Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, spoke at the University of Virginia on Tuesday about the increasingly strained relationship between these two countries, along with the hopes of how it can be fixed.
Kislyak spoke to a packed auditorium and took, I think, well over an hour of questions. He spoke frankly, and the questions he was asked by students, professors, and other participants were polite and for the most part far more intelligent than he would have been asked on, for example, Meet the Press.
The Russian ambassador to the United States spoke in front of a packed crowd at Newcomb Hall Tuesday night, defending his country's actions in Crimea and Ukraine.
The theory behind supporting Syria’s non-jihadist rebels has long been that an infusion of U.S. aid could strengthen and unify them. But it’s not even clear that the rebels the U.S. would empower are actually non-jihadist. Citing research by the University of Virginia’s Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Lynch argues that the moderate/jihadist dichotomy that governs much of the American discourse about opposition fighters in Syria doesn’t hold on the ground, where various armed groups have engaged in “rapidly shifting alliances.” As Abu Yusaf, an ISI...
A Virginia economist has developed a new model for gauging how many people are in need of mental health care. He is now in the process of comparing that need to the level of services available. That economist is one of our guests as we consider who is getting necessary mental health care in the Old Dominion. And who is not. Guests:Steven Stern, Ph.D. - The Merrill H. Bankard Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. Author of “Estimating Local Prevalence of Mental Health Problems”
... One potential undergraduate pathway to a high-paying healthcare career is chemistry. All pre-medical programs require some chemistry courses, including organic chemistry. The University of Virginia's Department of Chemistry explains the benefits of a chemistry degree for aspiring medical students: “Many students declare a major in chemistry because there is a great deal of overlap in the chemistry degree requirements and the course requirements for medical school,” the university's mission statement says. Chemistry is also a versatile undergraduate degree, app...
The bottom line is that the economic numbers add up much better in a society where marriage and families are strong than in those where they are not. Declining birthrates, marriage rates, and increasing singlehood and childlessness are ominous signs.
And if the economic arguments aren’t enough, the emotional statistics should to be.
The National Marriage Project from the University of Virginia offers evidence that married people, with or without children, have significantly less depression than singles; and 57 percent of married women with children felt their lives had an important pur...
... But Broussard is pointing to two big issues that transcend Philadelphia's specific dysfunctions.The first is her discovery that standardized reading tests are really tests of specific knowledge, leading to her logical conclusion that we need to teach kids the material that will be tested if we want them to perform well on tests.This might be a simple insight, but it is hugely important. It is essentially what launched the work of E. D. Hirsch Jr. decades ago. "African-American students at a Richmond community college could read just as well as University of Virginia students when ...
Do you have a decisive marriage?New research shows that how thoughtfully couples make decisions can have a lasting effect on the quality of their romantic relationships. Couples who are decisive before marriage — intentionally defining their relationships, living together and planning a wedding — appear to have better marriages than couples who simply let inertia carry them through major transitions.
In politics, summer is usually a slow time. But with now 10 weeks to go until Election Day, what’s happened while most were at the beach is Democrats increasingly seeing a creeping red tide. It’s not quite at wave level, as the Crystal Ball team at the University of Virginia point out today, but before school let out, Democrats had about an even-money chance of holding onto the Senate. That’s changed.
Back in April, I wrote a piece here about football, baseball and the American ways of war. Yesterday, on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page, Mark Edmundson, an English professor at the University of Virginia, picked up on a similar theme but with a much starker take.
Having faced persecution after its founding in the 19th Century, the LDS Church continued to encounter hostility and suspicion, and is still sensitive to criticism.Kate Kelly has crossed a red line, says Kathleen Flake, a professor of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia. Mormonism functions as a family, she says. "And if the family's going to fight, it's very disloyal to have that fight outside the family."
... There was also a Rolodex watch for the governor, plenty of pricey golf trips, top of the line golf clubs for their sons, and a $15,000 catering charge for their daughter’s wedding. “They did what they thought they could get away with,” says Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “And they almost did. If the chef hadn’t been fired from the mansion, none of this would have come out.” The ex-chef, accused by Maureen McDonnell of “embezzling” food from the mansion, went to the FBI, triggering its inv...
Larry Sabato is not only excited to speak on his extensive knowledge of national politics, but also to visit the beautiful Greenbrier Resort. ... In his weekly newsletter, Sabato's Crystal Ball, he said there's an anniversary Americans tend to ignore — the centennial of popular elections for the U.S. Senate.
The candidates' debate over their debates discloses a lot what they perceive their strengths to be, according to Geoffrey Skelley, an American politics expert from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Danielle Rose Collins competed in the U.S. Open with an "NR" next to her name for "Not Ranked." She was the only member of the draw with such a line, which gives the impression that Collins lacks experience.And at least as a professional, that's true. The 20-year-old St. Petersburg, Fla., native is a junior at the University of Virginia. After winning the 2014 NCAA championships, Collins earned a wild card berth to the U.S. Open.When Collins took the court on Monday afternoon, she played for more than a spot in the second round. She was playing to stay out of Virginia&#...
The longstanding rivalry between Virginia Tech and Virginia is getting a new name— the Commonwealth Clash presented by Virginia529. Building on a tradition started when the two schools first competed against each other in a football game in 1895, the Commonwealth Clash is a head-to-head, points-based competition between the athletic teams at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech. The competition will include the 21 sports in which the two schools compete against each other, plus one fan-decided point.
Niche (https://niche.com) today released the 2015 college rankings, which rank more than 1,000 schools nationwide based on more than 50 statistical factors and nearly 12 million opinions from 300,000 students. The company is releasing a comprehensive Best Overall college ranking for the first time in its 12-year history.A snapshot of the 2015 Niche Rankings and colleges that ranked No. 1:-- Best Overall - Stanford University-- Best Academics - MIT-- Best Athletics - University of Florida-- Best Campus - Bowdoin College-- Best Campus Food - Virginia Tech-- Best Dorms - Washington University in ...