Culpeper Regional Hospital announced Friday that FamilyCare Home Health, its facility located on Laurel Street, will consolidate with the University of Virginia’s Continuum Home Health Care.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) has today issued a new statement about his civil investigative demand at the University of Virginia, insisting that his request for documents related to the work of climate scientist and former university professor Michael Mann is about "possible fraud and not about infringing upon academic freedom."
… What happened instead, however, was that the lawn's red brick and white classical trim came to represent a Georgian ideal of campus design for countless American college trustees and presidents—a dream so enticing that in the past hundred years it has been given a run for its money only by the Collegiate Gothic fantasy that arose at Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, and elsewhere in the early 20th century. But as ideals go, those two—the Georgian and Gothic—have been almost nothing but trouble since the Great Depression. For any number of institutions, they've...
America, meet the nation’s top collegiate tennis program. Most outside the tennis world would probably guess we’re talking about UCLA or Baylor, maybe Southern Cal or Georgia. Those choices would be legitimate stabs at the correct answer. Everyone in Hooville knows that we’re talking about Virginia.
Colleges that insist on maintaining waitings lists that are longer than the phone book should tell students their odds of eventually being accepted.
So, a rabbi, a politician and a Thomas Jefferson impersonator walked into a news conference. Sound like a bad joke? That's what state Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio, said about proposed changes to the state's public school social studies standards.
Lexington attorney Garland “Andy” Barr won the Republican nomination in the 6th Congressional District on Tuesday and will face incumbent Democrat Ben Chandler in November. … A graduate of the University of Virginia who received his law degree from the University of Kentucky, Barr campaigned on a platform of cutting taxes, expanding nuclear energy, aggressively promoting Kentucky's coal industry, simplifying the tax code and getting government “out of the way.”
Albany Law School Professor Vin Bonventre, who has developed a cottage industry observing, studying and dissecting decisions, judges and nominees of the high courts – the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the state Court of Appeals – is at it again. … Bonventre, who after getting a law degree from Brooklyn Law School went to the University of Virginia, where he earned a doctorate, with a focus on the Supreme Court and the Constitution, was nonplussed about Kagan's lack of judicial experience.
Samuel P. Menefee
Maury Fellow at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, School of Law
Somali Man Pleads Guilty in 2009 Hijacking of Ship
New York Times / May 18
George Rutherglen
Professor of law
Elena Kagan law articles not so easy to count
St. Petersburg Times' "PolitiFact," / May 17
Larry Sabato
Professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics
Why do politicians like Rep. Mark Souder stray?
Indianapolis Star / May 19
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Analysis: Blumenthal's Image Damaged, But Perhaps Not Fatally
Hartford Courant / May 19
Dr. Dale Stovall
Professor of obstetrics and gynecology
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A consummate vocal performer and jazz educator, Stephanie Nakasian returns to the Artists Quarter in St. Paul for a swinging weekend, May 21-22. Often accompanied by pianist/husband Hod O’Brien, this weekend the spotlight is solely on Stephanie, supported by the Chris Lomheim Trio (Lomheim, Graydon Peterson and Kenny Horst) … Over the past 25 years, Stephanie has performed internationally with Hod O’Brien while based in Charlottesville, VA, where she has taught jazz voice at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville since 1994.
Some may have thought the Rotunda was in mourning, but according to UVA preservation planner Brian Hogg, the “black socks” that recently appeared on the columns of the Rotunda are there to protect the building.
The commission will consist of five members of the House of Delegates appointed by the Speaker of the House, three state senators appointed by the Senate Rules committee, one Virginia resident who is a direct descendant of Woodrow Wilson, one Woodrow Wilson scholar from the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and the President of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Tuesday that his investigation into the research activities of a former University of Virginia climate change scientist is about rooting out possible fraud and does not infringe upon academic freedom.
Neither "Law & Order" nor "Dancing with the Stars" need fret about their ratings. And no one associated with University of Virginia football should prepare an Emmy acceptance speech. But Monday's cable debut of an 18-part series inside the Cavaliers' operation was revealing, professional and promising.
Martin Davidson, associate professor, associate dean and chief diversity officer, Darden School of Business
In jobs as important and complex as the post of Supreme Court Justice, there can be no single indicator that captures "best." We must consider a variety of factors in assembling the best team of justices, and one of those factors has to be the diversity of perspectives that the team collectively produces.
The ranks of Virginia academics who oppose Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's demand for records from the University of Virginia related to the climate change research of a former professor have grown.
Virginia Delegate Clarence “Bud” Phillips urged The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Class of 2010 to improve the quality of life in their communities by carrying the “torch of education” with them as they enter the next phase of their lives.
Phillips, a member of the College’s Class of 1974, delivered the keynote address for the 252 UVa-Wise graduates and their friends and families who gathered for the May 15 ceremony, held at the Lawn by the Lake.
John M. Sherwood, 90, who helped found the old George Mason Bank before retiring in 1991, died of renal failure April 28 at his home in Fairfax County. …John Myers Sherwood, a native of Fairfax City, was a 1940 commerce graduate of the University of Virginia.
James R. Green Jr., 66, a farmer who was instrumental in preserving the agrarian character of Fauquier County during 20 years as a member of its Board of Supervisors, died May 15 at Prince William County Hospital after a heart attack. … Mr. Green graduated from the old Marshall High School and in 1965 received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Virginia. He served in the National Guard until his father died and returned home at age 23 to operate Morven Farm in Markham.