Virginia universities consider race as part of a “holistic” review of a student during the admissions process, but that practice will not be changed immediately, if at all, by Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Both the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary acknowledge race may be a factor in admissions. U.Va. adheres to a 2003 Supreme Court decision, also from Michigan, that allows for racial preferences but not quotas, spokesman McGregor McCance said. The university uses an “individualized and holistic approach” that focuses on many factor...
Other pundits that project Senate races see the Louisiana race this way: The fivethirtyeight.com website lists Republicans with a 55 percent chance of capturing the Louisiana Senate race, while the Cook Political Report, Roth Political Report and University of Virginia Political scientist Larry Sabato all list the Louisiana Senate race as a tossup.
It is too simplistic to break this down as a fight between "establishment" and "anti-establishment" candidates, said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "It runs deeper than that," he said. "There are people, both in the tea party and just conservative Republicans, who are naturally suspicious of people who aren't 100 percent ideologically conservative."
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project) This month, millions of high school seniors across America are making important decisions about which college they will attend for the next four years of their life. Based on my professional experience talking to high school students considering attending the University of Virginia, where I teach sociology, many of these seniors seem unaware of how much their chances of collegiate success depend not on their hard work or capabilities, but on whether their parents made certain sacrifices to support the...
Tuesday is Earth Day and the University of Virginia marked the occasion with a big expo held at Newcomb Hall. The theme of the Earth Week Expo was "the challenge of change." Organizers say the goal was to showcase sustainability projects - focused on spreading knowledge and taking action.
Last month, the analysts at the University of Virginia’s Institute of Politics that run the Crystal Ball, a website of political prognostication, began testing the waters for other candidates against top Republican leaders. They found that Jeb Bush’s name kept coming up. “When we mentioned other names on our list—governors and incumbent senators—we were surprised at the extent to which these top leaders only wanted to talk about Jeb Bush,” says Kyle Kondik, a spokesman for the institute. “We now consider Bush the leader of the field if he decides to ru...
The rector of The University of Virginia, George Keith Martin, dubbed Donna P. Henry "Henry the Eighth," a light-hearted yet official proclamation making it so. Inauguration ceremonies were staged Tuesday to formally install Henry as the eighth chancellor of The University of Virginia's College at Wise.
College success and graduation is more likely for those students who had dads actively involved in their lives while they were in high school, according to sociologist and National Marriage Project director Brad Wilcox.
Canadian born, American educated executive J. Michael Pearson has set his sights on making Valeant the world’s fifth-largest drug maker by 2016.
Holder began signaling more aggressive moves on commutation back in January, when he said the Justice Department would step up its efforts to seek clemency applications. “One of the things we have to do is to make people who are incarcerated aware of that avenue,” Holder said in an appearance at the University of Virginia. “The president is willing to do these kinds of things…For him to look at them, we have to get them into the system, and to him.”
Today the Garden Club of Virginia has 47 member clubs and 3,400 volunteers and is undertaking restoration projects at 41 properties including Mount Vernon and the Pavilion Gardens at the University of Virginia. ... Perennial Historic Garden Week sites that will be opening as always, April 26-29, include U.Va.’s Carr’s Hill, West Lawn Pavilion homes and gardens, and Morea Garden and Arboretum, along with Morven, open Saturday, April 26, where nine women created the Albemarle Garden Club in 1914, and went on to help found the Garden Club of Virginia in 1920 and help create Historic G...
A popular Washington Post article by my colleague Michael S. Rosenwald said that researchers were finding that the habit of scanning and skinning material online was changing the human brain and hindering people’s” ability to read long, complex and dense material. Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a professor at the University of Virginia, is highly skeptical.
After a weekend spent drawing trees with the students and faculty of the landscape architecture department at the University of Virginia, French botanist Francis Hallé gave a talk on the ecology of tropical rainforests. He has studied tropical plant life in 45 countries for 55 years and was the first person to land on top of the rainforest canopy using a raft suspended from a dirigible.
Studies carried out by John Bound at the University of Michigan and Sarah Turner at the University of Virginia found that a third of the decline in graduation rates was because of the increase in students with relatively low academic achievements attending college, particularly community college.
With a Ph.D. in aquaculture, Nicole Kirchhoff knew the science but lacked any formal business training. As a cash-strapped, time-pressed entrepreneur, she couldn’t afford to sign up for business classes at a local college and definitely couldn’t take off a few years to earn an MBA. Instead ... she has assembled her own version of a business degree by aggregating classes from the nation’s best schools including “Foundations of Business Strategy” from the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia athletes are asking for the public's help to cure rare blood diseases. Monday, the football and track teams partnered to host a bone marrow registration drive. For some patients with diseases like leukemia or lymphoma, bone marrow transplants may be their only hope of surviving. ... The bone marrow drive is especially personal for U.Va. football head coach Mike London and his daughter Ticynn. Eleven years ago he donated his bone marrow to her after she was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. The procedure saved her life.
Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, told CBS News that people's world views and social relationships influence what they believe. People do understand that scientists produce information "that ought to be believed," but there are other motivations, such as social norms or fear of the unknown, that may affect their views.
Historian Alan Taylor, a national expert in Colonial America and the early U.S. republic, recently received a Pulitzer Prize for his book, "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832," a book that Washington College played a part in supporting. The college’s C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience awarded Taylor its 2012 Frederick Douglass Visiting Fellowship, bringing him to campus that April for a stint of research, writing and recreation.
For instance, University of Virginia political scientists Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik predict that the GOP will gain five to eight seats in the fall and expand its current majority.