Charlottesville has changed drastically over the past 70 years. The Downtown Mall went from a two-way street to a pedestrian mall. And the University of Virginia transformed from a community of Southern white men to the diverse school it is today. Ed Roseberry has been taking snapshots of Charlottesville history since he was a UVA student right after World War II.
(Commentary by U.Va. alumnus Marvin Gilliam, a member of the Board of Visitors) After reading your editorial of Dec. 27 ("Helen Dragas should resign"), I must respectfully disagree with your declaration that Helen Dragas should resign.
Ann Beattie, the author of "Chilly Scenes of Winter," "Falling in Place," "Mrs. Nixon," and numerous other novels and short-story collections, has resigned from her position as a tenured professor of English and creative writing at the University of Virginia.
However, following a lean period at the height of the recession, many top schools are again reporting high levels of fundraising. At both Tuck and the University of Virginia’s Darden School, 2011/12 represented a record year, with Darden receiving gifts that were 17 per cent higher than in any previous year.
Miranda Dale had her first breakdown during her freshman year at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. It was 2 a.m. on a Saturday, and she hadn't left her dorm room in days.
Paul DeMaio, then an urban planning student at the University of Virginia, was doing Internet research when he stumbled upon images of ByCyklen, a new “city bike” program launched by the city of Copenhagen.
"We have adopted a position of non-judgmentalism, a posture of celebrating motherhood no matter how it happens," said W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "Hollywood is both a cause and a consequence of larger changes in our understanding of how marriage and child-bearing do and do not fit together."
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, allowed himself the “escape hatch” of noting a lot can happen in three years. But he called Perry's performance “sub-par in a very weak field of contenders ... I doubt any of the 2012 contenders is going to do particularly well, since they all lost to the November loser.”
Bethany Nowviskie -- director of digital research & scholarship at the University of Virginia Library, associate director of the library’s Scholarly Communication Institute, and president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities – argued that that’s not an unambiguous good. “Digital humanities staff already struggle against the pressure to become jacks of all trades and masters of none,” she said. “How can grant-funded DH journeymen find the time and feel the stability that leads to institutional commitment, to deep engagement and ex...
Listed as "In" for 2013 are Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of law and media studies, and U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan.
(Commentary co-authored by Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies and law) When Robert Bork passed away last month his obituaries focused on his contentious Supreme Court nomination and his role in protecting President Nixon during the “midnight massacre” of the Justice Department‘s investigation of Watergate crimes. But they ignored Bork’s most lasting legacy: he set the intellectual foundation for the dangerous weakening of American antitrust laws over the past thirty years.
(Commentary co-authored by Bruce D. Brown, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School,) After a two-year investigation, the Federal Trade Commission concluded this week that Google’s search practices did not violate antitrust law. Those who wanted to see an epic battle like the one the government fought with Microsoft in the 1990s were sorely disappointed. But the analogy to the browser war of the Web’s early days was never the right one. It failed to capture the dangers free speech would have ...
“You’d think there would be a federal rule or a statute in every state creating the clear obligation to do a Codis search in any case where the defense wants it,” said Brandon L. Garrett, a professor of law at the University of Virginia.
“Tax expenditures are very similar to an entitlement program, so they’re easy to start,” said George K. Yin, former chief of staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, and now a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “But once a tax break gets started, people think they’re entitled to it, so they are very difficult to end.”
(Essay) At least, we have had—professor and students together—a concentrated time to think about History. What is History? Why study History? And how does one go about studying History? We have also had time to think about what Mark Edmundson, a University of Virginia professor, considers even more important questions: “Who am I? What might I become? What is this world in which I find myself? How might it be changed for the better?
(Video) A new study from the University of Virginia and London Business School says socioeconomic status and likelihood of moving help determine social networking style.
“This is my second visit to Oman and I am really impressed of the level of development I found here. This country has made a notable headway in almost every aspect of modernity,” said Peter W Ochs, Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia.
An Arlington teen is doing a lot of storytelling about what he did on New Year’s Eve. He wasn’t out partying with friends, but instead spent Monday working as a page while the Senate scrambled to pass fiscal cliff legislation. Jarrod Nagurka, who just celebrated his 19th birthday yesterday, is originally from Arlington and is in his first year at the University of Virginia. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took a moment on the Senate floor to thank Nagurka and the few other pages who were able to help out.
"Boehner's job is like herding cats and some of the toughest ones to herd belong to the RSC," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "But it probably helps Boehner to have an ally (Scalise) as chairman. Relations were more uneasy with the last chairman (Jim Jordan of Ohio)."
"On the day people are sworn in they are entitled to dream," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "The idea that they are going to bridge the unbridgeable gap between the two parties is indeed a dream."