"I'm sure this will be the most expensive Senate race in Virginia history," said Geoff Skelley with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Diane Whaley, Ph.D., director of the Lifetime Physical Activity Program at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville says, "The positive peer pressure can get us to do things we might not normally feel like doing."
The director of Utah State University’s Religious Studies program said the creation of a Mormon chair position at the University of Virginia is an encouraging sign that LDS studies is being increasingly embraced by academia across the country.
"I'm sure you'll see more lawsuits," said Thomas Hafemeister, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who specializes in health care. "This is pretty devastating stuff, and it is stuff that everyone assumes shouldn't have happened."
University of Virginia psychiatry professor Janet Warren concluded that "there was little information in the files concerning the techniques used…to 'groom' their alleged child victims" and no clear risk factors to help screen out molesters.
Scott Stephenson, 47, is an affable man whose passion is his work and whose work is his passion. He has a doctorate in American history from the University of Virginia, and has served as a consultant to Colonial Williamsburg as well as a variety of museums and historical societies. He is director of collections and interpretation for the American Revolution Center, which is planning to build the Museum of the American Revolution ain Philadelphia by 2016.
Romney would face a rude awakening if he took on the office of the presidency with the mindset of a Massachusetts governor, University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato believes, but former longtime Republican congressional staffer Mike Lofgren argued the circumstances that would likely accompany a Romney victory in November would be more prone to fuel a workable Congress than would an Obama second term.
A University of Virginia psychiatrist retained by the government, Dr. Gregory B. Saathoff, had concluded that Mr. Arbabsiar did not suffer from bipolar disorder or other mental illness that would have prevented him from knowingly consenting to questioning without a lawyer.
The late William Cutler “Buck” Cole III will be honored Friday and Saturday for his contributions to the Virginia Athletic Foundation at the University of Virginia.
The Roanoke Higher Education Center could potentially attract several thousand more adults to pursue a college degree if its members added more programs in math, science, health and other fields, a market study found. The higher ed center, which opened in 2000 in the old Norfolk and Western Railway headquarters, offers more than 200 college-level program from partner institutions that include Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Hollins University, Radford University, Roanoke College, and several other Virginia-based schools and organizations.
University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon Garrett said, "They know there was no witness really and if they want to make stuff up, they won't get caught."
University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon Garrett said, "They know there was no witness really and if they want to make stuff up, they won't get caught."
The University of Virginia Law School will host a conference on animal cruelty Friday afternoon. Since the Michael Vick case put a spotlight on Virginia’s laws governing treatment of animals, the Commonwealth has become a leader in preventing cruelty. Some things which used to be misdemeanors are now felonies, but UVA Law Professor Mimi Riley says many issues remain on the table.
The recent North American Menopause Society meeting revealed several new treatments that are going to give women a non-estrogen choice for treating hot flashes. This study was conducted by Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, a past president of NAMS and a Professor at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett said, "They know there was no witness really and if they want to make stuff up, they won't get caught."
Brandeis will celebrate the life and work of a scholar whose career spanned many decades, myriad disciplines and now encompasses more than 75 cubic feet of archived material. The late Lewis Feuer, known for the breadth of his scholarship, including work on the history of science and the sociology of ideas, and for his lifelong political activism, retired from the University of Virginia faculty.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics, said Clinton's series of interviews were clearly an effort to draw fire away from the White House.
Chris Sprigman, a law professor at the University of Virginia who opposes the fashion copyright proposal, thinks the novelist analogy proves the opposite point. "Since when does copyright ensure that a novelist—even a good one—gets to write a second novel? The market determines that," he told Ars in a phone interview.
Thanks to a University of Virginia law professor, Virginia now has a set of uniform guidelines covering admissible evidence. Until very recently, Virginia was one of only two states lacking a standard set of rules governing the admission of evidence.
University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Kyle Kondik told Newsmax that Obama “was certainly stronger tonight than he was two weeks ago. ... It seems like Obama ‘won’ the debate, and the post-debate snap polls agreed – although this was not as dominate a showing as Mitt Romney had in Denver.”