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.
The University of Virginia Press announced Friday it is putting the papers of six Founding Fathers on the Internet.
“Given that the 2016 Democratic race is ‘Hillary and everyone else,' I'm sure we'll be overanalyzing every campaign appearance she does or doesn't make,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst with the University of Virginia.
Earlier this week a panel discussion billed as “The War on Knowledge?” and held in advance of June’s Worldviews 2013 conference on global trends in media and higher education resulted in a lively debate. The gist of it was whether higher education is under attack and what role, if any, the media plays in that.
Although Joseph Hodge continued to play the oboe throughout high school with the band, he had no idea what he wanted to do when he "grew up," so he attended the University of Virginia believing it would allow him to explore his options.
"I took classes all over the place. English, math, economics, astronomy," he says. "Anything that seemed interesting, trying to find an answer."
Meanwhile, he was also taking music classes for fun, and at the end of his sophomore year he noticed a course offering that intrigued him: conducting.
The president, the rector and the board of visitors have professed a preference to heal rather than rehash the schism that erupted publicly June 10, 2012, and brought the university to “a near-death experience,” as Rector Helen Dragas put it.
"The trends are reflecting the nature of the risks, which are now perceived as being greater," said William Sihler, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. "Bigger storms are doing more damage, and people are locating in places where they're more likely to get hit."
While primaries draw out many times the number participating in a convention, Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, believes that the type of voters who will turn out Tuesday will be the most engaged party soldiers, activists and political junkies.
“It’s hard for everybody, because there is a glut across the country of lawyers,” said Porter Wells, 24, of Flowood who just finished her first year at University of Virginia School of Law. Without familial connections to law firms here and the small legal market, she’s looking at nearby cities. “I’m looking to come back to the South ... but I’m basically looking from Atlanta all the way across to Houston as far as where I’m looking to work,” Wells said.
“Doubts about the GOP as a viable force in presidential elections will be far more justifiable if the party loses a third straight presidential election,” said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says those challenges are a residual effect of the passage of the multi-billion dollar transportation package by the Virginia General Assembly earlier this year. "Some of the anti-tax, Tea Party Republicans want to exact a price, a pound of flesh, from some of the Republicans who voted for the bill," he says.
The state has launched an interesting project on Interstate 66. While that’s not in our area, it could positively impact the future of traffic management on interstates, including 95. The project, which includes the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, will use what is called connected-vehicle technology to monitor a four-square-mile area of I–66.