Former major league player Brian Buchanan will be the manager of the Lexington Legends in 2013, the Legends’ first season as an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. Buchanan was an All-American player at the University of Virginia before being chosen by the New York Yankees in the first round of the 1994 draft.
The University of Virginia says it is upping wages for hundreds of employees. With the help of funding from the Board of Visitors, officials say they increased pay for more than 400 of UVa's lowest-paid workers last year and nearly 200 more since this July.
(Commentary) Research by Saras Sarasvathy, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia, suggests that learning to accommodate feelings of uncertainty is not just the key to a more balanced life but often leads to prosperity as well.
Charlottesville’s 33 oldest companies share a common thread of innovation, entrepreneurship and adaptability to changing times, but unfortunately, a substantial amount of local business history is lost to the ages, a team of researchers has found. University of Virginia student interns Sara Morrow, Ellis Gray and Lindsey Hale assisted the society with exhibit research, writing and presentation.
W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, sees indicators suggesting “that U.S. fertility rates will remain comparatively low unless and until we have a robust recovery that integrates young adults fully into the economy, and gives them a sense of economic hope for the future. If this doesn’t happen, then I fear we may be headed towards a more European pattern of low fertility.”
(Commentary) There are two primary issues here: One is that online courses are, as University of Virginia professor Mark Edmundson says, "a one-size-fits-all endeavor." Each student gets the same product, at the same pace, not as an individual but as "whoever," regardless of his or her individual responses, understanding, or capacity.
The College of William & Mary is teaming with the University of Virginia, Monticello, Montpelier and Ash-Lawn Highland to offer resources to citizens seeking to build democracies and civil societies around the world.
Dennis Lockhart, president and CEO at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, recently discussed the implications of the fiscal cliff in a speech at the University of Virginia. Lockhart sounded the usual gloom-and-doom warnings, focusing on how the fiscal cliff could lead to a new economic downturn if not handled properly.
Not many had heard of (former U.Va.men's tennis star) Sanam Krishnan Singh until the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. His electric performances in a gold medal-winning feat alongside (fellow U.Va. alum) Somdev Devvarman in the men’s doubles however made him a force to reckon overnight.
The third-floor ballroom of the University of Virginia’s Newcomb Hall was awash in grass-green and pink Saturday as girls and young women snapped, sashayed and stomped across the stage in celebration of sisterhood. Nearly a dozen troupes of local middle schoolers accompanied by their “big sisters” from UVa converted pop songs to girl anthems focused on positivity and self-esteem to cap the first half of an annual mentoring partnership administered through the university, the Young Women Leaders Program.
Whether you’re looking for something to read yourself or books to give as Christmas presents, the following three titles — an assessment of one president’s leadership style, a different take on classical economics and a first-person account of heroism — can fit the bill. (The books include “The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV,” by U.Va. English professor Paul A. Cantor.)
When University of Virginia student leaders went to Charlottesville City Hall last week to tell city officials that they're capable of peacefully co-existing with their older neighbors, Miles Kirwin had a success story to tell.
Federal law since the 1970s has permitted medical providers to exercise “conscience rights,” meaning they aren’t required to provide abortions or sterilizations if doing so is contrary to their religious beliefs or moral convictions, said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia who formerly taught at UT-Austin. What’s more, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that public hospitals aren’t required to perform abortions, he said.
Mehr Afshan Farooqi is assistant professor of Urdu and South Asian literature at the University of Virginia. Her book Urdu Literary Culture: Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari, has recently been released.
(Commentary) U.Va. alumna Dawn Staley talks about how Title IX helped her become an international basketball star as a player. She is now the head women's basketball coach at the University of South Carolina.
“The wind potential along the Appalachian ridges is relatively weak compared to other regions of the U.S., like the Great Plains from Texas up to the Dakotas. ... The forested Appalachian ridges are what remain of the wilderness in the area. Basically, we’re doing damage to that for very little in return,” said Rick Webb, a senior scientist with the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and operator of the website vawind.com.
Host Rick Moore talks with Professor Bradford Wilcox about the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project. Professor Wilcox is a sociologist in U.Va.’s Department of Sociology and Director of The National Marriage Project.
A University of Virginia secret society is going public with a plea for students to take better care of each other. The 7 Society placed banners around the University bearing the words of the English poet John Donne.
With comprehensive immigration reform likely to undergo serious consideration by Congress, a politics and policy research institute affiliated with the University of Virginia convened a timely exploration of the political, economic and legal issues defining the policies that govern high-skilled immigration to the U.S. late last week.
The Cleveland Indians have agreed to a one-year contract with corner infielder Mark Reynolds, according to sources cited by MLB.com. Reynolds, who went to high school in Virginia Beach and started at shortstop at the University of Virginia for three years, presumably will take over as the Tribe’s first baseman.