Virginia's car-title lending industry, facing more scrutiny from the governor and some lawmakers, is escalating its campaign contributions as the state's voters prepare to head to the polls next week. Campaign finance records show the industry has already made about $800,000 in campaign contributions this election cycle, and that's before the big-money donations that typically roll in during the final days of the campaign. "At the end of the day it does look like there's a decent chance that they may spend more money on the 2014-2015 cycle than they've ever done s...
If you were looking to toss some popcorn in your microwave in Denmark this past summer, the popular movie snack wasn’t easy to find. That’s because the country’s largest retailer months earlier yanked microwave popcorn off its more than 1,200 stores because suppliers couldn’t come up with a way to rid the packaging of fluorinated chemicals. The chemicals are not regulated in Denmark but are linked to certain cancers, hormone disruption, organ problems and lower birth weights, and found in the linings of popcorn bags. “It’s just smart business,” said An...
“Virginia was a great place to study this health care delivery transition, since it was a regional and national leader in the ADAP transition from direct medication provision to purchasing of [Affordable Care Act] insurance”, said researcher Dr. Kathleen McManus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and global Health.
After tonight’s third Republican debate in Colorado, politico magazine asked the best and brightest minds on both sides of the political spectrum which candidates performed so poorly they ought to call it quits already. “Forget cutting candidates. Let’s cut this awful “debate” format. It’s terrible, and almost everybody across the spectrum agrees,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Voters across Virginia will be heading to the polls next week. At stake? Each of the state’s 140 lawmakers that make up the General Assembly. You may not have heard much about it though, because many seats are uncontested and not generating much attention. But some state senate races are the exception. Who wins these races could determine the shape of Virginia politics for the next two years. This race is significant for more than just Boese, because the party that wins this seat could be the party that controls the state senate for the next two years. Geoffrey Skelley is ...
James Smith, a UVA civil and environmental engineer who played a key role in developing and testing the water disinfectant, talks with Les Sinclair about the Water-Disinfecting Tablets known as “MadiDrop”.
A small, start-up company in Charlottesville is set to tackle the problem of contaminated water worldwide, with a small, silver-infused ceramic pill--the Madidrop. This new University of Virginia-inspired public benefit company with a global health mission has opened administrative offices and a small production facility in Charlottesville.
This month, the world marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations - an institution founded with the enthusiastic support of a Virginia man now known as the architect of the UN. As a student at the University of Virginia, Edward Stettinius fell short on the academic front - too busy, it seems, to complete the coursework needed for a degree. This week, UVA’s president marked the founding of the UN by announcing the Edward Stettinius Award for Global Leadership - a prize the university will give each spring to a prominent figure in world affairs.
History will probably render “mixed judgments” on the one-child policy, said Brantly Womack, a China expert at the University of Virginia.
Hollywood headliners and rising film stars alike will converge on Charlottesville during UVA's 28th annual Virginia Film Festival.
Around 200 companies met with students who want to land a summer internship, or a permanent job.
Before adopting the budget recommendations, SCHEV heard from University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan on U.Va’s new “affordable excellence” tuition model that caps loans for in-state students. Students from low-income families can accrue no more than $4,000 in loans in four years; for other Virginia students the loan cap is $18,000. That’s down from $14,000 and $28,000, respectively, under the previous financial aid model.
U.Va’s McIntire School of Commerce has partnered with ESADE School of Business in Barcelona and Lingnan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China to offer a new dual master’s degree in global commerce and global strategic management with a certificate in international management.
The University of Virginia’s provost, Tom Katsouleas, once told me that less than one percent, by his estimates, of basic research is commercialized and that there may be as few as one near-term commercialization for every $10 million invested in fundamental research.
Barbrow questions Olsen’s judgment in high-profile cases such as the one involving Edgar Coker, a young man who continued to be imprisoned for a sex offense after the victim admitted she had lied. The Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law eventually secured Coker’s release.
A public-benefit company with a global health mission that was inspired by a 2012 project at the University of Virginia has opened a small production facility in Charlottesville. MadiDrop PBC will produce ceramic water disinfection tablets called MadiDrops for people in developing countries who have poor access to clean drinking water.
Research engineers at the University of Virginia have developed upgrades to existing polymer membranes which they said may make desalination simpler and less expensive. Assistant professor in the university's engineering department, Geoffrey M Geise, said the membranes can also be used to help create and store clean energy.
Before loosening the boundaries, Claudia Allen, a child psychologist at the University of Virginia Family Stress Clinic, said it’s important for parents to know their child, know their environment and prepare their child.
“This straightforward exchange of ads for some valuable content often has an obligatory feel to it,” said Matthew Crawford, a research fellow at the University of Virginia and author of the recently published book, “The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction.” “Intrusive advertising is just the tip of a much larger cultural iceberg,” Crawford said. “We’re living through a crisis of attention and, it’s fair to say, a widespread sense of mental fragmentation. Often it feels that our attention isn’t ou...
In traditional curriculums, these topics tend to be covered in separate, three-credit classes. It’s a system that, according to Ryan Nelson, a professor and associate dean for the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, doesn’t prepare students adequately. “It doesn’t really represent reality, what really happens in businesses is cross-functional in nature,” says Ryan Nelson, a professor and associate dean for the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, one of the handful of other business schools teaching the i...