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.”
Americans are happier overall in times of lower income inequality, according to research by University of Virginia professor Shigehiro Oishi, based on national data from the General Social Survey. This happiness gap isn’t an artifact, entirely, of lower incomes themselves, but of the lack of trust and common destiny that the income gap secondarily creates. It’s the oldest saying in the book that “money can’t buy happiness.” Less income inequality, however, does buy more happiness.
Although we tend to think of anthropogenic climate change as something that's only emerged in the last few centuries, palaeoclimatologist William Ruddiman of the University of Virginia has argued that it actually goes back thousands of years.
Dr. Alan Rogol, a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, agreed the new findings only apply to those kids who are short but have no record of growth delay. The kids in this study "had nothing that pointed to difficulty in any system, and many of them were short kids of shorter parents," said Rogol, who reviewed the study for the journal.
Last week, Ashton was in Richmond checking out the 900-square-foot space — formerly a home décor and pastry shop — with Jeremy Bull, another co-founder and a fellow H-SC grad, and Mason Antrim, the company’s chief operating officer. Antrim is a graduate of the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
Fascinated by the historic event, Thomas F. Farrell II worked with Dave Kennedy, a fellow University of Virginia graduate who went into the movie industry after a career as a naval aviator and test pilot, to craft the script and produce the movie.
Ice ages are controlled by cyclic changes in the Earth's orbit and orientation, and calculations suggest another one should have begun several thousand years ago. In 2005, a team led by Professor William Ruddiman of the University of Virginia suggested that man-made global warming might be holding back the next big freeze.
Opponents of race-based affirmative action in college admissions urge that colleges use a different tool to encourage diversity: giving a leg up to poor students. But many educators see real limits to how eager colleges are to enroll more poor students, no matter how qualified — and the reason is money.
One of Virginia Military Institute’s seminal moments in history will soon get the big screen treatment. An independent film titled “Field of Lost Shoes” will begin principal photography on the VMI campus early next week. The film will be based on the famous Civil War Battle of New Market in which 10 VMI cadets died in a battle against Union forces. Six of those 10 cadets are buried on the VMI campus. David Kennedy, a Navy veteran who graduated from the University of Virginia, wrote the script for the movie.
Jarmere Jenkins had a chance to pull off a rare tennis trifecta this week, as he reached the final round of the NCAA Division I men’s singles and doubles championships and led his University of Virginia team to the finals of the team event. I first met Jarmere more than a decade ago, when I wrote a profile of his family for Tennis magazine. At the time, he was a precocious 10-year-old living with eight siblings in the family’s modest home in College Park, Ga. Tennis was only part of what made them special. Jarmere’s parents, Jackie Sr. and Brenda, adopted six of their childre...
U.S. colleges face a "perfect storm" of problems as tuition costs soar, opportunities for graduates sag, and employers complain they cannot find enough workers with key technical skills. One solution may be found in the growing number and quality of online classes. The digital revolution might transform universities the way the Internet has already changed music, publishing, journalism, retail, and other businesses. "This is pretty amazing," said the University of Virginia's David Evans, teaching an online introduction to Computer Science.
Researchers are sharing cutting-edge discoveries in children's health at the 25th Pediatric Research Symposium at the University of Virginia.