The University of Virginia has officially posted the job of longtime executive vice president and chief operating officer Leonard Sandridge. Sandridge will retire in July after a 44-year career at the university, including more than 20 years at his current position.
Welcome to the "Fix-Up, Remodel, Expand and Condominium Era." That's the spiffy name William Lucy, a professor and housing expert at the University of Virginia, has given to our new decade, the 2010s. But what's even more interesting is Lucy's take on what really ails the real estate market right now. The good professor contends the real problem is not foreclosures or a flood of new homes but a grand, demographic quandary.
During the next four to five years, UVA President Teresa Sullivan hopes to increase the student body by 1,400 undergraduates and 100 graduate students, a move that would confer degrees on more than 1,000 Virginians while enrolling enough out-of-staters to keep tuition in check. It could also rearrange UVA’s academic priorities, make room for dozens of new faculty members, and improve the school’s current student-faculty ratio—so long as sufficient state funding comes through.
Six Virginia schools made Kiplinger’s Personal Finance list of the 100 best values in public colleges for 2011. The University of Virginia was ranked third and the College of William & Mary was fourth based on in-state tuition charges. ... UVa and W&M drew kudos for being ranked in the top five since the first rankings in 1998 and for drawing high-scoring incoming freshmen. Kiplinger said the two schools had the highest four-year graduation rates on the list, at 85 percent for UVa and 82 percent for W&M. The magazine noted that UVa’s cost after need-based aid is less than $6,000 an...
James H. Hall Jr.
Law School graduate now a civil rights lawyer in Milwaukee and new president of the Milwaukee branch of the NAACP
Making an impact at NAACP / New leader aims to improve 'idle' group
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Jan. 4
Nikhil Nath
Graduate of Darden and Commerce schools, named head of mergers and acquisitions across much of Asia for Japan's Nomura Holdings Inc. Nomura Holdings.
Nomura India M&A Head Nikhil Nath To Lead Asia Business
VC Circle / Dec. 21
Benjamin Young
1997 graduate and co-creator of a smartphone app that rewards exercise with discounts on items such as ...
Edward Botchwey
A professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedic surgery who received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Northwestern High grad, researcher receives $1.6 million, 5-year grant
Rock Hill Herald (S.C.) / Dec. 30
Marion Bowman
A fellow at the Center for National Security Law
Experts: Capt. Owen Honors' Navy Career Is Over
AOL News / Jan. 3
Gary Gallagher
Civil War history professor who speaks on camera in a new documentary
'American Experience' takes a sharp look at legendary commander in 'Robert E. Lee'
Boston Globe / Jan. 3
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Lee's personal ...
Are ethics and law at odds? Does the law define what is ethical, or do ethical concerns have their own purchase on the law? These questions, universally applicable, have special relevance to a religious culture like Judaism, whose traditional law is embodied in the vast corpus of halakhah. The online journal Textual Reasoning [published by U.Va.], which mixes philosophical analysis with close textual study, takes up the issue in a recent symposium.
The November 4, 2010 talk, “George Washington & His Presidency,” was delivered by David Hoth, an editor of the Papers of George Washington (both the Revolutionary Series and the Presidential Series), and a former editor of the papers of Presidents James K. Polk and Andrew Jackson. Using his extensive knowledge of both Jackson and Washington, Hoth commences with some interesting “compare and contrast” anecdotes.
... A report from the University of Virginia found that fewer members of the middle class are choosing marriage compared to wealthier Americans. In fact, the more educated you are, the more likely you are to get married.
Good to know: you're more attractive when others know next-to-nothing about you. That's a helpful little romantic tidbit, right? It arrives courtesy of a research team of University of Virginia and Harvard psychologists whose findings were succinctly described as "ignorance may not be bliss, but it sure is intriguing."
... A professor at the University of Virginia Law School, this year [James] Ryan published "Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America." The city is Richmond (and its suburbs); the schools are TeeJay and Henrico's Douglas Freeman High School. Ryan spent time in both schools and offers his observations. ... The book includes an unsurpassed introduction to Massive Resistance. ... "Five Miles" is a book not only for 2010 but for many years to come.
The University of Virginia Medical Center welcomed Charlottesville's first newborn baby of 2011 Saturday morning.
... A favorite lesson in leadership comes from the teachings of Jack and Carol Weber at the University of Virginia’s Darden School’s Executive Education program. Based on their career-long study of the topic, the Webers say that leaders are different from managers because they “speak for” things, instead of simply speaking about them. They are passionate and colorful characters unafraid to take risks for things they believe in.
... The ultimate measure of safety, of course, is whether you're able to stay alive from one day to the next. By this standard, cities are safer than many suburbs -- at least, according to a University of Virginia study. ... The study found that the most dangerous regions of nine metropolitan areas (Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh) are the outer suburbs. (Inner-ring suburbs were the safest, with central cities coming in second.)
... Research by Christopher Ruhm of the University of Virginia concludes that recessions are beneficial for one's health: During good times, he finds, there are more fatal auto accidents and more deaths from disease—although there are fewer suicides.
...Coastal wetlands with wider tidal range and high sediment availability will be resilient enough to overcome conservative predictions of sea level rise (5 mm a year) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the study said. Marshes with low tidal ranges and sediment concentrations may not survive. Lead researcher, Matthew Kirwan of the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Virginia in the US explained the observations.
Before he stepped foot into a law school classroom, Andrew Block spent his post-college years teaching in rural Kenya and taking troubled children out of locked facilities and into the wilderness of New Mexico and Utah. Block said those experiences helped him understand how the community a child comes from affects how he is treated when he makes bad choices. His travels started him on the path to founding the Legal Aid Justice Center’s JustChildren Program and later becoming the director of the University of Virginia law school’s Child Advocacy Clinic.
Every 10 years, Virginia lawmakers redraw the House and Senate districts of the General Assembly and the congressional electoral districts to reflect changes in population growth. The state’s partisan redistricting process has long drawn complaints that it leads to mostly single party gerrymandered districts, fewer competitive elections... Early next year, however, teams of college students across Virginia will attempt to show that they can redraw the state’s electoral districts in a nonpartisan and better way.
A new U.Va. Art Museum exhibit, "From Classic to Romantic: British Art in an Age of Transition," covers "the age of revolutions" said Bruce Boucher, director of the museum.