In Iqaluit, Nunavut, labourers are working long hours to finish the region’s first mosque before winter. And they’re doing so without eating or drinking anything, even water, for almost 22 hours each day. How Muslims living in nearly 24 hours of daylight should observe Ramadan is a fairly new question for the faith’s leaders, says Shankar Nair, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia.
Malcolm Brogdon and three former University of Virginia athletes will compete at the 2015 Pan American Games, held July 10-26 in Toronto.
The University of Virginia Foundation will go before the Albemarle County Planning Commission on Tuesday to present its plan for a state-of-the-art facility for its men’s and women’s golf programs.
(By Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia) As the Greek economy teeters, there is still time and opportunity to make sure that Ukraine's economy is not next. The stakes in Greece's future are high. The stakes in Ukraine's future are even higher and the United States should not be a bystander.
New work on the skeletal remains of scarlet macaws found in an ancient Pueblo settlement indicates that social and political hierarchies may have emerged in the American Southwest earlier than previously thought. "In general, most researchers have argued that emergence of hierarchy, and of extensive trade networks that extended into Mexico, would coincide with what we see as other aspects of the Chaco florescence: roads being built outward from Chaco and the formation of what are called Chaco outliers that mimic the architecture seen in the cultural center," said Stephen Plog, profes...
Even though it is no longer a planet, Pluto is holding a lot of interest these days.
Students at the University of Virginia will soon be better prepared to join the workforce thanks to a complete revamp to the school's Career Services Department. The former University Career Services is changing its name to the UVA Career Center.
(By Kelsey Johnson Kelsey Johnson is an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia) Should Pluto be a planet? As an astronomy professor, I get asked this question a lot, and I will admit that I am grateful people actually care. By comparison, I don’t recall nearly the same level of popular outcry when a new domain was added to the phylogenetic tree in biology. Astronomy seems to occupy a special place among the sciences in terms of popular interest, and for many people their first exposure to astronomy is through the planets.
A Commentary by U.Va. Astronomer Kelsey JohnsonMy first indication that something was off was an email from a colleague: "Congratulations on your cool science result getting some press. Also congrats on the apparently successful gender reassignment surgery." Seeing your work and your name in the news is exciting. But seeing yourself identified with the wrong gender is demoralizing. Sloppy reporting to be sure, but why does it matter? The women who set the path before I came along had to deal with much more egregious social norms and behaviors. By comparison, these "small" t...
The politicians piled in by the dozens to say it would create chaos to let stand a Virginia jury's finding that former Gov. Bob McDonnell was corrupt — a stance that shows they may be out of touch with voters' views on ethics, political scientists say. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said the former attorneys general who argued for overturning McDonnell's conviction aimed to give an honest analysis of the law. "But they also reflect a long-standing political culture that they experienced while in high office — a culture that average people b...
For some, the Supreme Court's decision declaring that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry put the free exercise of religion in danger. "The state and its counties are bound by the decision, and they do not have religions," said University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, an expert on the 1st Amendment and religious liberty. "Someone has to issue licenses, and I would say they must do so without imposing delay or inconvenience on the same-sex couples."
Car companies don't usually get sucked into philosophical debates, but right now they're facing a big, thorny question: how the self-driving cars of the future will decide who will live and who will die. "You're making a trade-off between mobility and safety," says Noah Goodall, a University of Virginia researcher. "Driving always involves risk for various parties. And anytime you distribute risk among those parties, there's an ethical decision there."
Virginia's presidential primary isn't until March 1, but voters shouldn't expect to be left alone until then. Voters shouldn't be surprised if they are asked to sign multiple candidate petitions. Voters can do that, but by signing petitions, they are saying they will vote in that party's primary. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato predicted many candidates won't qualify for the state's ballot either because they don't have enough signatures or aren't paying attention to the rules. "Some of the more minor candidates have no clue what...
He drives a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He brags about wearing a sweater he bought for $1 at Kohl’s department store. On Monday, as he becomes the 15th Republican to enter the race for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination, his backers are hoping he can convince voters not only that he is the most authentic candidate, but one who can rise to meet the most complex economic and foreign policy challenges facing the country. “He’s a Midwesterner, he is a governor, and he is an average Joe,” said Larry Sabato, a politics expert at the University of Virgin...
Bill Antholis is the new Executive Director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He joins Coy to explore the economic crisis in Greece and other nations in Europe, why it matters and what it could mean for the United States and China.
Malcolm Brogdon of the University of Virginia was one of 12 players named to the U.S. men's basketball team for the Pan American Games in Toronto, which began Friday and end July 26.
University of Virginia Medical Center has earned two 2015 national Women’s Choice Awards® from WomenCertified Inc. – one for patient safety and one for patient satisfaction in orthopedics.
University of Virginia researchers have come up with a new way of using light as a form of enhancement to Wi-Fi-based networks, creating a method of using light waves from light-emitting diode fixtures to carry signals to wireless devices at 300 megabits per second from each light.
University of Virginia engineering professor Maite Brandt-Pearce and Harvard professor Mohammad Noshad have devised a way of using light waves from LEDs to carry signals to wireless devices at 300 megabits per second.
A federal three-judge panel has been hearing testimony and looking at evidence this week in a federal lawsuit that could have dramatic consequences for the state's politics. At issue is the map of House of Delegates districts, which a group of citizens says violates the Voting Rights Act. "The most advanced gerrymandering does involve careful computer programming and statistical analysis," says Geoff Skelley at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "But even if you don't overly complicate it with that, it's still very easy to go through and look a...