Theo Smith is "very proud to be from the 757." The Portsmouth native grew up here. He went to school here. And he would have taught through Teach for America here, except that Virginia won't license the organization's teachers so they can work in the state's schools.
It says a lot about Phoebe Willis that she isn’t fretting a second over the impending loss of her long auburn locks. Not if it can help her raise $25,000 for childhood cancer research.
Some experts believe a resolution to the civil war in Syria in intrinsically linked to Iran. William Quandt is a former member of the National Security Council, influential Middle East analyst and professor at the University of Virginia. Quandt says Washington should quickly turn its attention toward seeking a diplomatic reconciliation with Tehran.
Dottie Pacharis remembers the night in 2007 when Virginia Beach police called to say her 40-year-old son, who was bipolar, had killed himself. “I had actually feared my son would get a gun and shoot innocent people,” said Pacharis, who now lives in Florida. “Guns kill, but untreated mental illness does, too.” These topics are all too familiar to University of Virginia law professor Richard Bonnie. He chaired a state commission on mental health law reform that began meeting in October 2006.
Among the 17 candidates seeking the open 1st congressional district seat are a former governor who gained national notoriety by secretly leaving the state to visit his mistress in Argentina as well as two relatives of national media figures. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Teddy Turner, son of CNN founder, former Atlanta Braves owner and philanthropist Ted Turner, and Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, sister of prominent political comedian Stephen Colbert, have a leg up in terms of money and access to free media coverage. “The media...
(Commentary) As University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon Garrett says, “(Prosecutors) are attached to their convictions, and they don’t want to see their work called into question.” Hey, who wants to take one out of their own win column, right?
Andrea and Garry Wakely at Twin Roses Designs in Bristol, Va., provide costumes for film, theatre and television. They also design costumes for individuals. Andrea got involved in costume design at the University of Virginia.
Tim Rose, CEO of the University of Virginia Foundation, which owns The Boar’s Head Inn, also said that the area doesn’t appear to be on the cusp of a hotel room glut. “This has occurred in other areas, but we presume the new entrants have performed their financial due diligence and their results are indicating a need for new hotel rooms, given our demographics and the anticipated growth of the region,” Rose said by email. "There is a lot of older lodging product in our area, which suggests interest in new lodging offerings may be timely.”
Virginia’s population growth outpaced the nation in the past two years, according to annual population estimates by demographers at the University of Virginia.
Even when we’re speaking the same language, it’s easy to stumble into a communication breakdown. The pitfalls of poor communication are even greater in a business context, especially with the lure of social media at our fingertips. “Relying on email causes folks to miss the nuances of vocabulary and the nonverbal cues people give while relating to one another,” said June A. West, an assistant professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
A six-month internship in Rwanda in 2010 has morphed into a thriving, artsy and profitable business with international connections. Charlottesville native Ellie Kates and her business partner, Sarah Dunigan, co-founded Songa Designs International in 2011. In 2012, they launched an online store to sell Songa's handmade jewelry and fashion accessories.
In what is being called the first global assessment of land and water grabbing, a new study by the University of Virginia and the Polytechnic University of Milan, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals how major moneyed interests from China to the Arab states, among others, are moving in the background to acquire arable land and water resources for future use. The effort was a painstaking one, tying back land parcel sales and leases back to their buyers, but the map that was produced is an eye-opener.
Outpatient commitment came up during the first meeting of the commission crafting a response to the Sandy Hook shooting, in the form of a question to Richard Bonnie, director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Bonnie advised the panel that examined the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech; the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, had been subject to court-ordered outpatient treatment but never complied. "The issue is, you have to have the resources," Bonnie told the commission. "You can't successfully implement mandatory outpatient treatme...
Congressional election expert Kyle Kondik, from the University of Virginia, says that despite Chambliss' 92.5 lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, he undoubtedly would have had a bitter re-election on his hands.
(Commentary) Thirty-five Senate seats will be up in November 2014 – 33 regularly scheduled races and two special elections, in Hawaii and South Carolina. Democrats hold 21 of those seats and Republicans 14, said University of Virginia political analyst Kyle Kondik. “Obviously, these numbers would seem to benefit the Republicans – especially because, of the 14 Republican-held seats, there aren’t really any obvious Democratic targets,” Kondik explained.
(Commentary by Rick Webb, a senior scientist with the Department of Environmental Sciences) Why is it that some of Virginia's urban politicians show so little respect for the citizens of our rural counties? I refer to state senators Dick Saslaw, D-Springfield, and John Watkins, R-Midlothian, who have co-sponsored a bill - SB 1341 - before the General Assembly that would override local authority over the siting of commercial wind energy projects.
Critics of women in combat express concerns, however, that the move could actually make women more vulnerable to sexual assault by putting them in closer contact with men in situations where they will have little privacy. But U.Va. law professor Anne Coughlin, who has advised plaintiffs suing the military for integration into combat units, thinks “just the opposite is true.”
A combined 500 new slots for infants to school-age children should help keep pace with a 10.4-percent population bump from 2010 to 2020 projected in that age group by the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Researchers estimate the number of city and county children up to age 4 will increase 33 percent, from nearly 7,850 to about 10,450, between 2010 and 2040. The population of that group increased 13 percent from 2000 to 2010, according to census data. "The further out we go, the higher the margin of error gets," said Rebecca Tippett, a Weldon Coope...
Music professor Joel Rubin discusses Yiddish and Klezmer music.
With staggering growth rates in much of Northern Virginia, change is the new constant. In Loudoun County, population shot up 84 percent from 2000 to 2010. The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia estimates Loudoun’s population has risen another 7 percent in the past two years, according to numbers scheduled for release Friday.