It is also possible that males dislike ornamented females because blue badges indicate a potentially negative quality in females. Although both sexes may develop similar ornaments because they share the genes that underlie the phenotype, expressing the ornament can be beneficial in one sex but detrimental in another. “One solution is to have the expression of [ornamentation] regulated by other factors that are already different between sexes,” the University of Virginia’s Robert Cox explained in an e-mail to The Scientist.
The two women were represented by a well-known religion clause scholar, Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia School of Law.
Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor representing Greece residents opposed to the public prayers, suggested that the town board should advise potential prayer-givers to avoid religious subjects on which believers are known to disagree and keep their prayers nonsectarian. “There’s a long tradition of civic prayer and the clergy know how to do it,” said Professor Laycock, a leading church-state scholar.
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Think before you swing a punch. That CCTV camera might know what you are doing thanks to a monitoring system that can detect aggressive behaviour. The system, designed by Shahriar Nirjon and colleagues at the University of Virginia, was created to warn medical staff if a patient is acting violently – but it could also be used in security cameras. It was presented at the SenSys conference in Rome, Italy, this week.
We turned to longtime Virginia Republican Chris Saxman, a retired businessman and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, where he is managing editor of Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball political site.
A little boy referred to in case studies as “Sam,” showed convincing evidence that he is the reincarnation of his grandfather. Sam was 18 months old when his father was changing his diaper. Sam told his father, “When I was your age, I used to change your diaper.” Dr. Jim B. Tucker at the Psychiatric Department of the University of Virginia explained Sam’s story in a video posted on the university website. Tucker has explored 2,500 cases of children remembering their past lives.
When one of the nation’s leading experts on the law and history of religion, University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, went to the lectern to challenge the Town Board’s prayer practice, he seemed to get immediately into trouble with his core argument that the people who show up at board meetings because they have business with the town officials would be “coerced” into going along with prayers even over their personal objection, so as not to offend the officials from whom they were seeking action.
However, the results confirm a deeper trend in Virginia, which Mr Obama won in 2008 and 2012, and seems to be leaning more heavily towards the Democrats. "That is enormously bad news for Republicans because they will not win the White House again unless they win Virginia, and they won't if they pick rightwing candidates," said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.
As part of the oral argument Wednesday, the justices wondered whether there could possibly be one prayer nondenominational enough to be cool with Christians, and, let's say, worshippers of Zeus. They were picking apart the argument of Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and religion at the University of Virginia, who said that prayers could be allowed if they were not sectarian.
The University of Virginia is tackling the problem of sports head injuries and concussions. A new study there measures the effects of head trauma in football, lacrosse and soccer.
“Suppose you did this. You combined your two approaches. The town … must make a good faith effort to appeal to other religions who are in that area. And then you have these words from the House: ‘The chaplain should keep in mind that the House of Representatives,’ or you would say whatever relative group, ‘is comprised of members of many different faith traditions,’ period, end of matter. Is that sufficient, those two things?” Breyer postulated. Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor representing the opponents of the current prayers, ...
If Clinton is to win the White House in 2016, she'll need to win Virginia—something neither she, in the 2008 primary, nor President Bill Clinton has ever done. "Having one of their best friends as governor of the new ultimate swing state can only be a plus," said director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, Larry Sabato.
The University of Michigan plans to announce Thursday the biggest fundraising campaign by any public university in the nation.
Reddit co-founder and University of Virginia alumnus Alexis Ohanian will be back on Grounds on Friday for a panel with other alumni entrepreneurs.
“Overall, turnout was up in the state,” said political expert Geoff Skelley, of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
His move sets the stage for a contest in one of the few competitive House districts left in the country. Immediately after his announcement, three political handicapping reports moved the seat from "safe" or "likely" Republican - based on Runyan's previous success - to "toss-up." "It goes from being not a very good Democratic pick-up opportunity to a great one," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
“Of course he’s not going to turn down this chance to be president. He’s running. It’s obvious he’s running,” agreed University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato, who said Christie’s polished election-night speech was “less a talk about his second term in New Jersey than his first term as president.”
Justice Samuel Alito pointed to the country’s religious diversity to voice his skepticism about the call for only nonsectarian prayer. “I just don’t see how it is possible to compose anything that you could call a prayer that is acceptable to all of these groups,” Alito said. As Douglas Laycock, the University of Virginia law professor representing the residents, tried to craft an answer, Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John Roberts jumped in.