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.
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.