Ralph Sampson is a Naismith Hall of Famer. The 7-foot-4 former Virginia star was the first of a dozen inductees to speak at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony at Springfield Symphony Hall on Friday night.
A commentary By Kyle Kondik, Larry J. Sabato and Geoffrey Skelley of U.Va.'s Center for Politics.
Eric Herrold expected catcalls as he walked in his Penn State shirt for 30 minutes on the way to the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium this morning. "I didn't hear a negative word," he said. "They were very respectful -- more respectful than normal, actually."
Commentary from Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman, law professors at, respectively, UCLA and the University of Virginia. and the authors of “The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation.”
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan has a message for students as the school year starts: Please stop trying to climb the scaffolding around the Rotunda.
Eliza Gilligan is Book Conservator for University Library Collections at the University of Virginia Library in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fine Art at About.com invited Ms. Gilligan to discuss book conservation and how to build a career in art conservation.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said there are eight swing states and has predicted that Virginia is likely to decide the race.
The Cavalier Marching Band hosted a tailgate to launch a fundraising campaign before the University of Virginia took on Penn State Saturday. Moonbounces, slides and giveaways played a part in the official launch of the, "Marching Into the Future Campaign." The effort raises funds to provide scholarships and maintain uniforms and instruments for the band.
After nearly three decades of nurturing Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest and leading the historical site into the 21st century, U.Va. alumna Lynn Beebe is taking her cue from the Founding Father and transitioning into her own personal retreat.
There is a place in Charlottesville that soothes the most tired of souls. It is enclosed in serpentine walls, impervious to stress, to-do lists and life’s unpleasantries. It has perpetually open, white-painted gates, through which lovers wander over paths of fine gravel under the moonlight, still too shy to hold hands. This place is in the University of Virginia Pavilion Gardens, which will render you hyper-aware of beauty, goodness and transcendence in this lush landscape of peaceful wonder.
September 6, 2012 The Travel and Leisure Magazine ranked the University of Virginia has one of the world’s most beautiful universities. The magazine cited Thomas Jefferson’s architecture, the nearly two acre lawn surrounded by the academic village and the Rotunda.
The University of Virginia is one of the schools leading the charge in a highly competitive program. Fifty-five UVA graduates joined the Teach for America program this year.
Three local businesses on Thursday were named winners in the University of Virginia Darden Business School's Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award Competition.
The University of Virginia Department of Drama will be counting down to the spring opening of the new 300-seat Ruth Caplin Theatre with a busy season of plays and musicals.
The massive open online course (MOOC) provider edX took a step toward boosting the credibility of its “graduates” on Thursday, announcing a partnership with Pearson’s testing centers that would allow students in edX’s free, online courses to take proctored exams. “On the order of 20” students either have signed up to take the exam or have already taken it — including the course’s instructor, University of Virginia computer science professor David Evans, who passed the exam at a Sunnydale, Calif. testing center, according to Udacity officials...
Home cooking means heavy traffic on Saturday, as Virginia hosts more than 275,000 people at a dozen big sporting events, plus an appearance by a presidential candidate. The busy day includes U.Va.'s home football game with Penn State.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan will open the Miller Center Forum season next week with a presentation on the summer leadership crisis.
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Kevin Ogletree, a U.Va. alumnus, came home and introduced himself to the nation by ruining opening night for the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants.
Indonesia is missing out on potential development because of an overly complex tax code despite reform efforts two years ago that were meant to encourage investment, business figures say. Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, warned that lowering the tax rate was likely to worsen Indonesia’s budget deficit.
Founding father Thomas Jefferson stands as the intellectual giant associated with the University of Virginia. Only one individual has ascended to the rarified height as an athlete in the minds of the Cavalier faithful – the towering figure of Ralph Sampson.