"It is certainly true that his public standing is vastly improved. Frankly, he couldn't go anywhere but up," said Russell Riley, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
The National Marriage Project, a University of Virginia-based initiative that collects research and analysis relating to marriage in America, recently released a report that reveals the pros and cons of delaying marriage. The report also highlights some of the national trends that have been recorded. According to the report titled, “Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America,” part of the decline in marriage rates could be attributed to the fact that men and women are waiting until later in life to say “I do.”
Bruce Holsinger, a medievalist who teaches in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, wrote A Burnable Book, a thriller set in 1385 London.
Six weeks after being exonerated of rape and getting his name removed from Virginia’s Sex Offender Registry, Edgar Coker shared the spotlight with NFL free agent Brian Banks and novelist John Grisham. ... for both, it was the work of an Innocence Project that led to their names finally being cleared [and] led to them being seated on either side of Grisham on Wednesday evening for an Innocence Project fundraiser at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Audience members who attend events in composer Philip Glass’s residency at the University of Virginia this week will see him share two precious facets of his career.
In his fifth season at Virginia, Bennett’s team finally returned Virginia basketball to the heights it hadn’t experienced in almost 20 years.
According to a Pew Research report entitled "Millennials in Adulthood," they are incredibly well connected to friends, family, and colleagues via all the latest digital platforms. But as University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox says, when it comes to "the core human institutions that have sustained the American experiment - work, marriage, and civil society," the Millennials' ties "are worryingly weak."
The University of Virginia will honor retired director of operations and maintenance Jay Klingel as part of its Founder's Day activities. The school says it will plant a tree in Klingel's honor on the west side of the Lawn.
By Jane Alison, professor of creative writing and author of "Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid."...Bodies do change, and who feels this more acutely than teenagers? Ways of talking about sexual changes and encounters—the strange borders of the self when first touching another—change too, from the metaphorical psychologies of Ovid to the popular teachings of a modern icon. But the truths inside both bodies and the tales we tell about them seem indeed to stay the same.
Not everyone thinks three-parent families are a good idea. There are religious groups that disapprove, believing that parenting and marriage should be between a man and a woman. And there are other skeptics, too. Bradford Wilcox, a professor at the University of Virginia and director of The National Marriage Project, says this is uncharted territory. "I think the concern here is that three parents will have more difficulty giving their children the kind of consistency and stability that they need to thrive as children and as young adults as well," Wilcox says.
A graduate of the University of Virginia, Mathisen didn’t simply rely on Lady Luck—each new résumé entry added precious new skills to his now impressive curriculum vitae.
Public investments in the safety net—specifically, programs that target poor children—have been shown to generate exceptionally high returns that benefit all Americans. For example, University of Virginia professor Chloe Gibbs; University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig; and University of California, Davis, economist Douglas L. Miller estimate that Head Start produces a benefit-cost ratio of more than 7-to-1.
You kept waiting for the circumstances to get to Virginia, for the wide-eyed factor to take over, for the Cavaliers to wilt in the flaring theatrical lighting of Madison Square Garden and the screaming brass horns of the bands and the deep drone of the roars that circled the rotunda. They never did; instead, they just got a little tired and outmanned, and it took every bit of experience for Michigan State to beat them in Friday’s East Region semifinals, 61-59. ... By the end, the only question was just how soon they will be back because this is a program that clearly belongs.
Dan Bonner answered the phone Tuesday on his way through West Virginia. He had roughly seven more hours to drive until he reached Evansville, Ind. The Staunton resident and U.Va. alumnus is widely known as a college basketball analyst for CBS. Even though the 60-year-old sportscaster is done calling games for CBS at the 2014 NCAA Division I Tournament, he will finish out his broadcast season in Indiana on Saturday at the NCAA Division II college basketball national championship (3 p.m., CBS), where he has called the final for the last 11 years.
James R. Schlesinger, a tough Cold War strategist who served as secretary of defense under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford and became the nation’s first secretary of energy under President Jimmy Carter, died on Thursday in Baltimore. He was 85. From 1955 to 1963, Mr. Schlesinger taught economics at the University of Virginia.
Then there are the pols who have flirted with showbiz careers during a political hiatus. “Maybe they have something to prove. Maybe they are just addicted to the spotlight,” offers University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato, director of its Center for Politics and perhaps the dean of quotable political experts. “Only a tiny proportion of the population runs for office. Some motives are noble, others self-serving, but these unusual individuals have a thirst to be at the center of the action,” he said by e-mail. “Better a column than nothing at all. You’ll ...
(Podcast) UVA law professor Micah Schwartzman offers commentary on the significance and implications of the Hobby Lobby case.
On Tuesday’s Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon did a ‘Pros and Cons’ segment about the NCAA tournament. Somewhat predictably, Fallon used the opportunity to play off the name Virginia coach Tony Bennett shares with a famous singer (and a stripper).