The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has voted to move forward with the development of an indoor firing range. The board agreed to have the range built on the Milton site, which is currently being used as an outdoor range for the University of Virginia.
Dust. It’s a nuisance. It’s dirty. It makes you have to clean your house. And without it, we wouldn’t even be here. That’s why astronomers are so happy to find a whole lot of dust with a state-of-the-art radio telescope.
(Video) Our guest today is a student at the University of Virginia, but unlike your average college senior, he'll be living out his dream of traveling to space soon. Patrick Carney was here to tell us how he won a trip that is literally out of this world.
(Video) Princeton's Jeremy Adelman and the University of Virginia's Philip Zelikow, who have both led history MOOCs, sat down for a spirited debate with Colorado State Pueblo's Jonathan Rees (one of the leading MOOC critics) and Ann Little (of the blog Historiann fame) at the American Historical Association annual meeting. The panel was moderated by Elaine Carey, vice-president in charge of the AHA's Teaching Division.
The Education Department is convening a panel of experts to make public presentations later this month on how the Obama administration should develop a federal college ratings system, a department spokesman said Tuesday. (Among those scheduled to take part is U.Va.’s Sarah Turner, University Professor of Economics & Education.)
A group of University of Virginia researchers has been named to the number 4 spot on the 2013 list of Top Discoveries and Breakthroughs, compiled by the National Institute of Mental Health. Researchers there have determined that the makeup of the cells and neurons in the brain is different than originally thought. They've also learned the brain is even more different from other organs.
Money may not always buy election victories, but then not having enough is much worse for politicians – a study by a US-based India scholar reveals that the richest of our lawmakers are roughly 75 times more likely to get re-elected compared with the poorest among them. A paper authored by University of Virginia professor John Echeverri-Gent, which will be published shortly, covers the murky world of election funding, analyses major political parties and their current electoral prowess and offers forecasts for the 2014 polls, besides assessing the strengths and weaknesses of senior leade...
In recent days, Ivory Steward has heard her daughter's name mispronounced by Whoopi Goldberg, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. Sasheer Zamata zoomed into pop-culture consciousness on Monday, when "Saturday Night Live" hired the 2004 Pike High School graduate to be the newest cast member on the long-running comedy show.
The rise of single-parent households heightens the risk of poverty for both parents and children. And, although there's been a rise in the number of children being raised by two unmarried adults, the overarching family trend since 1964 is a rise of single-parent households. "Research has consistently shown that both divorce and nonmarital childbearing increase child poverty," University of Virginia demographer Brad Wilcox wrote in a 2010 report.
States will need to play a leading role in driving down health care costs, according a report released by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Wednesday afternoon.
“He’s always been a two-sided coin. On one side, you have a tough, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is politician that people say they want,” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. “On the other side is the bully. Which side of the coin does this shine a light on? It’s obvious.”
Bush created Medicare Part D, a prescription drug program for seniors, subsidizing the cost of seniors’ expensive prescription drugs. The program fit in line with his campaign promise of compassionate conservatism. Guian McKee, a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia, said the program is “an anathema” for conservatives. “If you are a progressive, it is a pretty significant expansion of the social policy system,” McKee added.
(Video) On this edition of UVa Today, Michelle Rupp talks with Guian McKee, an associate professor of public policy at the University of Virginia. McKee talks to us about the history on the War on Poverty, which marks its 50th anniversary.
"Recent SAMHSA reports have shown that adolescents are very influenced by their parents' attitudes on substance use." Teens need adult help to develop a healthy relationship with alcohol and to have positive social values, Joseph P. Allen said. Allen studies adolescent social development at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He was not part of the new research."
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato offers a counter view, arguing that President Obama’s low approval ratings, voter nervousness about their personal finances and the quirkiness of the electoral playing field this year point to GOP gains in both the House and Senate. “At this early stage, the combination of these three factors suggests a good election year for the GOP,” he wrote this week in Politico.
Higher-education associations are at odds with news-media groups in a court dispute over whether Virginia's open-records law exempts a wide range of documents deemed proprietary by the University of Virginia and the prominent climate scientist who produced them. In a case scheduled to be heard on Thursday by the Virginia Supreme Court, the university and several national higher-education groups are arguing that the open-records law should not be construed as giving an advocacy group access to many research-related documents produced Michael E. Mann, the climate scientist, while he was on t...
(By Dorrie K. Fontaine, dean of the School of Nursing; Susan Bauer-Wu, Kluge Professor in Contemplative End-of-Life Care and director of the Compassionate Care Initiative; and David Germano, director of U.Va.'s Tibet Center and SHANTI and a professor of religious studies. All are members of the University of Virginia's Contemplative Sciences Center directorate) The holiday flurry is fading away -- exhale -- leaving us with an opportunity to pause and consider how to be more buoyant in 2014. Could taking a cue or two from our nursing curriculum reinforce your New Year's resolutions ...
(By Larry J. Sabato, politics professor and director of U.Va.’s Center for Politics) Another midterm election beckons, and over the next 10 months we’ll see headlines about a thousand supposedly critical developments—the “game changers” and the “tipping points.” But we all know there aren’t a thousand powerful drivers of the vote. I’d argue that three factors are paramount: the president, the economy and the election playing field. And, at least preliminarily, those three factors seem to be pointing toward Republican gains in both houses in...
(Subscriber access only) J.P. Morgan would become the first major U.S. bank in recent years to settle Bank Secrecy Act violations in the form of a deferred prosecution agreement, said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia School of Law professor who tracks such cases.
To help students make smart decisions about their online education, U.S. News has released the 2014 Best Online Programs rankings. Now in their third year, the rankings cover online bachelor's degrees and online master's degrees in engineering, business, education, nursing and computer information technology.