The Rev. Gerald Fogarty, a historian of Christianity at the University of Virginia who has written on papal visits, said he believed it was the first time a pope has been invited to address Congress.
A Republican does not have to be Che Guevara to attract the Tea Partiers’ ire. Senator Pat Roberts in Kansas, for example, is “a solid conservative”, says Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, adding: “I defy you to look at his voting record and see what he’s done wrong.” But still the SCF has endorsed his primary opponent, Milton Wolf, a radiologist and distant cousin of Mr Obama.
In the late 1940s, the University of Virginia's Reading Clinic devised a new method of speed-reading, using vertical lines and an alarm clock. "There are two ways to read: microscopically — which is the old way — and telescopically," professor Ullin Leavell, the center's director, told the Los Angeles Times in 1949. "Today we are attempting simply to develop an individual to see a thought unit, instead of individual parts."
Scott Walker, Wisconsin’s governor, the man who built a well-deserved national reputation as the politician who eviscerated organized labor in his state, is running for re-election in 2014—and, if we wins, could emerge as the GOP’s favored candidate to replace the beleaguered Chris Christie, New Jersey’s governor. Indeed, according to the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, Walker ought to be considered the front-runner, ahead of Rand Paul and Christie.
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, sociologist at the University of Virginia) In the wake of the divorce revolution that swept Europe and the Americas over the last half-century, Pope Francis-who celebrates his one-year anniversary this week-is convening a major synod of the world's bishops this fall in Rome to retool the Catholic Church's message and ministry to families.
Taking his cues from nature, a University of Virginia aerospace engineer and his team are studying winged insects for inspiration in designs for flying microrobots, a.k.a. drones. The devices could be used for search-and-rescue operations, military surveillance, or package deliveries. “What is the secret to these fliers?” asks Haibo Dong, an associate professor of engineering.
How many books do you read each year? How many do you first hear about at the Virginia Festival of the Book? A five-day celebration designed to honor book culture and promote reading and literacy, the festival has enchanted readers, encouraged writers, and made Charlottesville a book lover’s paradise every March since 1994.
W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, says that fathers' special input differs from mothers' in at least four ways: playing, encouraging risk, protecting, and disciplining.
(Commentary) In psychology, the Many Labs Replication Project, supported by the Center for Open Science, an institute of the University of Virginia, has rerun 13 experiments about widely accepted theories. Only 10 were validated. The center also has launched what it calls the Cancer Biology Reproducibility Project, to look at 50 recent oncology studies.
Charlottesville ranks No. 3, behind Hanover, N.H. and Bryn Mawr, Pa.
More than 70 years after being wounded twice and falling prisoner to Hitler’s forces in Altavilla, Italy, Charlottesville resident James M. Garnett was finally recognized Friday at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School at the University of Virginia. Garnett, a 1942 graduate of UVa, was awarded a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart with one bronze oak leaf cluster, the Prisoner of War Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the WWII Victory Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge for his service.
Democratic Senator Mark Warner is facing his first re-election bid. Early polls show Warner with a commanding lead, but with the rocky rollout of Obamacare and a still-recovering economy, analysts say the national political landscape could create a competitive race. “Even being a strong incumbent is not going to save you if your party does very badly in an election cycle,” said Geoff Skelley, a political analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
A hundred voices will honor Sarah Creech on Friday night, but her life was a blend of a much larger chorus line. She was a child of the theater on Hilton Head Island, often dancing on stage while her mother, Janice, played the piano in the orchestra pit. She took her talents to New York City before deciding to follow her father in the field of law. On Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, Sarah took a board test for law school. The next night, she died unexpectedly of an acute asthma attack. She was only 27.
Twelve students from Husson College in Maine and six from the University of Virginia spent their spring breaks working on a Habitat for Humanity house in Logan as part of the Habitat Collegiate Challenge program.
During the debate over passage of Arizona's S.B. 1062, critics claimed the bill would allow business owners to ban gays from public accommodations. A group of 11 law professors sent Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer (R) a letter explaining that the bill would not do that and those critics are "trying to deceive you." One of the signers of that letter was Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law, who supports same-sex marriage and religious freedom.
Larry Sabato at University of Virginia looks at the Senate playing field. He rates Democrat Kay Hagan’s seat the fifth most likely in the nation to switch parties.
Michael J. Wolf, former president of MTV and now with entertainment industry consultant Activate, said Participant's social-action campaigns have inspired many people because they are "heart felt" and gimmick-free. But Siva Vaidhyanathan, chairman of the Media Studies Department at the University of Virginia, questioned the value of activism that lives mainly online. He said real political change requires deeper sacrifice — from individuals giving their money, time or long-term commitments.
A few University of Virginia students took a break from work and research on Friday to help protect water quality in the Shenandoah River and Chesapeake Bay. They teamed with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to repair and maintain a riparian buffer that is intended to filter runoff from fertilizer and sediment at a farm along Cub Run in Penn Laird.
Previous research has found that both black and white people assume that black people feel less pain than whites after the same injury. Psychologists at the University of Virginia have now traced this bias as far back as childhood.
In Virginia, they said, racial disparities narrowed in long-term suspension rates in schools that used threat assessment guidelines that provide procedures for examining the intent and risks associated with student misbehavior, according to research by Dewey Cornell of the University of Virginia and JustChildren, a child advocacy program of the Legal Aid Justice Center.