That service included 34 years in the House of Delegates, where Diamonstein fought hard for – and won – more state funds for education and the disabled, a state housing authority that financed decent affordable homes for working families and the chance for women to go to the University of Virginia.
All winning poems are archived in UVA’s permanent collection through a partnership with Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library.
Indigo Mathon and her partner pitched the idea as part of a class project at Community Public Charter School. The middle-schoolers spent two weeks immersed at Morven, working on ideas for how the farm could better engage the community. On Friday night, they presented their ideas to parents, community members and University of Virginia staff members.
In “Thomas Jefferson’s Education,” Alan Taylor, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, provides a richly detailed account of the origins of UVA.
(Editorial) The survey was conducted by UVA’s Center for Survey Research. Respondents rated the region at 7.95 on a 10-point scale in terms of their satisfaction with life in Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa and Nelson counties and the city of Charlottesville.
Bruce Arena is arguably the most successful coach in the history of American soccer, and it all started in Charlottesville. During an 18-year career at the University of Virginia, Arena set an impossibly high bar to follow for Cavalier men’s soccer, winning five national championships — including for in row from 1991-94 — and posting a record of 295 wins, 58 losses, 32 ties.
Alan A. Diamonstein, a University of Virginia alumnus who represented Newport News in the House of Delegates for three decades and later served on the UVA Board of Visitors, passed away overnight, his law office said. He was 88.
Alan A. Diamonstein, a University of Virginia alumnus who represented Newport News in the House of Delegates for three decades and later served on the UVA Board of Visitors, passed away overnight, his law office said. He was 88.
Later, during the administration of former President Jimmy Carter, Dunner participated on Carter’s Advisory Committee on Patents. This committee picked up an idea from Daniel Meador, a University of Virginia law professor and head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice, to merge the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals with the U.S. Court of Claims to create the Federal Circuit.
"He fit the changing Democratic Party almost perfectly," said Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. A graduate of the old Augusta Military Academy near Staunton, Diamonstein served in the Air Force during the Korean War. He received a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of Virginia in 1955 and graduated from its law school in 1958. (He later served on the University's Board of Visitors.)
University of Virginia cardiac specialists led by Dr. Sula Mazimba and Dr Scot Lim have over the last week been conducting rheumatic valvular heart disease screening as well as performing percutaneous valvular interventions at the University of Zambia Teaching Hospital.
"People with type 1 diabetes have to think every day about their blood sugar and how they need to manage it. Automated delivery systems can make a big difference and help ease the daily burden of managing blood sugar," said study lead author Dr. Sue Brown, an endocrinologist and associate professor at the University of Virginia.
The environmental monitoring plan is to be written with input from numerous research institutions including the Virginia Institute for Marine Science, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech.
The UVA Sustainability Team is getting ready for one of its biggest events of the year, the Green Game. During Saturday's home football game against Duke, student volunteers will be at 16 stations encouraging people to recycle and compost their trash.
A federal court ordered new maps for House of Delegates districts in February, a ruling that was the end result of a challenge arguing that Republicans used racial gerrymandering to pack black voters tightly into a dozen districts to dilute their influence. UVA’s Kyle Kondik wonders what influence all that will have on the election.
UVA’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center is putting on a Red Flag Campaign and Clothesline Project to bring awareness to sexual assault and domestic abuse, and to empower survivors.
The rookie Sacramento Kings guard has joined the Hoops2O team, which is part of the Waterboys organization. Waterboys was created by former UVA football star Chris Long to help bring clean water to people around the world in need. Former UVA basketball players Malcom Brogdon, Joe Harris and Justin Anderson are also part of the Hoops2O team.
(Commentary by Kelsey Johnson, a UVA professor of astronomy) It’s October, which means it’s hard to avoid the annual Nobel Prize announcements and flurry of resulting press. As a woman in science, I’ve learned to anticipate these with both excitement and anxiety. The track record of the Nobel Committee overlooking accomplishments of scientists who are not white men is deeply depressing.
“I thought every candidate had a good moment or two, though my memory is blurred by the unrelenting pace produced by too many topics and the tug-of-war for control of the conversation. Klobuchar had some smart answers. I’m starting not to care that she is brutal to her staff,” said Larry J. Sabato, the founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “The latest presidential debate provided voters with information about the candidates’ positions on impeachment, the opioid crisis, Syria, tech company monopolies, health care and reproductive rights. It offered viewe...
"Klobuchar had some smart answers. I’m starting not to care that she is brutal to her staff," added Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics.