John Scully, a corrosion expert at the University of Virginia, said Caltrans "can't eliminate all the infiltration points. They are going to have some issues here - as to long-term implications, this will be in the high-maintenance category."
Every Democratic Senate incumbent running for re-election in a tight race had more cash on hand at the end of 2013 than their opponents. In New Hampshire, North Carolina, Minnesota and Colorado the advantage was overwhelming, while Republican challengers were somewhat closer in Arkansas, Alaska and Louisiana. But Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said the advantage shouldn’t be of much comfort to the incumbents because of the flood of money the national parties and outside groups can now pour into races.
Because Sarah’s brain was swelling dangerously, she was flown to the University of Virginia Center for Neurological Injuries in Charlottesville. She was comatose. At U.Va., neurosurgeons noted that an aneurysm occurring in the brain stem region was extremely rare, particularly in someone Sarah’s age.
Over the past 20 years of studying relationships, including how couples regulate each others' emotions, Jim Coan of the University of Virginia became interested in the "cohabitation effect" – the idea that cohabiting couples, compared to married couples, are less stable, show fewer health-related benefits, and may even be more likely to divorce if they ultimately marry. "I've always felt personally skeptical of these findings, not really for any strong empirical reason, they just felt intuitively wrong to me," he says.
Tales of parental overreach are not hard to find on college campuses, said clinical psychologist Meg Jay, author of "The Defining Decade" and an assistant clinical professor at the University of Virginia. "You can have a flat tire, a boss who yells, a class that's harder than expected," Jay said. "Things go wrong that parents can't control and they are worse if you haven't learned skills gradually."
(Audio) February 11, 2014 marks 85 years since the signing of the Lateran Pacts. But what exactly were these pacts? That's what Veronica Scarisbrick asks Jesuit historian Gerald Fogarty, who's currently teaching at the University of Virginia in the United States.
Due to anticipated traffic stemming from President Barack Obama’s visit to the area, the start time for the Maryland men’s basketball team’s Monday night game at Virginia has been changed from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., the Cavaliers announced. The game, once slated for ESPN, will now be broadcast on ESPNU.
Bruce Williams, the Taylor Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia, said it’s hard to find pop culture references that are familiar to most of the 18-year-olds in his large introductory courses. “The media today is much more segmented,” Williams explained. “If I find an example from a popular TV show, say ‘The Big Bang Theory’ (with close to 20 million viewers), fewer than a third of the students are familiar with that show.”
Physics professor Louis Bloomfield is credited as a source in this multimedia presentation on the physics of ski jumping.
One step in the right direction is the $50.9 million unallocated balance former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell left behind in his last budget, the largest unappropriated balance since 1991. I can’t think of a more worthy priority for the commonwealth’s future than making higher education more affordable for Virginia students.
The College of William and Mary plans to launch a new general education curriculum that has put the nation’s second-oldest college in an ideological crossfire about what students should be learning.
(Commentary) What if Americans really do care about politics – and conflicting ideologies? And, in fact, what if they care so much that they’re willing to go to the extreme lengths of actually packing up and moving from one county or state to another to surround themselves with like-minded folks. This is exactly what is happening, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) 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.
American universities vary as to whether they require applicants to disclose convictions. The University of Virginia, for example, expects students and applicants to furnish up-to-date information on arrests as well as convictions, and advises students to “err on the side of disclosure” if in doubt.
Still, it’s hard to be a Democrat from more conservative states. “American politics has sorted itself out so that the Democratic Party is more liberal and the base is fine with that,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, independent analysts at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
(By Gosia Glinska, senior researcher at the Darden School of Business) The big idea: Southern Bancorp, a community development financial institution based in Arkadelphia, Ark., serves distressed rural markets that see growing demand for small, unsecured lines of consumer credit. Those markets attract payday lenders, whose same-day loans carry triple-digit interest rates and can trap vulnerable borrowers in a cycle of debt. Southern is testing affordable consumer credit products and ways to educate low- and moderate-income individuals about managing debt and protecting their finances.
Ski jumpers used to hold their skis parallel to each other, but learned that they could catch more of the air pushing up underneath them if they separated their skis, with the tails pointing toward each other. This V shape has been the standard style since the 1990s. "Skiers are trying to play glider," Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, told Inside Science back in 2010. "You push the air down, the air pushes back, pushes you upward."
University of Virginia employees are pledging Friday morning to lead a heart-healthy life for 12 full weeks. The pledge is part of a kickoff to Heart Month and to celebrate National Wear Red Day.
But Russia is determined to show the rest of the world what it can do, says Gordon Hylton, a professor at Marquette Law School (teaching at U.Va. this semester) whose expertise includes both sports history and Russia.
Albemarle, the district in which Bredder teaches, made a decision to put makerspaces in its middle schools first. Partnering with the University of Virginia, the district has taught middle school engineering teachers to work with core content teachers, training them in mechatronics and rapid prototyping. The goal is to offer the courses across all middle schools and then scale up to the high school level.