Winchester Medical Center recently has expanded its cancer program with the addition of an advanced treatment option, thanks to a partnership between the hospital and the University of Virginia Health System.
Officer Jamerson and his fellow county motorcycle officers join with those from the Charlottesville Police Department and University of Virginia Police to comprise the Jefferson Area Motor Squad. The squad is sponsoring its first motor cop competition for officers from across the state and region to show off their skills. The rides started Friday and continue Saturday morning in the parking lot of Fashion Square mall.
Be open-minded. It's easy to think that everything worth seeing and doing happens in major cities, but that mentality won't get you anywhere at a rural school. Katrina Margolis, a University of Virginia sophomore from Boston who spent her freshman year at the rural College of Wooster, says, “I've been told, 'I'm so sorry you went to school in Ohio,' from people in Boston. But my school was driving distance from Cleveland, which I think actually has a better fine arts museum and symphony than Boston does.”
"Both of them have a real problem – they're viewed unfavorably but they're also not terribly well known," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) As has been well-documented, our area’s growth and the state’s political transformation are correlated. But the effect of the in-migration was made even clearer in a recent report from Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Writing in political guru Larry Sabato’s weekly “Crystal Ball” newsletter, Skelley noted that the 2010 Census showed that, for the first time, a majority of Virginians were not born in the state.
Only the 25 most efficient law schools are included on U.S. News’ new list, but of those, University of Virginia, which is ranked as the 17th most efficient law school, ranked highest on U.S. News’ list of best law schools at number 7, and is one of only two top 14 ranked law schools to be featured on the efficiency list.
Wounded Warriors are benefiting from a runners' race in Albemarle County. The University of Virginia Foundation hosted its third annual 4 the Wounded 5K at the UVA Research Park Saturday morning.
Here is a conundrum: millions of people have seen Dominic Inglot win Wimbledon, yet few of them would recognise him in the street. … “It’s definitely not been an easy ride. I remember when I was playing Futures when I was 17 or 18 and I had this hope I was going to be a top guy, nothing was going to stop me. And my dad was like, ‘Listen, you’re not really getting it done, you’re going to college on a tennis scholarship, OK?’ That was at the University of Virginia, which is where I met [doubles partner] Treat [Huey], and it was a good platform to launc...
But critics have been quite vocal, in contrast, casting Manning as mentally unstable and reckless. "He apparently grew up in a dysfunctional home and he was very short - five-foot one or two, 100 pounds, and was bullied and so forth, and I feel sorry for him for all those things," said Robert Turner, co-founder and director of the National Center for Security Law at the University of Virginia. "But that's no excuse for giving away hundreds of thousands of secrets. To me that's the equivalent of walking through a military base and just tossing grenades through windows.&qu...
(Letter to the editor by psychology professor Tim Wilson) On May 25, two events were held in Charlottesville that show how far we have come and how far we have to go on issues of race and discrimination.
Live-cell imaging was one of the many technology topics discussed at CHI’s High-Content Analysis conference. Ammasi Periasamy, Ph.D., professor of biology and director, W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, discussed what he called the “fundamentally important role” that technology development plays in the advancement of live-cell imaging.
Six years ago, VIMS began partnering with The Nature Conservancy to collect seed using recreational divers and snorkelers. Other partners include the University of Virginia, which stores seed at its research facility in Oyster, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program.
It wasn't your average girls' night out. Friday night, the University of Virginia's head football coach, Mike London, gave a group of women a taste of what it's like to be a player on his team.
Charlottesville's Oratorio Society performed a concert Sunday afternoon in Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia. The ensemble has been performing choral masterworks in Charlottesville for 45 years.
Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said the 2012 presidential election shows where the Republican opportunities can be found. They need to recapture six seats in seven states that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried last year.
More than 80 University of Virginia faculty signed a letter last week that called upon school leaders to promptly respond to what they called “false and injurious” remarks made by major donor Paul Tudor Jones on campus this spring about the lack of women at the highest levels of trading.
Nick Rader said he has spent his first two months on the job learning more about the organization and getting to know his new community. He said he looks forward to continuing that work and beginning the University of Virginia's MBA for Executives Program at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration in August.
Dennis Yang, a professor of business administration at the University of Virginia, agreed. "I think it is very difficult to argue against this case based on national security concerns for a food company," Yang said.
Even though he has yet to draw a Democratic opponent in 2014, Buchanan is one of just four Republican incumbents in Florida considered to have potentially competitive re-election campaigns next year, concludes the Crystal Ball, issued by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
(Commentary) Fred Schauer of the University of Virginia calls such claims “First Amendment opportunism.” Free speech is a cherished American ideal; companies are exploiting that esteem, as he puts it, “to try to accomplish goals that are not so clearly related to speech.”