At election post-mortem conferences in the capital, the Texan's feat — putting a scare into Cruz and Texas Republicans, who haven't lost a statewide race since 1994 — made his prospects a top-of-mind topic. "There's a Beto factor out there," Donna Brazile, the former Democratic Party national chairwoman, said at a conference hosted Thursday by UVA’s Center for Politics.
Many colleges and universities have endowed scholarships that may require a nomination from a high school official or a special application/deadline for students to apply. An example is the Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia. As one might imagine, these scholarships are extremely competitive and often cover the full cost of attendance.
(Video) An entrepreneurship program at UVA is giving students the chance to move their ideas from the lab to the marketplace.
(Audio) Peter Norton, a professor in UVA’s Department of Engineering and Society, and Emily Badger, urban policy reporter for the New York Times, discuss the past, present and dazzling future of self-driving car salesmanship.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, credited Bloomberg’s operation for picking smart races. “I don’t think you could say they were the difference between the Democrats winning and losing the majority,” Kondik said, “however I think you could say that Mr. Bloomberg and his late money may have made a difference in a few of the surprising results that helped pad the size of the Democratic majority.”
The 10-member group calling for the amendment includes A.E. Dick Howard, the UVA law professor who led the commission that wrote the current version of the state constitution in 1971. “We thought we had addressed [gerrymandering] in the new constitution,” which specified that legislative and congressional districts be “contiguous and compact,” Howard said.
University of Virginia’s College at Wise mathematics major Casey Taylor won this year’s UVA-Wise Entrepreneurship Cup Concept Competition.
(Commentary) Wednesday at Maryland in the ACC-Big Ten challenge, the Cavaliers faced their first significant challenge of the season. Virginia won 76-71. Maryland’s good. Virginia’s better.
Maggie Thornton, a doctoral student at UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development, said her research reveals Quest’s origins as a form of de-facto segregation in the years after Charlottesville’s schools were forced to integrate in the 1960s. Racial disparities in Quest, the school division’s program for gifted students, was one subject of the story that remained at the forefront of Tuesday’s discussion.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Samuel V. Lemley of Charlottesville, winner of the 2018 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest.
In a University of Virginia study of 7,000 students homeschooled under religious exemption, there were no cases of the exemption being abused to not provide an education.
The Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts has applied a nationally recognized strategic financial analysis tool to Virginia’s 14 public colleges and universities, revealing that only one – the University of Virginia – has a strong financial foundation and several are vulnerable to stress.
Kirt von Daacke, an assistant dean who helps lead UVA’s slavery commission, argues that a collective repair effort could best overcome any roadblocks. "If one institution has to bear all the weight of the work, I think it’s hard to get those things pushed through administrations," he says. "But if it’s, hey, we’re joining 10 other schools in attempting this thing, I think that makes it a lot easier."
“Under current copyright law, although there are special provisions that give certain rights to libraries, there is no definition of a library,” said Brandon Butler, director of information policy for the UVA Library. “And that’s a thing that rights holders have always fretted over, and they’ve always fretted over entities like the Internet Archive, which aren’t 200-year-old public libraries, or university-affiliated libraries.”
The group is known as the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnership. “The priorities are to promote healthy eating and active living, to address mental health and substance use issues, to improve health disparities and access to care, and then to foster a healthy and connected community,” said Elizabeth Beasley, community relations lead for the UVA Health System.
“I wanted to create an intimate environment where students could ask their question that they’ve always had about Jefferson, but also explore his context and what it means to the University today,” fourth-year UVA student Elizabeth Forward said.
(Audio) James Detert, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, studies acts of courage in the workplace. His most surprising finding? Most people describe everyday actions – not big whistleblower scandals – when they cite courageous (or gutless) acts they’ve seen coworkers and leaders take.
The new study shows that "for kids who have parenting that is less than optimal, there are opportunities in both their friendships and relationships with teachers at school to get the support, engagement and reinforcement of their worth that may help blunt the negative impact of harsh parenting," said Patrick Tolan, Charles S. Robb Professor in UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development. "But I don't think the message from this study is that having good friendships overcomes harsh parenting."
A geneticist at the UVA School of Medicine says he is alarmed at the potential health risks, to generations, of the first genetically modified babies, claimed to have been created by a Chinese scientist. Dr. Mazhar Adli uses the CRISPR gene-editing tool used in the experiment and he says his research reveals serious problems.
Title VII’s accommodation provision, added to the statute in 1972, calls on employers to reasonably allow for workers’ religious practices if they can do so without undue hardship. But the Supreme Court “pulled the teeth out” of that requirement with its 1977 decision in TWA v. Hardison, which said anything more than a minimal expense is an undue hardship, according to Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor who has written extensively on religious rights. “The law has been mostly a failure ever since,” Laycock told Bloomberg Law in an email.