A newly arrived, East Coast-reared law clerk by way of the University of Virginia and Stanford Law has schooled a pack of backcountry Alaska women to win the annual Wilderness Women Contest in the tiny community of Talkeetna, the jumping off point for tours and climbs of Mount McKinley. Talkeetna community radio station KTNA reported Monday that Khalial Withen bested two Anchorage women in the finals of the weekend event.
One of the premier elections of 2013 is taking shape in Virginia, where a conservative firebrand appears set to square off against an Establishment Democrat for the governorship. “Certainly many Democrats are unhappy with the choice of Terry McAuliffe,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
U.S. Magistrate Judge B. Waugh Crigler plans to retire when his term expires next year. He also has been an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia for more than 25 years.
Local builder Michael Gaffney, who has an MBA from U.Va.'s Darden School of Business, was presented the Paul Goodloe McIntire Citizenship award before a sold-out crowd of about 450 at the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 99th annual dinner Thursday night.
Several business schools have offered tips for business school applicants and students who want to catch up on their reading. Last year, Robert Bruner, dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, suggested a summer reading list for MBAs.
Investment professionals met this week at the University of Virginia’s Darden School to talk about opportunities and challenges for the new year.
Saturday marks the start of the “Ugly Sweater Holiday Campaign.” Sponsored by the nonprofit organization Stand Up To Cancer, the month-long event involves wearing hideous holiday sweaters to support cancer research programs. Hui Li of the University of Virginia has received one of the organization’s innovative-research grants.
Well, it ain’t about daffodils. That’s Bob Chapel’s very brief description of “Spring Awakening,” an amazing, multileveled musical currently in production in the Culbreth Theatre.
“Boredom is a neglected topic in psychology,” noted Timothy Wilson, a leading social psychologist at the University of Virginia who is undertaking boredom studies of his own. He calls the new review a “good, solid paper,” adding, “There is a lot of research on attention and mind wandering, but [until now], no attempt to bring it together under the topic of boredom per se.”
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise will soon have a new leader. The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors will approve and announce the appointment of the eighth chancellor during a meeting Dec. 7.
A University of Virginia student's innovative idea has won him $15,000. Brent Baumgartner, a first-year computer engineering major, put his plan up against 37 other entries in the Vonage-OpenGrounds Future of Social Messaging Concept Competition and came out on top.
The University of Virginia Medical Center has lost an on-call pharmacist’s unencrypted handheld device containing sensitive medical records for more than 1,500 people, officials said Friday.
Students from the University of Virginia have successfully completed their mission of brightening the holiday season for a number of needy families around Charlottesville. Every year the Madison House, UVa's student volunteer center, sponsors Charlottesville families during the holiday season.
The new model suggests that Pluto's atmosphere may reach as far as 6,456 miles into space--that is more than 50 percent of the way to Charon, and approximately 4.5 times the diameter of Pluto itself. "That is amazing, from my perspective," Justin Erwin said in the November 26, 2012 Space.com. Erwin, the lead author of the paper, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia.
A University of Virginia Center for Politics analysis outlines the loss of the blue-collar segment of the Democrats’ coalition in the part of Appalachia stretching south from New York, including chunks of the Rust Belt that once were decent sources of votes for Democrat presidential candidates.
Fracher’s five-page report includes a bolded disclaimer at the bottom stating that the results of his testing method in the case, the Abel Assessment, cannot be used to evaluate a client’s guilt or innocence. “[The Abel method] is far from perfect,” said Dr. Daniel Murrie, director of Psychology at the University of Virginia’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy. “I don’t use it, I’ve never used it.” ... The suspected rate of abuse within the Boy Scouts based on their own internal records is lower than the overall national a...
“He (McAuliffe) got the opponent he really wanted,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “He’s going to do everything humanly possible to remind people of (Cuccinelli’s) record on social issues.”
Gaetano Esposito is a research scientist in aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia. The 28-year-old Italian would like to take a job in the aerospace industry, but faces obstacles because of his temporary H1B visa, which is awarded to skilled foreign workers.
University of Virginia senior Casey Schulman spent the past 14 weeks on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure with the school’s Semester at Sea program. The 22-year-old Falls Church native visited London and Portugal, Africa and the Amazon. This week, finally, she was scheduled to return home. On Saturday, during the ship’s final stop on the Caribbean island of Dominica, Schulman and other students took a break to go snorkeling. As she swam in the pristine tropical waters, a small boat backed into Schulman, killing her.
"Most of the Republican House members and a large number of the party's senators are very safe in a general election. No Democrat can beat them," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "The only place they can lose is in the low-turnout party primary, which is usually dominated by strong conservatives for whom the word 'tax' is almost an obscenity."