The 18 days of high-octane drama that enveloped the Charlottesville campus is a story of a raw power play gone awry. There were missteps and miscalculations, not just by Dragas and her allies, but also by Sullivan, who did not anticipate the backlash her ouster would ignite.
Members of the board of visitors are big donors to the University of Virginia — their combined total exceeds $77 million. Much of that comes from one of the board's two newly appointed senior advisers.
On Friday a former astronaut spent time with middle school students on grounds at the University of Virginia. And he had a simple message for them - science is cool. "Guess what? Geeks run the world. I am a geek and it's ok to be a geek," said Bernard Harris, the first African American to walk in space.
Four recent University of Virginia graduates have designed a modular plastic cast that could potentially facilitate better healing of broken limbs at a lower overall cost per injury. Working for more than a year, biomedical engineering students Kelly Anderson, Daniel Amante, Amanda Harton and Clara Tran created the product, which they call the PuzzleCast.
Gov. Bob McDonnell has reappointed Helen Dragas, the rector of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors who was instrumental in the controversial, short-lived ouster of the school's president, Teresa Sullivan.
Obituary of Atlanta businessman and entrepreneur, who graduated from the Law School. He died June 18.
Scott became just the sixth UVa player in the last 24 years to be taken in the NBA Draft, joining Bryant Stith, Cory Alexander, Junior Burrough, Roger Mason Jr. and Sean Singletary.
Former Virginia standout Mike Scott (College '12) was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the second round of the 2012 NBA Draft on Thursday night. Scott was the 43rd overall pick of the draft.
Elaine Krieger, 51, is the woman who turned lemons into lemonade when she was let go at 39 years old from a health-care association where she worked for nine years. With an MBA from the University of Virginia and a career that already included being a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and the editor of a magazine, Krieger found herself inspired by the resale business.
Ambrose will be succeeded by Tim Reardon (College, economics).
Jonathan Green (College \'07, drama) directs a new play based on John Wayne Gacy, the Chicago murderer.
Douglas Laycock
Law professor
Supreme Court puts new limits on Commerce Clause. But will it matter?
Washington Post (blog) / June 28
C.J. Livesay
Director of career development in the Engineering School
Once stereotyped as gearheads, engineering graduates are in great demand
Virginia Business / June 28
Larry Sabato
University Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
The spinning on health-care decision starts almost immediately
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Ray Scheppach
Professor of practice in the Batten School
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The Supreme Court's health care ruling may be a victory for President Barack Obama, but health advocates say the real winners are the millions of uninsured. (Features Dr. Arthur Garson Jr., University Professor of Public Health Sciences; Carolyn Engelhard, director of the Health Policy Program; and Mimi Riley of the Law School.)
While a clear victory for the Obama administration, Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling still leaves a series of hurdles to clear on the way to implementing the health care overhaul the Affordable Care Act envisions, according to legal, health care and public policy experts. (Features Dr. Arthur Garson Jr., University Professor of Public Health Sciences; Eric Patashnik, professor public policy and politics in the Batten School; Mimi Riley and Thomas Hafemeister of the Law School; and R. Edward Howell, vice president and CEO of the U.Va. Medical Center.)
These results were demonstrated particularly in patients with a slow early response, “who have historically fared poorly,” noted Kimberly Dunsmore, MD, of the Children's Oncology Group and University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA; and colleagues. The article was published online June 25 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Transparency in this sense refers to the openness of the governance process: what and how much should the university community (and other “stakeholders”) know about decision-making and how it happens?
U.Va. is one big happy family again. Or maybe not. What the past two weeks have given us is a glimpse into what goes on in higher education. Boards, at least in Virginia, are plum political appointments, handed out by governors to large donors.
Thursday, the University of Virginia reported yet another big gift in the wake of President Teresa A. Sullivan’s reinstatement. Dr. James W. Orr Jr. and his wife, Vicki, pledged $2.2 million for an endowed chair in gynecologic oncology.
Some of the gifts were large — like the two anonymous donors who each pledged to give $1 million each in support of Sullivan. And some gifts consisted of just five bucks submitted online. The total amount collected since the reinstatement, as of Wednesday evening: $2.5 million in major gifts. And $218,910.95 from 657 online donors.
"Children with the metabolic syndrome have more than 11 times the odds of developing type 2 diabetes within 30 years than do those without this cluster of medical abnormalities," explains Mark DeBoer, MD, of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville and one of the current study's authors.