The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization will hold the sixth annual Summer Conference, co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science at Baylor University, Monday and Tuesday, at 21 W. Park Row. Dr. James Ceaser, Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, will direct the conference, which will focus on Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic study “Democracy in America.”
Based in part on some of the information provided by speaker Dewey Cornell, Jackson, Calhoun and Gadsden county schools may craft pilot programs aimed at identifying and helping troubled students resolve their issues peacefully, and with other goals that could reduce the threat of school violence. Cornell is a forensic clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia and has authored, co-authored and edited works on the subject school violence and how to prevent it.
David Martin, a former DHS immigration lawyer who now teaches at the University of Virginia, said that concerns raised by border agents reflect a “very genuine and legitimate law enforcement and policy concern.” “To send an internal memo that says, ‘We in the field think this is happening and we think consequences need to be changed,’ seems like quite a legitimate internal response,” Martin said.
Robert O’Neil, former president and professor of law at the University of Virginia, and an expert on faculty free speech issues, said via email that although Thursday's decision involved a community college administrator, the non-academic nature of the speech in question didn't offer great support for faculty members who do not want Garcetti applied to their speech. But O'Neil said that professors should be pleased that -- in a unanimous decision -- the Supreme Court cited its Keyishian ruling, which in 1967 found that state education agencies could not bar the hiring of empl...
“There is no question which Texas officeholder is laps ahead in the Olympic swimming pool,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Perry looks like the past and Cruz the future. Maybe Perry isn’t worn out, but after 14 years as governor and a disastrous bid for president in 2012, Perry seems like a syndicated rerun.”
“There’s a temptation to say, ‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,’” suggested Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, though he acknowledged that “they have very different personalities and approaches.”
The Favre strategy might work. It’s an ad that will cut through the clutter and impress itself upon many state voters, tweets Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Favre is, or at least was recently, beloved in the state.
Church support for marriage among poor and middle class Americans can play a key role in combating income inequality and providing a good environment for children, a sociologist told the U.S. bishops. “If you care about bridging the marriage divide, you should care about economic justice, cultural change, and the renewal of civil society,” Professor W. Bradford Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociology professor, told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ general assembly in New Orleans on June 12.
Two Virginia scientists maintain that, if you really want to understand the impact of climate change, you need to hear about the walrus. So discuss walruses we will, with longtime walrus investigators Jerry McCormick-Ray and (research partner as well as husband) Carleton Ray.
Nationally, about one in five poorer students don’t end up enrolling even after they’ve received acceptance letters. Drill down into the data and that number could be as high as 40 percent for students who plan to attend a community college. Lindsay Page, an assistant professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh, and Ben Caslteman, her research partner and University of Virginia assistant professor of education, have studied the causes and possible solutions for summer melt among poor and first generation students since 2009. ... While not a surefire solution, p...
Using records from the U.S. Renal Data System, researchers from the University of Virginia, UCLA, the University of Southern California, the University of Utah and the Veterans Affairs Department in Salt Lake City analyzed records of 563,281 patients who began long-term or maintenance hemodialysis between 1995 and 2009. They looked specifically at Hispanics, blacks and whites, and also at three age ranges: ages 18 to 40; 41 to 70; and ages 71 and older. There were unexpected differences by race, age and cause of hospitalization.
Imagine a near future where the walls of your home would notify you when a light has been left on, or remind you of the last time your family all sat down at the table together. These ideas could soon become reality with the work from associate professor Kamin Whitehouse at the University of Virginia. ‘If Homes Could Talk’ is a presentation by MIT Technology Review that reveals the early findings from Whitehouse’s research team and explores what the connected household of the future could look like.