The Virginia Film Festival set another all-time record high at the box office, with $120,156 in sales this year, an 11 percent increase from last year, the event’s organizers said Tuesday. More than 27,000 tickets were issued and 35 screenings were sold out during the festival’s 26th annual run, which ended Sunday.
(Video) For fourth year students at UVa, living on The Lawn is an honor. This year, of the 54 rooms on The Lawn, only two belong to student-athletes. UVa football players Blake Blaze and Matt Fortin gave CBS19 Sports an inside look at this University of Virginia tradition that dates back to the 19th century.
A new book put together by scholars at the University of Virginia raises some tough questions about America's prison system. "The Punitive Turn" is based on UVA's 2009 Conference on Incarceration and Race. Now experts say addressing what has been called an "incarceration crisis" takes a community effort.
When a group of young girls – who tried their hand at boxing and decided it wasn’t for them – approached him and said they wanted to start a step team, Wes Bellamy was stumped. A boxer himself, he could teach punching and footwork all day long, but when it came to dancing and stepping, he had no idea where to begin. But what he did know is that stepping is an aspect of African-American culture that could give the girls lessons in discipline and teamwork that they weren’t getting anywhere else. That’s when he turned to the community and volunteers at UVA for help. ...
“Individuals choose to live in communities with ideologies similar to their own to satisfy their need to belong,” writes a research team led by social psychologist Matt Motyl of the University of Virginia. That deep-seated desire is a major factor driving this migration, he and his colleagues write in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
For David Evans, of the University of Virginia, the online courses he runs have attracted a new generation of students to his specialist subject – cryptography. "Open online classes provide a way to reach an amazing group of students that do not have access to traditional higher education," says Evans, associate professor of computer science.
(Audio) On the second day of the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCordspoke with documentary filmmaker Farihah Zaman who, along with her partner Jeff Reichert, directed Remote Area Medical, a look at the non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to providing free health care in remote areas.
But Douglas Laycock, a leading authority on religious-liberty issues at the University of Virginia School of Law, argued that stronger religious exemptions in same-sex “marriage” laws were important and should be secured. “None of these exemptions has been litigated yet,” Laycock acknowledged, noting the 14-state “marriage equality” laws have various provisions, “but I’m confident they are constitutional. I think religious groups would do much better to stop trying to kill same-sex marriage, which is a lost cause, and fight for exemptions before ...
It's a sure bet DuHaime won't go for the "Florida strategy" again, but he and team Christie will need to decide how hard they want to contest Iowa, said University of Virginia Political Scientist Larry Sabato.
Denials to the contrary, it appears that Christie is running, and running hard, for 2016. As University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato pointed out, “He’s not going to turn down this chance to be president. He’s running. It’s obvious he’s running. [His election-night speech was] less a talk about his second term in New Jersey than his first term as president.”
Two of our regular critics were at the Virginia Film Festival this weekend and sent daily updates, capsule reviews, and reflections on what they saw. One of the first pieces of cultural criticism I ever attempted, way back when I was in high school, was an examination of how and why so many films and television series were formally structured to justify adultery. (I was angry at Herman Wouk's The Winds of War for making me root as a reader for naval officer Pug Henry to ditch his wife.) The two most common practices, it seemed to me, were to 1) make the wife ugly or 2) make the wife a shre...
The skeletal recognition tech behind Kinect is useful for way more than just gaming. It's good for sign language, cheating at pool, and (duh) porn. But it could help stop violence, too. Thanks to Kinect, security cams could automatically know if they're witnessing a beat-down. Kintense, a system designed by Shahriar Nirjon and colleagues at the University of Virginia, uses Kinect's skeletal tracking and an algorithm with an eye for punches and kicks to tell if folks on camera are in the middle of a scuffle. And while it was originally intended to alert medical staff to patients who...
The GOP may have postponed its day of reckoning at the hands of a younger, browner, queerer electorate – "They're holding back the tides," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics – but sooner or later, they're going to get swamped.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said the governor wasn't fooling anyone. As Christie touted key election returns -- including his support from 57 percent of women, 51 percent of Hispanics, and 32 percent of Democrats -- in his cruise to a second term against Barbara Buono, a Democratic state senator, he was priming his party for a presidential run, he said. "There's only one reason for that," Sabato said. "It's to send a message to Republican activists that if they want to break up the Democratic coalition, they have to nominate someone who ca...
(By Robert F. Graboyes, adjunct professor of health economics in the U.Va.. School of Nursing) State insurance commissioners have long seen themselves as protectors of the public's wallets – the officials who say "no" to insurers' requests to increase health insurance premiums. It has not yet sunk in that on this coming New Year's Day, the Affordable Care Act will flip the commissioners' motives upside-down, prompting them to approve and even encourage premium increases.
Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia's top political prognosticator, has just two races listed as toss-ups in the most recent edition of his "Crystal Ball" (a tracking site for national politics).
A new report shows The College of William & Mary sent more of its students to study abroad than any other public college in the U.S. during the 2011-12 school year, the school announced Monday. In a study supported by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Institute of International Education reported that 45.7 percent of W&M undergrads participated in study abroad programs that year. The University of Virginia sent 32.3 percent of its students to international programs during the same year.
"The person leading before you go into an official recount almost always ends up being the winner, and the recount in this day and age is less likely to see any substantial changes," says Geoff Skelley, an analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Audio) On the second day of the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord sat down with special festival guests. Along with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer, Taccone is one-third of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island which has produced many of the SNL Digital Shorts. In 2010, he co-wrote and directed MacGruber, a parody of 80s action films in which Will Forte revived and expanded one of his enduring SNL characters. The two comedians talk about making the life journey from independent creative artists to Saturday Night Live and beyond.
The clean up of Typhoon Haiyan is under way in the Philippines. The Organization of Young Filipino Americans at the University of Virginia is raising money for the country that is now devastated by the storm.