Rams defensive tackle Matt Conrath has learned not to read too much into coaching decisions. “That’s above my pay grade, I guess,’’ the second-year pro kidded. “When I’m told that I’m out there, I get myself ready to start flying around.’’ The 6-foot-7, 306-pound Conrath has played in seven of 13 games this season. But his role has increased recently.
Andrew Brown of Oscar Smith High School, who plans to enroll at U.Va. in January, on Wednesday was named the Gatorade National Football Player of the Year.
“We made an early bet on Gov. John Kasich, and everything I’ve seen kind of confirms it,” said University of Virginia political-science professor Larry Sabato, who handicaps governors’ and other political races. Sabato’s Crystal Ball lists the 2014 race between the Republican Kasich and FitzGerald as “likely Republican.”
"There's a misunderstanding that if we can't predict who's going to commit a shooting, then there's no way to prevent shootings. That is because people focus so much on the shooter and the image of a shooting. Prevention has to start before there's a gunman in your parking lot," says Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist who directs the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia and was part of the panel.
Against a backdrop of Department of Defense furloughs and a 17-day government shutdown, taxable sales were largely stagnant in Virginia for the third quarter, according to the latest data from the state's department of taxation. The taxable sales report is published by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. The center posts quarterly and annual data dating back to 1996 on its website, coopercenter.org.
The day after President Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro briefly shook hands in Johannesburg, Semester at Sea students in Havana readied to head home, both events symbols of the steady closing of an ocean-wide divide. A study-abroad program sponsored by the University of Virginia, Semester at Sea marked its first trip to Cuba in nine years when a cruise ship carrying 568 students docked Monday in Havana. The ship set sail for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Wednesday.
On this edition of UVa Today Bob Beard talks with Dr. Phillip Trella, the assistant vice president for graduate studies in the University of Virginia Office of Research. Dr. Trella talks about graduate students at the university collaborating through Big Data for complex projects.
(By Dahler Battle, a second-year economics and foreign affairs double major) Less than a year from now, Americans will have the chance to be heard through their ballots in the 2014 midterm elections, which will include competitions in all 435 congressional seats, 33 Senatorial seats, 38 governorships, and thousands of local offices. The year 2014 may not include any races for the history books such as the Presidential Elections of 2000 and 2008. However these elections carry just as much, if not more, of an impact on national, state, and local politics.
“The GOP is faction-ridden,” said University of Virginia political expert Larry Sabato. “That’s obvious. You have seven incumbents being opposed in party primaries by tea party candidates. But I’ll bet they all win, or at most, there is one upset.”
They buried a legend Tuesday, but the deeds and tales of All-American Joe Palumbo will live forever. Characterized as bigger than life with his generosity and love, everyone who attended the former University of Virginia gridiron great’s memorial mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, could relate to “Big Joe’s” kindness. A “Who’s Hoo” of UVa athletics and the Charlottesville community was there to pay tribute to one of its greatest ambassadors.
The package calls for legislators to extend the time crisis workers have to locate space for a patient being held under an emergency custody order and to prolong the treatment window for patients who an evaluator determines needs additional care — changes welcomed Tuesday by University of Virginia professor Richard Bonnie, who chaired Virginia’s Commission on Mental Health Law Reform. “I’m very pleased by what the governor has done,” Bonnie said. “It rejuvenates the process of mental health law and services reform in the wake of the recession ... [which] lef...
Alumnus and Rhodes Scholar Kurt Mitman explains why the University of Virginia has produced more than two and a half times the number of Rhodes Scholars than Penn has.
The University of Virginia’s accrediting body on Tuesday lifted the warning it placed on the elite public institution last year amid concerns that governing board members improperly acted when trying to oust U-Va. President Teresa Sullivan in June 2012.
Then there’s the power of background noise: Research participants were more creative when they were exposed to background noise of 70 decibels, comparable to the sound of a moving car 10 meters away, than when they were in a low-noise environment, according to research by Ravi Mehta of the University of Illinois, Rui (Juliet) Zhu of the University of British Columbia and Amar Cheema of the University of Virginia. The noise makes mental processing more difficult, which activates abstract cognition and thus enhances creative performance.