The annual tradition that's popular with University of Virginia students and alumni is centered on hundreds of tailgate plots. The student-run Alcohol Drug Abuse Prevention Team (ADAPT) offered free water, food and sunscreen to help their peers. “We encourage students to always make a plan to get home safely, and to be safe during the day but this is a good way to provide a ‘Plan B’ to students,” said Margaret Lowe, ADAPT co-chair. “It's very important that we promote student safety.”
Building on more than a decade of research by Benton Calhoun, U.Va. associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, a Charlottesville-based startup company called Psi-Kick is preparing to manufacture the world’s lowest-power wireless semiconductor chips — no batteries necessary.
“The supply of new models and new ideas is really important, and so I think it’s a very positive thing,” said Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, of the Walton investments. Neither Dr. Pianta nor the Curry School have received funding from Walton.
A regular election in the same district — which stretches from McLean west to Winchester in Northern Virginia — would have had roughly 187, or nearly 19 times more, polling places compared to the firehouse primary, according to Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of the University of Virginia’s Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
Such cooperation isn’t exclusive to the Washington and Idaho delegations, said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, because local interests trump ideology.
University of Virginia education professor Dewey Cornell added one additional qualifier to the bullying definition: “There has to be a power imbalance between the victim and the perpetrator,” he said. “These things are difficult to legislate, and they require nuanced judgment by school authorities in many cases.”
Larry Sabato discusses the political fallout from racist remarks by tax-scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy, who had been hailed by some conservatives.
Former U.Va. dean and professor Bernard Mayes and alumnus Matthew Chayt share Mayes’s odyssey to find a gay-friendly senior assisted living facility or in-home caregivers.
Not all men, but some will begin to question their masculinity when he makes less. A study from the University of Florida and the University of Virginia discovered that a man’s self-esteem and ego take a hit when his female partner prospers, and it can negatively impact his outlook on their relationship.
As the GOP prepares for the 2016 presidential election, it "has to try mightily to show it is mainstream and ready to govern again," said Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "This helps."
Early in her career, Barbara was a pioneer in breaking down gender barriers in the legal profession. Now a U.S. District Court judge, she has presided over some of the most controversial and important trials in North Texas during the last 15 years, and Mike is a pit bull trial lawyer who stunned the legal community two decades ago by leaving the comforts of a large silk-stocking law firm to start what has become one of the most successful and respected litigation boutiques in Texas. Mike and Barbara Lynn are Dallas’ undisputed legal power couple.
Brian Breslin started Refresh Miami, the largest tech entrepreneur organization in South Florida, in 2006. The group has grown to 8,500 members and routinely attracts 300 to 500 people to every monthly event.
University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato for instance, currently predicts Republicans will net five to eight seats in November.” (For decades, I have viewed Sabato as one the nation’s most astute political commentators.)
“The common thread is that there’s a Democrat in the White House who’s not that popular,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan research group at the University of Virginia. “It wouldn’t be surprising if any of those states went Republican.”
“We use music as a carrot to bring young people in and off the street at a time when statistics indicate adolescents get in the most trouble,” said Sibley Johns, director of the Music Resource Center and a musician with a master’s degree in counselor education from the University of Virginia.
Fuller Seminary professor 'transformed the old conversation between just war theorists and pacifists.' Also rethought Sermon on the Mount and 'incarnational discipleship.'
Hazing is legend on American campuses, but scrutiny is tightening. The University of Virginia is an example. The school recently suspended two fraternities. Pi Kappa Alpha ordered pledges to take bites out of an onion and lined up the prospects in the basement where condiments were dumped on their heads, according to Dean of Students Allen W. Groves. A student was hurt at Sigma Nu, an anti-hazing fraternity where pledges were forced to engage in physical activity Groves deemed excessive, he said.
Those trends look troubling, said University of Virginia professor of business administration William Sihler, who reviewed the company’s statement at the newspaper’s request.
"Today's action by the FDA has given women a better alternative method to reassure themselves they do not have this deadly yet preventable disease," Mark Stoler, professor emeritus of pathology and clinical gynecology at the University of Virginia Health System, said in a statement provided by Roche.
Sunday, a group of Albemarle High School varsity baseball players and members from the University of Virginia's Athletes for Hope stopped by to help the foundation.