Jim Reid is not exactly Ralph Sampson when it comes to height. The Virginia defensive coordinator with lots of personality coaches low to the ground, having to routinely glance up to talk technique with his players. For C.J. Moore, however, there's no stepladder needed. "He and I might look at each other eye to eye, which is not good," Reid said.
In the last two months, the University of Virginia has released scores of e-mails that were exchanged between top leaders in the months leading up to the failed ouster of President Teresa Sullivan in June. These e-mails, which are public records, were requested by reporters who are searching for clues as to what exactly happened and why.
As the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors prepares to meet for the first time next week since the attempted ouster of President Teresa Sullivan threw the campus into turmoil in June, a group of alumni issued a letter accusing the board of breaching its corporate duties. Although Sullivan was reinstated 16 days after her forced resignation, the letter sent to the board on Wednesday says “… The crisis is not over. It will not end until the board acknowledges publicly that U.Va suffered a significant failure of corporate governance; and it will not end until board members finally explain ...
A 2008 Fordham Institute report found that, while low-achieving students have made gains under No Child Left Behind, advanced-learners were “languishing.” A 1991 study at the University of Connecticut found that between 18 and 25 percent of gifted and talented students drop out of school. The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented in a project involving the University of Connecticut, the University of Virginia, and Yale University reported that the dropouts were 27 percentblack, 17.9 percent Hispanic and 50 percent came from the lowest socio-economic status quartile. If not adequa...
Bill Wulf is one of the nation’s best known computer scientists: a member of professional academies in eight countries and a past president of the National Academy of Engineering. The walls of his office are covered with diplomas, awards and photographs with prominent people. “That’s a board that I served on – it’s the construction company that built the Alaska pipeline, and actually we’re sitting there in an unfinished, new Pittsburgh Airport.” Wulf is 72 but he had no plans to retire. He was teaching and working on a textbook, but earlier this summer, after nearly 35 years at the Universi...
The baby’s feet must smell sweet to the rapt old king who kneels and cups them to his face like flowers. One of three sages and seekers, he’s come a long way to find this child, who sits upright, grave and alert, on his mother’s lap, though he’s only 2 weeks old. … With this exhibition, for the first time in 200 years, the three have been reunited, and Bartolo’s original format has been at least very minimally restored. It was the University of Virginia museum — and specifically its director, Bruce Boucher, a Renaissance specialist, and Francesca Fiorani, an art professor at the university — t...
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Tea Party Republicans Plan a Senate Coup in November
The Fiscal Times / August 8
and
Obama holds slight edge in Virginia, poll shows
Richmond Times Dispatch / August 9
Ben Kohles
A recent graduate debuting as a professional golfer
Golf: Bradley begins PGA title defense
Columbus Dispatch / August 8
Sean Doolittle
Who set numerous pitching and hitting records playing baseball for U.Va.
Shawnee graduate Sean Doolittle pitching for the Oakland A's
South Jersey Local News / August 8
James and Louise Gunderson
James Gunderson, chief technology officer for Gamma Two Robotics, and Louise Gunderson, president and CEO of Gamma Two, are both PhD graduates of the University of Virginia,
ASIS 2012: Gamma Two Robotics security system augments video ...
Government Se...
Jimmy Howell
Who studied psychology, finished up his last season as a football player for U.Va, and is currently pursuing a master's in the UVA clinical nurse leader program
To the players gathered around him on a cool summer afternoon in the Netherlands, Tony Bennett offered several thoughts Tuesday, including this one:
"Hope you guys understand how special it is to be here," Bennett said. At the time, members of the University of Virginia men's basketball team were next to the track inside Olympisch Stadion, site of the 1928 Summer Olympics. Outside the stadium stands the Marathon tower, where in '28 the Olympic flame burned for the first time and where UVa players and coaches posed for photo after photo Tuesday.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - The 56th annual Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll, recognizing academic excellence by student-athletes during the 2011-12 academic year, was announced today by Commissioner John Swofford. Virginia placed 291 student-athletes on the Honor Roll. A total of 26 Cavaliers were recognized for the fourth time during their careers. The Honor Roll is comprised of student-athletes who participated in a varsity-level sport and registered a grade point average of 3.00 or better for the full academic year. The conference acknowledged a record 2,903 student-athletes for their ...
EpiEP Inc., a Connecticut medical device company that has developed a tool to be used in cardiac surgery, has closed its $2.75 million offering with another $1.15 million round, according to a federal regulatory filing. With technology licensed from the University of Virginia Patent Foundation, EpiEP has developed to provide surgeons minimally-invasive access to the epicardium, the outer layer of heart tissue. The company completed animal trials of its first initial product, the EpiAccess system, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. and now it is being tested in human trials in Europe.
A $1 million gift has created an endowed professorship in biology at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. The donation, which is from the Carol Phipps Buchanan estate, establishes the professorship in honor of her late husband, John C. Buchanan, according to a written statement from the college.
If dollars were votes, employees at Virginia’s publicly funded colleges and universities would have re-elected President Barack Obama by a landslide. … At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the state’s largest employer, employees gave $62,000 to Obama and $2,000 to Romney. George Mason University was the biggest Romney donor at $7,200, compared with $16,775 for the sitting president.
A group of University of Virginia alumni are calling on the school's board to candidly explain its attempted ouster of President Teresa Sullivan, saying a failure to do so will hurt the university's reputation and its fundraising efforts. In an open letter to the board sent Wednesday, 14 alumni spanning three decades equated the board's June 10 forced ouster to a "boardroom coup" more in line with a corporation than an academic institution. Sullivan's resignation was announced June 10, followed by protests and uproar on the Charlottesville campus until she was reinstated June 26.
Robert Caro's The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson has earned accolades and the bestseller status that befits this definitive study of Johnson. I have just finished listening to the book on 27 CDs, a total of 33 hours, on various spring and summer road trips. What an excellent way to use time in the car. In the case of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, there is another major dimension to savor as audio: the 800 hours of conversations, mainly on the telephone, that Johnson secretly recorded between 1963 and 1968, all of which are now readily available. … Johnson's techniques for politic...
Governor Bob McDonnell is praising lawmakers for making it easier to get a college education in Virginia. Wednesday, he announced tuition and fee increases at state universities are the lowest they have been in a decade. Those tuition and fee increases will only jump up an average of 4.1 percent across the state this year, which is almost half of last year's 7.9 percent increase. However, it is still higher than the projected tuition hike at the University of Virginia. UVA announced in April in-state students will only see a 3.7 percent cost bump this year, to just more than $25,000. The gover...
Construction is nearly complete on an advanced manufacturing research center in Prince George County, the center's executive director told Chesterfield County Chamber of Commerce members Wednesday. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, or CCAM, is on Rolls-Royce North America's Cross pointe campus, where the company has an aircraft engine components plant. The 60,000-square-foot center will do research for a group of manufacturing companies with operations in Virginia under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.
U.Va School of Nursing professor Linda Bullock joined us for this week's edition of UVa Today. She sat down with the Newsplex's Bob Beard to talk about a big grant for the school, meant to help fund new programs for certain women.
Most University of Virginia students probably spent their summer at home or on vacation, but one group of students stayed in Charlottesville to start their own businesses. The students at the UVA Darden Business Incubator have been working on startingtheir own companies all summer. Many of them say they were already off to a good start, but it's the chance to workwith others to turn their ideas into a reality.