Sean Gobin, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the founders of a non-profit called Warrior Hike, which raises money for veterans. Last year, he and fellow master’s degree student Mark Silvers, a former Marine and co-founder of Warrior Hike, walked the entire Appalachian Trail.
Norah Mastrandea, 7, left her mark on Brownsville Elementary School's multipurpose room Saturday. In thick, black strokes, she affixed her name: N-O-r-A-h, to a ceiling so high it would take five N-O-r-A-h's stacked head-to-tippy toe to reach the top. How Jim Miller – a former University of Virginia basketball player, magician and investment adviser – got the card to stick to the ceiling remains a mystery. But at the end of a surprise party thrown in her honor, the girl of the hour gave his show a big thumbs up.
“Within Virginia, it’s not harder to be admitted from region to region,” said Jeannine Lalonde, in her Notes from Peabody UVa admissions blog. “People in densely populated areas tend to worry about this the most.” It may or may not be more difficult to be admitted to UVa from northern Virginia, but for whatever reason, the percent of Commonwealth students attending UVa from this area appears somewhat controlled and has remained relatively flat despite huge growth in the region’s overall population.
We’ve neglected great professors of English literature in the Power Line Best 100 Professors roster so far, but our first selection in the field, Paul Cantor, the Clifton Walker Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is so intellectually peripatetic that it risks an injustice to call him merely an “English professor.”
Race and geographic area play important roles in determining whether a patient with chronic kidney disease receives optimal care before developing kidney failure, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Melissa Thomas-Hunt, associate professor of behavior research at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, says it appears Yahoo's work at home arrangements needed to be restructured because they no longer met the needs of the business. "A more targeted approach, however, might have achieved the same outcomes of increased productivity and collaboration without inciting the backlash," Hunt told United Press International.
On July 1, 2006, Billy K. Cannaday Jr. left his post as superintendent of schools for Chesterfield County to become superintendent of public instruction for Virginia. But that doesn’t mean he stopped getting a check from Chesterfield. Cannaday now serves as the dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Friends can help you shoulder burdens, literally. At the University of Virginia, psychology professor Dennis Proffitt and a team of graduate students demonstrated how they've been asking students -- either alone, or with a friend standing by -- to put on a heavy backpack and estimate the steepness of a hill: on paper, by looking at a pie chart, and by using a tilting device. The overall results are unequivocal: "They find the hill to be steeper if they're alone, and less steep when they're with friends," said Proffitt. "Moreover, if you look at the strength of their ...
Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said he thinks Republicans are aiming to stick with the same principles, but deliver the message differently.
Virginia voters now have a choice between two very different candidates — Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe — who politically have about as much in common as a cat and a dog. University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato calls them “Virginia’s Odd Couple.”
Except for fraternities, sororities and gender-based club sports, most of Virginia’s public universities require organizations to adopt nondiscrimination policies. But policies at the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia already include exceptions to nondiscrimination policies that appear to align with the intent of the legislation. A U.Va. spokesman said an organization seeking to restrict membership would need to demonstrate that the restriction was necessary to perform activities related to the group’s purpose. Any exception is limited in scope to a narrow ...
The U.Va. School of Law ranks fifth nationally in initial and mid-career salaries at private firms, according to a survey.
Legal experts said this is the first time a lawsuit has attempted to force a defendant to buy a home, and many believe a judge wouldn't even have the power grant such a request. "I have never heard of that and the court may say it has no authority to order that," University of Virginia Law School professor Douglas Laycock told The Morning Call.
Mr. Awuah was among three outstanding entrepreneurial leaders named 2013 Babson College Honorary Degree candidates. The other two are Kip Tindell, Chairman and CEO, The Container Store; and Saras Sarasvathy, Associate Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
It's the moderates, the undecided or independent voters still unconvinced by Ken Cuccinelli or Terry McAuliffe, who will define the race. In the wake of Bolling's departure, both camps are now working hard to appeal to the middle. "The average voter should always question every claim coming from these two camps," said Dr. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Dr. Amir Jazaeri of University of Virginia Medical Center is a cancer researcher funded by the American Cancer Society. Jazaeri says that Relay for Life is critical, especially at a time when government funding for cancer research is the lowest it's been in decades.
More women are delaying marriage, but not necessarily delaying kids, says a new report.
Americans are getting married later and later. The average age of first marriage in the United States is 27 for women and 29 for men, up from 23 for women and 26 for men in 1990 and 20 and 22 (!) in 1960. But what are the consequences of this trend? Who benefits and who suffers? "Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America," a new report from the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project examines those questions and, unsurprisingly, concludes that the answers are different depending on who you are.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, says Virginia Republicans are beyond furious at McDonnell for breaking his no-tax pledge. “The cost of the legacy is probably a future career, certainly as a presidential candidate,” he says. “It’s possible he could be picked as vice president if the nominee decides he has to have Virginia.”