One of the factors that determine whether applicants will be accepted into undergraduate business programs is grade point average. Whether it’s high-school GPA used in freshman admission to four-year business programs or college GPA used in admission to two-year programs, GPA still matters. A lot. “GPA is important, and we’re going to look at it to get a snapshot,” says Rebecca Locke Leonard, associate dean for student services at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. “Then we’re going to look beyond GPA. I think of it as a starting...
A Charlottesville couple is teaching friends and family that their disabilities are no match for their abilities. On Friday, NBC29's Kristin Twiford sat down with Carolyn and Woody Berry to talk about their lifelong love story, their successful careers, and the ways they've shared their perspective. Woody worked in the X-ray department at the University of Virginia for 37 years. Now he works behind the scenes at the university's Observatory Hill dining hall, where he amazes coworkers by loading dishes at a record 16 plates a minute.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said Portman's switch just puts him in line with the majority of Americans. Data from the Pew Research Center shows that 48 percent of the public now favor gay marriage, with 43 percent opposed — a significant shift from a decade ago.
(Commentary) Children raised by a single parent are “two to three times more likely to drop out of high school,” says Bradford Wilcox, head of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, and boys from single-parent homes have double the risk of being arrested before they reach the age of 30.
Three university professors tried to calculate the impact of trading costs on fund performance, and their conclusion suggests that a fund's expense ratio doesn't come close to capturing the full costs that investors pay.
An artificial pancreas developed at the University of Virginia is one step closer to helping people with Type 1 diabetes manage their blood sugar. Researchers are running a second round of trials to test the smartphone algorithm that controls a patient's insulin pump.
(By Sara E. Russell, a lecturer of maritime and supply chain management at Old Dominion University in Norfolk and president of the Organization of Women in International Trade of Hampton Roads. She originally wrote about the Port of Virginia for the current issue of The Virginia News Letter, published by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.) Ship lines are not a port’s only customers. Shippers — those who are providing the cargo — are customers, too, and should factor heavily into the Port of Virginia’s plans to boost its...
There’s no clearer indication that what happened at the University of Virginia last summer touched a sensitive nerve in the higher education nationally than the fact that everybody is still talking about it.
If you want to mix up the rankings among the top 14 and base their order on which schools are most likely to get you a job right after graduation, the University of Virginia (No. 7) would be first and Georgetown University (No. 14) would remain in the same spot.
Dr. Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, believes one can weather travails and accomplish important goals by focusing on a larger purpose. Sullivan, who accepted a Leadership Award and was a featured speaker March 9 at the Women’s Center’s 27th annual Leadership Conference, cited as an example a waste-truck driver in Charlottesville who on Jan. 21 helped save a houseful of university students from a fire.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will speak in May at the University of Virginia's College at Wise's graduation.
A federal judge this month restricted the damages that a former University of Virginia assistant professor can collect in a whistleblower case from a requested award of $1.46 million to about $420,000, school officials said Wednesday.
The University of Virginia is listed among the suggested destinations.
Each year, the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education hosts a career fair that in strong years has attracted about 100 recruiters from public and private schools, according to Hilary Kerner, head of the career services office. That number dropped during the recession, but at the fair this month, about 60 recruiters attended, more than at other recent fairs.
A graduating Virginia high school senior enjoys a host of college choices. A driven student might go to the storied University of Virginia in Charlottesville, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe in 1819.
The Yahoo CEO’s work-at-home decision is consistent with the management style she has perfected throughout her career, according to University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor Melissa Thomas-Hunt, who published a case study about Mayer's rise through the ranks at Google. "What we concluded was that she was very hands-on, and she liked to mentor those around her," Thomas-Hunt notes. "She would bake birthday cakes and would celebrate her colleagues. Relationships were really important. So I can see how she would feel that being able to see and interac...
(Commentary) The benefits of marriage led Professor W. Bradford Wilcox to summarize a study he led as part of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project in this way: “The core message…is that the wealth of nations depends in no small part on the health of the family.”
With Match Day just days away, future residents at the University of Virginia Medical Center won't be the only ones smiling. Local real estate agents will be smiling, as well.
Some children living in the U.S. Southeast have a rare meat allergy linked to tick bites, according to a new study. Cases of the meat allergy in adults were first reported in 2008, and have been on the rise in recent years, the researchers said. The new study is the first to describe the allergy in children, said study researcher Dr. Scott Commins, an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Virginia.