After more than 60 years on the job, one former University of Virginia employee clocked out for the last time Friday. The facilities management worker topped the list of honorees at this years' service awards ceremony. Lindsay Baker wore many hats throughout his six decades at UVA. Now he is reflecting on the experiences and friendships he's had along the way.
(Press release) Route 29 Business (Emmet Street) will be closed overnight on June 17 and 18 as work continues on the McCormick Road bridge project at the University of Virginia.
Last week, the University of Houston Law Center hosted its second Ethics and Compliance Symposium before a packed house. The event is designed as an open forum where attendees can share ideas about their companies’ compliance programs and issues. But at this Greatest Compliance Show on Earth, two speakers really stole the show. Dr. Philip Tetlock (supported by University of Virginia's Greg Mitchell) impressed the audience with his discussion of forecasting.
As the skies weep over Northern Virginia, friends, family and associates mourn the loss of local attorney, entrepreneur and life-long Loudoun resident Joe Ritenour. Ritenour, 62, died at the Inova Loudoun Hospital June 7 after suffering a massive heart attack the previous night. Ritenour leaves behind a wife, two children and a community he helped build. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1976, Ritenour returned to his home county to start his own practice, offering services in criminal, real estate, business and personal injury.
Thousands of University of Virginia alumni are expected to be back in town for Reunions Weekend, and many of them are bringing their kids along. The annual kids carnival gave those young Hoos-in-training something to do on Saturday. There were inflatables, face painting, a DJ and a balloon artist at the Madison Bowl on Rugby Road.
A hundred years ago this autumn, Virginia christened Lambeth Stadium, an 8,000-seat facility known as “the finest in the Southland,” at a price tag of $35,000. Perhaps over the decades, the man who built the new football facility became as forgotten as the stadium itself. Until Saturday morning, that is. A small ceremony commemorated the deeds of Dr. William Lambeth, known as the father of Virginia athletics in his day. Lambeth pushed to have the field built and, thusly, it bears his name.
After Sunday, the Virginia baseball team remains on the brink of elimination. Game two of the Charlottesville Super Regional was officially postponed at 11:11 p.m., Sunday. It will resume at 4 p.m., today. If UVa, which is trailing Mississippi State 5-3 with no outs and the Bulldogs batting in the seventh inning, should come back to win, the deciding game three will start 55 minutes after game two’s ending.
“For six consecutive terms in the 1980s,” they wrote, “one or more of Powell’s four clerks was gay.” Daniel R. Ortiz, who clerked for Justice Powell in 1984 and 1985 and is now a law professor at the University of Virginia, said the clerks of that era kept their sexual orientations to themselves in professional settings. “I certainly wasn’t out to anyone who worked at the court,” he said.
From Super Regionals to UVa Reunions and recent graduations, Charlottesville continues to take in a business boom. The past couple of weekends have brought in lots of crowds to the city and also have brought in business.
It seems more and more people are going through the pains of sports injuries. At the University of Virginia, students and doctors are coming together to discuss the best ways to prevent and treat injuries like muscle tears. Dozens of health care professionals met this week at UVA's annual Art & Science of Sports Medicine Conference.
The University of Virginia, which will receive about $192,000 for the program this year, engages its students to participate by providing incentives. "If someone makes a post on our Facebook wall about how they will cut their energy usage for an hour, they could win a water bottle," said Nina Morris, outreach sustainability officer for the University of Virginia. "Social media is helping to get the word out about our sustainability programs."
Thousands of people are returning to Charlottesville this weekend for some big reunions. The University of Virginia is celebrating its 100th Reunions Weekend with a mix of education events and social activities. More than 4,500 alumni from nine different classes are expected to come back into town.
Due to an increase in multimedia news consumption by the student population, The Cavalier Daily, the independent student newspaper at the University of Virginia, is switching from a daily publication to a biweekly edition, says Kaz Komolafe, the paper’s editor in chief.
A team of leaders from Nigeria's University of Lagos is wrapping up a weeklong visit at the University of Virginia. The group of 11 educators and administrators is working with the Darden School of Business to expand its use of online courses.
Channing Poole had finished calling the University of Virginia baseball team's eight-run first inning at a game last spring when the rain came. Then he got to work. On a 10-page school paper. Welcome to the life of the play-by-play man for the Cavaliers, and, until last month’s graduation, a fourth-year media studies student at the university.
There is a flag available that shows the logos of both the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, with a diagonal line dividing the two. It is called the house divided flag, but two women managing the universities' new combined education center in Newport News call it the "house united" flag, and it flies at their space in City Center. Melissa Lubin, director of Virginia Tech's Richmond Center, and Kathy Cullen, director of U. Va.'s academic outreach, Eastern Region, briefed the Newport News Economic Development Authority and Industrial Development Authority on the loc...
To this day, Chris Wilson maintains his innocence. But on that May day last year, he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of first-degree manslaughter. His sentence: 14 years in prison. In April, Chris Wilson filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Can he do that? "It does happen, but the overwhelming majority of defendants who take a plea don't challenge that plea after the fact", says Professor Josh Bowers, an expert on plea bargains at the University of Virginia Law School. "At least if the system is operating as it should, the plea bargain is a consensual agreement,&qu...
A year after strategic planning became a contentious bone between the University of Virginia’s administration and governing Board of Visitors, the school finds itself looking into an uncertain fiscal future through a rearview mirror.
Robert Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a researcher on mergers and acquisitions, agreed. "It's unlikely that an interloper will both enter and succeed," he said.
The Patriots haven’t given up on Ras-I Dowling, but the oft-injured cornerback needs to stay healthy and find a way to consistently contribute in 2013.