Professor Ed Murphy of the University of Virginia Astronomy Department sheds light on a potential meteor shower unlike anything witnessed in history. He joins Les Sinclair to talk about the new meteor shower set to be seen May 23/24th.
“The Democrats wanted to get a break in Kentucky; they wanted to get a break in Georgia,” Larry Sabato, the political analyst from the University of Virginia said.
On May 15, the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato moved the race from “Lean Republican” into the “Toss Up” column.
"Barring a last-minute plea bargain, we're headed toward a four-to-six week trial this summer that will be a spectacle," says Larry Sabato, a professor of government at the University of Virginia.
Corporate Crime Reporter surveyed the deferred and non prosecution database pulled together by University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon Garrett.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team is in the Final Four for the 14th time in program history, and the first time since 2007.
U.Va.’s Rosemary Malfi collected three closely related species of bumblebees from a local field. She found that a quarter of them were parasitised by a single conopid species. The parasite forced all three species of bumblebee to dig, but with varying degrees of success.
Urban planners in Virginia are trying to make bicycling safer, but they’re hampered by a lack of statistics about who’s riding where. With $40,000 in funding from the University of Virginia Alumni Association, Alec Gosse and another graduate student, Emmanuel Denloye-Ito created software that could review video from cameras at many major intersections to identify and count bikes. It wasn’t easy.
A two-year facelift for the Rotunda began Monday. Offices have been planning the move-out process since about February, and now the Rotunda now stands nearly empty.
TEL AVIV, Israel — Jubilant Israeli basketball fans are still celebrating Maccabi Tel Aviv’s dream season, which culminated with an overtime victory over Real Madrid in the Euroleague basketball final in Milan. ... “Amazing the support Israel is giving us. Feels like we brought together an entire country,” tweeted Sylven Landesberg, a former University of Virginia guard who was born in the U.S. Their foreign players, including former UVa forward Devin Smith, were instrumental in Sunday’s victory.
After three combat deployments in a dozen years, Sean Gobin stepped onto the Appalachian Trail in Georgia to walk off the war. He founded the Warrior Hike to coordinate hikes for other veterans who are struggling to adapt to civilian life. This spring, 26 veterans set off on hikes along the AT, the Continental Divide Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. On Saturday, Gobin drove his motorcycle from Charlottesville, where he just graduated from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, to the parking area for the McAfee Knob trail along Virginia 311 to meet up with this year&rs...
“Credit Suisse is a really big case, but people want to see accountability for the global financial crisis, and this just won’t do that,” said Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of a new book, “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations.”
"The World Health Organization has said ADA isn't absorbed in our body, we typically excrete it in feces," said Angie Hasemann, a pediatric dietitian at the University of Virginia. "Many times there is negative publicity and we think we don't want this strange chemical in our body when research shows this one might not be that harmful."
Erika Hayes James, a former senior associate dean for executive education at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, will assume her new role at Emory on July 15. ... While three minority women are currently deans at American colleges of business, James will be the first to lead a full-time MBA program at a top-25 business school, according to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Andrew Kaufman, a lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, said the tangled lives of Tolstoy’s characters never have been more relevant than they are today – nearly 150 years after “War and Peace” was published. Kaufman drives the point home in his new book, “Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times.”
Robert O’Neil, former president of and professor of law at the University of Virginia, and author of “Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University,” said that faculty members “who hold academic deanships enjoy somewhat less freedom in their professorial capacities than in their administrative roles.”
“Bevin was not to be taken lightly as a Tea Party primary foe, and McConnell didn’t,” says Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
In University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato’s most recent “Crystal Ball” forecasts, Republicans are on track to pick up between four and eight Senate seats in November.
The problem is that the incentives in science today are all about breaking new ground, and there's much less incentive to making sure that the ground you're standing on is actually solid. ... I spoke with psychologist Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia. He's been working on this issue for a while. BRIAN NOSEK: The issues are pervasive in every science. Scientists are rewarded for publication over accuracy. There isn't a culture of replication across most disciplines.
After a string of scandals involving accusations of misconduct and retracted papers, social psychology is engaged in intense self-examination—and the process is turning out to be painful. This week, a global network of nearly 100 researchers unveiled the results of an effort to replicate 27 well-known studies in the field. In more than half of the cases, the result was a partial or complete failure. About half of the replications are the work of Many Labs, a network of about 50 psychologists around the world. The results of their first 13 replications, released online in November, were g...