New views from a giant radio telescope in Chile are revealing massive amounts of dust created by an exploding star for the first time. Scientists – including astronomer Remy Indebetouw of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the University of Virginia – used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array radio telescope in Chile to make the discovery while observing supernova 1987A, an exploded star in the Large Magellanic Cloud – a dwarf galaxy companion of the Milky Way located about 168,000 light-years from Earth.
Connecticut football coach Bob Diaco has finished putting together his coaching staff, and it has a strong Virginia flavor. The former Notre Dame defensive coordinator and Virginia assistant, who was hired last month to his first head coaching job, has personal ties to many of those he is bringing with him to UConn, which announced the coaching hires on Monday.
According to climate records at the University of Virginia, 8 is the all-time area low, set Jan. 7, 1988.
Not everybody agrees that we should give up on marriage. “Virtually no poor, single mother wishes for her daughter or son to recapitulate her family experience,” says Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. “Marriage as the anchor for family life is a nearly universal dream in America, regardless of income.”
Many university leaders in the Washington region and elsewhere are denouncing a movement to boycott academic institutions in Israel, an issue that in the past few weeks has seized the attention of higher education. Presidents of several major universities in Maryland, Virginia and the District – including U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan – in the past two weeks have issued, co-signed or endorsed statements of opposition to a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
In the latest breakdown of the 2014 House races, the political gurus at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics ranked Mr. Gerlach’s seat “safe” for Republicans.
Kyle Kondik, a House political analyst at the University of Virginia, moved the race for the seat from “safe for Republicans” to a toss-up after Gerlach's announcement.
Candra Parker understands the importance of scholarships. “With six children in our family, affording college was questionable for me,” she says. “My father went to the University of Virginia on my behalf in 1979, and the university provided me with a tuition-assisted scholarship.” Since 2010, Parker has served as area development director for the United Negro College Fund’s Richmond office.
The Charlottesville City Council voted 4-1 Monday night to enact a pilot permitting program after residents of several streets in the two neighborhoods complained that their blocks were becoming “parking lots” for University of Virginia employees and workers at construction sites along West Main Street. The pilot program ends Aug. 31.
(By Grace Carpenter) I went to New York City for a few pre-Christmas escapades last week and what I saw shocked me. … I was shocked because I saw, for one of the first times, real love.
As University of Virginia English Professor Mark Edmundson wrote in an op-ed, online learning is fraught with problems. In physical classrooms, some instructors at top universities are “superb at sensing the mood of a room,” and “a large lecture class can also create genuine intellectual community,” he argues. Edmundson believes most online education today is a monologue, and not a real dialogue.
The forecast today is that the weather will remain cold, and could feel like 20 below zero in the exposed ridge lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains, according to Jerry Stenger, director of the state climatology office at the University of Virginia.
The AAP's promise to sweep away corruption from the Indian political system is a "difficult" goal to achieve, says American political scientist John Echeverri-Gent. Fighting corruption needs stronger legislative tools, and just by forming a government in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party was not likely to reduce corruption, he said. Echeverri-Gent, associate professor at University of Virginia, presented his views about close association of the economy, business and the Indian political system during a session "The Economy, Business and India's 2014 Parliamentary Elections"...
Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said it's not surprising to find that single mothers who wed are less likely to have a successful marriage than those who get married before having kids. "They are more likely to have all the attendant problems that ensue when you put the baby carriage before the marriage," he said.
He remembers meeting her first. In fall 2011, Michael Moskowitz stopped by an information table at a University of Virginia orientation. Elizabeth Dobbins, also a U-Va. law student, was sitting at that table.
When Alexandra “Lexi” Hensley was 4, she learned to ski on a glacier in Austria. Her mother, Deborah Hensley, credits the experience with igniting “her passion for learning about other cultures and studying other human experiences.” Now 27, the Prince William County native works in New York for a nonprofit organization working to empower women in a Kenyan slum. She has a long record of public service, first in her home town of Manassas and later overseas.
A University of Virginia medical student who thought he was just taking part in a training exercise is now being credited with potentially saving a man’s life.
(By R Edward Freeman, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business) Last summer I spoke at a conference on a panel called “Capitalism in Question.” Many of the speakers discussed capitalism's unsustainable growth, environmental neglect and unsavoury scandals. As a professor of business ethics, I am certainly aware of these topics, but I remarked to the audience that I felt like a clown attending a funeral. Where others see doom and gloom, I see a bright future full of innovation and hope.
Holton’s nomination is precedent-setting, said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “No first lady has ever served in a governor’s Cabinet – which was started under Anne’s father (Gov. Linwood Holton) in the early 1970s,” he said. “The only other former first lady to assume a significant public office was Eddy Dalton, for one-term in the state Senate representing Henrico.”