"We really see an epidemic of concussions because kids want to play that way. Of course, they're getting bigger, they're stronger, they're faster, the collisions are more violent," said Dr. John MacKnight, a member of the University of Virginia's Sports Medicine team.
Features discussion with a panel including Christopher Swift, a fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia and the author of the upcoming book, "The Fighting Vanguard: Local Insurgencies in the Global Jihad."
Three authors who have taught hundreds of students at Virginia universities have been chosen as the major winners of the 15th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards announced Saturday night. The honorees included alumnus David Huddle and faculty member Maurie D. McInnis, associate professor and associate dean for undergraduate academic programs.
It's safe to assume that state representative Larry Cafero will be taking a break from campaigning Thursday night. Instead, Cafero plans to settle in and watch his son Nicholas Cafero's television acting debut on "The Office." For Nicholas, a junior at University of Virginia majoring in political science, his foray into acting came about in an unexpected way.
(Commentary by R.K. Ramazani, Edward R. Stettinus professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia) For decades fundamentalist Muslims have been telling the world, “Islam is the solution” for all the problems of Muslim society. But Malala is saying, on the contrary, “Education is the solution,” because the holy book of the Muslims, the Quran, and the prophetic tradition (sunna) instruct Muslim women and men to seek knowledge as a matter of religious obligation.
Researchers have successfully built and flown an unmanned aerial vehicle, using 3D printing technology. Engineering students from the University of Virginia posted a YouTube video of a plastic turbofan engine they had designed and built using 3D printing technology.
Edward Hess, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, is teaching a "massive open online course" starting in January on Coursera - the free online education platform founded this year by two Stanford University computer scientists. So far, more than 26,000 students have signed up.
“Obama is the first president to use his unilateral powers so routinely, especially in the domestic sphere,” says University of Virginia presidential scholar Sidney Milkis, a self-described moderate Democrat. “And in some ways, that may be more insidious than what came before.”
Profile of Hugh Keogh, former president of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, who attended U.Va. on a Navy ROTC scholarship.
Matthew Engle, one of Barbour's lawyers and co-director of U.Va.'s Innocence Project, said, "He just made a mistake. He thought that when the Supreme Court granted his writ that he was no longer a convicted felon. He misunderstood."
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, execuive director of U.Va.'s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.) The brave new world of online courses is alive and well and growing at the University of Virginia, which has yet to determine how to turn a profit on these ventures.
Audio interview with politics professor Larry J. Sabato, director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics.
A report by the Boy Scouts in September said that 829 of the files from Jan. 1, 1965, to June 30, 1984, involved suspicions or confirmations of inappropriate sexual behavior with 1,622 youth. The report was done for the organization by Dr. Janet Warren, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia.
Co-investigators on the grant include Patrick Concannon, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at University of Virginia.
Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, agrees. "In the early part of the republic, we had candidates who lived in Virginia, and moved around some," he says. "But this is the modern era, where candidates move a great deal."
In 2009 University of Virginia psychologist Christopher S. Hulleman described a semester-long intervention in which one group of high school students wrote about how science related to their lives and another group simply summarized what they had learned in science class.
Commentary by Philip Zelikow, history professor and associate dean of Arts & Sciences for graduate academic programs.
“In a rather archaic tradition,” says Kyle Kondik, a tie throws the presidential decision to the House — which has a current GOP majority. Each of the 50 state delegations casts a single vote and the candidate who wins the most votes wins the White House, said Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia.
A candidate “gets face time on the news broadcasts, and he gets written up in the newspaper,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Whatever sound bite is produced out of the visit will be repeated on television.”
Anthrax has the unexpected ability to grow and reproduce while lurking in soil — increasing the deadly bacteria’s chances to infect cattle and other mammals, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered.