Paige Selenski has been to the world’s premier event in amateur athletics. The Dallas High School graduate returned from the London 2012 Olympic Games to complete one of the most successful field hockey careers in Atlantic Coast Conference history. Selenski is done with her time at the University of Virginia, but there is no reason to think her playing days are over. Last month, Selenski both graduated from Virginia and earned a spot on the latest 30-player United States Women’s National Squad.
The city's voting rights record has been relatively progressive since the 1960s, said Paul Gaston, a professor emeritus of Southern and civil rights history at the University of Virginia. Still, he called the Supreme Court decision troubling. "It's not so much a problem for this area as it is for the rest of the state," said Gaston, who was active in the local civil rights movement in the 1960s. "Charlottesville has been a lot more progressive since the 1960s than it was before that. I don't see the voting laws in Charlottesville being changed because of this decisio...
Last year, I mapped America's "brainiest" metros, using new measures and rankings developed by Lumos Labs via their online brain-performance program, Lumosity. This year's analysis is significantly expanded, based on data from 2.4 million users. Only regions with 500 or more users were included and the full data set covers 478 core-based statistical areas, which include metropolitan and micropolitan areas. It's important to point out that the data are based on Lumosity users and likely skew toward more highly educated and affluent individuals. (The Charlottesville area ra...
Former Albemarle County supervisor and retired University of Virginia professor F.A. “Tony” Iachetta died Monday. He was 85.
Gary W. Gallagher, a Civil War historian and University of Virginia professor, is joining UVa’s Miller Center as a senior faculty associate. Gallagher, who has written and edited more than 30 books on the Civil War, will supervise the center’s Historical Presidency lecture series. The new series offers perspective on changes in presidential leadership over the years. The theme for the 2013-14 academic year will be “The American Presidency and the Crises of the Nineteenth Century.”
Commentary by a group of constitutional scholars – including U.Va. law professor James Ryan – offering an explanation and assessment of the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action in Monday's decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.
A Greene County church is making cards and collecting Legos for children with leukemia. The Ruckersville Spring Hill Baptist Church is focused on giving back to the University of Virginia Children's Hospital through this year's vacation bible school.
SRC, a New York-based nonprofit research and development company, has relocated its Charlottesville offices to the University of Virginia Research Park in Albemarle County.
We’ve all seen the pictures and heard the stories on the news of the troubles in the Middle East and yet remain untouched for the most part halfway across the world. However, when I met Rangina Hamidi, the war and poverty became a frightening reality. She is the founder and president of Kandahar Treasure, a nonprofit organization sheltered under Global Goods Partners, a nonprofit organization that sells handmade, fair trade products in order to improve the economic status of women in marginalized communities around the world.
Arguably, Barack Obama is the best president in American history, says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. … Arguably, Barack Obama is the worst president in American history, says Sabato.
University of Virginia professor Mike Gilbert says it will take time before the impact of the ruling is truly seen. "It could be that we don't need this provision of the Voter Rights Act anymore," he said. "The historical discrimination is largely eradicated and things will work just fine without all this bureaucratic red tape and that would be great, but it could also go the other way."
New research from the University of Virginia suggests that not only is empathy hardwired in our brains, but also that our brains process information about ourselves and our friends in a very similar way. In this study, led by neuroscientist Jim Coan and his colleagues, 22 young adults, an opposite sex friend and study personnel (so-called strangers) were subjected to the threat of electric shock while the participants’ brain activity was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
“Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design,” a new exhibition at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, takes an evolutionary approach to explaining Seidler, his work and the artistic collaborations that shaped them. Future stops include the University of Virginia.
"It's frustrating. You have to start all over again to track the target," said M.E. "Spike" Bowman, a former intelligence officer and deputy general counsel of the FBI, now a fellow at the University of Virginia's Center for National Security Law. But the NSA will catch up eventually, he predicted, because there are only so many ways a terrorist can communicate. "I have every confidence in their ability to regain access."
For Charlotte Fraser, a Roanoke College and University of Virginia graduate, being a Miss Virginia contestant means a chance to help prevent hazing and bullying — possibly with a smartphone app. Fraser graduated from Roanoke College with a degree in art history, and earned a master’s of education and higher education administration at UVa.
Jane Friedman, web editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, participates in a Q&A on how authors can use blogs to publicize their wo
“[Republican lawmakers] are afraid of their own voters to a certain extent because we have seen Republican members primaried – both in Senate races and House races – probably a little bit more than you’ve seen on the Democratic side. Last year there were upsets ... that came out of nowhere,” Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center of Politics said in an interview.
A.E. Dick Howard, professor of law at the University of Virginia, called it “one of the most important decisions to come out of the Roberts court. It reflects the court’s self-confidence and its determination to be the ultimate arbiter of what Congress may and may not do under the Reconstruction amendments.”
An engineer with 25 years of experience in the aerospace, power and propulsion industry has been hired as chief technology officer for the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing. Bob Fagan, who previously was a chief engineer with aerospace company Pratt & Whitney, started work for CCAM last week. The research center in Prince George County is a collaborative venture between the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia State University, NASA Langley Research Center, and 15 manufacturing companies that so far have joined the consortium.