(By Steven E. Rhoads, professor of politics) Valentine’s Day presents an opportunity for both men and women to express their devotion to their beloved in meaningful ways. Sadly, some feminists want to use this day to protest male violence and, no doubt, other male failures. Their goal is to supplant Valentine’s Day with V-Day – Violence Against Women Day – until violence stops.
Each game establishes a higher standard for the University of Virginia men’s basketball team. And each higher standard invokes a name from the Cavaliers’ historic past.
(By Joshua Yates, research assistant professor of sociology and managing director of U.Va.’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Once upon a time in America thrift was a popular and celebrated character ideal. Parents exhorted thrift to their children; teachers taught it in schools; religious leaders commended it to their congregations; charitable institutions prescribed it to the poor and downtrodden; public officials extolled its virtue in promoting the general welfare; even advertisers paid obeisance to it in the hawking of sundry wares and goods.
“This plane did exactly what designers want it to do,” said Robert Salzar, principal scientist at the Center for Applied Biomechanics at the University of Virginia. “In the case of a survivable hard landing, the fuselage and the seating systems worked together to absorb the impact energy.”
Stepping up prosecutions is “a fairly standard law enforcement response if there’s a concern about lawbreaking and the current measures aren’t working,” said David A. Martin, a professor of law at the University of Virginia and a former general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security who was part of the Obama administration’s push to change deportation priorities.
Generation Y is postponing marriage until, on average, age 29 for men and 27 for women. College-educated millennials in particular view it as a “capstone” to their lives rather than as a “cornerstone,” according to a report whose sponsors include the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
(By Daniel Willingham, professor and director of graduate studies in psychology) Ovetta Wiggins wrote in this new story about students in the Washington region and beyond learning in single-gender classrooms. The story raises the question: Do in fact students learn better in single-sex classes?
According to Professor Steven DeKosky at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, it would make a huge difference if researchers found a way to even just postpone Alzheimer’s. “If you could delay onset of the disease by five years, you could cut down on about 50 percent of the cases,” DeKosky says. “If you could delay onset by 10 years, you could virtually wipe Alzheimer’s out because you’d have people live to the end of their lives without getting the disease.”
The University of Virginia School of Nursing received a donation for its Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry: a nursing cape that belonged to University President Teresa A. Sullivan's late mother.
Nearly three years after the federal government issued guidelines for dealing with sexual misconduct on campus, administrators are meeting at the University of Virginia to discuss problems and progress. Leaders in higher education say they're struggling to understand and manage sexual assaults in the age of "hooking up."
(By Douglas A. Blackmon, moderator of the forum series at U.Va.’s Miller Center) Attorney General Eric H. Holder made some remarkable comments to me recently about the inequities of the American system of justice, and strongly suggested that the Obama administration is finally ready to directly address that more than 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S.—25% of all prisoners in the world—and that more than 10,000 non-violent federal inmates sentenced at the height of the drug war are serving sentences far longer than they would receive if convicted under current U.S...
University of Virginia women’s soccer player Morgan Brian scored her first international goal Tuesday as the U.S. national team trounced Mexico, 7-0.
Jaywalking remains illegal across the country, and has been for many decades. The first known reference to it dates to December 1913, says Peter Norton, a history professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.”
The family went through several attorneys before coming to the University of Virginia School of Law, where the Innocence Project and the Child Advocacy Clinic took up his case, which went before the Supreme Court of Virginia.
In September 2013, algae biofuels tested as very close to petroleum in energy efficient-production, according to a University of Virginia study. The study, performed at Sapphire’s demonstration plant in New Mexico, demonstrated that carbon emissions of algae biofuels come in at 50-70 percent lower than that of petroleum.
A recent paper by Daphna Bassok and Anna Rorem at the University of Virginia takes a hard and balanced look at the early education push.
If you would like to learn more about Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia and Monticello are launching a free 6-week online course starting this Monday. Historian and UVa professor emeritus Peter Onuf is teaching the course. Over 6,000 people have signed up for it.
The Wahoo war chest still reigns supreme in Virginia. The University of Virginia endowment fund grew to $5.16 billion during fiscal 2013, up 7.9 percent from a market value of $4.78 billion in 2012, according to a study released this month by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. That makes it by far the largest college or university endowment in the state and the 19th largest in the nation based on market value, the NACUBO report found.