“This is a pretty attractive pick up opportunity for Republicans. I think they’re pretty interested in this seat,” Kyle Kondik, who watches Minnesota campaigns for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said in an interview. ”This is one of the frontline House races in the whole country.”
Others, however, say Section 292 does not impose a ban on federal funding for legal counsel at removal proceedings. David Martin, former principal deputy general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security and currently a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, says the section is a “general authorization” for such persons to have counsel.
Unlike removals, a return does not bar someone from legally entering the country someday, though that is hard for most because they do not have a family or employment connection necessary to get in line for citizenship, said David Martin, a University of Virginia School of Law professor.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said both candidates will have enough to get their messages out. "Alison Grimes is one of the great Democratic hopes of 2014 across the country," he said. "If you had to pick one Republican most Democrats want to see lose, it would be Mitch McConnell," the Senate minority leader. "That gives you big donations, small donations."
By Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of the Health Policy Program at the School of Medicine's Department of Public Health SciencesRight now it is unclear whether or not these system reforms will be enough of an antidote to the choice versus cost trade-off for many Americans who, when it comes to health care, want it all.
Seven University of Virginia Health System specialties are honored in the U.S. News & World Report 2014-2015 “Best Hospitals” guide. These seven specialties join the neonatology and urology programs at UVa. Children’s Hospital, which were honored in June as part of U.S. News’ “Best Children’s Hospitals” guide.
Researchers at the University of Virginia were recently amazed to discover that many people would rather self-administer painful shocks than sit quietly with their own thoughts for 15 minutes. So what’s so bad about sitting alone and thinking? Study author Erin Westgate helps parse the results.
A recent study published in the journal of Science by Dr. Timothy D. Wilson and his team from University of Virginia, shows that people prefer doing mundane activities as opposed to thinking!
Clubs for ugly people, ear trumpets designed for mourners, mesmerism as a cure — disability in the 19th century reflected all of the Victorian era’s oddities and societal changes. Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts, a digital research archive of text and images on this more overlooked aspect of history, is part of the U.Va.–hosted NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship).
The other vivid memory was from a few days later. I was at the University of Virginia, and we had a huge 24-inch telescope there, built in 1885.
So now, not only can you watch Game of Thrones on HBO, but now you can actually STUDY it thanks to the class being offered at the University of Virginia!
The camp is on Shakespeare at the Blackfriars Theater, and this week of summer learning fun is for grown-ups. The No Kidding Shakespeare Camp for Adults is taking place for the fifth year. The experience also attracted grown-ups when the center held the Summer on the Lawn seminars at the University of Virginia. When the center's partnership with U.Va. ended, some of those campers wanted to return, Grey said.
“The primary purpose of the standstill agreement between ISE and its creditors is to provide an orderly process for the sale of the MV Explorer, as ISE is returning to its original business model of two voyages per year,” Lauren Judge, a spokeswoman for ISE, said in an email to Inside Higher Ed.
In almost five years on the nation's most influential business court, J. Travis Laster (Law ’95) has built a reputation for being as tough on bankers as on the corporate directors they advise. He has censured boards he viewed as careless, ripped advisers he viewed as conflicted, rejected settlements he viewed as flimsy and halted transactions he viewed as unfair.
"The big picture of all this is, if our design does what we expect it to do, and if NASA could incorporate all this into their astronaut suits and just protect them from the radiation, it really makes a lot of headway into prolonged space travel," said Sajan Sheth, who will be attending the University of Virginia this fall. "We could've had something to do with that, which is incredible."
“Taking on debt is as American as apple pie,” said Karin Bonding, a finance lecturer at the University of Virginia. “However, living within your means gives you a freedom that can surely be called debt freedom. You owe nothing to anyone. That’s my definition of financial freedom.”
A new report recommends that the first two years of public universities and colleges be free nationwide, and a nonprofit called Redeeming America’s Promise goes even further with a proposal to give every lower- and middle-class student a scholarship to cover the full cost of college. “It’s very difficult to separate the politics from the economics,” said David Breneman, a professor in the economics of education at the University of Virginia. Breneman pronounced the free-college proposals “not realistic,” especially at four-year institutions (“That&rsqu...
If you’re looking for some good summer reading, a professor at the University of Virginia has the answer. He’s read War and Peace 15 times, and he wants you to enjoy it at least once. To help you tackle that 1,500 page tome, he’s written a book called “Give War and Peace a Chance.” It’s easy to see why people would be scared away from Tolstoy’s classic story. It has 361 chapters, nearly 600 characters, and in its time UVA Lecturer Andrew Kaufman says, it broke all the rules.