For this week's segment of UVa Today, CBS19's Jim Hanchett spoke with Dr. Gertrude Fraser to discuss Kitty Foster's significance to the University of Virginia. Fraser discussed the role of Foster and why UVA decided to create a site of memory and park for her next to the South Lawn Building.
Welcome to C-VILLE’s Design Annual, where each year we address the latest in local design. We talked to outstanding students in UVA’s architecture school who are looking to solve today’s problems—from global warming to boring cities—with cutting-edge design solutions.
A building years in the making at the UVA Medical Center opens its doors. Inside the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center patients can find their regular medical treatment options along with a few extras like a meditation room and specialty boutique.
The University of Virginia is celebrating Leonard Sandridge's nearly half century of service on grounds. The executive vice president and chief operating officer is stepping down at the end of this school year.
Thousands of University of Virginia students, faculty and staff gathered at the John Paul Jones arena Monday to honor the University's outgoing Vice President, Leonard Sandridge.
Michael Lopresti is facing the biggest decision he's ever made. A high school senior with hopes of one day becoming a surgeon, Michael followed the traditional college path: He visited campuses, applied to a range of schools—including the University of Virginia.
Transparency in government is important. Freedom-of-information laws are key to assuring it; they offer citizens a vehicle for finding out what their government is doing. But freedom-of-information requests can also be used in abusive ways, to intimidate political adversaries and chill free speech.
David Baldacci
Author, law school alumnus
Baldacci recalls his Henrico roots
Richmond Times-Dispatch / April 3
Tina Fey
Alumna and noted comedienne
Tina Fey Is Greek and Also Teutonic, but She Isn’t a Troll
The New York Times (book review) / April 3
Jeff Goldsmith
Associate professor, public health sciences
Complex health-care law turns into payday for consultants
The Washington Post / April 2
Dr. Kenneth Norwood
Professor of pediatrics
UVA Doctor Speaks Out on McDonnell's Autism Bill Amendments
NBC-29 / April 3
Ann Hodges
Law professor
Your employer wants you to shut your big cybermouth!
MSNBC / April 4
Larry J. Sabato
Politics professor and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics
This week's remapping will strip power from rural Virginia
The Associated Press / April 4
Isaac Wood
Political analyst at the Center for Politics
Redistr...
Erika Hayes James
Associate professor of Business Administration, Darden School
Keeping the information flowing after a disaster
The Washington Post / April 2
Patients needing radiation therapy have a host of treatment options available at the University of Virginia Cancer Center. The new Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, which opens Monday, is home to some of the most advanced external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy treatment options.
About 120 teams from 52 law schools took part in the 28th annual UVA Law School Softball Tournament. The tournament raised $20,000 for Children, Youth and Family Services, which benefits low-income families in central Virginia.
A forum at the University of Virginia on Sunday focused on insider threats to American security. Educators, government workers and business leaders got together in the Rotunda Dome Room to talk over the topic.
John Miller was the keynote speaker in the Dome Room at the University of Virginia Rotunda. Miller is the Deputy Director of National Intelligence. He discussed topics about "Insider Threats" to American society.
A Crozet native who says he's had the best job in the country is in the home stretch of a 44-year-career. Leonard Sandridge will step down from his duties as the University of Virginia's executive vice president and chief operating officer this spring.
The University of Virginia will honor retiring Executive Vice President Leonard Sandridge on Monday. Sandridge is stepping down in May after 44 years with UVA.
A pair of popular University of Virginia professors will give their “Last Lectures” Tuesday, though the lectures will not, in fact, be their last. Anthropology professor Richard Handler and politics professor Robert Fatton will speak for about a half hour each starting at 7:30 p.m. in Old Cabell Hall’s auditorium.
Kudos to Gov. Bob McDonnell for proposing to use $2.69 million in state bond money to replace the roof of the Rotunda. The Jefferson-designed building at the University of Virginia isn’t just important to the state or the nation — as impressive as that might be. It’s also of global significance, having been designated part of a United Nations’ World Heritage site.
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.