On Tuesday, in response to a Washington Post reporter's question, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, said that he was "planning for the next step — planning to run for governor." The previous eight elected Virginia attorneys general ran for governor and secured their party's nomination. Three won the office, the most recent being Republican Bob McDonnell. "The truth is, these campaigns take four full years," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "They are subterranean for a year or two before surfacing into...
An engineering professor at the University of Virginia Alan Kornhauser gave his point of views about it that despite the brilliant notion of innovation, high-performance batteries are still expensive enough as compare to the potential savings from electric cars.
To most, 50-year-old Eva James of Waynesboro is the picture of health - she exercises often, doesn't smoke, and is a vegetarian. But James says she knew she would have a heart attack eventually due to a strong family history on both sides. Doctors were shocked to discover it wasn't just one blockage in her heart, but two. After multiple stents, James says she's feeling better than ever. She says she has University of Virginia Cardiologist Dr. Brandy Patterson to thank for reassuring her that the symptoms weren't just in her mind. Each year, one in three women who die in our cou...
Alexis Chaet, a third-year student at the University of Virginia knew going into her time at UVa that she wanted to help the community in some way. "There's such a huge need," said Chaet. "I've seen here in the U.S. not just abroad to help the Latino community, like these migrant men are facing a huge amount of barriers."Much of that population is in Albemarle and Nelson counties, so Chaet along with two other students came up with a solution.
Marijuana’s future in America will hinge on the regulatory approach that legislators and the public advocate for, a University of Virginia expert on medicine and law said Wednesday. A key question is whether marijuana commercialization will be allowed or if “there will be a system set up that is not associated with the interests of manufacturers, retailers and distributors,” said UVa law, medicine and public policy professor Richard Bonnie.
Daniel T. Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who has written about the idea of learning styles, believes media criticism of the idea may have diminished its appeal in recent years. However, he said, “a lot of teachers tell me that either in professional development sessions or even during their training, the idea of learning styles was emphasized.”
Doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center are working to combat a so-called “superbug.” A bacterial infection is plaguing hospitals across the country. The danger with the deadly bacteria is that it is resistant to multiple antibiotics, that's why UVA Medical Center is taking precautions.
Samantha Elauf didn't look like a typical Abercrombie & Fitch sales associate, or "model," when she applied in 2008 for a job in Tulsa, Okla. That much was clear from the retailer's "look policy." "Congress did this very deliberately," says Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor and one of the nation's leading experts on religious liberty. "It said no discrimination on the basis of religion, and religion includes religious practice."
One of the most striking alterations of the urban landscape is that there are now more poor people, in raw numbers, living in suburbs than in cities. The migration of professionals, often with advanced degrees, into the core of the nation’s cities is graphically illustrated in a study conducted at the University of Virginia. Luke Juday, a research and demographic policy analyst at the University of Virginia, found striking changes between 1990 and 2010 in income and education patterns in Charlotte, N.C.
If Apple’s goal is to make an electric car that disrupts the auto industry like the iPhone disrupted smartphones, then the tech that matters the most is the battery. And car battery tech has thwarted many other companies. Building a better battery is a tough chemistry conundrum, not the sort of electronics problem that tech companies are used to solving. “The problem is that despite all the innovation, high-performance batteries remain expensive relative to the potential savings from electric cars,” says Alan Kornhauser, an engineering professor at the University of Virg...
Barack Obama’s veto of the bill allowing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline is likely to be a bellwether of vetoes yet to come, reversing a trend in his first six years in office that saw him veto only two bills. The number of presidential vetoes has dwindled from 635 by Franklin D. Roosevelt to 250 by Harry S. Truman to 181 by Dwight Eisenhower. Bill Clinton vetoed 37; George W. Bush vetoed only 12. Sidney Milkis, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, attributed the plunging numbers to the two main parties cohering more, a...
In addition to USD, Mount Holyoke College, North Central College, University of Delaware, and the University of Virginia will receive the 2015 “Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization” from NAFSA, an association of international educators.
Daniel Ortiz, a University of Virginia law professor representing Mr. Henderson, told the court that the government’s position went far beyond Congress’s goal of keeping guns away from untrustworthy characters. It was, in effect, a confiscation, he said. By refusing either to return the guns or release them to a buyer, it “allows the government to accomplish a forfeiture without any due process at all,” Mr. Ortiz said.
Since federal law bars convicted felons from possessing firearms, how can those guns be sold or transferred without running afoul of the law? The quandary, which has divided lower courts, came up Tuesday as the justices weighed the unusual case of Tony Henderson, a former U.S. Border Patrol agent from Florida who was arrested and charged with distributing marijuana. Henderson had turned over 19 firearms valued at more than $3,500 to the FBI as a condition of his release. Henderson’s lawyer, Daniel Ortiz, of the University of Virginia School of Law, told the justices their task was simple...
(By John A. Stankovic, the BP America Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science) An exciting technological revolution is under way regarding systems that connect the physical and cyber worlds. The need for skills across many disciplines to invent, design, build and deploy these systems, known as cyber-physical systems(CPSs), is greater than ever before.
The University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art was recently given works from the Warhol Foundation, adding to photographs the artist took.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine could be on track to one day overhaul how people exercise. Experts believe an "exercise pill" could one day mimic, and even enhance, antioxidants the body produces naturally during a workout.
A 2011 study from University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins researchers found that monthly church participation among the least educated whites, those who dropped out of high school, has fallen from thirty-eight percent to twenty-three percent over the last four decades. Meanwhile, attendance among higher-class whites had barely budged at all, slipping only from fifty percent to forty-six. The same study found that people who have been unemployed in the last 10 years are also less likely to attend church services than their employed counterparts.
Indiana University has joined the National Academy of Inventors, an organization that includes the nation's leading university and nonprofit research institutions and encourages efforts to improve society through innovation. IU is among several high-profile research institutions to join the National Academy of Inventors so far in 2015. Select others include Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, the University of Texas at Austin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Republic of China's Academia Sinica.