The very fact of being married brings men a premium in their earnings, research shows, and makes them steadier workers, presumably because they have more stability at home. “Marriage is an institution that makes men more responsible in their pursuit of work and in their work-related duties,” said Brad Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociologist who directs the National Marriage Project.
Queen LeighAnna Virginia Morris will preside over the seasonal festivities celebrating the 117th Holly Ball.
A piece of black colonial history may have been unearthed after a hidden grave site was discovered adjacent to the University of Virginia campus.
Planners on both sides of the Blue Ridge are seeing light at the end of the tunnel. They're inspired by work students at the University of Virginia have done to reopen a historic railroad passage through the mountain.
Coursera offers the class “Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses,” which starts in January 2013, or “Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations,” which starts in February 2013. The classes are offered by the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University respectively, and require a four to eight-hour workload per week.
University of Virginia students and a nationwide hunger fighting program are teaming up to help the Charlottesville community. UVA's chapter of the Campus Kitchen project has received a $1,000 grant.
A Christmas tree decoration in honor of a loved one can benefit patients and families at the University of Virginia Medical Center. Christmas carols got everyone in the holiday spirit at the 29th Lights of Love tree lighting ceremony Wednesday afternoon in the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center.
The University of Virginia will hold a series of public forums beginning Dec. 12 as a part of the strategic planning process launched by President Teresa A. Sullivan.
The health-care law has a rule requiring insurers to spend at least 80 percent of health-care premiums on medical care. The good news: It’s saved consumers $1.5 billion in one year! The not-so-good news: Some insurers are operating at a loss, according to a study conducted by Michael McCue, a professor of health administration at the University of Virginia.
Darden school graduate Adam Nelson may be on the cusp of winning an Olympic gold medal in the shot put, eight years after competing in the 2004 Summer Games in Athens.
(Commentary) Get public-university presidents together, and they start complaining about the diminishing amount of subsidy support from their state governments.
Story quotes U.Va. graduate student Katelyn Sack, who is studying whether factors including polygraphers’ personal biases influence testing.
A UT alumna and administrative researcher wrote about policies that frustrate and inhibit support for student survivors at UT. Katelyn Sack said the University fails to provide a community of trust for survivors by denying them access to investigation records and valuable information about their reporting options. Sack is a writer and political scientist at the University of Virginia researching administrative decision-making.
For more than a half-century, a six-foot tall granite cube and obelisk with a 150 to 200 pound marble slab insert marked the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
The widespread, open use of marijuana by hippies and war protesters from San Francisco to Woodstock finally exposed the falsity of the claims so many had made about marijuana leading to violence, says University of Virginia professor Richard Bonnie, a scholar of pot's cultural status.
Landau Zinder, a new architecture firm in Princeton, N.J., specializing in synagogues, is a partnership of two architects: (U.Va. Architectire School graduate) Michael Landau, 70, whose four-decade career included a stint with Marcel Breuer, and Joshua Zinder, 44, who worked for Michael Graves, among others, before starting his own firm five years ago.
New survey results show almost half of University of Virginia fauclty members are dissatisfied with their salaries. Pay is by far the most important issue to faculty, and administrators are taking notice.
In a well-known fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin used magic to weave straw into gold. Today, scientists are reversing that formula — using gold to turn straw (and other forms of biomass) into today’s global currency: energy. (Featuring research by Wenjie Tang, a research associate in the department of chemical engineering at the University of Virginia and a member of the Neurock group there.)
The day before Casey Schulman departed for the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea program, the 22-year-old senior was elated about the adventures awaiting her: She would roam the Atlantic Ocean with dozens of other students, stopping in 14 countries, learning about an array of cultures.
As Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, put it in an email, "Cantor usually picks his battles carefully, and he's got his hands full with fiscal cliff issues."