it took about three years for the grass-roots group to find a school that would agree to fund the summit, which he estimated cost around $100,000, he said. Dartmouth officials said the figure “was in the ballpark.” In February, the University of Virginia held a two-day session on confronting assaults that also sought to foster a national discussion.
The Virginia fellows began the program at the University of Virginia last month and have been at the College of William & Mary for the past week. The program will conclude next Monday with a White House reception hosted by the president.
according to Wealth-X's ranking, Boston University has the 12th highest number of super-wealthy alums, right behind Princeton and the University of Virginia.
For many would-be entrepreneurs who are doing MBAs, “practical” is the name of the game. Indeed, many business schools have introduced a variety of MBA electives and other resources that help students put their skills directly to work. The Wharton School and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, for instance, both offer business incubator facilities, ...
A comprehensive website bent on accurately predicting elections since inception, "Sabato's Crystal Ball" run by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics will now have the opportunity for more exposure thanks to a new partnership with POLITICO. The media titan has enlisted the help of UVa's Center for Politics to provide readers with interactive, up-to-date ratings on all U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and gubernatorial races.
It should come as no surprise that low-level bank robbers will serve hard time for their crimes, while high-level corporate types often avoid criminal charges, according to Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor and author of the upcoming book “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.”
E.O. Wilson’s biophilia hypothesis has given rise to the closely related concepts of biophilic design and biophilic cities, the latter actively promoted by Tim Beatley, a landscape architect at the University of Virginia. In interviews, Beatley and Stephen Kellert, Wilson’s co-editor on an early book about biophilia and a chief proponent of biophilic design, both stressed that the idea includes—but more crucially goes beyond—concepts like green building and simple sustainability to capture the innate human attachment to nature and increase well-being by honoring it. Bea...
A court could consider that point, because the First Amendment does prohibit vague regulations of expressive conduct, says Leslie Kendrick, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville. Buffer zones, on the other hand, are not vague “and do not open the possibility of arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement,” she says. So “in striking that down, the court is pushing Massachusetts toward a more tailored and nuanced solution. But with nuance comes some risk of vagueness.”
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, who has included Walker among the top tier of presidential prospects, didn't put much meaning to the poll more than two years before the 2016 election.
Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said polls show Kingston and Perdue in a relatively close runoff. "So potentially anything that can move even a few thousand votes could be decisive," Sabato said. "To most people, the topics of these Kingston ads might seem to be small potatoes, and in some sense, they are," he said. "But you have to look at the specialized, concentrated electorate for a runoff."
People and puppets took to the stage at the University of Virginia’s Ruth Caplin Theatre Thursday for the second day of rehearsals for the Tony award-winning production of “Avenue Q.”
Your child has been perfectly healthy up until the time of about 6 months of age. Then the seizures begin. They grow progressively worse. Soon other symptoms appear. It turns out your daughter or son has a genetic condition most people are not even aware exists. It is called Dravet Syndrome. We examine the challenges --and the hopes-- for treating this mysterious illness. Guests include U.Va. professors of neurology Nathan B. Fountain and Laura A. Jansen.
Adding data on a patient's heart rate to the algorithm controlling "artificial pancreas" systems may help prevent blood glucose dips during mild exercise, researchers reported. In an inpatient trial involving 12 patients with type 1 diabetes, including such information in the control algorithm mitigated declines in blood glucose when participants were working out, Marc Breton, PhD, of the University of Virginia, and colleagues reported in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics.
Why do we go to such great lengths to fill the potential silence in our lives? New research out of University of Virginia and Harvard found that most people prefer doing almost anything else over just being with their thoughts. Incredibly, a majority of people in the study indicated that they would rather give themselves electric shocks than be quiet and alone for 10 minutes.
A two-year cultural exchange program offered by the University of Virginia is drawing to a close. Haruko Yuda has spent the last two years talking to Virginians young and old about the culture and history of Japan. Her scheduled time in the program ends this month, after which she will have to return to her home country. Yuda is part of a program — funded by the Japanese government and supported by UVa — meant to build bridges between the two cultures.
This spring, in Virginia, faculty senates or assemblies at three public institutions – the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary and George Mason University – all passed similar resolutions urging their administrations to extend benefits such as health care to same-sex partners. All make reference to a growing number of peer colleges and universities offering such benefits, as well as their respective abilities to retain and recruit top faculty members without such benefits.
MS. HUGHES: Good afternoon, or evening if you’re joining us from Africa. I’m Dana Hughes. I’m a digital journalist with ABC News, and I’m very excited to be here moderating this Google Hangout featuring four of the first class of fellows from the Young African Leadership Initiative. It’s a program President Obama has championed, which has allowed 500 of the best and brightest across 49 different countries in sub-Saharan Africa to come to universities and participate in a program for six weeks.
In 2011, similar campaigns were being waged in other states, as if simply issuing more degrees at a lower cost would correct the nation’s overall economic woes and widening income disparities. The national drumbeat was particularly loud two years ago, when Powers was fighting to hold on to his presidency and the president at the University of Virginia was forced out — only to be reinstated after faculty and student protests.