Barbara Perry, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, agreed. “He has this kind of calm, self-confidence, cool, to his enemies bordering on an arrogant demeanor, and that may be coming out now,” Perry said. “He seems bolder than coming in.”
University of Virginia architecture students are challenging Charlottesville to think outside of the box about the future of the Rivanna River. They've worked around the clock for the past six days to design projects that would boost the Rivanna's role in the community.
On this historic day we have brought in three historians to help us put it all in perspective. Peter Onuf is a history professor at the University of Virginia, Ed Ayers is a historian and also the president of the University of Richmond and Brian Balogh is a University of Virginia history professor. Together they're the host of the public radio program "Backstory with the American History Guys," which is a great look at what really matters, which is how we got where we are.
A $33 million renovation at the University of Virginia is in its final stretch. Newcomb Hall only has its game room left on the list of spaces to be upgraded.
Brian Balogh, a professor of history at the University of Virginia's Miller Center AND co-host of "Backstory With the American History Guys," was among the experts CNN invited to react to President Obama's inaugural address.
Charlottesville's fire marshal says the cause of the Wertland Street blaze that displaced 13 U.Va. students is still under investigation.
"What President Obama was doing, in an elegant way, was making an argument for why we have government in the first place, and why it has to be there to solve the problems of the modern era," said Russell Riley, who heads the presidential oral history program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. "The rhetoric was conducted at a fairly high plane, and it wasn't soaring, empty rhetoric — and that's what I found very interesting."
The University of Virginia hosted around 40 high school students for a day filled with medical simulations and shadowing health professionals. "Dr. King really wanted this to be a day of service, so while many people are taking a day off, it's actually a day on for us in the health care professions," said Dr. Michael Moxley, associate dean for diversity of medical education at the UVA School of Medicine.
"We really need to focus on the early steps of resuscitation for the developing world, because that's where most of the mortality is occurring - in other words, just getting babies to breathe," said Dr. John Kattwinkel from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who wrote a commentary published with the new studies.
(Commentary by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project) According to The World Family Map, a new report I helped edit, whether you're helped by having two parents at home is largely a function of where you live. Children in wealthy or middle-income countries - like the vast majority of those applying for Jefferson Scholarships - are helped enormously by two-parent family units. In the developing world, by contrast, children raised by a single parent are just as likely - in some cases more likely - to succeed.
Challenged to re-imagine the Rivanna River corridor, students have proposed multiple pedestrian bridges fashioned from timber and stone, temporal pools in the riparian corridor, tree houses and even an aquarium.
Former Senator Jim Webb will be the speaker at the University of Virginia's 2013 graduation commencement ceremony May 19.
Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, said Congress has limited bandwidth. "Was it that he really didn’t back it? No," Sabato said. "It was because he had to pick and choose, because Congress cannot consume too many things at once. It is just as slow moving as everybody accuses it of being."
Governor Bob McDonnell today applauded Dominion Virginia Power’s selection of several Virginia universities to receive renewable energy research and development funding totaling $1.4 million from Dominion Virginia Power, as part of the company’s new R&D Partnership Program. ... The selected projects are detailed below. Dominion is discussing potential additional projects with the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and George Mason University.
(Commentary) Call it the rehabilitation of Helen E. Dragas. Dragas, the head of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, got into a big mess last spring when she tried and failed to oust popular university President Teresa Sullivan.
As world food and energy demands grow, nations and some corporations increasingly are looking to acquire quality agricultural land for food production. A University of Virginia release reports that a new study by the University of Virginia and the Polytechnic University of Milan, and currently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, provides the first global quantitative assessment of the water-grabbing phenomenon.
This year's early action applicants to the University of Virginia received decisions well ahead of the January 31st published release date. And while the numbers fell slightly short of earlier projections, the increase in EA applicants provides impressive proof that admission to the ommonwealth’s flagship university remains a highly sought after prize among high school students—both from within the state and across the country.
Former U.S. Senator Jim Webb will deliver the commencement address at the University of Virginia's final exercises this may. UVA president Teresa Sullivan made the selection from nominations by a subcommittee made up of students and faculty.
One group is trying to showcase Charlottesville's abundance of art and culture. Thursday the "Create Charlottesville" steering committee met to discuss opportunities for more art and music in the city. It wants to improve art education, combine the University of Virginia art community with the downtown Charlottesville art community and diversify the city as a whole.
“For too many on the 'pro-choice' and 'gay rights' side, the free exercise of religion begins to look like a bad idea. It is a bad idea because it empowers their enemies. It should be interpreted extremely narrowly,” explained Douglas Laycock, a top constitutional scholar at the University of Virginia School of Law, during an address following the Jan. 14 panel discussion marking the inauguration of the Religious Liberty Clinic.