By Denise Egan, assistant director of career services at the McIntire School of Commerce
It’s been a challenging recruiting year for international students. I marvel at their perseverance in putting their best face forward over and over again. Most seem to embrace the challenge with grace and perhaps a heightened awareness of the need to outperform their peers who aren’t yet familiar with visas or work permits.
As students leave grounds for the summer, the University of Virginia wants to make sure all the stuff they leave behind doesn't go to waste. A program called "Chuck it for Charity" is collecting unwanted items and donating them to area charities.
Women are increasingly being victimized on college campuses across the Washington region, with romantic relationships behind most of the assaults, according to the FBI and statistics from local universities.
Nurses at the University of Virginia Medical Center took a quick break from their patients Wednesday morning to be honored at the Nursing Excellence Awards Ceremony.
The match-ups for the 12th annual ACC/Big-10 challenge were announced Wednesday.
Virginia will play at Minnesota on November 29th.
Zane David Memeger of Swarthmore was sworn in Monday as the 58th U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Philadelphia. … He is a graduate of James Madison University and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the 1991 recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Public Service.
Although it sounds odd to say it, [Dr. John] Risher doesn’t look a day over 75. He still drives, remains in his longtime residence on Peakland Place and only stopped keeping statistics for the University of Virginia football team a few years ago. In fact, he is the oldest living football-playing alumnus of UVa, having been a member of the 1931 squad. (“I was an end,” he said, “but I didn’t play much.”)
The Tinsley Courts were part of a $7.5 million dollar expansion, for which [Boyd] Tinsley footed most of the bill, and provided his alma mater, the University of Virginia, with a state-of-the-art indoor facility. In February, the Cavalier men won their third consecutive ITA National Team Indoor Title at Tinsley's six-court, 1,200-seat arena.
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Delaware GOP still seeking candidate to contest AG Biden
Wilmington (Del.) News Journal / May 13
Isaac Wood
Communications director, Center for Politics
Experts look at factors behind Mollohan's ouster
Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail / May 13
Jeannine Lalonde, senior assistant dean of admission
It’s all been chronicled on Lalonde’s blog, Small and Chic in Cville (smallchic.blogspot.com).
Baliles, now the director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, told the League of Women Voters of Charlottesville/Albemarle on Tuesday that democracy’s survival and the strength of the Union requires its leaders to have a broad education, legal knowledge, be willing to work hard, have humility when exercising power, develop good communication skills and be enthusiastic.
Forty-one area educators, one from each public and private school in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, were honored Wednesday with Golden Apple Awards. The awards were established in 2001 by Richard and Judy Nunley, owners of Better Living Furniture and Better Living Building Supply. … The 2010 Golden Apple Award recipients [were] honored at a reception Wednesday evening at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda.
University of Virginia officials plan to ask the attorney general if they can have more time before they must decide whether to pursue a court challenge to his civil subpoena of documents related to a climate scientist who is a former professor.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has decided to misuse state funds in his personal war against climate science. But that doesn't mean anyone else should cooperate.
Most cities are served by professional paramedics-- people paid to stabilize patients and get them to the nearest hospital. But in college towns the job is often done by student volunteers. In Charlottesville--the nation's busiest rescue service-- they respond to 15,000 calls a year. WVTF's Sandy Hausman rode along to see how students tackle one of the toughest jobs around.
One day after meeting with University of Virginia President John Casteen, Governor Bob McDonnell said Wednesday he plans to put a campus safety law into action. McDonnell says the new law could help prevent a repeat of what happened to Yeardley Love.
Why does one school cost more than another? CNN's Tom Foreman reports. (Features Leonard Sandridge, executive vice president and chief operating officer, and students Portia Henry and Josh Mitchell).
Brian Balogh
A professor of history
Charlottesville Right Now: 5-11-10 Brian Balogh
Charlottesville Podcasting Network / May 12
Jonathan Cannon
Director Law School's Environmental and Land Use Law Program and former EPA general counsel
Binding settlement to reduce bay pollution
Virginia Gazette / May 12
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
'Everybody' watching Ohio election
Marion Star / May 12
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The perils of Arlen
Philadelphia Daily News / May 12
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Elena Kagan's sexual orientation sparks debate
Boston Herald / May 1
The mother of the lacrosse player charged in the death of his former girlfriend at the University of Virginia broke her silence Tuesday, saying in a statement that 22-year-old Yeardley Love was "part of our lives" and describing her as a "sweet, wonderful young woman with a limitless future."
The governor of Virginia called for changes the reporting of criminal records today and said that the murder of a University of Virginia lacrosse player might have been prevented if someone who knew about the accused's violent history had spoken up. "I think the broader question is, there's ways to get information to administrators obviously from police, from court records, but it brings the larger question of the obligation to all of us in our society [that] if we see things that look wrong or strange behavior or violent behavior, to really be more involved," Gov. Bob McDonnell told...