Many people in the Charlottesville area seem to value local food, but one University of Virginia lecturer said she thinks the community can take the movement one step further. “This food movement is about healing lands, neighborhoods and identities,” said Tanya Denckla Cobb, associate director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation. “It’s about how creative this movement is in finding ways to use open spaces in communities for agriculture.”
A new multimedia exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York is encouraging visitors to experience architecture not only with their eyes, but also with their ears.Karen Van Lengen, who created the installation with her husband, James Welty, says to really soak in a building, you need to listen to it. "If you close your eyes, what you're going to hear are things that you can't hear with your eyes open," says Van Lengen, an architecture professor at the University of Virginia. She recorded sounds in iconic New York buildings for Soundscape New York&nb...
The University of Oklahoma on Tuesday expelled two fraternity members for their role in allegedly leading a racist chant captured on video, as leaders of the state school sought to quell national outrage over the incident. University of Virginia Law School professor Leslie Kendrick said the University of Oklahoma appeared to be arguing that the chants weren’t an expression of opinion but threatening, harassing conduct that could incite violence.
Analysts say it is too early to know whether the former secretary of state will be politically damaged by the email controversy if she decides to run for president. Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said that Hillary and Bill Clinton have been in the public eye for so long that people already have solid opinions about them, and that this issue is unlikely to affect those views, even if Hillary runs for president.
The 31-year-old American forward has become the heart and soul of the yellow-and-blue in recent seasons. The University of Virginia alumnus, who began his professional career at Spanish second division club Bruesa GBC in 2005 after not being selected in the NBA draft, rarely looks for excuses, playing with a nagging knee injury throughout last season before undergoing surgery in the summer.
In a recent YouTube video, a man puts the love, dedication, and devotion he has for his girlfriend on display. Dean Smith decided during his girlfriend Jennifer’s birthday in 2014 that he would spend the next year planning to ask her to be his wife without letting her in on the secret. After filming parts of his video daily over the next year, Smith recruited Jennifer’s friends and family to help him propose to her in person while they were on vacation in Aruba. Smith graduated from the University of Virginia in 2011 and Henrico High in 2006, according to his Facebook page.
The University of Virginia has formed a partnership with MAXNET Energy, a new initiative of Germany’s Max Planck Society to advance research on new, renewable, environmentally friendly and economical energy sources.
The U.S. News 2016 Best Law Schools were released Tuesday, giving prospective students information on how 198 schools fared in the rankings, along with key data such as tuition costs. Institutions were evaluated on several factors, including how much aid they gave students. Law school may be expensive, but some schools do all they can to relieve students of some of the costs. Brooklyn Law School gave the largest median grant award to full-time students among private institutions during the 2013-2014 school year: 30,600. The University of California—Davis&nbs...
A group of 40 economists and law professors from around the country sent a letter to members of Congress Tuesday, expressing serious concerns with the many “flawed, unreliable or incomplete” patent litigation studies that have become the basis for another possible restructuring of the nation’s patent system. The economists and professors — from George Washington University, University of Virginia, George Mason University, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania and University of California Berkeley, among others — said they are not opposed to “sensib...
The University of Virginia has formed a partnership to advance research on new and environmentally friendly energy sources. The partnership is with MAXNET Energy, a new initiative of Germany’s Max Planck Society.
Partisan meddling in foreign policy isn’t unprecedented. In 1968, Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon dispatched Anna Chennault, a top supporter, to tell the South Vietnamese government to pull out of peace talks until after the November election. Nixon promised the U.S. ally a “better deal” than what President Lyndon Johnson was offering. Johnson learned of Nixon’s activities and called Republican Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois to tell him to stop, according to a recording of the conversation on the website of the University of Virginia’s Miller ...
The University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and the School of Law remained in the top 10 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual graduate school rankings this year. Darden moved up one spot, to 10th among business schools. The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University took the top spot over the Harvard Business School and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lindsey Graham has little money and not much support. Strategists wonder if a possible presidential bid has another objective. Then again, maybe Graham thinks lightning will strike. Larry Sabato, managing editor of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics' Crystal Ball blog, suggests that Graham may be catching the presidential fever that afflicts many long-time senators: deciding you can do the job better after having watched several presidents in action. "They start whistling 'Hail to the Chief' while shaving," Sabato says.
This isn't the first study to show that girls' interest in math tends to drop off as they get older, but it may well be the first showing that teacher bias could be part of the problem, said Patrick Tolan, a professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and director of Youth-Nex, the UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. "Early experience imprints on girls," Tolan said. "They tend to follow the initial reactions from their teachers: what they are good at, what is appropriate for a girl or a boy to do."
Jane Kulow is the new program director for the five-day celebration -- The Virginia Festival of the Book. Kulow is responsible for developing program events, recruiting authors, sourcing funders, collaborating with other Virginia Foundation for the Humanities programs, partnering with University of Virginia departments and more than fifty other community partners, working with venue hosts and booksellers, building the schedule of 100+ events involving 400+ authors, and promoting the Festival via print and digital communications.
Genetics experts have reportedly identified a number of genes that increase the risk of type 1 diabetes. Lead author Stephen S. Rich, director of the Centre for Public Health Genomics at the University of Virginia, and his team believe these findings are significant as being able to assess the variants that cause type 1 diabetes can lead to new treatment targets.
Historian Phyllis Leffler and activist and politician Julian Bond talk about the Civil Rights Movement and Black leadership in America. Julian Bond served from 1998 to 2010 as the chairman of the NAACP and was the co-director of the Explorations in Black Leadership project at UVA. He was also the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and served a combined twenty terms in both houses of the Georgia Legislature. Leffler collaborated with Bond for the Black Leaders on Leadership project, which uses the lives of prominent African Americans to trace the contours of Black leadership in ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took action in a case over how religious not-for-profit employers must meet the Affordable Care Act requirement to cover birth control for employees—a move some say could be significant for those employers. The Supreme Court told a lower court to reconsider its decision not to grant the University of Notre Dame further protection against the birth control mandate. But Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor, said the Supreme Court's decision Monday doesn't carry much significance. He called the court's order...
Alaska’s Dan Sullivan is one of only two U.S. Senators who are current military reservists. His ongoing military service as a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Reserves was one of his strongest selling points as a Senate candidate. But now that he’s a senator, the Marines have removed him from his assignment as a commander, saying it’s incompatible with congressional office. Professor John Harrison of the University of Virginia School of Law is an expert in the Ineligibility Clause, Article 1 section 6 of the Constitution. The relevant part reads: ” … n...
A new testosterone nasal gel (Natesto) is safe and efficacious, according to phase III data presented at the Endocrine Society annual meeting in San Diego. Treatment also strongly improved men’s erectile function and mood, reported lead investigator Alan Rogol, MD, PhD, of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. In addition, Dr. Rogol said there were low rates of problems with tolerating the nasal gel, with 3.7% of men receiving the three-times-daily dose discontinuing use of the medication because of side effects.