Towering at 6-foot-9 and 6-11, Darden students Dan and Mike Friedman, twin brothers, know the struggle when it comes to shopping. Tapping into an untapped market, the two launched "Tall Order.com," a fashion-forward sock company for men sizes 12 to 20.
The school’s choice of a new president is inspiring widespread cheers, and for good reason. It could scarcely have done better than Jim Ryan, currently the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
(Commentary by Elgin Cleckley, research assistant professor of architecture) I am an African-American resident of Charlottesville, an alumnus of the University of Virginia and a UVA architecture professor. For as long as I can remember, I have moved through my city with a sensitivity to the built environment. But since August 12, I sense a new vibration in the air.
The Virginia gubernatorial race is seen as an early referendum on the Trump administration and a lot of money is expected to pour into the race, especially from outside groups. “Over 540,000 people voted in the Democratic primary for governor, which is a nonpresidential primary record in the state of Virginia,” said Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “That fits into the building narrative that Democrats around the country are very engaged at the moment.”
A recent study conducted by W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, and a colleague at American University suggests that women see bigger salaries when they're single compared to their married counterparts.
It was a day for the kids at the John Paul Jones Arean on Sunday for the inaugural Hoos Care Kids Fair. The event was put on by Hoos Care and the UVA Children's Hospital Committee.
The ninth president of the University of Virginia will have an academic background, a love of Bodo’s Bagels and a strong history with UVA’s School of Law. The Board of Visitors unanimously approved him at its meeting Friday to lead the university, following next summer’s departure of Teresa A. Sullivan.
The Confederate plaques on the UVA Rotunda have been taken down. The plaques were removed by crews early Sunday morning.
UVA is removing Confederate plaques from its Rotunda, strengthening its ban on open flames and giving funds from an old KKK pledge to the Charlottesville violence victims as it grapples with the Aug. 11 white nationalist rally on its campus.
The UVA Board of Visitors voted to implement some of the changes called for in the report the University issued addressing what it could have done better during and leading up to the August violence and protests in Charlottesville.
Two plaques with ties to confederate history are off the University of Virginia’s Rotunda. Employees in UVA’s Division of Facilities Management took down two plaques that commemorated the lives of fallen Confederate soldiers with ties to the University.
(Subscription required) Scott C. Beardsley doesn’t make an ominous first impression, but he is of a sort that unsettles many academics: the so-called nontraditional leader. Before becoming dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business, he spent 26 years at the management-consulting firm McKinsey. Beardsley has more company on campuses these days, as detailed in his new book, “Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia.” http://www.chronicle.com/article/Everything-Is-a-Business-/241204?cid=wcontentlist
On Friday, a panel of legal experts at the UVA School of Law attempted to contextualize the events of Aug. 11 and 12 within the greater scope of American history – particularly moments such as Reconstruction, 20th-century Ku Klux Klan violence and the civil rights movement.
It is with pleasure – and excited anticipation – that we welcome the news that James E. Ryan will become the next president of the University of Virginia.
Doctors who operate "off the grid" have an ethical obligation to ensure that their patients understand this and to make sure their patients have, at minimum, a catastrophic-coverage policy, said Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of the Health Policy Program at the UVA School of Medicine. “Under the Affordable Care Act, which the physicians may hate and which we know has problems, poor, uninsured people who can’t get health insurance at their jobs can qualify for pretty large subsidies and get comprehensive insurance," Engelhard said.
While overt racism is rare in most parts of the United States, a significant minority of Americans express racially-charged ideas. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that 70 percent of Americans strongly agreed that people of different races should be "free to live wherever they choose" and that "all races are equal.” "There are nearly 250 million adults in the United States, so even small percentages likely represent the beliefs of many millions of Americans," said Larry Sabato of the UVA Center for Politics.
Rachel Narr wasn't popular in high school. She was no wears-pink-on-Wednesdays "Mean Girl." She wasn't the cheerleader who dated the quarterback. But she said that she had strong friendships, and one exceptionally close comrade meant a lot to Narr during her teen years. When it comes to that friend, "I suppose in many ways she is the inspiration for a lot of my work on teen friendships," said Narr, who is now a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia.
Rachel Narr wasn't popular in high school. She was no wears-pink-on-Wednesdays "Mean Girl." She wasn't the cheerleader who dated the quarterback. But she said that she had strong friendships, and one exceptionally close comrade meant a lot to Narr during her teen years. When it comes to that friend, "I suppose in many ways she is the inspiration for a lot of my work on teen friendships," said Narr, who is now a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia.
(By David A. Martin, Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the UVA School of Law) Early in his Sept. 5 press conference announcing the termination of DACA, Attorney General Jeff Sessions laid the groundwork this way: No greater good can be done for the overall health and well-being of our Republic than preserving and strengthening the impartial rule of law. … Societies where the rule of law is subject to political whims and personal biases tend to become societies afflicted by corruption, poverty, and human suffering. With these general propositions, I couldn’t agree more. But...