Cruz also lacks support from his Republican colleagues in Congress, whom he’s alienated with his anti-establishment rhetoric, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Guy Aiken is an ethicist and historian of American Quakers at the University of Virginia. “What is ethically permissible is not always what is ethically preferable,” he says. “It may be that it is ethically permissible for Sidwell Friends to say that this is the Washington Home’s responsibility solely. But I think Quakers hold themselves to a different standard.”
The University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project director Bradford Wilcox, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies, also consulted on the survey. He said the “I’m-OK-you’re-not-OK” answers could indicate respondents are failing to look past the pop culture stereotypes of lousy marriages — or they’re failing to consider the weaknesses within their own unions.
The National Institutes of Health awarded a four-year, $1.9 million grant to support research at the School of Medicine that explores a real sweet heart of a question: Can the heart become addicted to blood sugar?
“If we really wanted a foolproof system, we would shut down immigration entirely,” said UVA’s David Martin, who’s previously held posts at DHS and the State Department. “The alarm is way overblown.”
Written when the future Nobel laureate was in his early 20s, “Twixt Cup and Lip” was discovered in the University of Virginia archives.
Mark Miear holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Liberty University, a master’s degree in educational leadership from Lynchburg College, and a doctor of education in educational leadership from the University of Virginia.
An outdoorsman who enjoys fishing, hunting and training a flamethrower on nonnative plants around his cottage in southwestern Wisconsin, Carpenter “sees the big picture faster and better than most scientists,” said Michael Pace, an ecologist at the University of Virginia and a collaborator.
Ronald McDonald House of Charlottesville gives families a place to stay while their children receive treatment at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
The discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals a previously unknown mechanism by which cells that are about to die inform the cells that are about to eat them how to handle the cholesterol they contain. By stimulating or simulating this molecular messaging, doctors may one day be able to better regulate the body’s levels of HDL and LDL cholesterol – the so-called “good” and “bad” cholesterols.
Julia Ticona, a fellow in UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, writes the latest entry in a project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on changes in the workplace.
The MadiDrop, a new disinfecting water tablet, has the potential to help millions of people in developing countries.
A more-objective approach would suit UVA’s Josipa Roksa. Academic challenge might be more accurately captured, she said, by the number of pages students are assigned to read and write, for example, or the number of hours they report studying.
Brad Wilcox, who heads the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies, said the “I’m-OK-you’re-not-OK” perspective on marriage could reveal something about people’s worldviews. Wilcox, who also consulted on development of the survey, said half of kids spend some time outside of an intact marriage, “an indicator that all’s not well” in marriages. That fewer young adults than older adults see marriage as important could portend a future dip in ma...
I recently spoke to one of the people who had a hand in drafting the Constitution back then [1971], University of Virginia Professor A.E. “Dick” Howard. He confirmed Virginia’s Constitution purposefully included provisions “to put a nail in the coffin” of massive resistance.
WMRA’s Kara Lofton takes a detailed look at the current Guatemalan healthcare crisis and the attempt of one UVA physician to provide some relief.
Students at the University of Virginia are marking America Recycles Day by using things tossed out to make a point.
A new report has named the University of Virginia one of the top 25 colleges sending students on study-abroad programs for the first time in school history.
(subscription required)One man’s shattered shin does not compare to those tragedies, but everybody remembers where they were when it happened. “It was sort of a collective pain and shock we all felt,” Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan said. He’s now a professor of modern media studies at the University of Virginia. On Nov. 18, 1985, he was watching the game with his dorm buddies at Texas. “Monday Night Football” was America’s campfire. In that pre-digital age, everybody gathered around it.
In practice, however, corporate crime prosecutions are already relatively rare and frequently skip over executives and other top managers. “When employees are charged, it’s often lower-level employees,” University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett told HuffPost Live in September.