University of Virginia astronomers brought some high-powered star gazing tools to families in southern Albemarle County Saturday night. Albemarle Cider Works hosted the "Star Party" where people could set up their telescopes to gaze upon the heavens. The event is part of the “Dark Skies, Bright Students” program, which is geared at getting kids excited about astronomy.
Two universities in the Washington region made the list of the 50 schools producing the most undergraduate entrepreneurs and companies: University of Maryland ranked 30th and Georgetown University came in 40th. The University of Virginia in Charlottesville also made the list at 29th.
A noise analysis of gunfire of a planned police firearms training range in Albemarle County suggests neighbors will barely hear the bullets flying. Officers from Albemarle, Charlottesville, and the University of Virginia will share the $4 million to $5 million facility once it's built.
One pedestrian-only crossing on U.S. 29 spans 85 feet over Emmet Street and connects the University of Virginia’s central and northern Grounds. The 18-foot-wide Goodwin Bridge was designed by Ammann & Whitney and was completed in early 2005 at a cost of $3.6 million.
Yesterday we took a look at number 8, a number worn by Ryan Longwell, the Green Bay Packers’ all-time leading scorer who kicked his way through a very successful career with the Packers and Minnesota Vikings. So, today we move away from Longwell at number eight and on to one of the most popular quarterbacks to play with the team over the past three decades - Don Majkowski.
The University of Virginia's DC Hoos alumni group has organized weekly game-watch parties at Arlington Rooftop Bar and Grill
It's time to gear up for game day in Charlottesville. Thursday, field maintenance crews at the University of Virginia painted the football field in Scott Stadium.
Take Noah Rubin. Or Danielle Collins. Both lost in the U.S. Open's first round. Nevertheless, each stood to pocket $35,754 – and each turned the money down in order to remain eligible for college tennis. According to The Wall Street Journal, Collins, the 2014 NCAA singles champion, is returning to the University of Virginia. Collins did the math, calculating that her scholarship was worth more than her prize money. "I had some contradicting thoughts because I would potentially earn $35,000 from just losing in the first round," she told the Journal. "But tuition at UVA ...
(By Rob Cross of U.Va.’s McIntire School of Commerce and Chris Ernst, vice president of leadership and organization effectiveness at Juniper Networks Inc.) For companies to continuously innovate, they must first redesign how jobs are structured to discover and communicate new ideas.
Some researchers are wary. Requiring a preanalysis plan, for instance, could breed resentment, says James Coan, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “It's part of a scientist's job to be canny enough” to do the most appropriate statistical analyses, he says. “The implicit message is that scientists are not to be trusted with those decisions.”
Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, has compiled a database of actions taken against companies by the federal government since 2000. It lists 2,163 corporate convictions and guilty pleas and shows that both the number of convictions and the size of the fines have grown impressively over the period.
The federal Speedy Trial Act Provides federal courts with the authority to review whether or not to approve deferred prosecution agreements. Not so for non prosecution agreements. That’s the conclusion of University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon Garrett.
Investigations are complicated by the fact that police officers are given latitude in their use of force, including in circumstances where an officer reasonably believed the force was necessary to capture a dangerous fleeing felon or had a good basis to fear his life was in imminent danger, said Rachel Harmon, a University of Virginia law professor and former Justice Department civil rights prosecutor.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato’s latest “Crystal Ball” analysis projects a Republican pick-up of four to eight seats – with a GOP Senate gain of six-to-seven seats “the likeliest outcome.”
Russell Berman of The Wire news site has compiled a list of the nation’s most vulnerable governors for the 2014 election cycle, and Gov. Malloy featured prominently. This is at least the third time Gov. Malloy has made a list of this nature. National Public Radio – hardly a conservative outfit – tagged him in August 2013 and University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato, author of the “Sabato’s Crystal Ball” newsletter, followed suit in June 2014.
Kansas’ U. S. Senate race may be more volatile than usual. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, moved the race from “safe Republican” to “likely Republican,” and a new poll showed incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, leading the field, but with 37 percent.
One reflection of these new dynamics came Thursday, when political scientist Larry Sabato and his associates at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics released the latest edition of their nationally read Crystal Ball. Sabato & Co. moved Ohio's race for governor from the "Likely Republican" column to "Safe Republican."
University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato’s “Crystal Ball” rates the most likely Senate outcome a Republican gain of six or seven seats, giving them a small majority.
Professor Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics confidently predicts that the GOP will win between four and eight seats this Fall.