"Ben McKenzie is the one of today's hottest stars on one of the most popular and successful shows on TV," said Wizard World CEO John Macaluso. "Our fans have immediately made 'Gotham' one of their favorites and we know they can't wait to meet him at our two most successful and longest-running Wizard World Comic Cons." The University of Virginia graduate's current starring role in "Gotham," which has regularly hit nearly seven million weekly viewers, follows the Commissioner's life before Batman came onto the scene.
Fourth-year University of Virginia student Robert Petri has been a fired-up basketball fan since the news accidentally broke on national television Monday night. ESPN's "College GameDay" crew is coming to Charlottesville later this month. The popular pregame show airing from John Paul Jones Arena the morning of UVa's Jan. 31 home game against ACC rival Duke.
“The 20 law schools that sent the most alumni to Congress include some of the country's most prominent—Harvard Law School tops the list with 18, followed by Georgetown University Law Center with 13; the University of Texas School of Law with seven; and the University of Virginia School of Law and Yale Law School with six each.”
The University of Virginia is under a federal government order to fix the way it handles sexual assault on campus, and that was – no doubt – one reason why the administration and student leaders pressed ahead with fraternity reforms, even after parts of a story in Rolling Stone Magazine were discredited.
It’s a new year at the University of Virginia and a new era for the school’s fraternities. After Rolling Stone Magazine reported, then hedged on a story of gang rape at a frat house, UVA administrators announced new rules for parties.
Students at the University of Virginia found a way to deal with recent violence against women and minorities in a unique way. Instead of a "sit-in", they held a "teach-in".Grad student and organizer Maya Hislap says they focused in part on drawing attention to the connection between race and gender inequality.
The University of Virginia Student Council is proposing a plan to put a student liaison on Charlottesville City Council.The liaison would act as a point person between the city and the UVA student body. Council could go through the liaison to express any concerns to students, while students would use the liaison to communicate their thoughts about the city as it relates to the university.
Students at colleges of osteopathic medicine could qualify for state scholarships in exchange for committing to work in rural Virginia under the terms of a new bill working its way through the General Assembly.Sen. Bill Stanley, R-Franklin, is angling to revive a program created to attract doctors to underserved and poorer parts of the state. In the past, the scholarship only was available to medical students at the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Eastern Virginia Medical School.
The University of Virginia plans an internal review of academic integrity in its athletics programs to ensure athletes are receiving an education that meets the school’s standards.U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan has commissioned the Task Force on Academic Integrity in Athletics, headed by law professor Alex Johnson, to conduct the review.
The University of Virginia is honoring the legacy of Dr. King through the end of the month. The theme of this year's community MLK Celebration is "Giving Voice" against injustice. Teach-ins, film screenings, and discussions are scheduled around UVA and Charlottesville.
Two fraternities that had initially resisted approving updated agreements with the University of Virginia said Friday that they had signed the new contracts under pressure from the school’s administration.The Kappa Alpha Order and Alpha Tau Omega fraternities joined the 29 other U-Va. houses in signing the Fraternal Order Agreements with the university by Friday’s deadline. Inter-Fraternity Council president Tommy Reid said that all 31 members of the organization had agreed to accept the new rules, which were designed by the university to discourage binge drinking at parties and en...
A University of Virginia junior who is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity was elected president of the influential Inter-Fraternity Council this week.Ben Gorman, who previously served as a vice president on the IFC, was elected to a one-year term on Tuesday, according to the Cavalier Daily student newspaper.
(By S. Fred Singer is professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project) Contrary to persistent claims by environmentalists, Methane is not an important greenhouse gas (GHG); it has a totally negligible impact on climate. Attempts to control methane emissions make little sense; the just-announced [Jan 14] White House plan to reduce emissions by 40 to 45% by 2025 ignores well-established ‘text-book’ science.
(By Deborah Hellman is the D. Lurton Massee Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law)Citizens United may have been just what the United States needed — a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court so dramatically wrongheaded that people across the country paid attention to it and said, “Hold on, something is wrong here.”Though the actual ruling simply extended the flawed approach to campaign-finance laws that the court had been following for decades, Citizens United shined a light on the justices’ reasoning and demonstrated its shortcomings by taking that r...
The tallies are in, and Sen. Harry Reid has pulled the short end of the stick: He’s been rated the “most vulnerable” of all Democrats by Larry Sabato, the political scientist who oversees the University of Virginia’s Crystal Ball polling site.
Sign your kids up for dance class, STAT. That is, if you want them to learn computer skills and survive the 21st century. Choreography's not so different from computing, says Jennifer Chiu, an assistant professor of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education at the University of Virginia. Both require rhythm and precision alongside abstraction. Plus, it's "potentially transformative" to get otherwise uninterested young people addicted to computer science.
(By Harold A. Gould is a Visiting Professor of South Asian Studies in the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia ) It has been widely publicized that Barack Obama is the first American president who will be guest of honour at the Jan. 26 Republic Day festivities since this dazzling celebration commenced in 1950.I personally witnessed this grand event in 1960 when Queen Elizabeth II was the honored guest. As Al Jazeera reported (Jan 7), “Modi has been courted by the United States as a key partner in the attempt to rebalance U.S. diplomatic weight towards As...
Some researchers explain why - compared to previous generations - some of the defining qualities of today's marriages make it harder for couples to cultivate a flourishing relationship. The simple answer is that people today expect more out of their marriage.Other researchers, like sociologist Jeffrey Dew, support the notion that time is a crucial factor in sustaining a successful marriage.Dew, who is a professor at the University of Virginia, found that Americans in 1975 spent, on average, 35 hours a week alone with their spouse while couples in 2003 spent 26 hours together. Child-rearing...