Commentary by Paul de Vries, who earned master’s and doctoral degrees from the University.
Today marks the first day of a vanpool carrying nine commuters from Waynesboro's Park and Ride Lot just off U.S. 340 and south of Interstate 64 to drop off sites at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The University of Virginia Medical Center, Martha Jefferson Hospital and Piedmont Virginia Community College made a commitment Monday night to help 3,000 unemployed young people in the Charlottesville area get jobs.
Lacrosse, which is the fastest growing sport in America, has a lot of Wall Streeters who play professionally in addition to their finance careers. RBC Capital Markets financial advisor Kyle Dixon absolutely crushed it during his team's game.
The University of Virginia is teaching kids all about health with their Growing Up Healthy event. UVa partnered with Kohl's to bring health educationto kids in our area on Thursday. Kids participated in physical activities led by UVa student athletes.
In the mid-'90s, Kevin Bacon was (somewhat randomly) selected as the center of the Hollywood universe as the actor with whom any other actor could be linked within six steps. Movie buffs know this as "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," and it's a fun party game designed to challenge friends on their movie knowledge. A new study by University of Virginia students using IMDb data claims Bacon isn't the most connected person in the showbiz. In fact he's 444th on their list, meaning the "Six Degrees" game we've been playing all these years could have been way easi...
People from the University of Virginia and the community met on Grounds on Monday evening to discuss the declining proportion of UVa students who are black.
The trouble today is: The campaigns never stop. So said Gerald Baliles. And he should know. Mr. Baliles is a scholar, attorney, leader of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, which focuses on governance, and a former Virginia governor.
Teradata released the third State of Business Intelligence Survey today which found that interest in big data analytics careers is on the rise. However, there is a significant gap between the number of students interested in these opportunities and the amount of hirable talent in the pipeline. The survey was conducted by Barbara Wixom, an associate professor of commerce at University of Virginia’s McIntire School for Commerce and a research affiliate at MIT’s Sloan School of management.
This new analysis builds on previous work by climate scientist William Ruddiman. A decade ago, when at the University of Virginia, he put forward the idea that greenhouse emissions from farming 8000 years ago may have raised atmospheric greenhouse-gas concentrations.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch made the case in 1923 that even when a child darted unexpectedly into traffic, the “plea of unavoidable accident in such cases is the perjury of a murderer,” according to “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.” “The message you get from the newspapers is that any driver who injured or killed a pedestrian was just loathed,” said the book’s author, Peter D. Norton, an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia. “Juries and judges certainly well into the ’20s were on the...
"He's had a lot of bad headlines and self-inflicted wounds," says Kyle Kondik, a congressional campaign expert at the University of Virginia. "He's got to avoid doing more damage to himself now that we are a week away."
(Editorial) Kudos to the University of Virginia for its experiment in offering a public charging station for electric vehicles.
Political analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia says it’s just another example of Christie’s stubborn nature. “He didn’t back off the October statements about Obama,” recalls Mr. Sabato. But, at the same time, he says Christie needs all that money from Washington to help rebuild his battered state. And, as it rebuilds the state, it helps his standing with voters from both parties.
Fifteen patients suffering from medication-resistant hand tremors experienced an average 67 percent decrease in shaking symptoms after undergoing a scalpel-free surgery that used high-intensity sound waves to burn away tissue in an area of the brain that helps regulate movement. Dr. W. Jeffrey Elias, a neurosurgeon at the University of Virginia, presented the one-year study results Monday at a meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons being held in New Orleans.
University of Virginia undergraduate Matthew Olfat constructed a portfolio that would make famed hedge fund manager and U.Va. alum Paul Tudor Jones II proud. Olfat, a 19-year-old systems engineering and financial math double major, took a macro approach, using exchange-traded funds to play the broad market and go in an out of sectors. He finished second in the inaugural Institutional Investor All-America Student Analyst Competition.
Shared parenting laws reduce the incidence of divorce. According to the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, "two-thirds of all divorces are initiated by women. [However,] in states where there is a presumption of shared custody with the husband the percentage of women who initiate divorces is much lower."
It seems like everybody has an opinion about Route 29. Friday, a documentary will be screened that focuses on the variety of issues the road faces. Ryan Yowell, a fourth-year University of Virginia student, created the documentary for his senior project.
When you’re studying overseas on a William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship, it’s only natural that, at some point, you meet William Jefferson Clinton. That was the case earlier this month when Austen Murrow, a University of Virginia student,, met former President Clinton when he visited her current academic post, the American University in Dubai.
Soda can tabs are helping families whose children are hospitalized at the University of Virginia Medical Center. The Ronald McDonald House put together a display of artwork created with the aluminum medium.