Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a leading scholar on First Amendment religious rights, wrote a letter to the House Judiciary Committee in support of the Michigan legislation. He also encouraged the Legislature to add protections for gays and lesbians.
Jeb Bush's potential to be the GOP nominee will depend in part on whether the party's establishment wing can convince more conservative activists that the party's nominee must be able to reach new constituencies, not just speak to its base. Bush has to be considered a front-runner for the nomination immediately, says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "History tells us to bet on the establishment candidate."
Executive orders are numbered — the most recent, Executive Order 13683, modified three previous executive orders. Memoranda are not numbered, not indexed and, until recently, difficult to quantify. Kenneth Lowande, a political science doctoral student at the University of Virginia, counted up memoranda published in the Code of Federal Regulations since 1945. In an article published in the December issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly, he found that memoranda appear to be replacing executive orders.
Two University of Virginia a cappella groups just performed the most adorable holiday mashup on Grounds. The Virginia Sil'hooettes and The Virginia Gentlemen combined "Winter Song" and "White Winter Hymnal" for one incredibly sweet, romantic twist on some holiday classics.
As for public institutions, here, too, our top-ranked schools do a fine job of propelling students into the workplace. The University of Virginia, which ranks second for in-state and out-of-state public schools, has an 86% four-year grad rate, the highest on the list.
Rolling Stone’s story about sexual assault at the University of Virginia may have come into substantial question in recent weeks. But the piece, along with others about rape on college campuses, has helped revive a conversation about what it’s useful to tell students about drinking. “It’s a surprisingly loaded subject, given the widely acknowledged prevalence of drinking on American campuses.” wrote Emily Yoffe in a recent piece on sexual assault on college campuses, in which she described how a speaking invitation was rescinded after she wrote a piece u...
A national organization representing 26 sororities says that the ongoing ban on all Greek system activities at the University of Virginia is a violation of students’ rights.
The University of Virginia and an alleged rape victim's story have come under scrutiny since Rolling Stone magazine published a scathing article last month highlighting an alleged gang rape that took place at a fraternity house.The article, titled “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA,” highlights a UVA student's story about allegedly being gang raped by seven men at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. After the publication of the article, UVA asked Charlottesville police to conduct an investigation into the incident.Now, in the wake of the rap...
When a reporter invents a source’s name, it’s all too easy to invent more. Hence the blunt Reuters policy: “Never use pseudonyms which by definition are misleading.”
And you’ll find the best-and-brightest at the top schools covering a range of topics: Gamification (Wharton School of Business), Technology Entrepreneurship (Stanford), Game Theory (Stanford), Innovation and Commercialization (MIT), Business Growth (University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business), Financing Entrepreneurship (Babson), and Organizational Behavior (HEC Paris).
An Employment Policies Institute report from economists at the University of Virginia and Middle Tennessee State University found clear evidence that part-time work by young adults translates to future career benefits. Young adults employed part-time at the turn of the millennium earned 20 percent more six to nine years later than their counterparts who weren’t employed, according to the researchers.
While the U.S. maintains its neutrality on territorial disputes, the study tries to pin-down what it calls the ambiguous basis for China’s nine-dash line. Laying out three possible interpretations of China's claim, the U.S. paper concludes it has no basis in international law. Myron Nordquist is associate director at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia. He thought the tribunal would find it did not have jurisdiction over the case.
A scientific paper co-authored by a University of Virginia researcher has been named one of the most cited scientific papers of all time by Nature. The respected journal highlighted work by the School of Medicine's Wladek Minor for its influence on researchers using it as a reference to extend on their own experimental endeavors.
Robert F. Bruner, Dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, suggests that it is imperative for managers who move into environments that are new to embracing marketing (e.g., higher education, professional services) to have access to information that is better than their competitors. Bruner illustrates his thought with a Warren Buffett quote found in a Feb. 29, 1988 Berkshire Hathaway letter in which Buffett personifies competition as “Mr. Market.”
Notwithstanding their more egalitarian attitudes, for instance, college-educated households still tend to have male primary breadwinners: As the University of Virginia’s Brad Wilcox points out, college-educated husbands and fathers earn about 70 percent of their family’s income on average, about the same percentage as working-class married couples.
Opponents of House Bill 5958 say it would make it easier for people and businesses to discriminate. For example, they claim emergency medical workers could legally refuse to treat LGBT people. Douglas Laycock, a religious liberty scholar at the University of Virginia’s law school, says that’s not true. “(Similar laws in other states) certainly have not been interpreted in crazy ways that produce the kinds of problems that we’re now hearing about from opponents of the bill,” said Laycock on a conference call with reporters Monday.
This year saw a number of high-profile efforts to open college doors to more students, and Nicole Hurd seemed to have a hand in all of them. … Ms. Hurd wasn’t always focused on college access. The idea came to her in a parking lot in May 2004, when she was dean of undergraduate research and fellowships at the University of Virginia. Ms. Hurd was reflecting on a meeting she’d attended with local business leaders and staff from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which was interested in supporting college access.
“In my research of people who falsely confessed and were subsequently exonerated by DNA evidence, one-third were intellectually disabled or mentally ill,” Brandon Garrett, a Professor of Law at University of Virginia who studies false confessions, said.
Volunteers have collected hundreds of toys for boys and girls of all ages who will be spending Christmas in the hospital. The Mason's Toy Box charity will deliver the toys to patients at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital.
As countless unmade beds and unfinished homework assignments attest, kids need rules. Yet how parents make demands can powerfully influence a child's social skills, psychologists at the University of Virginia recently found after the conclusion of a study investigating the notorious transition from adolescence to adulthood.