A student group at the University of Virginia wants to renovate a memorial garden that was first founded back in 2007. Members of the Arboretum Landscape Committee are partnering with the university and private architecture firm Rhodeside & Harwell to develop the new designs for the garden.
“Business lobbyists, any lobbyist, they like the devil they know,” said Geoff Skelley, political analyst with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, adding that lawmakers want to keep the people in power who are sensitive to their interests.
Pataki is not well known outside of his home state, hasn’t held elected office in eight years, and will turn seventy this summer. And yet he seems to be genuinely considering a run. The question, as when Pataki flirted with a bid four years ago, is why. “Pataki – I’m puzzled about this,” Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told me. “I don’t even know what he’s been doing. Has he been on corporate boards?”
When Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia, reviewed 303 cases against corporations from 2001 to 2014, he found that only 34 percent involved charges against specific individuals, and that of those, just 42 percent resulted in jail time.
Married men work “smarter, harder and more successfully,” according to Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and a sociology professor at the University of Virginia.
Louisiana's bill, however, goes further, Doug Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a leading religious freedom expert, told MSNBC last week. “This Louisiana bill really does what people accused the Indiana law of doing,” Laycock said. “The sponsor and the governor says it doesn't authorize discrimination. I have no idea what that means, it pretty clearly does.”
“What’s crucial about him is that no one work tells a story. Each one represents a part of a system [showing] tiny ordinary signs of wear and tear,” says Nana Last, 54, a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture who began studying Mr. Struth’s work in 2002 and is currently writing a book with the artist. “His works don’t want awe. They want contemplation.”
“This community has the resources, though I can’t help but notice a sense of paralysis,” said Kathy Glazer, president of the Virginia Early Childhood Education Foundation. Bob Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, agreed. “I’ve been part of conversations about pre-K in this community for about 30 years, and we’re kind of still having the same conversation,” Pianta said.
(Podcast) Shonel Sen is a researcher and analyst at the Weldon Cooper Center at U.Va. She talks with Les Sinclair about their research showing that cancer will be on the rise in the future, here in Virginia.
(Podcast) Barry Horowitz, Virginia Cyber Security Commission and chair of U.Va. Dept. of Systems & Information Engineering, talks with Les Sinclair about the town hall meeting on Grounds April 30th.
There have been notable attempts to convey what the experience of autism is like in the arts lately. In the play “Max Understood” (at San Francisco’s Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center until April 26) the 7-year-old autistic boy of the title has constructed a world of objects and found sounds that the play’s authors, Nancy Carlin and U.Va. drama professor Michael Rasbury represent with noises, music, filmed projections (blowing leaves, rushing water) and a literally moving landscape (a sort of giant wooden turntable that rotates during the performance). How much any of...
A University of Virginia professor who has dedicated 25 years to studying muscular dystrophy says the funds have increased knowledge of the disease. "Over the course of that quarter century, we actually have found out how that gene causes the disease," said professor Mani Manhadevan. "And we've been able to model it in mice models and show that the disease could be reversed."
A team of researchers associated with the New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt wondered if the distinction between holistic and analytic thinking might be relevant to America's notorious "culture war." The team including University of Virginia social psychologists Thomas Talhelm and Shigehiro Oishi, and Chinese psychologists Xuemin Zhang, Felicity Miao, and Shimen Chen report the results of five different studies in a recent for the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, "Liberals Think More Analytically (More 'WEIRD') than Conservatives."...
Economists from Moody's Analytics prepared a report for the National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education, created by the Miller Center at University of Virginia. The study, to evaluate pressure on public funding for higher education, also measured Medicaid expenditures as a percentage of state spending.
State tax revenues are up. But the next decade is looking rough, thanks largely to rising Medicaid costs. And public higher education will bear the brunt of tighter state budgets. That's the central finding of a new study from the National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education. The University of Virginia's Miller Center created the nonpartisan commission last year with funding from Lumina Foundation.
University of Virginia Associate Dean Nicole Eramo recently ended her silence thanks to her open letter to the founder of Rolling Stone. We don’t know yet if Eramo will sue Rolling Stone, but she has hired an attorney with hints there will be more on that in the days to come. To win a standard libel case, a plaintiff must prove damages. Washington-based attorney Jeffrey Scott Shapiro says there’s another option. It’s called libel per se.
Commonwealth Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam held a meeting with student leaders Wednesday to discuss problems on Grounds which included sexual assault, the recent violent arrest by ABC officers, the state drinking age and the new affordable excellence model.
Matthew B. Crawford, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, a fabricator of components for custom motorcycles, and the author of the surprise bestseller Shop Class as Soulcraft, has written a new book that is unlikely to fly off the shelves. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) is an ultimately disappointing attempt to create a philosophy of engagement, modeled in large part on the craftsman’s interaction with the world.
“In a lot of other cities, pedestrians are people who think of themselves as drivers who happen to be walking,” says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia who studies the rise of the car in urban areas. “And therefore, they’re considerate of the concerns of the driver. But most people in New York think of themselves as pedestrians and are not so sympathetic to the driver’s perspective.”
Modern research has found no simple, inexpensive way to alter a material’s thermal conductivity at room temperature. Now, using only a 9-volt battery at room temperature, a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jon Ihlefeld has altered the thermal conductivity of the widely used material PZT (lead zirconate titanate) by as much as 11 percent at subsecond time scales.The work, published last month in Nano Letters, was co-authored by Sandia researchers David A. Scrymgeour, Joseph R. Michael, Bonnie B. McKenzie and Douglas L. Medlin; Brian M. Foley and Patrick E. Hopkins from ...