University of Virginia officials thought they’d have the scaffolding gone from the school’s famous Rotunda and its dome gleaming white in time for graduation later this month. But rainy weather means that graduates at what the school dubs Final Exercises will gaze upon a copper, not white, dome.
Future nurses who may one day have your life in their hands are getting some special training. The Mary Morton Parsons Learning Center at the University of Virginia is home to some of the latest simulation technology.
If David Mick had his way, meditation would be part of the core curriculum in business school. Mick, a marketing professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, teaches an undergraduate course, Cultivating Wisdom and Well-Being for Personal and Professional Growth, that includes meditation among the course work.
The awards were presented during a community breakfast at the Omni Hotel. Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, was the keynote speaker.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, sees two reasons for the surging black vote.
Warren did not "tell the truth," says the University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato. "It's pretty obvious she was using (the minority listing) for career advancement."
U.Va. engineering alumnus Evan Edwards, who with his twin brother Eric developed a new epinephrine auto-injector for people with severe allergies, wrote about their invention.
Lead vocalist Charlie Woolard, an astrophysics alum, talks about his band, The Anatomy of Frank – including a story about how he surreptitiously remained in his closed-for-the-winter-holiday University housing to get a feel for how it might be to live and record an album in Antarctica.
(By Brian Richter, an adjunct faculty member in the School of Architecture and the School of Engineering and Applied Science) Today, global demands for food, energy, and shelter are putting unprecedented pressure on the resources of the planet. Water is at the heart of this crisis. In fact, more than half of the world’s cities are already experiencing water shortages on a recurring basis – based on findings from a study that I published, along with 13 of my colleagues, this week in the Water Policy journal.
Currently, Buford students and teachers are working with the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and School of Engineering to integrate advanced manufacturing into the science curriculum.
If the definition of insanity is making the same mistakes over and over, then many cities have taken a certifiable approach to securing their water supplies — and they need some radical therapy before taking the big economic, ecological and human hits that come with a permanent state of thirst. That’s the conclusion from a new study in the journal Water Policy, whose authors compared the water supply histories of four cities. The time to act is now, argues Brian Richter, a senior freshwater scientist at The Nature Conservancy, U.Va. adjunct faculty member and the stu...
In this state, the University of Virginia is no longer the top dog when it comes to making students pay for sports.
Indeed, both sides want this race to be a referendum on the opposition, observes Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Unfortunately for Team Terry, notes Sabato, “If each makes this a referendum on the other, Cuccinelli wins by default.”
Despite its wealth, the University of Virginia remains one of the nation’s least socioeconomically diverse public schools, says a report released Wednesday that is critical of higher education’s “relentless pursuit of prestige and revenue” at the expense of low-income students.
Ronde Barber will not return to play a 17th season in the National Football League. Not with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, not with anyone. The former University of Virginia star, a three-time all-Atlantic Coast Conference cornerback, acknowledged his decision late Wednesday in a one-word text message to The Tampa Tribune — “yeah’’ — in response to a request for confirmation of Internet reports he was retiring after 16 years.
The results from Institutional Investor’s inaugural All-America Student Analyst Competition give credence to the mantra that we always have to see both sides of a trade, and revealed the plethora of ways that traders can make money amidst the risk and chaos of the stock market. The overall runner-up, a University of Virginia undergraduate named Matthew Olfat, focused on macro data and used triple leveraged ETFs to trade in and out of sectors.
Ed Olsen, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Virginia, concurs. After a brief review of the numbers and seeing a presentation Hester provided to City Council in 2011, Olsen says there’s no question the tax incentive program should be scaled back, if not scrapped. “This thing has really grown into a monstrosity,” Olsen says, recommending that City Council eliminate the current ordinance and start over. “I don’t think there is any way to justify this.”
Prosecutorial discretion and deferred action no doubt mean that certain segments of immigrants are not being eyed for deportation. But David Martin, an international law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, argued that doesn’t add up to a reluctance to enforce the law. He said it’s "choosing different things to enforce. There’s been an effort since very early to be more serious and more systematic about the priorities," Martin said. "In my view that’s a perfectly appropriately way to operate a law enforcement agency. I see it as more sen...
(Book review) Anyone who has studied American history knows that Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant thinker who wrote the Declaration of Independence and was our third president, and also founded the University of Virginia. But I learned so much more by reading Jon Meacham's new biography, especially the quiet way Jefferson got things done and practiced the art of power. If more politicians had that skill today, it would help us solve many of our country's problems.
Stephen Colbert, a 25-time Emmy nominated television host, will speak on The Lawn at the University of Virginia on May 18. Colbert’s wife, Evelyn McGee Colbert, is a 1985 alumna. If his address is anything like his 2011 speech at Northwestern University, the 3,600 students and their loved ones will be in for a treat.