Even radiating from the capital of a stately Corinthian column, the alluring glow of neon emits its signature cheer. It is what neon has done for more than a century.
Al Chez, for 15 years the featured trumpet player on "Late Night With David Letterman," talks about his work with the U.Va. Marching Band.
Eban Alexander’s quick trip to heaven started with a headache. It was November 2008 and a rare bacterial meningitis was fast on its way to shutting down the University of Virginia neurosurgeon’s neocortex — the part of the brain that deals with sensory perception and conscious thought.
Last week at the University of Virginia, the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion held a religion and politics panel, “Religion and the Presidential Election."
(Editorial) The University of Virginia has made news for the best of reasons. The school has established an endowed chair in Mormon studies and, according to The New York Times, is the first university in the East "to have such a position."
The flame of history started early in Robert Sackheim's life and grew brighter when he was a student at the University of Virginia in the late 1950s. His college friends knew about his passion and brought him small items they found.
“During the crisis, with the nation directly threatened, Americans had rallied around the flag,” David G. Coleman, a University of Virginia historian who heads the Presidential Recordings Program in Charlottesville, writes in “The Fourteenth Day,” a new book on the crisis and its aftermath. “Kennedy himself carefully avoided any talk of ‘winning’ the crisis — and forbade his staff from talking in such terms — but in the eyes of much of the American public, and indeed the world, that was precisely what he had done.”
Kyle Kondik, a political scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, suggested that McMahon's professed independence was key to her election prospects.
Commentary by Elizabeth Dobbins, a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Politics professor Larry Sabato, director of the U.Va. Center for Politics, was a guest on CNN in advance of the vice presidential debate.
(Editorial) In the wake of the University of Virginia’s summer debacle over the Sullivan presidency come renewed calls for the university to take more of its governance behind closed doors.
An economic impact study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon-Cooper Center forecasts that the center will attract 75,000 annual visitors and generate about $49 million in economic impact in its first five years.
Commentary by Edward Klees, general counsel of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company and a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law.
“The question is, why do we expect writers, particularly Chinese writers, to be the political conscience of the nation to get [a] Nobel [prize]?,” asked Charles Laughlin, professor of modern Chinese literature in the University of Virginia, on Twitter. “I think most people don’t realise how epoch-making this is, as this is the first non-dissident in a Socialist country to win.”
The University of Virginia has announced a new endowed chair in Mormon studies, making it the first university in the East to have such a position.
If you want to make your marriage happier and spice up the sex, schedule a date night at least once a week. Couples who do this and devote time to each other are not only more likely to communicate better, but also have greater sexual satisfaction and a stronger commitment to the marriage than couples who don't spend this kind of time alone, USA Today reports of a study by the National Marriage Project, based at the University of Virginia.
According to Thomas Philippon of New York University and Ariell Reshef of the University of Virginia, financiers also have higher skill levels than they did a generation ago.
James E. Ryan from the University of Virginia Law School opines that to intervene in college admission policies would be a renunciation of conservative judicial principles.
Sepsis is a severe blood infection that can spread throughout the body. Dr. Karen Fairchild, a neonatologist at the University of Virginia Health System says, "if we detect it late it can be very, very damaging and even fatal. Once the baby shows signs of sepsis, they may already be very, very sick." Doctors at the University of Virginia developed the Hero Monitor to help pick up on the subtle signs early.
Army Col. Ellen Haring, 50, contacted the University of Virginia about its Molly Pitcher Project — named after a woman said to have served in the Revolutionary War — after learning it was seeking plaintiffs for the first suit challenging the ground combat exclusion. Ultimately, the project selected Haring and Command Sgt. Maj. Jane Baldwin of Florida, who contends she didn't get two positions as a result of the policy.