“This race is more of an exception than a rule because it was the only game in town yesterday,” said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
What do a Texas Republican women’s organization, an abstinence education project in Georgia, and a border terrier club in Alabama have in common? If you guessed they were all represented at CPAC, think again. According to a new report from Citizen Lab, some popular online filters have miscategorized these groups’ websites as porn. … Other miscategorized sites make no sense whatsoever. The University of Virginia’s German House – an on-campus residence for Germanophiles that organizes poetry readings and “daily haus dinners” – is classified as por...
Despite recent rules designed to make 401(k) plans friendlier to retirement savers, new research suggests that we're still paying too much for investment options that are second rate. "Overall, we find that investors in an average plan pay 86 basis points in fees in excess of low-cost index funds. We estimate in 16 percent of analyzed plans that fees are so high that, for a young employee, they consume the tax benefits of investing in a 401(k)," write Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres and University of Virginia associate law professor Quinn Curtis in a paper shared by the Socia...
The University of Virginia Center for Politics says it will be difficult for Democrats to do well in these midterm elections, and that the Fifth District is likely to stay Republican. “It's going to be very much an uphill battle for any Democrat in this district,” says Geoff Skelley with the Center for Politics. “The national dynamics aren't great for Democrats, and because Hurt is established in the district as more Republican than not.”
Former U.S. Sen. and Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb is among this year's recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. The other recipients are Tokyo-based architect Toyo Ito and attorney Kenneth R. Feinberg.
Some schools, such as the Darden School of Business at University of Virginia, give denied applicants the opportunity to do this at the end of the admissions cycle. In June they can meet with staff members for 15 minutes to discuss how to improve, says Sara Neher, the assistant dean for MBA admissions at Darden.
They are the unsung nobility of the Lahaina community - the altruistic visionaries that see the value of education and cultural preservation. Despite being from near and far, with a myriad of backgrounds and differing financial standing, they still hold a common core incentive: to be pono for the future of Maui and the world in general. Charlie Fox, who passed away last month at the age of 84, was one of these contributors.
University of Virginia’s associate vice president and dean of students, Allen Groves, will be recognized by the gay and lesbian rights group Equality Virginia next month. Groves, who is openly gay, is one of eight recipients of this year’s OUTstanding Virginians award, which recognizes residents who represent the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community with distinction.
This month, Dr. Felix H. Cheung added a new title to his resume when he was bestowed with 2014 National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence by the American Medical Student Association during the association's annual convention in New Orleans. Cheung earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and attended the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia
Frederick Hitz, a former CIA inspector general, said he sees the airing of the dispute as a sign that members of Congress, including those like Feinstein who have been supportive of intelligence agencies, will be stepping up their oversight of those agencies. “It is not going to be a happy period,” said Hitz, who now teaches at the University of Virginia.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe will search for a new state schools chief to replace Patricia I. Wright, who will retire from her post as superintendent of public instruction May 1.
Tuesday’s announcement confirmed what we all knew would happen: Virginia’s Tony Bennett was a landslide choice for ACC Coach of the Year.
After leading the Virginia men’s basketball team to its first outright ACC regular season title since 1981, Tony Bennett was named the league’s coach of the year Tuesday by media members who cover the conference.
Even after seeing its 13-game winning streak end in an overtime loss to Maryland in its regular-season finale, Virginia heads to the ACC tournament as the top seed with a 16-2 record in league play. On one hand, that would seem to make the sixth-ranked Cavaliers the favorites to cut down the nets at Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina. But on the other hand: Virginia hasn’t won the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in 38 years, hasn’t so much as reached the semifinals since 1995 and has lost 18 of its last 22 game in tourney play. It’s not just opponents the Cavaliers ha...
Business accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars have come to occupy a critical geography in the tech landscape, and today two professors are announcing the results of their survey to determine which ones have come out on top at South By Southwest. Yael Hochberg, a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and her colleague, Professor Susan Cohen of the University of Richmond and the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, used original research and data from CrunchBase to determine the best 15 accelerators in the U.S.
In May, the University of Virginia will sponsor a Civil Rights South Seminar as part of its lifetime learning program. Julian Bond will lead the excursion, which will include stops in Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery and Monroeville. The program chastens Virginians as well. American slavery traces its roots to Colonial Virginia. Neither Richmond nor Virginia has done enough to recognize the totality of its past.
Equality Virginia, the commonwealth's major LGBT organization, on Monday announced the winners of its OUTstanding Virginians awards, which are given annually to LGBT Virginians who have made an impact on behalf of the LGBT community and represent the community with distinction. This year's recipients of the OUTstanding Virginian awards include Allen Groves, the associate vice president and dean of students at the University of Virginia.
Also, according to data gathered by University of Virginia researchers as part of the National Marriage Project, marriages in which the couples score highest on a "generosity scale" are far more likely to say they are "very happy" in their marriages.
When the Berlin Wall came down nearly 25 years ago, it ended conflict over communism in the German capital. Now portions of the wall are going up at the University of Virginia to mark the anniversary of the collapse.
Brad Pasanek, an 18th-century literature specialist at the University of Virginia, agreed, saying of the original novel that “The characters other than the protagonist are so often surrounded by people who aren’t fully human, like machines that keep repeating the same things over and over again. All those characters shuffling in and out of scenes, always frustrating the protagonists. It’s a crowded but eerie landscape. What’s wrong with those people? They don’t dance well but move in jerky fits. Oh, they are headed this way!"