Last year, the first-ever Tom Tom Founders Festival kicked off with a community pitch night that brought $1,000 to the audience's favorite business proposal. This year, the Festival, which celebrates and promotes local innovation, is starting out with a similar pitch night called "U.Pitch. C'ville Decides" when it kicks off on April 11– but the prizes are much bigger, thanks to a partnership with the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business, which is using the Festival's opening night as a way to celebrate the expansion of its business incubator progr...
UVa professor and clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell serves on the governor's task force. "I'm really pleased that the governor has adopted our recommendations to take a comprehensive approach, which is not just focused on what to do in the event of a crisis but really how to prevent acts of violence in our schools and keep our kids safe," said Cornell.
Because osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, is a progressive condition, eliminating risk factors early in life can provide benefits later on. “What starts as a joint strain can progress into arthritis as cartilage gradually wears away,” says Dr. Mark Miller, professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Virginia Health System.
Judson University Friday announced that Gene C. Crume, Jr., will be its seventh university president. Crume, who earned his Ph.D. in education with a minor concentration in organizational leadership from the University of Virginia, will join Judson as president-elect April 7, then, after a brief transition time, take on the role of president May 10.
The first public meeting that brought University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan and Rector Helen E. Dragas together since Dragas' contested reappointment confirmation was forward-looking and genial, as a subset of the Board of Visitors heard the first reports from working groups established to inform the draft of a new guiding document for the university.
The amount Johnson raised in the fourth quarter is not considered large for a U.S. senator, and especially for Johnson, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. “I’d say that he’s retiring and hoping that his son succeeds him,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Sabato referred to U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson, who is not a candidate, but who, in political circles, is viewed as a potential contender for the seat should his father retire.
Debra Saunders-White’s career has taken her from one of America’s giant computer corporations to two university administrations and ultimately to the U.S. Department of Education. All along, she has blended technology with the classroom. Now, N.C. Central University is counting on Saunders-White (who earned an undergraduate degree in history from U.Va.) to catapult the campus to the next level. On Friday, Saunders-White, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, was elected NCCU’s 11th chancellor by the UNC Board of Governors. She is the first woman to b...
Changes are coming to William & Mary’s Mason School of Business in the 2013-14 school year, when new fees will be introduced for undergraduates and the school will introduce an online Master of Business Administration degree program.
As a young man, Thomas G. Faulkner III listened and prayed and wondered. His grandfather, Tom Faulkner Sr., was an ordained Episcopal minister who spent his adult life in that role. His father, Tom Faulkner Jr., answered the same calling. Today, at 66, Faulkner can review a career spent on projects outside the church walls, but well within the confines of ministry. His is a relentless pursuit of quality, affordable housing for those in great need of it.
Kate Orff, whose New York landscape architecture firm was chosen last week to design Town Branch Commons, has made a name for herself by looking below the surface and beyond the conventional. (Orff earned a bachelor's degree in political and social thought from the University of Virginia.)
It is rare in Virginia for public officials to face removal, said Bob Gibson, executive director of the University of Virginia's Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. "It is not so rare in other states, but we have had the good fortune of mostly electing honest folks," Gibson said. The rarity likely explains why the law does not specify sex crimes as grounds to remove someone from office.
Concerns from the state’s community college system might have killed one of two college governance reform bills championed by Del. R. Steven Landes, but he hopes to save his legislation.
Eric Rebellato, 17, was in trouble heading into 2016. He was several hundred thousand dollars in debt and proceeds from his cattle business totaled a meager $6,000. Then the Monticello High School senior discovered policy incentives for sustainable farming. Monticello science teacher Jeremy Dove looked on with a smile. Rebellato's “aha” moment about the intersection of commerce, policy and environmentalism was at the heart of Saturday's Bay Game at the University of Virginia.
(Editorial) The Charlottesville situation has generated discussion about the roles state universities play in higher education and about higher education more generally. All colleges confront these challenges. Ayers does not speak for himself alone.
Rejection came with a compliment for Grace E. Harris. “I wish I could take you here,” the director of social work at Richmond Professional Institute told Harris at the end of an interview he had conducted on behalf of Boston University. It was 1954, a time when Virginia and other Southern states preferred to pay for African-American graduate students to study out of state rather than to integrate. She would return from Boston University to complete her master’s degree at RPI, now Virginia Commonwealth University (in addition to master’s and doctoral degrees at the Unive...
The General Assembly sets the portion of the president’s base pay that is funded by taxpayers, but governing boards generously augment that amount from other university funds. Some boards also approve contracts entitling presidents to additional compensation through incentive pay for doing their jobs or retention bonuses for not quitting.
Alison Hall first went to Italy 12 years ago while she was an art student at Hollins University. Now an art teacher herself, at Hollins and the University of Virginia, Hall's gone back to Italy every summer, and visited both the St. Francis of Assisi chapel and the Arena Chapel in Padua, where Giotto also contributed frescoes. Her visits to those chapels provided the inspiration for "Alison Hall: Pilgrimage," which opened Jan. 29, the first of five new exhibitions at the Taubman Museum of Art.
(Commentary by E. Franklin Dukes, director of U.Va.’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation) Now that Rector Helen Dragas has won reappointment to the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, calls for reconciliation have reappeared from some legislators and board members.
(Commentary by Elizabeth Dobbins, a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law) The brightly colored Valentine's Day goodies abounding in grocery stores this time of year remind me of my favorite famous romance: Abigail and John Adams.
Bad news for big kahunas: CEOs in the United States are not overpaid, at least not compared with their peers worldwide. So says an article co-written by a U.Va. biz prof in this month’s Review of Financial Studies. Pedro Matos, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School, studied CEO pay at 3,200 companies from 2003 to 2008.