Accountability. Consistency. Expectations of how his players should work on and off the field. These foundations of the program run by Brian O'Connor -- along with assistant coaches Kevin McMullan and Karl Kuhn -- have led to remarkable success over the past 10 years, whether the four-time ACC Coach of the Year is leading a roster of future major leaguers or a squad like this season's, which surprised many by being ranked in the nation's top 10 heading into the postseason. Because although the faces change, the results remain the same. As the Cavaliers host another NCAA regional th...
Citing a trend toward corporate-style management across higher education, the American Association of University Professors today released new guidance concerning communication between faculty members and governing boards.
Screening for tenants for the new ecoMod houses recently sited in South Boston’s Poplar Creek Subdivision is expected to be carried out during the month of July. The futuristic housing units, which were manufactured by Cardinal Homes of Wylliesburg, are of two types – the passive and the code houses and are being monitored by architectural students at the University of Virginia for their energy efficiency.
In the cherry-paneled library in his six-bedroom house in Greenwich, Conn., with his arms stretched high above his head, Daniel Mudd is gripping an imaginary shovel. He’s telling a story about how he once woke up in Lebanon, in 1983, with another U.S. Marine holding a real one just like that, about to bring it down on him.
Fifty years ago, the University Press at Virginia began as a consortium press designed to serve the needs of the higher education system in the state.
Mortality and the unemployment rate are negatively correlated. Christopher J. Ruhm, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia, has looked at all causes of death and found that most of them – suicide was the exception – occur less frequently at the depths of the business cycle.
The problem with this approach, for some Democrats, is that 2014 is already looking like a tight race to maintain control of the Senate. According to recent ratings by University of Virginia political scientists Larry Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley, Democrats will be defending 13 vulnerable seats, including Pryor's, and Republicans will be defending only two vulnerable seats. Given the Democrats' current 55-45 majority,
(Video) Dr. Amalia Miller of the University of Virginia discusses her research into gender differences in corporate leadership.
Rob Cross, a management professor at the University of Virginia, has found new workers stay on the job longer when they're plugged into a social group early on. He recommends that managers connect new workers with colleagues and mentors with complementary skills, instead of assuming ties will form naturally.
When Christopher Banks joined ROTC at the University of Virginia, his goal was to earn an active duty slot once he commissioned. But the more he thought about serving the nation and the opportunities his personal and professional development through the program could unlock, he wondered why he couldn't pursue careers both in and out of uniform.
So he opted to be detailed into the Army Reserve, placing him among 1,500 recent commissionees this year who chose to serve in a Reserve component versus active duty.
This region's deep-pocketed oomph will be needed by Democrats in tight races across the nation. "There isn't a single Republican seat that strikes us as an obvious Democratic target," but there are many potential Republican pickups, said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "The Democrats are a little overextended on this map."
Although they had a world of things in common, aspiring actor Lawrence “Larry” Whitener had never met best-selling novelist, David Baldacci. Their story reveals that sometimes the fiction of movie-making magic can play second fiddle to the remarkable non-fiction coincidences of real life.
Last fall, Whitener, 60, a Fairfax native who now lives in Springfield, got the opportunity to play what he thought would be a non-speaking role in the movie, “Wish You Well,” based on Baldacci’s 2000, best-selling book by the same name.
Matthew Rene Beaulieu, who told police he tried to kidnap and sexually assault a University of Virginia student because he was tired of being alone after a recent breakup, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Charlottesville Circuit Court to abduction with the intent to defile. Beaulieu, 27, of Palmyra, could serve up to life in prison for trying to force the 19-year-old woman into the back of his red Hyundai Santa Fe, where a butcher's knife, dog leash and nylon restraints awaited, according to court records.
The annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science presented plenty of worry for those concerned over the field’s recent, high-profile troubles with replication, data quality, and fraud. There was the half-day session on “Building a Better Psychological Science,” which featured several scientists who have raised alarms about the field in the past two years, including Brian Nosek, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
It’s when those out-of-town medical trips are the result of local medical politics that it becomes worrisome, doctors said. They said doctors, medical practices and hospital systems sometimes bypass local expertise and resources to refer patients elsewhere. They are referred to the University of Virginia’s hospital instead of VCU’s, both of which are academic teaching hospitals with patient care, medical training and research.
Paul Tudor Jones II is under attack. The famous hedge fund manager and founder of Tudor Investment Corp. spouted some seemingly sexist, 1950s-esque comments in April at a symposium that he thought was private and off the record. The comments, of course, quickly went viral on the Internet. Although on the face of it the remarks are tough to defend – and I don’t support them at all – it is also important to understand the context of Jones’s remarks. If you look at what he said, as well as earlier gender-neutral remarks he has made about macro trading skills in general, yo...
Northern Virginia Community College recently kicked off a public-private partnership to increase the number of students in the region exploring careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Having taken place for several years now, the program, called SySTEMic Solutions, consists of a partnership with Micron Technology, local school systems and other area high-tech businesses. Area universities who participated in the kickoff include George Mason, George Washington, Marymount and the University of Virginia.
Recent major gifts show that, although prominent Virginia philanthropists donate to a variety of causes, they make common cause with a desire to have their donations benefit individual communities, often the ones in which they have built businesses and prospered. (The story lists several large gifts to U.Va.)
Larry Sabato will teach a free online course in the fall through Coursera as the University of Virginia continues its experiment with MOOCs. Sabato’s course will examine the administration of President John F. Kennedy and his legacy over the 50 years since his assassination on Nov. 22, 1963.
The most meaningful times in our lives might last only a few minutes, but they are memorable. Take this story, for example, from UVA nursing student Mary Lacy Grecco. She was helping to care for patients at the Mountainside Senior Living Center in Crozet-- among them, a frail, 94-year-old woman from Fluvanna.