Where can you find big live beetles to pet, stars to explore even in the daylight and more weird, wild, freaky, fascinating things than you can imagine? At the Ruckersville Elementary PTA’s third annual Science Day this Saturday, March 8. The free event is from 1 to 4 p.m. at Ruckersville Elementary School. “Compared to what we have done for the last two years, we are really blowing up the number of activities we are offering,” says Dr. Anthony Remijan, who has been the driving force behind getting students and faculty from the University of Virginia to make the trip up U.S. ...
Buchanan's speech, which elicited a rapturous reception from the convention delegates, and unmitigated horror among liberals, illustrated the accuracy of the argument put forth in a book published a year earlier by University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter, entitled, aptly enough, “Culture Wars.”
A federal judge has dismissed the Federal Aviation Administration's only fine against a commercial drone user on the grounds that the small drone was no different than a model aircraft, a decision that appears to undermine the agency's power to keep a burgeoning civilian drone industry out of the skies. The FAA levied the fine against aerial photographer Raphael Pirker for flying the small drone near the University of Virginia to make a commercial video in October 2011.
“The GOP is searching for a candidate with all the right elements to win and who is safe,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and author of numerous political books. “Paul is trying to sell “a mixed philosophy that’s like oil and water. … Paul is a risk and they don’t want a risky nominee in 2016. They desperately fear a third presidential defeat.”
An advanced manufacturing research center in Prince George County is partnering with the Defense Department. Officials say the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing will partner in the new public-private Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing does research for a group of manufacturing companies under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.
Some legal experts say even though no shots have been fired, Ukraine has a potential case that Russia has already committed an act of aggression, given its show of military force and takeover of part of another nation’s territory. “Most importantly, consider the implications for the charter if the answer were that this were not an armed attack: Ukraine could not lawfully use force against Russian troops to protect territory that undisputedly is part of Ukraine,” writes Ashley Deeks of the University of Virginia Law School on the legal blog “Lawfare.”
“Medicaid expansion is closely associated with Obamacare,” Larry Sabato, U.Va. politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, says. “The Republican base is virtually united in opposition to Obamacare, and the GOP nationally is focusing tightly on the subject for the 2014 midterm campaigns. Virginia's House of Delegates is two-thirds Republican, and they are listening to their party's activists.”
Nathan Fountain, a neurologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine who was chair of the November independent advisory panel, hopes that there is room for compromise. “It would have been wrong to approve the drug as a first-line treatment for MS”, says Fountain. “But for more aggressive disease, or for second line therapy, an approval would have been reasonable.”
Joe Harris and Billy Baron are best friends who hit it off from the moment they met as fresh-faced college freshmen. They had so much in common they just knew they had to be roommates. They were coaches' sons. They were sharp-shooting, good-looking guards. They even shared a dream of taking their school to a historic championship. And then, after just one semester, Baron walked away from the University of Virginia.
“Joseph Cornell and Surrealism” focuses on the work of the American artist Joseph Cornell in the 1930s and the 1940s. These years span both Cornell’s emergence and maturation as a visual artist and the heyday in New York of surrealism, the international art movement founded by André Breton in Paris in 1924. This international loan exhibition is a collaboration of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Following a run in Lyon (Oct. 18, 2013 – Feb. 10, 2014), the exhibition opens at The Fralin on Mar. 7 and will remain...
Several sections of the Berlin Wall are coming to the University of Virginia. Four panels of the wall will be on-loan and featured in an outdoor exhibit near the Alderman Library. The formal unveiling is expected in April.
Doctors did not even know tick bites could trigger the food allergy until researchers at the University of Virginia made the connection. Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills led the team that noticed the trend of people developing the allergy later in life. After reporting this finding in 2009, his team worked with other research institutions and concluded in 2011 that tick bites were the cause.
When injuries derailed his brief NBA career and forced him to seek a new line of work, Tony Bennett was only sure of one thing. Whatever he did next, it wasn't going to be coaching.
The evidence of Tony Bennett's coaching ability can be found, permanently, in his patience. And with that patience, and his quiet, kind conviction, comes results. They don't pore in; they germinate.
Developed by co-founders John Reardon and UVA law student Eddie Sniezek, both originally from the D.C. area, the “musx” app is a clever mash-up of a streaming music player and a social media-based music-sharing destination. It draws on YouTube content to allow users to find songs they want to share with their musx friends and provides a space for comments below the video-enabled player.
(Essay by Parker Camp, a double major in foreign affairs and psychology) I am a fourth-year varsity swimmer at the University of Virginia, from Nashville, Tenn, and about two weeks ago I began coming out openly as gay. It has been a fast and furious journey.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who has written often about Internet culture, said Facebook was “entering its adolescence facing all of these moral and political challenges about what to filter and what standards to apply.” He added, “It will need a linguist and a roomful of lawyers to come up with a workable policy to allow some posts about guns to go through and some not to go through.”
The University of Virginia requires students to write essays as part of their applications, but while it does consider the writing score on the SAT, the actual essay is not downloaded from the SAT. Greg Roberts, U.Va. dean of admission, said he wants to review the changes before offering an opinion. “Much is yet to be determined and revealed,” he said by email. “The devil is in the details, but we support any improvements to the SAT that will help us better predict college success, better understand student potential, and increase access in our holistic admission review.&rdqu...