‘Tis the season of commencement addresses, and celebrities are in hot demand – especially celebrities with some connection to your school. The University of Virginia brought comedian Stephen Colbert to address the class of 2013, because he’s a funny guy, and because his wife went to UVA. Stephen himself, so he says, was not admitted, even as a transfer student. Colbert’s speech mostly hit the mark. As a former student, administrator and teacher at UVA, I’d have to give him a “B,” because his jokes about UVA were mostly the usual clich...
Thomas E. J. deWitt earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Manitoba and a master's degree from the University of Virginia. He also holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A in public management from Boston University.
The service allows local doctors in developing countries, who are often located in areas that lack specialized medical care, to send a request for specialist consultation. They can use the service to send X-rays, photos and patient notes to Swinfen. The organization then finds the most appropriate specialist from its network of 550 volunteer doctors who offer advice to the overseas doctors by email, said Dr. Karen Rheuban, director of the University of Virginia Health System’s Center for Telehealth and a trustee for Swinfen. “I can’t easily travel to Nepal or China,” sa...
For those taken in the draft's second half, a group lacking guaranteed contracts awarded to first-round selections, sticking in the league can be an uphill battle. Five years out, just seven of the 30 players taken in the second round in 2008 were still on rosters this season. Thirteen others who made a team at some point are out of the league. An additional 10 who were drafted never even played. It is against those odds that Mike Scott laced his sneakers on a recent evening at Old Dominion.
"It's pretty much a given that the first and second week are the hardest. And that's when we see moms drop off and not being successful with breastfeeding," said Katie Heck, a registered nurse. That's where the University of Virginia Breastfeeding Medicine Program comes in. It works with new mothers and babies, using the Baby-Friendly Hospital initiative, a global effort designed to promote and support breastfeeding starting immediately after birth.
(Commentary) It's true that, on average, minority students leave high school performing far behind their white counterparts. But selective colleges aren’t dealing with average students, only a tiny slice of the best and brightest. And here, according to Hoxby and Avery, there’s much less scarcity than anyone presumed -- an untapped pool of talented low-income students, many of them African-American or Latino, waiting to be recruited. A follow-up study by Hoxby and the University of Virginia's Sarah Turner showed that a little information can go a long way. They sent packets...
Nine years later, [Darden School of Business graduate] Adam Nelson can finally call himself an Olympic gold medalist. The American was officially elevated Thursday to shot put champion from the 2004 Athens Games, taking the gold that was stripped from a Ukrainian rival for doping.
In their book, “The Knockoff Economy,” law professors Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman argue that, in some industries, loose intellectual property laws are a boon for business.
Rita Dove, the former poet laureate of the United States and current Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of “Sonata Mulattica,” a 2009 book on George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, a 19th-century Afro-European violin virtuoso.Now the story of Bridgetower is being made into a documentary film by Stone Soup Productions of Washington, D.C.
At 1 p.m., Friday, Virginia takes on Army to begin the NCAA baseball tournament. Jared King will be playing the 198th game of his UVa career. All of them have come since his father died. One-hundred eighty-four of them have come since his mother died.
Robert Bruner, dean of the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and an expert on mergers and acquisitions, said the proposed transaction appears to be a good deal for Smithfield investors. "The acquisition premium looks healthy and in line, if not slightly to the high side, for friendly mergers and acquisitions," Bruner said.
Erika James is the new senior associate dean for executive education at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, overseeing custom and open-enrollment programs. She notes that Darden, which has a national and international clientele, is employing the latest technology to complement its roster of professors in the executive education arena. “We’re using telepresence more and more to pull in key executives and case protagonists into the classroom,” she says.
“A lot of their motivation is trying to help people learn investment banking,” said Steve Momper, director for Darden Business Publishing at the University of Virginia. “They want to help others along.”
The Charlottesville Police Department and the University of Virginia Police plans to offer Rape Aggression Defense, a women's self-defense course, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 29 and 30 at City Space on the Downtown Mall.
June 10 will mark the one-year anniversary of U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan’s ouster by a group of board members headed by Rector Helen Dragas. The surprise move led to massive protests by students and faculty. That anger – which sparked letters to newspapers and calls to legislators – forced the board to do an about-face. Sixteen days after being shown the door, Sullivan was reinstated.
Interior designer and architect Vern Yip has been a mainstay on American television sets since he first appeared on Trading Spaces back in 2001. Since then, you've seen Yip improve America one room at a time on shows such as Deserving Design and Bang for Your Buck. He's also a longtime judge on HGTV Star, which launches its eighth season on June 9. We spoke to Yip via email.
By Wednesday afternoon, analyst Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics moved the 6th from the “lean Republican” column to the more secure “likely Republican” column. His reasoning was simple. “Bachmann’s presence made the seat competitive, and I don’t think it’s all that competitive any more,” he said.
Some were family promotions, one an obscure find, still others logical choices. Yet no matter the approach, Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage and his senior staff have done an extraordinary job hiring, and retaining, quality head coaches, especially in Olympic sports.
Hospitals don’t keep statistics about “inadvertent” exposures, but the anecdotal evidence is startling. To combat this problem, the University of Virginia Medical Center now has infection-control nurses in the patient flow loop, with exclusive control over isolation indicators in their automated patient-flow system. This replaces the old system of having IF nurses hand-deliver isolation notifications to every floor, a process that took hours to complete.
Virginia Business talked with U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan on April 29 at her office on the U.Va. campus in Charlottesville. The following is an edited transcript.