State Alcoholic Beverage Control officials announced late Friday afternoon an “immediate change” in agency practice to include a uniformed agent in operations like the one that landed a University of Virginia student in jail following the purchase of sparkling water. The change came a week after the story broke about the case of Elizabeth Daly, 20. Authorities charged the UVa student with three felonies April 11, when plainclothes ABC agents confronted her and two sorority sisters in the parking lot outside the Harris Teeter store at the Barracks Road Shopping Center.
Helen Dragas regrets the turmoil and anger that enveloped the University of Virginia last summer after governing board leaders privately asked U-Va. President Teresa Sullivan to resign. But Dragas firmly maintains that the board did the right thing.
Zoë Hardy took the saying, “You never know unless you ask,” to heart. The recent University of Virginia graduate requested a favor from Katie Couric for her school’s Relay for Life team. The result was a taped video message from the television talk show host thanking fellow Wahoos (alumni) for joining her in the fight against cancer.
University of Virginia astronomer Charlie Tolbert will be recognized for his 40-year teaching career at the university with an award and a $500 check from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a university news release said.
Brian Pollok is the University of Virginia's newest advocate for commercializing research discoveries that emerge on Grounds. It’s a role he’ll hold formally as UVa’s first entrepreneur-in-residence. In that capacity, he’ll work with UVa Innovation and the university’s Licensing and Ventures Group, where he will offer guidance, perspective and a voice on how researchers can amplify their discoveries.
Helen Dragas of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors sat down for an interview with The Washington Post in late June as she prepared to make the transition from leading the board to being a regular member. She also answered the following questions in writing.
That warning received strong support in the American Jewish Committee’s “friend of the court” brief filed with the Supreme Court. It was written by AJC General Counsel Marc Stern, a top advocate of strict church-state separation for decades, and law Professors Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia and Thomas Berg of the University of St. Thomas.
As of July 1, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors has new leadership: George Keith Martin, a Richmond lawyer, will chair the board as rector for the next two years, and William “Bill” H. Goodwin Jr., a Richmond businessman and major U-Va. donor was recently elected second in command.
J. Neal Insley was on Oahu, more than 4,800 miles from the firestorm that ensued on the day the story of Elizabeth Daly broke. The chairman of Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control, Insley was one of three experts scheduled June 27 to discuss moonshiners at the National Conference of State Liquor Control Administrators, part of a five-day event at the Sheraton Waikiki Resort in Honolulu.
The story discusses an archive of Farm Security Administration photos at the University that details conditions in the rural South during the Depression.
It was an early October morning, still dark outside, when U.Va. registrar Carol "Stash" Stanley was running down Rio Road in Charlottesville. All of a sudden, Stanley found herself face down on the pavement. During her run, she had tripped over her shoelaces and slammed head first into the concrete. Before Stanley could even think about BAND-AIDS, she had already come up with the idea for LaceLocker — a device that “locks” shoelaces into place.
George Keith Martin was out for his morning walk in his Hanover County subdivision when a neighbor stopped to congratulate him on his new position as the University of Virginia’s rector. “He said, ‘Congratulations, congratulations,’ ” Martin recalled, “and then he paused and said, “ ‘But do you mind me asking, what is a rector?’ ” It was a common enough question, but the usual answer — that he is basically the chairman of the board of visitors — doesn’t explain the outsized role the position suddenly acquired ...
(Editorial) It’s no surprise that the story of the ABC agents and the wrongly jailed University of Virginia student has generated universal outrage.
"He's a 'can do' kind of person," said Tedd Povar, associate director of the Virginia Institute of Government at the University of Virginia. "He's a very positive, high energy person."
Attendees of the 24th annual African-American Cultural Arts Festival on July 27 will have access to a battery of health tests provided by community partners. Health screenings, including diabetes testing, blood pressure checks, scholastic sports physicals and mammograms, will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the event in Charlottesville's Washington Park. The Charlottesville Community Health Fair is supported by the UVa Health System and UVa's Office of the Vice President and chief officer for diversity and equity in partnership with Martha Jefferson Hospital and the Virginia Dep...
“The last thing the Republican ticket needs is for the final weeks of the campaign to be dominated by scandalous headlines about the incumbent GOP governor and his family,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “And even though Cuccinelli is certainly not close to the McDonnells, he has ties to this case ... as well as to Jonnie Williams.”
Late Saturday, the conservative blog Bearing Drift reported that McDonnell is "finalizing a plea agreement that includes his resignation as governor." McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin dismissed it, saying in an email, "That rumor is false." It was also dismissed by University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato, who noted on Twitter that every governor has completed his four-year term since 1851. "Irresponsible rumors are wrong," he tweeted.
People who are looking for indoor activities may want to check out an exhibit at the University of Virginia called "Frenemies." This collection at the Fralin Museum of Art shows the changing relationship between humans and animals.
Thunder star Kevin Durant is now engaged. He proposed to his girlfriend, former U.Va. basketball star and WNBA player Monica Wright, on Saturday, The Oklahoman has confirmed.
One of the studies by Professor W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project summarized, “The core message…is that the wealth of nations depends in no small part on the health of the family.”