A former Democratic governor and other allies of University of Virginia Rector Helen E. Dragas are pressing state lawmakers to keep her on the school’s governing board, more than six months after she precipitated a leadership crisis in Charlottesville with a botched attempt to oust the U-Va.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott quotes U.Va. psychologist Dewey Cornell about preventing gun violence in this interview, around the 9:20 mark.
Sandy Krolick came into the world in a fragile state. Born with congenital heart disease, he has had to undergo a series of surgeries during his life, two when he was very young and the most recent just three years ago. His illness has not prevented him from taking on an energetic and varied career, however, from academia to some of the highest levels of American business, but his life has led him to distant Barnaul, the capital of Siberia's Altai region, where he assesses the fragility he sees in human civilization. (Krolick has a Ph.D. in religious studies from U.Va.)
Interns across the country are spilling to Seventeen what their internships are really like. University of Virginia senior Jenna Dagenhart reveals what it was like to have a political internship in Washington, D.C.
Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said Albo’s bill would provide “thoughtful, important, and much-needed changes to the writ of innocence standard in the commonwealth.”
Thousands across the country are sick right now with the flu, and hospitals are inundated with patients. Augusta Health alone has treated more than 500 cases of the flu this season—that's five times the typical amount. The University of Virginia Medical Center and Martha Jefferson Hospital are also working around the clock to deal with the influx.
However, commissioners said the proposed ordinance change was not ready in part because more scrutiny of the relationship between food trucks and private property is needed. “To the degree that it is anchored to the land is pretty important,” said David Neuman, the architect for the University of Virginia. “When there are more than one of them in one spot, there’s more opportunity for some related effects in terms of trash and the like, and the need for seating.”
Dudley Biddlecomb has been an oyster farmer for so long, he doesn't remember when he started. Born on the Chesapeake Bay, oyster farming is in his blood. Biddlecomb and his nephew made the 150-mile trek from Reedville to speak with a class at the University of Virginia about the emerging field of aquaculture and his work to restore oysters to the Bay.
Mary Beth Henson has been named the National Audubon Society’s chief financial officer and a vice president of the organization. Henson will lead the venerable non-profit’s finance team at a time of exceptional growth and initiative. Henson earned a BA from the University of Virginia.
(Editorial) The “fiscal cliff” would not have surprised James Buchanan. He was born in Tennessee but spent his academic career in Virginia. The move proved symbolically potent. ... Buchanan taught at the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason. He died Wednesday in Blacksburg at 93.
“I would say she’s going to have quite a battle to hang on to her seat,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “We have her in the ‘endangered’ category.
Dayna Grayson grew up an entrepreneur. Today, she seeks them out. In middle school in South Carolina, Grayson set up a concession stand and sold hot chocolate, candy bars and other snacks at her brother’s soccer matches. In college at the University of Virginia, she opened her own house painting business to earn money.
Time to retire those yellow highlighters. A new report on the most effective studying techniques, whose authors include Daniel T. Willingham of the University of Virginia, found that highlighting and underlining don’t do students much good.
James Aune’s apparent suicide this week at Texas A&M University stunned the campus and the broader academic community – especially rhetoricians, among whom he was a leading scholar. (Aune taught from 1981 to 1986 in the since-discontinued rhetoric and communications studies department at U.Va.)
After the frantic pace of the holiday season, it's time to get back in step with your own internal rhythm. Many New Year's resolutions involve reducing stress, tapping into creativity or learning a new skill.
Methodological issues aside, other researchers question the meaning of the data. Several big questions remain unanswered, such as whether activated microglia are a cause or consequence of autism, notes Jonathan Kipnis, professor of neuroscience at the University of Virginia.
The longer Democrats hold out, the more it creates an impression that Christie is unbeatable, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. That sense of invulnerability may grow as would-be challengers opt out, he said.
The 3,500 women who laced up their sneakers to take strides against breast cancer this September as part of the 30th annual Charlottesville Women's Four Miler raised a record $340,000. Event organizers will present the funds to University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan on Monday for use by the UVa Cancer Center's breast care program.
Jeffrey O’Connell, a legal scholar who helped devise the model for “no fault” auto insurance to protect traffic accident victims, lower car insurance rates and curb ambulance-chasing lawyers, died on Sunday at his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 84.
Campuses are particularly susceptible to flu outbreaks, says Dr. James Turner, executive director of the Department of Student Health at the University of Virginia and founder of the College Health Surveillance Network, which tracks student health concerns on 21 campuses.