More than 1,300 University of Virginia employees, who have put in at least 10 years of service, are being honored for all their hard work this spring. At the top of that list is a 93-year-old accountant in the department of urology - still very much dedicated to her duties.
Sutherland Middle School (Albemarle County Public Schools) principal Dave Rogers said the work was part of a partnership with Buford Middle School in the city of Charlottesville and with the University of Virginia. Sutherland has also been named the third “Smithsonian School” in the nation.
By Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s Global Public Square, from his commencement speech at Sarah Lawrence College on May 23, 2014.At its essence, a liberal education is an education to free the mind from dogma, from controls, from constraints. It is an exercise in freedom. That is why America's founding fathers believed so passionately in its importance. ... Thomas Jefferson's epitaph does not mention that he was president of the United States. It proudly notes that he founded the University of Virginia, another quintessential liberal arts college.
Standing in top-ranked Michigan’s way is the University of Virginia, who sits at No. 2 in the national poll. The Cavaliers haven’t been able to catch the Wolverines in the men’s varsity eight race this year, losing in a pair of meetings. ... Now in its fifth year on Lake Lanier, 274 men’s and women’s entries among 65 clubs across the United States will compete this weekend. It’s the largest turnout in event history.
Matthew Crawford, a senior fellow at U.Va.’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and author of “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work,” spoke to a mostly white-collar crowd Thursday about the joys of skilled blue-collar trades. Crawford was the keynote speaker during the 11th annual Economic Summit organized by the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce.
In the USA, free speech offers broad protections. Only a few, narrow exceptions would apply to censoring speech, such as a message that would incite immediate, unlawful conduct, said Leslie Kendrick, a law professor specializing in the First Amendment at the University of Virginia Law School. "Our doctrine on this says that we are more worried about the risk that the government will censor messages that it doesn't like than we are worried about civility and crackpot ideas," Kendrick said.
...creating a bandwagon for Democratic women might make a big difference — and make it harder for Republicans to win Senate control. "They just have to get that base excited," said Kyle Kondik, analyst at Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
Via email, Robert O'Neil, former president of the University of Virginia and law professor, and author of Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University, said it is extremely rare in his experience for a professor to sue a student.
Oregon is staunchly Democratic, but the rollout of the state’s Obamacare website was such a mess that some pundits give Ms Wehby a chance, albeit a small one. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia says that “If you’re a Republican in Oregon you have to run a perfect race in a perfect year [to win].”
A study by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders says that if scientists understand what causes chickens’ cells to redevelop they could one day replicate the process in humans to reverse hearing loss. Jeffrey Corwin of the university said that if both a human and a hen were to be exposed to a sound loud enough to destroy the ability to hear a certain pitch, the outcomes would be very different.
One in three children in Virginia is living in poverty or near-poverty, according to a study from the University of Virginia. Researchers at UVa began a statewide poverty report last year, using a wider range of data than just the federal poverty line. UVa researcher Annie Rorem co-wrote the report with Megan Juelfs-Swanson, doctoral candidate in sociology.
Annie Rorem, a researcher with the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center, joins Les Sinclair to discuss a new report revealing that one in three Virginia children live in economic insecurity.
A recent research paper published in the prestigious Science journal seems to have created a stir by suggesting that people from rice-growing regions tend to be more inter-dependent and less individualistic compared to others. The study, co-authored by social psychologist Thomas Talhelm of the University of Virginia found that ‘rice-growing southern China is more interdependent and holistic-thinking than the wheat-growing north.’
One intriguing aspect of Nearing Death Awareness is the tendency for some of the dying to hallucinate visions of deceased family members, friends, and iconic spiritual beings in the days and hours leading to death. Forty-one percent of the dying patients in a study done by the University of Virginia psychologist Emily Williams Kelly reported a “deathbed vision.”
A 2013 long-term University of Virginia study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood shows that skim milk actually makes children heavier than whole milk. Drs. Mark DeBoer and Rebecca Schafer evaluated data from 10,700 children between 2 and 4 and concluded that “children given skim or one-percent milk were more likely to become overweight and obese.”
Dr. Ian Stevenson (1997–2007) of the University of Virginia Medical School was a pioneer researcher on the topic of reincarnation. He studied many cases in which people, and especially children, seem to remember their past lives in such detail that the facts can be verified. Walter Semkiw, MD, and Jim Tucker, MD, are carrying on where Dr. Stevenson left off. In this short video, they discuss the research of Dr. Stevenson, as well as some other cases, including that of Barbro Karlen.
When James Leininger of Louisiana was 2 years old, he began having horrific nightmares of crashing in a plane. The boy said he was shot down by the Japanese, that his plane took off from the Natoma ship, and that he had a friend named Jack Larson. He also identified the site where he crashed, Iwo Jima, from a photograph. ...This boy’s case was recounted by Dr. Jim Tucker at the University of Virginia, a leading reincarnation researcher.
The University of Virginia did a study in 2011 and found that 38% of couples considering divorce before the recession decided to put it off, most likely because of the high cost of maintaining two separate households.
The Democratic Party will have a difficult time retaining its Senate majority in the 2014 midterm elections, and the party is facing long odds of winning Senate races in Kentucky and Georgia, Larry Sabato's Center for Politics at the University of Virginia predicted.