According to Ashley Spinks, a University of Virginia student and a columnist for The Cavalier Daily, “Selfies can help us keep in touch with friends in a very personal way. My best friend from high school goes to college 13 hours away from me. And although I stalk her Facebook and Twitter religiously, it is easy to feel disconnected from her life. Receiving a Snapchat or seeing a selfie she took before a party is far more comforting than reading an empty status update. Selfies can portray so much more than words — allegedly, a thousand words’ worth of meaning. It’s a cl...
“Sabato’s Crystal Ball,” a political newsletter run by the University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato, moved VA-10 from “Likely Republican” to “toss-up” after Mr. Wolf’s Tuesday announcement, and UT-4 from “Leans Democratic” to “Likely Republican” after Mr. Matheson’s announcement.
Another history professor, Melvyn Leffler of the University of Virginia, weighed in with it being "probably the most effective program the United States launched during the entire Cold War."
The Charlottesville Ronald McDonald House is preparing to move into its new expanded facility early next year. The University of Virginia has offered a temporary space for the Ronald McDonald House while construction is underway, and as the staff gets used to the new facility, families are getting used to it too, as a new home for the holidays.
The University of Virginia is hosting a public forum to discuss the upcoming General Assembly session. The Wednesday forum on the Charlottesville campus is being hosted by U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan and the school's Office of State Governmental Relations.
The impact of financial sectors on fertility rates in OECD countries was explored yesterday at a conference in Trinity College Dublin. Speaking at the symposium, Professor Herman Schwartz from University of Virginia explored how the financialisation of housing finance and pension systems has depressed young couples’ ability to form households and as a result has also depressed fertility rates.
(Co-written by Eric M. Patashnik, professor of public policy and politics at the University of Virginia) Both liberals and conservatives believe they are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with the Affordable Care Act. But what do we really know about the dynamics of “policy entrenchment”— that is, whether programs survive after Congress creates them? There are a lot myths and half-truths circulating in our national dialogue about ACA. It’s time to take stock of what political science research actually tells us.
“Because a deferred-prosecution agreement or a plea agreement involves oversight by a judge, they are better tools to fix compliance issues than a non-prosecution agreement that is never filed in a court,” said Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who specializes in corporte crime.
(Commentary) The go-to place for anyone looking for archived listings of corporate plea agreements and settlements is Brandon Garrett's website at the University of Virginia School of Law. Garrett, a law professor who is working on a book about corporate prosecutions, has a wonderful collection of nonprosecution agreements, deferred-prosecution agreements and plea deals, including links to many of the original source documents.
"We don't really understand the origin of these strains," says Costi Sifri, an infectious-disease physician at the University of Virginia Health System. "And we don't really know how to contain them."
The budget also includes reductions for Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and the University of Virginia Health System – academic medical centers that provide more care for uninsured Virginians and Medicaid recipients than any other hospitals in the state.
"If you had some exemption that wasn’t available to Christians, that would be discrimination," said Doug Laycock, a law and religious studies professor at the University of Virginia. "The only way they’re treated differently is they get an exemption."
"The pregnancy hormones progesterone and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) cause an increase in blood volume, making breast tissue swell--possibly by as much as two cup sizes larger," says James E. Ferguson II, M.D., professor and department chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
(Audio) Robert Turner, law professor and associate director of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia, was a guest, discussing whether the National Security Agency should consider offering former contractor Edward Snowden amnesty in exchange for the return of the vast amount of secret data he downloaded.
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is awarding a $50,000 grant to University of Virginia School of Medicine. The grant will enable UVa. Cancer Center to begin offering early-phase clinical trials, which examine the safety and effectiveness of potential new cancer treatments, to children with cancer.
From the time of its design by Thomas Jefferson, the Capitol was criticized for being too small and impractical.
Robert F. Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia's Center for National Security Law, predicted Leon's decision was highly likely to be reversed on appeal. He said the collection of telephone metadata — the issue in Monday's ruling — already has been addressed and resolved by the Supreme Court.
“Assessments of Kennedy's presidency have spanned a wide spectrum,” according to Kennedy scholars at the University of Virginia. “Early studies, the most influential of which were written by New Frontiersmen close to Kennedy, were openly admiring. They built upon on the collective grief from Kennedy's public slaying—the quintessential national trauma. Later, many historians focused on the seedier side of Kennedy family dealings and John Kennedy's questionable personal morals. More recent works have tried to find a middle ground.” So, the legacy of Kenn...
Though many college students are just beginning their winter breaks after a frenzy of finals, some students may be back to the books sooner than others. Thanks to winter terms on college campuses across the country, also known as January or J-terms, students can squeeze in an extra course or study abroad experience between their fall and spring semesters.
Online shoppers are less likely to buy something from a person who’s black or has tattoos, a new study suggests. “We might have moved many of our consumer transactions online, but personal biases in terms of who we trust still affect how we interact with others,” study co-author Jennifer Doleac, a public policy and economics professor at the University of Virginia, told the Daily News.