Brian Buchanan knows baseball. Buchanan is manager of the Lexington Legends, who open their home schedule Monday night against the Asheville Tourists. Buchanan brings experience as a collegiate All-American (at U.Va.), minor- and big-league ballplayer.
For a moment, Patrick Stoner himself was the center of attention and not the A-list actor that viewers normally see sitting across from him. The WHYY film critic and host, whose quick hit interviews with film actors are on about 65 PBS stations across the country, found himself on live television at a most inopportune moment.
There was plenty of talent on display Saturday night at Charlottesville's Paramount Theatre. It was the 20th anniversary of the University of Virginia's all-male a cappella group called the Academical Village People.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said Sanford’s primary opponents never scorched him by going harshly negative. Will that change?
Dr. John Risher and Paul Wisman, alumni and longtime members of the U.Va. football statistical crew, received the Order of the Crossed Sabres Award Friday from the Cavalier football program.
The four-day symposium (April 6-9) on the “Development of Islamic Jurisprudence Sciences” continued here yesterday with the key focus on peaceful co-existence. Speakers included U.Va. religious studies professor Abdulaziz Sachedina.
University of Virginia students and faculty are gearing up for a one-of-a-kind humanities week. The Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures has a week full of activities planned. Those include poetry readings, performances and photo exhibits.
Family and friends of a University of Virginia graduate who died after a skiing accident in January came together Sunday to celebrate his life. Nearly 100 people gathered at the ceremony to remember Blair Phillips. Phillips graduated from UVA in 2011 and during his time there, he had two passions - architecture and a capella.
A man originally from Staunton will be put to the test on a national game show Monday night. Mark Richardson, 29, will be vying for big bucks on Jeopardy. He is a University of Virginia alum and currently lives in California.
A new report shows that, even as the University of Virginia worked to bolster its increasingly uncompetitive faculty salaries, it was slipping further behind its highly ranked competitors.
The University of Virginia is helping education innovators take action on their ideas. Groups spent 54 hours developing plans to impact education during a start-up weekend. The event was sponsored by University of Virginia's Curry School of Education - but it wasn't just students that came out for the start-up. These innovators represent a wide range of age groups and educational backgrounds, but the goal for all of them was to find ways to improve education.
The average salary of a full-time faculty member increased by 1.7 percent in 2012-13, roughly keeping pace with inflation, according to a report being released today by the American Association of University Professors. … The gap between public and private universities is evident in the list of top-paying public universities for full professors. The top institution – University of California at Los Angeles – wouldn't make the top 10 private list. UCLA moved up from the second spot to the first spot. The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia, which ...
At the end of the weekend event, Clinton leads a volunteer project in the host city. “We’ve gotten so much from this weekend, it’s important to give back,” Josh Lansford, 22, a chemical engineering major from the University of Virginia, said as he painted an assembly room. “This is what it’s about.”
Culpeper Medical Associates, an association of six primary-care practices in Central Virginia, joined the University of Virginia Health System effective April 1.
Karenne Wood came to her Native American heritage late. She grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburbs and only discovered as an adult that she had been born into the Central Virginia Monacan tribe. Once she discovered this, however, Wood made up for lost time. She became a member of the Monacan tribal council, is in charge of the Virginia Indian Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is putting together a digital history of Virginia's tribes and is completing her doctoral work at the University of Virginia.
The annual American Association of University Professors faculty salary report, being released today, found some post-recession recovery but lingering symptoms of decline in academia.
(Commentary) Analyst Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, considered one of the best in the nation, said that if the Republicans can build momentum early, it could create a national wave for the Republicans. "It's unrealistic to expect the Republicans to net a half-dozen Senate seats exclusively through coin-flip victories: Some blowouts would make the job easier and give an obvious indication of a building wave months before Election Day," said Kondik.