Virginia Foundation for the Humanities has received the largest donation to date from an individual to support its award-winning online encyclopedia. Barbara J. Fried, who has chaired VFH’s Board of Directors since July 2014, made the $1 million gift to support Encyclopedia Virginia. Her gift partially endows a critical editorial position for the resource on Virginia history and culture.
The University of Virginia and the U.S. Army have joined forces to address the defense needs of the nation. Together they will tap into resources involving new technology and new research.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of two registered sex offenders cites Indiana's new religious objections law in arguing they've been wrongly prohibited from worshipping at churches that have schools on the same property. Douglas Laycock, a constitutional scholar at the University of Virginia Law School who helped win passage of the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, said he believes the ACLU lawsuit has merit and that making it a crime to attend church services is a major burden on a person's religious practices.
Alon Confino is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and at Ben Gurion University, Israel. Professor Confino received his PhD from Berkley University. He has written extensively and influentially on historical memory, historical method and German history. He has received grants from the Fulbright, Humboldt, DAAD, and Lady Davis foundations, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, the Social Science Research Council, the Israel Academy of Sciences, and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
In 1996, the FDA approved the acupuncture needle as a medical device. Ann Gill Taylor, a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing, says she finds that “practitioners who use acupuncture view the human body as an ecosystem.” Taylor suggests that acupuncture is among the most researched and documented complementary health-enhancing practices.
Communication has always been key to opportunity for the deaf community. But technological advances, which have changed the way everyone communicates, and a growing popularity among college students to learn American Sign Language have removed even more obstacles to the deaf community and the hearing community connecting." Recent technology advances have been very good to bridge gaps between deaf and hearing people," said Christopher Krentz, an English and ASL professor at the University of Virginia, using video-phone technology to speak.
For American soccer fans, the women’s World Cup win was a sweet one. And for soccer fans in the Old Dominion, there was definitely a Virginia feel to the team. Three standouts — Becky Sauerbrunn, Morgan Brian and Ali Krieger — are alumnae of the University of Virginia where each played women’s soccer in the tough ACC. UVa head coach Steve Swanson was a key coaching strategist for the women’s national team, as was former William and Mary player and former UVa assistant coach Jill Ellis.
Amid little fanfare, the University of Virginia has reworked the contract of men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett in a fashion that will make it less tempting to leave Charlottesville.
The University of Virginia has reworked the contract of basketball coach Tony Bennett, complete with a raise and myriad incentives the school hopes will be sufficient in warding off larger programs like Wisconsin.
Atherosclerosis could be treated through a radically different method than currently employed today, following new research into the dangerous condition. "We suspected there was a small number of smooth muscle cells we were failing to identify using the typical immunostaining detection methods. It wasn't a small number. It was 82 percent," said Gary Owens from the University of Virginia.
It is well-known that the leading cause of death in the world is atherosclerosis or artery blockage, that is why most doctors try to prevent this by educating their patients. However, it looks like some facts doctors tell their patients could be false, as a study claims that heart attack and stroke may be actually caused by the good body cells. Gary K. Owen of the University of Virginia Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center states that they have misidentified a small number of smooth muscles by means of immunostaining detection method, leading to an underestimation of the actual numbe...
A recent study shows that when it comes to family stability, "red" (conservative) counties tend to fare better than "blue" (liberal) ones. The findings, compiled by W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia, rebut the sort of conventional wisdom found in books like Naomi Cahn's and June Carbone's Red Families v. Blue Families published in 2010.
This lightbulb could work as your next wireless router. At the University of Virginia, researchers have unveiled a new way to transmit wireless data in light waves from LED lights — a much more reliable and faster alternative to radio wave Wi-Fi.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the University of Virginia have created a new category for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal, awarded each year on Founder’s Day. The category, known as Global Innovation, will be hosted by UVa’s Darden School of Business and will be awarded to an individual for guiding a “significant global innovation that creates value for humanity,” according to a statement from the university. The dean of the Darden School will chair the selection committee.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation have announced the creation of the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Global Innovation. The medal will recognize a person for his or her role in guiding significant global innovation that creates value for humanity.
As Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders gains ground on Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, the two candidates’ supporters have been sparring, including over campaign donations. All told, it’s possible to look at the top donors on the two lists and say both candidates are captive to a particular set of interest groups, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. However, he added, "labor is a Democratic constituency whose beliefs generally line up with Democratic policies, and we’re talking a...
‘I can’t. It’s against my religion.’’ Americans tend to handle religious objections with care, personally and politically. Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, has helped write state religious freedom bills and supported the ones that foundered in Indiana and Arkansas. But in an article last year, he issued a warning to evangelical leaders. ‘‘It is a risky step to interfere with the most intimate details of other people’s lives while loudly claiming liberty for yourself,’’ Laycock wrote. ‘&ls...
History tells us that how presidents are viewed abroad can have substantial impact on all three. But it also tells us that plenty of American presidential candidates have struggled with this interest in their ties to their ancestral homelands. And often, the innuendo involved has been more serious than it is with Sen. Marco Rubio and Cuba. From almost the first days of the United States, the white men — and they were all white men — who held congressional or even higher office have emphasized their "American-ness," Barbara Perry, the director of the University of Vir...
Gaisu Yari has had many remarkable experiences in her life so far. She was born and raised in a rural area of Afghanistan where she was able to study and learn, even when it was not allowed by the Taliban. In her teenage years, Yari was a radio journalist, a job held mostly by men. Yari came to the United States in 2007. She graduated from the University of Virginia in May, having double-majored in Middle Eastern studies and gender studies. And at the age of 27, on Independence Day, she became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. on the steps of Thomas Jefferson’s home alongside other immig...
In the opening minutes of the most-watched soccer game in American history, the youngest U.S. player moved down the right flank from her holding midfield position, did some deft ball work in the corner that led to a set piece and a goal by — who else? — Carli Lloyd. It was the beginning of a wondrous day in BC Stadium for 22-year-old Morgan Brian, from St. Simons Island, Ga. and the University of Virginia, an abundantly skilled player who has made the transition from NCAA to World Cup seem no bigger a deal than crossing the street.