Relaxers, heat and weaving can cause permanent damage. “You're born with a certain number of hair follicles and they're supposed to last you for your entire life and if a hair follicle dies it can't come back,” said Dr. Thomas Cropley, Professor and Chair of Department of Dermatology, University of Virginia Medical Center.
The University of Virginia has opened a new center to deal specifically with concussions and other brain injuries.
A cap on gifts may result in favors being reconstituted as campaign donations. Legislators should consider restrictions on the use of campaign gifts for personal expenses. That's one of several worthy suggestions made by Quentin Kidd, a political scientist at Christopher Newport University, and student Meyrem Baer in a recent issue paper from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
“It’s surprising,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “In some contexts in America today, religion is a buffer against divorce. But in the conservative Protestant context, this paper is showing us that it’s not.” Wilcox added that the study also showed that more “secularism” – people not adhering to any religious tradition – was also linked to higher rates of divorce.
The Charlottesville Planning Commission has voted to recommend approval of a special-use permit for 1000 W. Main St., the third high-density, mixed-use residential complex in the works for that area. Concerns about the project’s impact and whether the market exists for additional housing for University of Virginia students along West Main drove discussion past midnight and into early Wednesday morning.
(By Robert F. Turner, co-founder of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law) President Obama, in a national security speech Friday, placed unnecessary constraints on one of the nation's premier intelligence programs — the National Security Agency's telephone metadata collection. His prescribed changes are unlikely to further the nation's security or the liberties of its people.
Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, says Corbett is the incumbent governor most likely to lose his campaign in 2014.
(By Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia) What does it mean for a school administrator to be an instructional leader? As often as this phrase is repeated, you’d think there would be well-researched techniques with proven effectiveness. There is no shortage of authors offering pro-tips: Amazon has over a thousand titles that include the phrase.
A majority of local residents favors the construction of a bypass of U.S. 29 around Charlottesville, though opposition is growing, according to a survey released Friday by the University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research.
The University of Virginia Medical Center on Friday opened a clinic focusing on concussions and mild traumatic brain injuries.
Another way women muddle through (forget "balance" – seesaw is more like it) is to delay childbearing until their late 30s or early 40s, when their seniority is more entrenched. And it pays off: According to University of Virginia economist Amalia Miller, each year a woman delays childbearing results in an increase of career earnings by 10 percent.
It’s tough to beat an incumbent: Yes, Kasich beat Democratic Governor Ted Strickland four years ago – in the depths of the Great Recession. But before that the last time an the incumbent Ohio governor lost was Democratic Gov. John Gilligan in 1975. Still, there’s always a chance, said Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. “Politics is a crazy business. Is he the favorite in the primary or general elections? No.”
University of Virginia officials outlined the university’s efforts to attract high-achieving, low-income students at a White House summit this week. The university said President Teresa A. Sullivan and Ben Castleman of the Curry School of Education attended Thursday’s meeting with President Barack Obama and other administration officials. Leaders of other universities and public and private organizations also attended the meeting on increasing college opportunities.
Live from New York, it’s Sasheer Zamata! “Saturday Night Live’s” first black female cast member in six years will make her debut from Studio 8H on Saturday’s episode, but the comedian, who moved to the Big Apple in 2009 after graduating with a drama degree from the University of Virginia, has spent years honing her ability to make people laugh.
(Commentary) Regardless of whether Marcus gets to keep his job, his maneuvering last year led George Klosko, professor of political theory at the University of Virginia, to draw a lesson: “ ‘Ethical consultant’ is probably an oxymoron.”
After a week of intense study during which architecture students at the University of Virginia dreamed of future possibilities for U.S 29 in Albemarle County and Charlottesville, the main prize has gone to a team that expects greater housing density and a return to agriculture in the suburbs.
A new study from the University of Virginia says parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, are wasting money on one type of therapy.
Cornyn's campaign will feature million-dollar television ads buys. He has hired campaign staff for every major Texas city and has mapped out a get-out-the-vote strategy to ramp up voter participation. Meanwhile, an allied political action committee, Texans for a Conservative Majority is running television ads attacking Stockman as “shady,” while an @ShadyStockman Twitter account and website flog Stockman's ethical travails. It might seem like using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat, but Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, called Corny...