In contrast, there are those like Melissa Thomas-Hunt, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who believe that proximity does not necessarily lead to better collaboration. According to her, the rise of email and other technology has lessened the need for face-to-face encounters.
University of Virginia police are looking for the individual responsible for stealing an ambulance from outside the emergency room just before 4 a.m. this Wednesday morning.
Virginia's flowering dogwoods are just beginning to blossom, but some will soon reach stratospheric heights. The State Arboretum of Virginia has been asked to include several envelopes of the tree's seeds in the payload of a rocket headed to the International Space Station next month. The arboretum is part of the University of Virginia's department of environmental science.
The NRA "cares about [gun rights] more than anybody else,” Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, told the Monitor last month. “That makes their minority viewpoint more important than the majority viewpoint. People often think within a democracy, numbers matter. But it's also intensity; intensity matters.”
Ricin powder has been in the United States mail twice within the last decade, but no one got sick, said Dr. Christopher Holstege, the chief of medical toxicology at the University of Virginia.
A doctor at the University of Virginia is back home safely this week after completing the Boston Marathon shortly before the bombs exploded. And George Rich plans to return next year.
Author, ethicist and futurist Rosalyn Wiggins Berne will return to Germantown this week to speak at Greene Street Friends School, the scene of her sixth-grade graduation in 1969. "The influence of the Friends education goes deep inside of me," she said during an interview with NewsWorks several days before the event.
(Blog post by Harriett Jameson, a student at the University of Virginia pursuing a dual masters degree in Urban and Environmental Planning and Landscape Architecture) Throughout March, the University of Virginia School of Architecture has celebrated the work of local landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBWLA) and its recently published book Garden Park Community Farm.
The new Ruth Caplin Theatre at the University of Virginia is getting closer to making its debut. The 300-seat theatre is set to open to the public Thursday night.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson's favorite food in the morning is oatmeal, and judging from the moans that erupted from the assembled students of School 2, it wasn't a popular choice. The New York Jets left tackle, who said he also eats egg whites and spinach for breakfast, visited with students Wednesday to celebrate the school's selection as a finalist in an essay contest for the Jets' Eat Right, Move More program.
A pair of University of Virginia students is trying to put a stop to some of your embarrassing, not-so-sober moments. The duo has have come up with a way to curb text regret after a night out with friends.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors will consider proposed tuition increases and the school’s capital plan on Thursday.
“As humans, we’re interested in the juicy stuff and gossip. So there’s much more talk about having sex than there is doing it,” notes Edith Lawrence, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education.
University of Virginia professor Walt Heinecke, who has been a vocal supporter of a human rights commission since the idea was put forward by the Dialogue on Race in February 2012, praised the council's action. "What I saw last night was a significant change in perspective, where I think at least three of the councilors really stood up for the minority in Charlottesville," he said Tuesday. "I think it took some political courage to do what they did, and I am grateful to them for thinking of the minority over the majority in fairness issues in this community."
But Washington added “So help me, God” to the presidential oath of office! He must have been deeply devout, right? Once again, there is no evidence that Washington ever did this. We at Americans United got so tired of hearing this story that a few years ago we asked Philander D. Chase, senior editor of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia, to weigh in on the matter.
Pursell told the contractor to perform magnetic particle testing on the bolts, a process designed to reveal telltale microscopic evidence of such cracking. "The more cracks you have, and the longer the cracks, the less stress you need" for bolts to fail, said John Scully, a University of Virginia professor in materials science who studies the causes of metal corrosion.
Internet users trying to access the University of Virginia’s homepage Monday night got, instead, a hacking group logo featuring the stylized image of a skull with one broken tooth front-and-center. UVa police are investigating and the school has asked for the FBI's help, school officials said Tuesday.
The business incubator at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has undergone a $1.3 million expansion that has transformed it into a year-round facility serving twice as many entrepreneurs throughout the university and the local community. The W.L. Lyons Brown III Innovation Lab, better know as the i.Lab, reopened on April 11.
A University of Virginia professor appointed to President Barack Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board is monitoring the Boston bombings. Philip Zelikow tells NBC29, while domestic intelligence efforts are stronger than before 9/11, it was only a matter of time before another terror attack on American soil.