The U.Va. School of Law was rated as the top overall school in the South, and was highly ranked in several other quality measures.
Conferences come and conferences go but as conferences go this one could be really good. Six former U.S. transportation secretaries, who served under every president from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, will be among the participants in a conference held by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center in Washington, D.C. on Monday, April 29.
The University of Virginia Conference was told by Nikita Petrov, deputy director of the Memorial Society in Moscow, on March 23 that a barrage of propaganda blaming the Katyn crime on the Germans has confused ordinary Russians about who committed the crime and left most with "the view that the truth is murky and unclear."
Some shoeless University of Virginia students are strutting around grounds this week to raise money for the Nicaraguan Orphan Fund.
U.Va. is listed as having the fifth-highest freshman retention rate among the nation’s state universities, at 96.1 percent.
Colin Peddie was in his car when he heard there’d been an explosion in front of his running store. Peddie, 50, is the owner of Marathon Sports, a running specialty shop with seven locations in the Boston area. The first of Monday’s two bombs went off in front of the Marathon Sports at 671 Boylston Street, which has been there, yards from the marathon finish line, since 2001.
I wondered if any schools would be willing to reveal the most naked workings of their famously opaque admissions processes and allow us to have a look. The first school slammed the gates, but Goucher College, Howard University and the University of Maryland welcomed a full view from start to finish, and the University of Virginia agreed to phone interviews.
UVA President Teresa Sullivan has reorganized, renamed, and rehoused the University’s Public Affairs department, creating a new communications operation that is squarely focused on branding and marketing—and firmly under her control. It’s a move that both brings the school into the modern era of campus communications and gives Sullivan an even more direct role in setting the message coming out of UVA.
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at U.Va.) When it comes to marriage, federal tax and transfer policies often end up penalizing two groups: dual-income couples with high incomes and lower-income couples with children.
Researchers from North Carolina State University, aided by colleagues at the University of Virginia and elsewhere, believe they have solved a puzzle that has vexed science since plants first appeared on Earth. In a groundbreaking paper published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers provide the first three-dimensional model of an enzyme that links a simple sugar, glucose, into long-chain cellulose, the basic building block within plant cell walls that gives plants structure.
In September of 2011 at age 36, Wendy Binns was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma – breast cancer. At that moment, the owner and publisher of Atlanta INtown newspaper joined the ranks of more than 200,000 other women – including Wendy’s mother – who are diagnosed with breast cancer every year.
Two hundred meters from the Boston Marathon finish line, University of Virginia track and field coach Pete Watson and his wife were celebrating his brother's 11th-place finish Monday when the bombs went off.
University of Virginia administrators plan slight tuition increases but have eliminated a proposed fee that would have applied to upperclassmen, officials said Monday.University of Virginia administrators plan slight tuition increases but have eliminated a proposed fee that would have applied to upperclassmen, officials said Monday.
Dr. Martin Davidson at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business just wrote a book, entitled “The End of Diversity as We Know It: Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed.” Davidson emphasizes that many companies have only focused on attracting and retaining diverse employees and have not critically examined their organizational culture to assess their capabilities to leverage that diversity for learning, innovation and achieving superior results.
The only comprehensive study yet made of the “fairy coffins” strongly indicates that all postdate 1800, and that the odds favor a deposit or deposits made after about 1830—within about five years, in other words, of the discovery of the cache. The work in question was carried out by Allen Simpson, a former president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts and currently a member of the faculty of History and Classics at Edinburgh University, and Samuel Menefee, senior associate of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia
NBC29 has also been in touch with some people from the University of Virginia who are in Boston and say they are safe. Mary Nelson, a UVA student who finished the race just 20 minutes before the pair of explosions, says she was about a half-mile away at the refreshment stands when she heard a loud boom.
Again this year, volunteers across the Charlottesville community banded together to offer free tax preparation for qualifying individuals. Undergraduates and law students at the University of Virginia are among those volunteers.
Article tells the story of U.Va. student Matt McVicker’s battle with melanoma, and his relationship with Virginia Tech student Monica Kohler.
The University of Virginia's club cross country team also had five members run the race. The group's president, Ian Van Der Hoven, says all members finished the race before the blasts and are okay.
Virginia Commonwealth University is considering “market-based tuition pricing” for next year that would charge for each credit hour rather than a set rate for a full-time student. Under state pressure to minimize tuition increases, VCU’s administration proposed a 4 percent increase in tuition and fees that would be augmented by the new approach to how students pay for classes.