Rebecca Tippett, of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, said the drop was not unexpected. "We're coming out of a very long, protracted economic downturn," Tippett said. "Many Virginians have been struggling for a long time, and likely will continue to struggle. Because of that, a full recovery takes longer to show up in data."
Daniel Ortiz, a University of Virginia professor representing the plaintiff, said she and other complaining employees would always have to prove they were victims of severe harassment, and being forced to listen to country music would not qualify.
A statewide startup nonprofit group wants entrepreneurs to know that guidance, networking, fresh talent and potential investors are just a click away. Startup Virginia, founded in January by the Startup America Partnership, wants to strengthen the connections that allow startup companies to thrive. Dozens of University of Virginia students, successful entrepreneurs, investors and local business leaders gathered Monday at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration’s Innovation Laboratory for networking and a panel discussion over lunch about the resources available and the...
"Although we still don't understand exactly how it works -- how exercise can influence the way your brain is connected -- studies such as this one are a first step toward a better understanding of how the brain works," noted Dr. Max Wintermark, chief of neuroradiology at the University of Virginia, who moderated the press conference.
"It's all about the GOP base," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "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. 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."
Jospeh Blotner, who as an associate professor at the University of Virginia helped bring William Faulkner to campus as a writer-in-residence in 1957, then became Faulkner's biographer, died Nov. 16 at 89 in Oakland, Calif. He was 89.
Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, media studies and law professor, on Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.
“It felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest,” the patient explained. The doctor nodded understandingly. But the doctor was not the only one nodding her head. “You can put me down for that one as well,” quipped another patient. This is Club Red, a shared-medical-appointment concept, introduced at the University of Virginia Health System, which represents a radical innovation in the delivery of preventive cardiac health care.
The concept of temporarily changing miles of city streets into public spaces by prohibiting car traffic may initially seem like a new idea, but it harks back to older ways of using our streets. In his book “Fighting Traffic: Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City,” Peter Norton of the University of Virginia explains that, “Until the 1920s, under the prevailing conception of the street, cars were at best uninvited guests. To many they were unruly intruders. They obstructed and endangered street uses of long–standing legitimacy.”
The two key players in this summer’s unprecedented leadership crisis at the University of Virginia addressed an audience of more than 250 people in Norfolk today without ever mentioning those headline-grabbing events.
University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said Congress is going to have a lot of work to do in a short amount of time when lawmakers return after the holiday break. "We have to come to terms with this massive debt, and we certainly have to either say yea or nay to the Bush tax cuts, part or whole, to the payroll tax cut, to all kinds of things connected to sequestration," said Sabato.
Here is a reality check for health conscious baby-boomers: even among those in good shape, at least 1 in 3 will eventually develop heart problems. That hit close to home last summer for NBC29 sunrise anchor Ken Jefferson, who had to undergo open heart surgery to replace a defective aorta valve. With time running out, on August 1, I checked in to UVA's Heart and Vascular Center for open heart surgery.
This year, the University of Virginia is seeing a large amount of early applications for next fall. The early action deadline for submitting applications was November 1.
Natalie Randolph is one of the first women to head a high school football team, but to her students she is more than a coach. At Coolidge High School in Washington, Coach Randolph prioritizes academics by ensuring athletes attend study hall before practice.
"It's taken as a given by the Supreme Court that a general restriction on public nudity is constitutional," says Frederick Schauer, professor of law at the University of Virginia.
The juvenile justice system is putting too many minors behind bars, according to a new federally commissioned report led by a University of Virginia law professor.
Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Warner’s announcement Tuesday was not a surprise. “One suspects that McAuliffe would not have moved forward after the election had he the slightest clue that Warner would run,” Sabato said.
Family politics at Thanksgiving. We’ll talk with red and blue sitting down together, and ask how that conversation goes. Among the guests was U.Va. student Melinda Robey (and her mother).
After the University of Virginia's American Indian Student Union had their "anti-Thanksgiving" potluck, conservatives took to the Internet accusing the students of waging "war on Thanksgiving" and promoting a liberal agenda.
The speaker he was denouncing, Professor John Duffy of the University of Virginia, had been defending software patents to the assembled crowd a moment ago. Duffy was actually proposing reforms, but as was the case with most speakers at this legal conference, Duffy's reforms weren't quite what Stallman was looking for.