magazine.) On July 31, 1903, a letter addressed to President Theodore Roosevelt arrived at the White House. It had been mailed from the town of Bainbridge, Ga., the prosperous seat of a cotton county perched on the Florida state line. The sender was a barely literate African-American woman named Carrie Kinsey. With little punctuation and few capital letters, she penned the bare facts of the abduction of her 14-year-old brother, James Robinson, who a year earlier had been sold...
George Keith Martin, a Richmond attorney, became the first African American rector of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia. Martin has served on the university’s governing board since 2011.
For the fourth summer in a row, minority undergraduate students have come to the campus of the University of Virginia to participate in the Virginia-North Carolina Summer Research Program. The students are paired with faculty members or graduate students who serve as mentors and conduct research in astrochemistry, biology, chemistry, and chemical engineering. The program has been successful in attracting minority students to graduate programs in STEM disciplines at the University of Virginia.
Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell (R) appointed three new members to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors on Friday. Now all 17 seats on the board are filled with McDonnell’s picks, although it’s unclear how or whether that will affect the way the board functions.
It reads like a Dan Brown novel: An indecipherable, cryptic medieval text, shrouded in mystery, filled with entrancing images, disappears for hundreds of years and then suddenly resurfaces at an Italian castle. It certainly sounded like thriller material to Reed Johnson. He started a novel about the real-life Voynich Manuscript, as it's known, but soon found its actual story more compelling. Johnson also wrote about the history of the document — and its strange allure — for The New Yorker.
(By Reed Johnson, a Jefferson Fellow in Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Virginia) Stored away in the rare-book library at Yale University is a late-medieval manuscript written in a cramped but punctilious script and illustrated with lively line drawings that have been painted over, at times crudely, with washes of color. . The book—called the Voynich manuscript after the rare-book dealer who stumbled upon it a century ago—is written in an unknown script, with an alphabet that appears nowhere other than in its pages.
Douglas Laycock, a legal scholar on religious liberty at the University of Virginia, told the NCR that the CHA could impact the legal battles indirectly. “Public opinion is influenced by it, and sometimes judges are influenced by it,” said Laycock. “If a judge is inclined to think that the burden here is modest and attenuated, he may be reinforced in that view by the fact that some institutions find it acceptable.”
Anup Ghosh is the boxer without gloves who fights to keep the world safe. As the founder and CEO of Invincea, the out-of-the-box computer security company that aims to protect your computers from hackers, viruses and phishing attacks by sandboxing the said computers, Ghosh’s aim is to fight the ‘Stupid User Syndrome’.
Case study by Elliott N. Weiss, Oliver Wight Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School, and Rebecca Goldberg, a management consultant and educator at Goldberg Productions.
Three new members of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, all UVa graduates, were announced by Gov. Bob McDonnell on Friday, including a registered Virginia lobbyist and two investment capitalists. Kevin J. Fay, of McLean; Frank E. Genovese, of Midlothian; and John A. Griffin, of New York City, will take seats on the UVa board effective immediately. McDonnell also reappointed Vice Rector William H. Goodwin Jr. to the board.
A study suggests that whether parents are gay, lesbian or straight, how well they work together as a couple is linked to fewer behavior problems in their adopted children and is more important than their sexual orientation. Rachel H. Farr at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Charlotte J. Patterson at the University of Virginia report their findings from this first empirical examination of differences and similarities in co-parenting among lesbian, gay and heterosexual adoptive couples and associations with child behavior in the July/August issue of Child Development.
(Commentary) “This kind of money coming from interested parties who are not truly personal friends, this is unprecedented,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “This is not the norm, and they shouldn’t be trying to pass it off as business as usual.”
Koleszar said that the School Board could consider partnerships with the University of Virginia and local businesses that would necessarily affect the overall cost and appearance of the final product.
It will come as no surprise that this summer has been one of the wettest on record - but there is a silver lining. University of Virginia director of climatology Jerry Stenger says all of this rain, spread out over the past several weeks, has replenished groundwater levels across central Virginia.
The nomination of Janet Napolitano, the U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, to be the next president of the University of California signals a desire for change at the sprawling 10-campus system and hopes that a highly visible political personality may be able to raise more money and play a more influential role in Sacramento and Washington.
Also to be inducted Oct. 14 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Charlottesville: Anthony Poindexter, a 1994 graduate of Jefferson Forest High and currently an assistant football coach at the University of Virginia.
After they sparked a college program’s golden years, baseball cast these four peers – Danny Hultzen, Steven Proscia, John Hicks and Keith Werman – down different roads, confronted them with disparate realities. Baseball became a profession instead of just a game, and the sobering truth is that sometimes even the dream jobs must come to an end.
"McDonnell's political career is over. Finis. That's no longer in dispute," University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato tweeted last week.
His father played football and basketball in college, but quit after two years in favor of a life on the streets and is now in a federal prison. His uncle had a scholarship to play football, but he too is now locked up. His half-brother also had a full ride for football before landing behind bars. Yes, there is a pattern here. But Teven Jones, who grew up around more crime and violence than many University of Virginia students will ever know, appears determined to carve his own path.
Hear "Tesla" and you probably think about the electric car, but that car is named after famous inventor Nikola Tesla. University of Virginia Engineering Professor W. Bernard Carlson has a new biography called "Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age". Carlson's book attempts to place cultural context in Tesla's works, as well as the inventor's celebrity-status.