Dr. Bernard Beitman, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, proposes the establishment of a transdisciplinary study called “Coincidence Studies.” He wrote in a 2011 paper: “One of the biggest challenges in the development of the new discipline of Coincidence Studies is providing a systematic place in scientific research for subjectivity and for human consciousness. Meaningful coincidences depend upon the mind of the observer. The question of how to develop methods and an accompanying technical language that includes and respects the subjective element built into the fab...
"Adelson must have concluded the same as everyone else has, Christie’s stock has fallen and he’s at the same level as quite a number of others," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The Dance Program of the University of Virginia Department of Drama will take the stage in Culbreth Theatre with 12 pieces that use dance to explore real-world topics. The Spring Dance Concert will be presented 8 p.m. Thursday and again April 4 and 5.
He has composed everything from the opera “Einstein on the Beach” to the Academy Award-nominated film scores to “Kundun,” “The Hours” and “Notes on a Scandal.” Along the way, he has studied with Nadia Boulanger and Ravi Shankar and collaborated with everybody from David Bowie to Woody Allen. And while composer Philip Glass is at the University of Virginia starting Monday as the Music Arts Board’s 2014 artist-in-residence, his multidisciplinary reach will be reflected in the variety of events on the schedule.
Archaeologists at the University of Virginia are revealing some of the findings from an excavation of a cistern near the historic Rotunda. They now know what it was likely used for, and who built it. The cistern originally held around 75,000 gallons of water. Archaeologists have uncovered a plate and wall inscriptions that give them more background into its history.
The University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble celebrates the music’s multi-cultural revival and honors its roots in medieval minstrelsy and Jewish ritual. Director and clarinetist Joel Rubin, UVA’s renowned ethnomusicologist, is joined by Alan Bern, an accordion-playing Berliner who Rubin started a revival group with in the ’80s, setting the stage for klezmer kismet.
A Bachelor of Science from Harvey Mudd College, the small California science and engineering school, is the most valuable college degree in America. Stanford's computer science program pays off more than any single major in the country. For the best dollar-for-dollar investment, nothing beats the University of Virginia. As those three (all true) facts illustrate, there are many ways to answer the question What's the most valuable college education in the country?
Officials at five hospitals, including the University of Virginia Medical Center, have told The Daily Progress they had available psychiatric beds that day. Officials at UVa and two other hospitals have said no one from the Rockbridge Area Community Services Board, the agency tasked with evaluating Gus Deeds, called about beds that day.
– Merit aid. This could bring the biggest change and also provides an Idol-level rush. “Need-based financial aid will never have the same positive psychological effect as a merit scholarship,” wrote an undergraduate at the University of Virginia in The Cavalier Daily. “Students have the right to be recognized for the quality of their work.” Yet our colleges, which collude with the Department of Education, trash merit aid as impossibly retrograde.
Douglas Blackmon of the University of Virginia Miller Center Forum examines the pending gun legislation in Georgia allowing citizens to carry firearms in public places and what it means in the bigger picture of Georgia politics on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.”
Andrew Southerland, MD, a neurologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study, said, "This paper clears up a murky question about how to manage blood pressure in these patients. It's a pivotal study in our field."
A University of Virginia student charged last year with assaulting ABC agents attempting to stop her for underage possession beer that turned out to be sparkling water has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the state and seven agents.
Richmond looks more like Washington ... and people don’t like it, one political analyst says. “I think the reason you’re seeing that number down even further — it wasn’t like it was terribly high to begin with — I would say you’re probably seeing respondents give a stronger disapproval than approval feeling much for the same reason that they do for Congress and Washington — the feeling of, we’re polarized, bitter partisanship, and inability to find a compromise,” said Geoff Skelley, political analyst with the University of Virgin...
A group seeking access to climate scientist Michael Mann’s emails through Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) has a surprising new group of news media allies. From wire agencies to liberal Atlantic Media, Inc., 17 news groups have supported the release of documents, according to Columbia Journalism Review. ... There is an irony to the situation, especially when it comes to the Post which used its editorial pages to attack a separate attempt by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to access Mann’s emails. Post editorials called that a “witch hunt” and...
The University of Virginia (UVA) Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) unit hosted an event here March 21 in an attempt to take a lead in promoting bystander intervention on campus in order to prevent incidents of sexual assault. In response to dialogue at a conference in February entitled “UVA: Sexual Misconduct Amongst College Students,” UVA NROTC hoped its event would motivate active bystanders and raise awareness of preventing sexual assaults. The February conference ended with a focus on a need to change the culture that fuels sexual misconduct.