Heritage Academy in Hagerstown, Maryland holds its senior graduation ceremony this evening, and Maddi Runkles will not be among the students donning cap and gown. As most have heard by now, the Christian school is punishing Runkles, who is pregnant, because she violated the school’s morality code that prohibits premarital sex. Brad Wilcox, a UVA sociologist who directs the National Marriage Project, said the conundrum is the two competing values: “On one hand, the school is seeking to maintain some kind of commitment to what has classically been called chastity – or today might be called ...
Ed Gillespie is the Republican with the best prospects for winning the Virginia governor's race this fall. However, it's anything but a cinch. Gillespie has to win the GOP primary on June 13, and he's heavily favored to do so. Then he would face a Democrat who is certain to portray him as President Trump's alter ego. It's a rough road ahead. And Trump isn't the only problem. "Virginia is a blue-tinged purple state," says political science professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. Democrats think they have the advantage for another reason. The last four Republicans who won the gover...
Republicans and conservatives tend to show higher levels of skepticism about man-made influence on climate change, meaning Trump supporters will certainly be pleased by his move, said Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. But no matter what decision Trump made, this won't be an issue that will dominate the 2018 midterms, he said.
“It’s an area of law in which the rule is easy to state, but the tricky part is in applying it,” said Joshua Wheeler, the director of both UVA’s First Amendment Clinic and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. “And by that I mean, there is a potential for abuse or for judges to exercise this authority in an arbitrary fashion.”
(Commentary By Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics ) In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, many observers understandably focused on the numerous places that swung from Barack Obama to Donald Trump. How many total voters really switched from Obama to Trump in 2016? Different data sources tell a different story, but the answer is certainly in the millions.
Robert F. Kennedy’s meeting, described nearly two decades ago by Timothy Naftali and Aleksandr Fursenko in “One Hell of a Gamble,” a book on the Cuban missile crisis, was ostensibly with a Soviet reporter who was also a K.G.B. officer. Philip D. Zelikow, a UVA historian and a former member of the George W. Bush administration who has worked extensively on the Kennedy era, noted the purpose of the meeting was to “signal hopes for good relations and defer expectations for an immediate summit meeting.”
State-supported schools are a lot less supported than they used to be. According to the American Council on Education, Virginia reduced higher education funding 53.6 percent from 1980 to 2011, and the cuts keep coming. State funding for full-time equivalent students was down 44 percent from 2001 to 2013.
As universities around the country address their former ties with slavery, the University of Virginia recently named a new building after Peyton Skipwith, a former slave of John Hartwell Cocke, one of the university’s early leaders.
We now know the kickoff times for the University of Virginia’s first three home football games of 2017. The Cavaliers will play at 3:30 p.m. on both Saturday, September 2nd and one week later on September 9th. The ‘Hoos begin their season with a pre-Labor Day clash with the College of William and Mary, and their September 9th opponents will be the Indiana Hoosiers. The UVA versus Indiana game will also be Military Appreciation Day at Scott Stadium.
Alexis Ohanian, 33, is a tech entrepreneur and best-selling author from the US. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1983 to an Armenian-American father – whose family fled the genocide – and a German mother. Alexis went to school in Ellicot City, Maryland, before graduating from the University of Virginia in 2005 with degrees in commerce and history.
If President Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, as he's expected to do, experts warn the spiraling global warming crisis will take its hardest toll on millennials, who will inherit a crippled landscape. "If someone’s 20 years old now, they’re going to be in the prime of their life when these really serious climate chaanges happen and it’s going to be their kids who start bearing the brunt when things really start to go wrong," UVA law professor Michael Livermore tells Bustle. Livermore says the impact will determine "the economy, where they decide to live, and what the world...
“The meaning of covfefe is that every Cabinet member should be closely studying the 25th Amendment,” quipped Larry Sabato, the UVA politics expert, referring to the procedure of succession for a president deemed incapacitated.
State Sen. Mark Obenshain, R–Harrisonburg, in a press release in February, said there were eight localities in which the number of registered voters was higher than the voting-age population. Not so, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the state’s official source for population and demographic data. The center asserts that there are zero localities where voter registration outnumbers the voting-age population.
Jeff Regester, an instructor of physics and astronomy, is a lead observer on a team that includes scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, MIT, the University of Virginia, Wellesley College, Williams College and Lowell Observatory. Their efforts will focus on determining the size of MU69, an object in the Kuiper Belt.
Researchers in academia are working hard to develop technology that will prevent cybercriminals from subverting what amounts to powerful computers that can drive, float or fly. "About 50 percent of my work is understanding how to detect cyber attacks on modern vehicles, such as the car you drive every day, or robotic systems in airborne vehicles," says Nicola Bezzo, UVA assistant professor of systems and information engineering.
When Jim Grobe pulled up outside Fork Union Military Academy’s Wicker Chapel on Wednesday, the first thing he did was check his watch. He was early, just the way Sonny Randle would have demanded. Grobe joined former players and coaches from Fork Union, East Carolina, the University of Virginia, Marshall and the NFL to celebrate the life of Ulmo Shannon “Sonny” Randle, who passed last week at the age of 81.
The Centennial Celebration of the founding of the University of Virginia and an alumni reunion began on this day in 1921. Delegates from around the world met for the opening exercises in Cabell Hall.
President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and urging them to call him directly, an unusual invitation that breaks diplomatic protocol and is raising concerns about the security and secrecy of the U.S. commander in chief's communications. "If you are Macron or the leader of any country and you get the cellphone number of the president of the United States, it's reasonable to assume that they'd hand it right over to their intel service," said Ashley Deeks, a UVA law professor who formerly served as the assistant legal adviser for political-military affairs...
Former Rep. Tom Perriello has used progressive appeals and strident anti-Trump attacks to upend the race. “[Perriello] probably entered the race as a credible underdog, but I think that over the course of the past few months, I have a hard time saying that there’s a favorite,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an election analysis site at the University of Virginia.
Imagine an actual gamification aspect to stroke rehabilitation that brings a significant improvement in the process by stimulating a desire to conquer the disability, active initiation of movements and providing real-time feedback. This is the Neofect mission. Founded in June of 2010 by two students of UVA’s Darden School of Business, Hoyoung Ban and Scott Kim, and MS, Ph.D. of the University of Southern California, Young Choi, Neofect has created a breakthrough product called the Rapael Smart Glove to take stroke rehab and robotics to a new level.