While the number of farms in Virginia decreased between 1997 and 2007, the number of farms with horses climbed to 13,520 from 10,972. The trend is among the key findings of a new study on the economic impact of the state’s horse industry conducted by the Center for Economic and Policy Studies at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Friday, flowers still lay outside the University of Virginia’s physics building, where the most recent UVa student to die fell four stories, as students gathered to remember their fellows who were lost in the past year.
Dr. Marcus Martin has been appointed vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity at the University of Virginia. Martin is a former chairman of the UVa Health System’s Department of Emergency Medicine and was the first African-American to lead a clinical department at the UVa Medical Center.
Rita Dove
Commonwealth Professor of Poetry
One African American [Rita Dove] Among the Ten New Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education / March 31
Gary Gallagher
History professor
The Civil War: Remembering the Civil War
Cspan/ March 31
Jonathan Haidt
psychology professor
Wired for Elevation: A Survival Tool for Self-Improvement
The Huffington Post / April 1, 2011
R. Edward Freeman
professor and corporate governance specialist, Darden School
Analysis: Buffett, and replacing the irreplaceable
Reuters / March 31
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Sokol's Departure Raise...
A recommendation, among five steps proposed for a more productive U.S.-China relationship, were made following a conference at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
The University of Virginia acappella group the Hullabahoos are gearing up for their spring concert. The show runs Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2.
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing — a 50,000-square-foot research facility created in partnership with the commonwealth of Virginia, University of Virginia and Virginia Tech University — broke ground on Thursday in southern Virginia.
Nearly 200 people gathered in a white tent next to a cleared site that will soon house a 50,000-square-foot collaborative research facility. It will provide a place where students and faculty from three of the state’s research universities — Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia and Virginia State University — can work with global manufacturers.
The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia has acquired one of only seven known copies of the 1829 pamphlet by African American David Walker entitled, Appeal in Four Articles, Together With a Preamble to the Colored Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America.
Debbie Ryan's Virginia coaching career ended Saturday with the Cavaliers' 79-74 loss to Charlotte in the quarterfinals of the WNIT. While UVa decides on the best candidate to replace Ryan at the head of the program, the now-former head coach decides what's next for her as well.
Nearly 1,000 friends, family members and fellow students gathered inside Trinity Presbyterian Church on Thursday to remember and celebrate the life of 19-year-old Thomas W. Gilliam IV.
The death of first-year student Thomas W. Gilliam IV, who fell from the roof of a University of Virginia building illegally accessed, has resonated with repercussions…. In the final analysis, responsibility lies squarely with those individuals who choose to take risks.
U.Va.’s law school recently received a $150,000 grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund to back the Access to Justice Partnership, which will tackle the ever-growing number of requests for legal help spurred by the recession.
The UVA Athletics Department announced a $5 million pledge from alumna Amy Griffin. The donation allows the Virginia Athletics Foundation to proceed with the design and construction of a new track and field facility that is expected to cost nearly $14 million.
Indoor Biotechnologies has announced plans to create a research center in the old Coca-Cola bottling plant on Charlottesville’s Preston Avenue. Its location near downtown Charlottesville and U.Va. should allow important linkages between the traditional commercial district and the U.Va. research community.
Mark J. Kingston, U.Va. Board of Visitors member, MBA alumni
Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia School of Law professor
Isaac Wood - Political Analyst, The Center for Politics
Female athletes who suffer a concussion report different symptoms than male athletes.
University of Virginia researchers say that in addition to traditional headache, high school girls are more likely to complain about sensitivity to light or sleeplessness. Teen boys on the other hand were more likely to report loss of memory or balance control.