Leonard W. Sandridge, executive vice president and chief operating officer. He has worked for the university since 1967, rising from the bottom of the school’s employment ranks to the second-highest post. He speaks about his tenure at the University with Daily Progress reporter Ted Strong.
Christina Smith
She wrote her thesis on the spiritual dimension of modern events in the Islamic world while pursuing a graduate degree at U.Va.
Jen Fier
A U.Va. grad with a master’s degree in special education
Dustin Cable
A policy associate at the Demographics and Workforce Group at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Virginia's Hispanics Garner Voting Clout as Numbers Increase, Census Shows
Bloomberg News | Feb. 4, 2011
Qian Cai
Director of demographics and workforce at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Northern Virginia counties are 'the engines' of state's growth
USA Today | Feb. 3, 2011
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Va.'s numbers of Hispanics and Asians skyrocket as white population dwindles
Washington Post | Feb. 4, 2011
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2010 U.S. census figures show population boom in Suffolk
The Virginian-Pilot...
What makes a great entrepreneur? What is about them that makes them stand out in the crowd? Ambition, creativity and a resilience to risk are all part of the recipe, but these are traits that cannot be taught at business school. A Darden professor has tried to approach this from a different angle. By attempting to discover how entrepreneurs think, Saras Sarasvathy hopes to be able to transmit this knowledge to aspiring entrepreneurs. Prof Sarasvathy, associate professor of business administration at Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia approached US entrepreneurs, who had at...
Rose Beauchamp, who serves as head of dance for the University of Virginia Department of Drama and artistic director of the contemporary dance theater group inFluxdance, said that the more society tends to move toward the virtual and the cerebral, the more important it becomes to remember that we were born for action.
Participating in dance as a multifaceted discipline, and even watching dancers in motion, can help reconnect people to a lost physical component of existence. It also can offer a new way of envisioning not just the problems of the day, but also potential solutions. Sunday’s...
Art engages the senses and makes few demands. It is easily appreciated for its own sake. It humanizes. That helps explain why more art museums are developing programs for people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and memory loss. The University of Virginia Art Museum recently began offering its “Eyes on Art” program, a collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Association’s Central and Western Virginia Chapter.
The Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary has earned its first top 100 ranking in Financial Times MBA 2011 ratings. W&M placed 86th in the rankings, published Monday. The University of Virginia's Darden School ranked lower in the overall scheme than customary, finishing 42nd overall in the international list. Darden was ranked first among all schools for general management, third for corporate social responsibility and fifth for placement success.
A dozen law students at the University of Virginia are waiting for a court ruling that could free their client after a decade on death row. Sandy Hausman reports on their controversial case.
Non-Hispanic whites now make up just under half the county's population. In 2000, they accounted for 65 percent of the residents. By contrast, the percentage of Hispanics soared over the past decade. They now account for about 20 percent of the population compared with 2000, when Hispanics made up about 10 percent.
Their numbers might have been even higher if the Prince William Board of County Supervisors hadn't begun requiring police officers to check the immigration status of anyone arrested. The controversial policy prompted thousands of Hispanics to move out of the county between 2007 and...
As colleges and universities across the U.S. struggle to maintain quality, we identify the public schools that, like Carolina, deliver the best BA for the buck. The University of Virginia (No. 3 ) and the College of William and Mary (No. 4) each draw high-scoring incoming freshmen and post the highest four-year graduation rates on our list, delivering degrees to more than 80 percent of their students in four years and more than 90 percent in six. Virginia also brings its cost after aid to students with need to less than $6,000.
Lewis Wardlaw Parker Jr.
A U.Va. graduate and a key player in Virginia politics
Cynthia Kocialski
A U.Va. graduate and founder of three technology companies
Tiki Barber
A 1997 graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce
Football star Tiki Barber made an appearance at the Virginia General Assembly on Monday, part of the lineup of Virginia sports heroes honored with induction into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame this year.
The House of Delegates has advanced legislation to overhaul the way that public colleges and universities are funded. The bill aims to increase affordability and access to Virginia students and to pave the way for awarding one hundred thousand additional degrees over 15 years.
Emma Edmunds
Director of the Editorial and Design Group in Public Affairs and an independent researcher and former fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
DCC to celebrate Black History Month
Chatham Star Tribune | Feb. 3, 2011
Robert Fatton
A professor of politics and a Haiti expert
Popular singer `Sweet Micky' faces former first lady for presidential runoff in Haiti
Miami Herald | Feb. 3, 2011
Brandon L. Garrett
A professor of law
Man imprisoned for 27 years hopes that some evidence is enough for freedom
Washington Post | Feb. 2, 2011
Medical schools are placing a growing emphasis on the humanities, including courses in writing, art and literature. The programs aim to teach students "right-brain" insights and skills they won't learn dissecting cadavers or studying pathology slides. Schools hope the programs help to turn out a new generation of physicians better able to listen attentively to patients, show emotion and provide sensitive personal care. ... "Writing enables students and residents and faculty to get richer meaning from their experience as health-care professionals, and makes them more capable of b...
Seeking to reclaim prominence in the state, the University of Virginia coaching staff picked up some early recruits from the Tidewater area, then turned them loose on the rest of the area's talent. "Even though the coaches play a role, the players on your team and the players you've recruited play the biggest role," tight ends coach Scott Wachenheim said. "So many of our guys knew each other and were from the same area that it really worked." The result was a signing day class that featured 17 state players, the most in decades, and another six from nearby Maryland. The tot...
The country's top tennis pros struggled Down Under, with no American reaching the quarterfinals of last month's Australian Open. But down the road from Washington, a new wave of Grand Slam prospects is being cultivated at the University of Virginia, which has become a force in men's college tennis on the belief that a well-grounded young man - complete with social skills, problem-solving ability and, ideally, a diploma - is better positioned for on-court success than a ball-pummeling machine.
A Wall Street Journal analysis of high-school Regents test scores shows that a disproportionate percentage of New York City students barely got the passing score they needed to receive a diploma in the past two years, while very few received scores just below passing. ... A trio of economists—Thomas S. Dee of the University of Virginia, Brian A. Jacob of the University of Michigan and Justin McCrary of the University of California at Berkeley—conducted an independent statistical analysis of the data for the Journal and came to a similar conclusion.