The University of Virginia has been recognized twice this year for its recycling program. Last month the institution received a Bronze Excellence Award for Recycling Systems from the Solid Waste Association of North America.
A longtime corporate executive will be the University of Virginia’s new executive vice president and chief financial officer. Patrick D. Hogan, 60 and a former Ernst & Young executive, fills the spot left by Michael Strine, who resigned after last summer’s leadership crisis at UVa.
Half a century ago, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev and U.S. President John F. Kennedy squared off in a battle over the balance of world power that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. How close did we all come to dying? Last night, Khruschev's son Dr. Sergei Khruschev and experts on Soviet-American relations met at the University of Virginia to discuss those 13 days in October, 1962. Their conclusion? We came really damn close.
Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who does research on DNA exoneration, argues that there is a “racial component” to arrest in the United States, so DNA databases may not accurately reflect the population.
The University of Virginia’s governing board most likely will have to meet as a whole the next time it wants to accept a president’s resignation. The proposed new rule, which stemmed from last summer’s leadership crisis at the university, went through the Board of Visitors’ special committee on governance and engagement and its executive committee Friday, but has not yet been approved by the full board. It was one of a raft of changes discussed Friday.
Students at the University of Virginia are getting out their spatulas and heating up their griddles. The ninth annual Pancakes for Parkinson's fundraiser is Saturday.
All of that dust was brought through the Tennessee Valley because of a low pressure system that hovered over the Great Lakes most of the day, said Jerry Stenger, the director of the University of Virginia’s Climatology Office.
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the US, with 66.7 per cent growth from 2000 to 2010. The percentage of Muslims has grown the most in the highly contested swing state of Virginia, said political scientist Michelle Claiborne of the University of Virginia's Cooper Center.
(Commentary) Even thoughtful and careful historians have taken to referring to Hemings as “Jefferson’s concubine” without an “allegedly” before the phrase. But is it true? Against the prevailing headwinds, it takes guts even to ask. But a team of scholars headed by Robert F. Turner of the University of Virginia School of Law have done so, poking holes in the case and laying out the strong possibility that Jefferson may indeed be innocent of the charges.
October 20, 2012 UVa students and community members gathered on the University of Virginia's South Lawn Saturday to enjoy free pre-football game pancakes.
"We really see an epidemic of concussions because kids want to play that way. Of course, they're getting bigger, they're stronger, they're faster, the collisions are more violent," said Dr. John MacKnight, a member of the University of Virginia's Sports Medicine team.
Features discussion with a panel including Christopher Swift, a fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia and the author of the upcoming book, "The Fighting Vanguard: Local Insurgencies in the Global Jihad."
Three authors who have taught hundreds of students at Virginia universities have been chosen as the major winners of the 15th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards announced Saturday night. The honorees included alumnus David Huddle and faculty member Maurie D. McInnis, associate professor and associate dean for undergraduate academic programs.
It's safe to assume that state representative Larry Cafero will be taking a break from campaigning Thursday night. Instead, Cafero plans to settle in and watch his son Nicholas Cafero's television acting debut on "The Office." For Nicholas, a junior at University of Virginia majoring in political science, his foray into acting came about in an unexpected way.
(Commentary by R.K. Ramazani, Edward R. Stettinus professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia) For decades fundamentalist Muslims have been telling the world, “Islam is the solution” for all the problems of Muslim society. But Malala is saying, on the contrary, “Education is the solution,” because the holy book of the Muslims, the Quran, and the prophetic tradition (sunna) instruct Muslim women and men to seek knowledge as a matter of religious obligation.
Researchers have successfully built and flown an unmanned aerial vehicle, using 3D printing technology. Engineering students from the University of Virginia posted a YouTube video of a plastic turbofan engine they had designed and built using 3D printing technology.
Edward Hess, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, is teaching a "massive open online course" starting in January on Coursera - the free online education platform founded this year by two Stanford University computer scientists. So far, more than 26,000 students have signed up.
“Obama is the first president to use his unilateral powers so routinely, especially in the domestic sphere,” says University of Virginia presidential scholar Sidney Milkis, a self-described moderate Democrat. “And in some ways, that may be more insidious than what came before.”
Profile of Hugh Keogh, former president of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, who attended U.Va. on a Navy ROTC scholarship.
Matthew Engle, one of Barbour's lawyers and co-director of U.Va.'s Innocence Project, said, "He just made a mistake. He thought that when the Supreme Court granted his writ that he was no longer a convicted felon. He misunderstood."