Now, prompted by the rise of social media, the availability of LDS documents, groundbreaking scholarship, widespread Internet sharing of little-known aspects of the faith’s past and a disturbing exodus of the formerly faithful, Mormonism is in the midst of a landmark effort to integrate new details about its founding — without losing the power of a simple narrative. “No religion I know of would want to turn its founding stories into history, at least as history is understood today in a scientific sense,” says Kathleen Flake, who heads up Mormon studies at the University...
Researchers from the University of Virginia and elsewhere have fine-mapped type 1 diabetes susceptibility loci and found that causal variants appear to be co-localized with enhancers for lymphoid genes. Using a custom genotyping array dubbed the Immunochip, UVa's Stephen Rich and his colleagues searched for additional T1D risk loci and mapped these loci to their most credible SNPs, as they reported in Nature Genetics today. This then allowed the investigators to examine where these SNPs were located in relation to regulatory sequences, as well as compare Immunochip results across...
Kalamazoo businessman Kenneth V. Miller LL.M. ’92 is one of two attorneys named to the board of directors of Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
The University of Virginia law school had a special alumnus visit Friday afternoon. Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals talked to students about concerns he has with judicial legislation. Judge O'Scannlain said he was thrilled to be back at his alma mater, sharing his thoughts on the proper responsibilities of a federal judge.
Virginia’s farm and forestry exports reached a record $3.35 billion in 2014, increasing by more than 14 percent from the previous year. An economic impact study conducted in 2013 by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service found that agriculture and forestry have a combined economic impact of $70 billion.
First, future wearable sensors should be “wear-and-forget.” After the sensor is put on, it should simply disappear into the background and quietly acquire data without the need for recharge, without disturbing the user’s daily life and without others even noticing it. Instead of wrist-worn, future unobtrusive wearable sensors may look like something that is completely indistinguishable from a normal wedding ring. Recent work from the University of Virginia and University of Washington demonstrated a body heat-powered ECG sensor which is the size of a grain of rice (...
For the 2016 edition of the Best Law Schools rankings, U.S. News has changed its methodology so that law schools receive less credit for employing their own new graduates. Starting with this year's rankings, law schools with large percentages of graduates who hold jobs funded by the law school or university typically will rank lower than they would have if those jobs had been at law firms or in government. Listed by the proportion of 2013 grads holding any type of job funded by the law school or university, the University of Virginia is at 16.2%.
U.S. News & World Report has just released the latest edition of its ranking of America’s best law schools. The University of Virginia ranks No. 8 out of the top 25 law schools.
The University of Virginia is opening up a new office in Shanghai, and the celebration coincides with the 190th anniversary of the official birth of UVa. According to UVa, the office will help strengthen the university's academic programs, alumni engagement, internships and recruitment efforts.
The schools in the top-ten list are virtually identical to those last year. Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Columbia Business School, and Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business again take spots six to nine, in that order. However, this year, the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business has replaced New York University's Stern School of Business at position number 10.
From 3-D printing to leading-edge research exhibits in alternative energy, the University of Virginia’s Engineering Open House on March 21 will showcase engineers making a difference.
The Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law is putting on its 23rd National Security Law Institute this summer, from May 31st to June 12th. The Institute is a two-week course held at the UVA Law School campus in Charlottesville that provides advanced instruction in several sub-fields of national security law. Attendees include both government lawyers engaged in the practice of national security law and professors preparing to teach graduate-level courses in the field.
Other research suggests that women may be more effective legislators than men. Craig Volden, Alan Wiseman and Dana Wittmer find that, within the minority party, women are able to get their sponsored bills further through the legislative process.
Ohio’s presidential primary is one year from yesterday, and a path is emerging — albeit a narrow one — in which Gov. John Kasich could still stand as a viable White House contender for his home-state vote. “A Kasich presidential nomination requires that the current favorite of the party establishment, Jeb Bush, falters so badly that he either flames out or ultimately decides not to run,” said Kyle Kondik, a former Ohioan who is now managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Craig H. Benson, chair of the departments of civil and environmental engineering and of geological engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will become dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science on July 1. He will succeed James H. Aylor, who has led the school since 2004. Mr. Aylor will rejoin the faculty.
A new University of Virginia study found that the traditional urban "donut," where hollowed-out cities are ringed by prosperous suburbs, is being replaced by resurgent cities surrounded by declining older suburbs. "The 'new donut' is seen across the county in the changing nature of the city center and suburbs, and in the concentration and spread of various populations--all worthy of attention from urban planners and managers," said Luke Juday, research analyst at the university's Demographic Research Group.
Among scientists, questions about climate change and childhood vaccinations have long been settled. But among politicians, they are still considered fair game.Kyle Kondik of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia said most would-be candidates want to appeal to as many people as possible. “And if you can sort of try to obscure your actual position but not offend anyone, that’s what I think they try to do,” he said.
Sandra Smith has her trainees' needs at the top of her mind. As an HR professional, Sandra Smith always has been interested in developing professional talent. But it wasn't until she took on a project to help employees make better decisions about their insurance that she really discovered the joy of helping others through instruction. As a manager in the facilities management department at the University of Virginia, Smith now devotes her time to designing and delivering professional development programs. Eschewing lectures in favor of more creative and active learning, she says that e...
Controversy over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account while serving as secretary of state has sent fresh waves of alarm through the Democratic Party, with activists saying they need a “plan B” if Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy runs aground. “For Democrats, it’s Hillary or chaos. She knows it, and the party knows it,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Centre for Politics.
Four members of the second-ranked Virginia basketball team, the ACC’s regular-season champion, were named to the all-conference team Sunday, and senior forward Darion Atkins became the first U.Va. player to be chosen as the league’s defensive player of the year.For the second consecutive year, the Cavaliers’ Tony Bennett was named the ACC’s coach of the year.