The University of Virginia has found a novel way to generate revenue in a downturn: booting the cars of students, faculty and staff with unpaid parking tickets.
The old adage "couples who pray together stay together" may be true, especially for African-Americans, a new study shows. ... "Without prayer, black couples would be doing significantly worse than white couples," said W. Bradford Wilcox, a co-author of the study and the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "The vitality of African-Americans' religious lives gives them an advantage over other Americans when it comes to relationships. This advantage puts them on par with other couples."
... The results of primaries in four states on Tuesday will leave moderate Democrats facing Republicans who have been tainted by extreme views, or accusations of unethical conduct, in key races for the US Senate and state governorships. This should undermine the Republicans' attempts to retake control of Congress. "This is the best night the Democrats have had this year," said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia.
... A recent study by three researchers at the University of Virginia and George Washington University concluded that adopted preschool-age children develop the same, whether the parents are straight or gay, and that the kids showed "typical gender development" regardless of the parents' sexual orientation.
Emma Rathbone
A 2006 graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program whose debut novel, "The Patterns of Paper Monsters" was reviewed last week in The New Yorker
David G. Leitch
A graduate of the Law School
Robert Fatton
Professor of politics
Anxiety rises as final cut of Haiti candidates nears
Miami Herald | Aug. 11
G. Carleton Ray
A marine ecologist
Another Symbol of the Arctic's Complex Ecosystem Finds Itself on Thin Ice
New York Times | Aug. 10
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Shades of Tricky Dick in Rangel rant
New York Post | Aug. 11
Isaac Wood
A House race expert at the Center for Politics
Hurt opts out of today's 5th District debate
Charlottesville Daily Progress | Aug. 10
The president cited statistics showing that more than a third of college students and half of all minority students fail to complete a degree after six years and said it was “critical” that access was widened while at the same time ensuring that students stuck with their studies. He concluded by referring to former presidents who had supported education such as Thomas Jefferson, who founded the University of Virginia.
By Julian Bond, professor of history
Now that the Senate has formally approved Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, one thing we know about her is that she clerked for and reveres Thurgood Marshall. That is because this became a major line of attack by Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chief among them Iowa's Sen. Charles Grassley, as they gauged her fitness as a potential justice. Many watchers were surprised by the attacks against Marshall by Grassley and his fellow Republican senators. I wasn't one of them. Appalled, yes; surprised, no.
Both sides of the illegal-immigration debate agree on one thing: Illegal aliens began fleeing Prince William. And as they did, our violent crime rate plummeted 37 percent. Some call that a coincidence. I don't think so, and I am not alone. A survey conducted by the University of Virginia found that 80 percent of Prince William residents agree with the policy's implementation, and that 65 percent of our 500 police officers have found it to be an effective tool to fight violent crime.
One well-documented example is Amazon's Kindle DX pilot trial program. Students at seven universities (including Princeton and the University of Virginia) used the first-generation Kindle DX in place of traditional textbooks and then reported on the classroom effectiveness of the 9.7-inch e-book reader. The results were underwhelming, as many (though by no means all) students found that the device didn't suit their study habits.
Following a trend that has been building for several years, some university dorms are ditching landline phones as cellphones become more popular. The University of Virginia removed about 3,850 telephones from residence halls over the summer, the school said this week. The school’s housing department will save $500,000 a year by not providing telephone service, officials said, adding that AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon had funded improvements in coverage on campus.
In what was described as the first major look at relationship quality and religion across racial and ethnic lines, researchers reported a significant link overall between relationship satisfaction and religious factors for whites, Hispanics and African Americans. The study appears in the August issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family. True to the old aphorism, couples that pray together stay together, said study co-author W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, based at University of Virginia, and "African American couples are more likely to have a shared ...
It was almost a year ago when the H1N1 virus sent school officials scrambling to keep students safe from the new flu strain that had invaded college and university campuses across the country — from Washington State University, where officials saw more than 2,000 cases, to the University of Virginia, where hundreds of cases cropped up. ... we’re not expecting H1N1 to surge this year,” Dr. Jim Turner, the executive director of student health at the University of Virginia, told FoxNews.com. “Since students returned from winter break in January – there has been very ...
The University of Virginia, which last week announced a new procedure to ensure that students report whether they've been arrested, will ask other schools to join a voluntary system of letting one another know about serious incidents on their campuses. U.Va. plans to send a letter next week to the state's public and private colleges and universities asking "them to join us in a system of courtesy calls to each other," said Allen W. Groves, dean of students. It's simply one more point of information for use in each school's overall safety and security assessment," he said.
M. Denise Williams
A doctor at the Southern Albemarle Family Practice and an alumnus of the School of Medicine
Dr. Steven DeKosky
Dean of the Medical School
Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s
New York Times | Aug. 9
Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills
Professor of medicine, allergy and immunology was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society, which includes the likes of Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
UVA Medical Professor Joins Great Science Minds
WVIR NBC-29 | Aug. 10
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
85 Days to Decide: Obama's Golden Touch Tested in Colorado Primary Race
Fox News | Aug.