Over at The Hedgehog Review – the journal of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture – (religious studies professor) Charles Mathewes and (graduate student) Christina McRorie, responding to a recent piece by Richard Williams, argue that libertarians are overly concerned about government limits on personal freedom.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Daniel Cox said. "It's only reporting on accidents that resulted in the hospitalization of ADHD drivers." Cox was not involved with the study but has done research on traffic accidents among people with ADHD. He's also director of the Virginia Driving Safety Laboratory at the University of Virginia.
The economic tension, Robbins said, seems to indicate “a cycle of apprehension,” a sentiment echoed by Dan Murphy, a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. “If the minimum wage goes up, there might be fewer jobs in general,” said Murphy, who is an expert in fiscal policy and macroeconomics. “The effects of the minimum wage hike take a long time to set in.”
A Charlottesville-based tech firm is coming out on top of a competition against billion-dollar software developers. Above a diner and a men's shop on Charlottesville’s downtown mall you'll find OpenQ, co-founded by University of Virginia Darden School of Business alum Jim Zuffoletti.
The Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission joined other faith groups in a Supreme Court brief filed Jan. 28 arguing that for-profit corporations cannot be forced to pay for employee insurance coverage of contraception if their owners object on religious grounds. The brief, drafted by constitutional lawyer Douglas Laycock, who teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law, says the U.S. Supreme Court should affirm a lower-court’s ruling that the Southern Baptist owners of the Oklahoma City-based craft store chain Hobby Lobby are entitled to run their family busines...
"Other than the veto and executive orders, the bully pulpit may be all Obama has left to influence the course of events," said Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. But he suggested that would take the president only so far. "In the end, a speech is just a speech. It can't change political reality, and the current reality was set in November 2012, when divided government emerged from the election."
Fredericksburg, which has been the fastest-growing locality in the state since 2010, retained that title in 2013. Between April 1, 2010, and July 1, 2013, the city grew by 15.1 percent, or 3,659 people, according to the latest estimates from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
As graduation approaches, fourth-year University of Virginia student Kathleen Kane is among students around the county hoping to land their first permanent job. The international relations major said she’s been looking online for the past few months. “I’m overwhelmed by the opportunities, but I’m also overwhelmed by the number of students applying for those opportunities,” Kane, who attended UVa’s Spring Job and Internship Fair, said Wednesday. The fair, featuring more than 60 employers in Newcomb Hall, ends Thursday afternoon.
If you think back to kindergarten, you may remember playing with toys or enjoying a nap. But a new study from the University of Virginia says kindergarten is getting harder.
A recently-launched website offers a new way of seeing some of New York’s most iconic structures: through sound. SOUNDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE is a collaboration between the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities and the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia. The project uses sound culled from the interiors of the city’s buildings to generate psychedelic, screensaver-esque animations.
As the perceived pressures build on both parents and their children to perform earlier in school, the focus on doing more faster is having real implications. A recently released study from the University of Virginia says kindergartners are bearing the weight.
The Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Virginia health systems say their ability to serve low-income patients and educate future doctors could be in jeopardy if the state fails to expand its Medicaid program to serve 250,000 uninsured Virginians who otherwise may end up in their emergency rooms.
Four northern Virginia counties and the city of Alexandria have accounted for more than half of the growth in the state since 2010, according to new population data from the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
To their surprise, anemones had more genes than insects, including some genes that humans possess but flies do not. Even more perplexing: Sea anemones evolved before flies and humans, some 560 million years ago. That meant animals might have been genetically complex from the start. “When I was younger, and we knew less, we thought that organisms gained genes over millions of years and that the earliest animals were genetically very simple,” says Bill Pearson, a computational biologist at the University of Virginia who developed some of the first techniques to compare protein sequen...
(Press release) As a follow up to its recently published 2013 Top Psychology Grad Programs, Graduateprograms.com is pleased to release student based rankings for the top Psychology grad programs in the areas of career support, education quality, financial aid and quality of network. (U.Va. ranks No. 9 for “quality of network.”)
The University of Virginia's Curry School of Education has received a $300,000 grant to gauge a mentoring program's influence on girls.
Still, a number of economists, nationally and locally, say ending homelessness is possible, but not the way we’ve been going about it. “I certainly think it’s feasible,” says University of Virginia economist Ed Olsen. “We already spend enough money to do it. We just don’t spend that money wisely.”
"It's kind of like the chicken and egg," said Geoff Skelley, analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "Do you promise them certain things and then they give you money or do they come to you once they realize you are an established force working for them? I think it's probably a little of both."
(Co-written by John McGinnis, a visiting professor at the University of Virginia) To the delight of anyone who’s ever waited in line to cast a vote, a bipartisan election commission convened by President Barack Obama concluded last week that states across the country should increase their use of early voting.
(By Saikrishna Prakash, professor of law) When a president acts unilaterally in an almost indiscriminate way, it is a sign that his presidency is on its last legs. It's taken five years, but President Obama has finally discovered that we have a presidential (and not parliamentary) system. Now his allies are talking up “an executive style of governing,” and the White House even boasts of a “pen and phone” approach, to bypass Congress.