President Richard Nixon believed that years of aerial bombing in Southeast Asia to pressure North Vietnam achieved "zilch" even as he publicly declared it was effective and ordered more bombing while running for reelection in 1972, according to a handwritten note from Nixon disclosed in a new book by Bob Woodward. Woodward cites the work of Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia's Miller Center to show that "the massive bombing did not do the job militarily but it was politically popular. Hughes argues with a great deal of evidence that the bombing was chiefly designed so ...
Larry J. Sabato is not an easy man to stump. The longtime University of Virginia professor has been analyzing American politics for decades, but he says he doesn’t know what to expect out of the bizarre, highly publicized Republican presidential campaign.
Due to the proliferation of devices cropping up in schools, the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia is now partnering with the Jefferson Education Accelerator — an incubator that helps education technology businesses develop — to help product designers evaluate their wares before introducing them into the market. “At the larger level, it’s an effort to bring evidence to bear in the education technology marketing world,” said Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School.
With a reporter's eye and an artist's heart, Svetlana Alexievich writes of the catastrophes, upheaval and personal woes that have afflicted the Soviet Union and the troubled countries that succeeded it. Her writings, characterized by plain language and detail so visceral it's sometimes painful to read, won her this year's Nobel literature prize. "Her goal is to communicate the history of human feeling. The very fact that it transcends any easy category is part of what makes it great," said Andrew Kaufman, a Russian literature scholar at the University of Virginia.
Stephen Colbert has promised to follow Hollywood's example in sucking up to China -- a practice that has become a huge moneymaker for American film studios. In an episode of the "Late Show" this week, the host fawned over China's achievements and vowed to get himself some of that "sweet and sour renminbi." Still, the phenomenon that Colbert is talking about -- Hollywood casting the Chinese in a flattering light in order to do better in that box office market -- is definitely real. Aynne Kokas, an assistant professor of media studies at Unive...
A former University of Virginia triathlete is defending her new nickname Saturday morning at the Ironman All-World Championships in Hawaii. Seeded first in her age group, 24-year-old Cammie Fausey, nicknamed the Ironwoman, says her faith, family, and friends are all among the things that motivate her.
Obesity is linked to a number of cancers, among them cancer of the endometrium, the lining of the uterus. Weight-loss surgery may reduce that risk, according to a new study by University of Virginia researchers.
The United States’ demographics diversify, so too do the nation’s youth. How best to engage with these young people was the subject of a conference this week hosted by Youth-Nex, a University of Virginia center promoting effective youth development. This year’s conference — the fifth annual — was titled Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities through Positive Youth Development.
A few dozen University of Virginia students questioning what to do after they graduate energetically played a game of Mad Libs on Grounds on Friday night. They weren’t putting off answering the question, though. Instead, they were trying to figure out their futures.
Breanna Munson, who is studying nursing and Spanish at the University of Virginia, first heard the Mayan language K’iche’ in high school. She said her friend’s grandmother, who came from Guatemala, spoke it. “I was intrigued by the fact that Guatemala had this indigenous language,” Munson said. “Something other than Spanish was spoken by millions of people.” Now in her third year, Munson is one of a handful of students learning the language at UVa, thanks to an exchange program with Vanderbilt University and Duke University.
Enrolling in healthcare plans under the Affordable Care Act was associated with better treatment outcomes for HIV patients in Virginia, a researcher said here. In an analysis of nearly 4,000 low-income patients over a 2-year period, more than three-quarters were able to suppress the virus, according to Kathleen McManus, MD, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
At a rate of one or two a week, Swiss banks are doing what was once unthinkable: revealing to the world how they helped wealthy Americans cheat on their taxes. Broadening the push, the U.S. in 2013 offered to forgo prosecuting any Swiss bank that came clean on tax-evasion tactics. So far this year, the 41 banks paid combined penalties of $354.5 million, with BSI SA paying the lion’s share, or $211 million. It’s the most non-prosecution agreements negotiated together, according to Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies corporate prosecutions. ...
With a reporter's eye and an artist's heart, Svetlana Alexievich writes of the catastrophes, upheaval and personal woes that have afflicted the Soviet Union and the troubled countries that succeeded it. Her writings, characterized by plain language and detail so visceral it's sometimes painful to read, won her this year's Nobel literature prize. "Her goal is to communicate the history of human feeling. The very fact that it transcends any easy category is part of what makes it great," said Andrew Kaufman, a Russian literature scholar at the University of Virginia.
President Obama also nominated Channing D. Phillips for the District of Columbia on Thursday. Phillips has been deputy assistant associate general for the Attorney General since 2010. Phillips received a law degree from Howard University School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
(By Andrew D. Kaufman, Russian literature scholar at the University of Virginia) As Belarusian author and journalist Svetlana Alexievich wins the Nobel Prize in Literature amid political turmoil at home, and Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to drop bombs in Syria, Belarusians and Russians alike have a lot to think about these days. Here’s an annotated list of the cream of Russian literature.
Research results are starting to come in on the impact of the health care reform law often referred to as “Obamacare.” Among them is a new study out of the University of Virginia that looks at one specific group: low-income patients that are HIV positive.
"Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?" asks a working paper from University of Virginia that analyzes the heightened focus on academic skills reaching the earliest grade levels. When educator Tim Walker began to investigate how Finland educates its earliest learners, he discovered a fluid schedule that still emphasized the things that have been pushed out of America's classrooms.
The issue of how minority youth are perceived and treated by society was the topic of discussion Thursday at a conference at the University of Virginia. The “Youth of Color Matter” conference hosted over 100 college students and faculty members to tackle the inequalities that ethnic minority youths face.
More than 20 new films have been added to the Virginia Film Festival lineup, festival officials announced Wednesday. Tickets to screenings of the new additions will go on sale at 12:01 a.m. Friday. The festival, scheduled for Nov. 5 to 8 in a variety of Charlottesville venues, is presented by the University of Virginia and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts.
A defining feature of the world economy over the past 15 years was the unprecedented accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves. Central banks, led by those in China and the oil-producing states, built up enormous hoards of other countries’ currencies. Global reserves swelled from $1.8 trillion in 2000 to $12 trillion by mid-2014. That proved to be a high point. Since then reserves have dropped by at least $500 billion. Controlling for the range of things that influence interest rates, from growth to demography, economists have attempted to gauge the impact of reserve accumulation. F...