Republican leaders in Virginia’s General Assembly have been asked to wait a year before putting several proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot, amid concerns that the GOP-backed measures could lead to longer wait times at the polls during the 2016 presidential election. A.E. Dick Howard, a University of Virginia legal scholar who was chief draftsman of the state constitution when it was revamped in 1971, said he thinks the legislature has the authority to hold the referendum as long as it wants. The constitution “is silent on . . . how long they can wait aft...
It'll be interesting to see what Donald Trump, whose principal oratorical skill seems to be name-calling, has in store for Michael Bloomberg, a much more powerful tycoon who once ran New York City and now might want to be president. "There is only a tiny chance [Bloomberg] would actually be elected president," the oracular Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia wrote me in an email. "In fact, there is a far greater chance he would receive no electoral votes rather than accumulate the 270 needed to win. And if you can't win electoral college votes, you can't throw...
Snow was not the only thing on Grounds at the University of Virginia on Monday. Students went back to classes after the snowstorm caused a snow day on Friday. Students had a delayed start to classes Monday. The university announced that classes would start back up at noon, but classes that had start-times before noon were cancelled.
Designed by Boris Kovatchev and his team at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, this medical innovation has the potential to change millions of lives for the better.
UVA graduate Joshua Anton’s app, called Drunk Mode, temporarily discourages imbibers from texting and calling. Users must solve a math problem involving triple digit figures to turn it off, such as 824 + 651 + 61.
“The research on it outside of muscle and bone injuries is that it’s great for your immune system,” says Randy Bird, UVA director of sports nutrition.
Jefferson instead wanted to be remembered for three things: writing the Declaration of Independence, supporting religious freedom, and creating the University of Virginia.
Constitutional officers remain influential in the state, and they date back to the first Virginia Constitution of 1776, according to University of Virginia law professor Dick Howard.
W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, agreed that marriage is not all that is needed to fight poverty.“But Americans are more likely to realize the American dream if they get and stay married, and grow up in communities where marriage is stronger,” he said. “Marriage fosters saving, facilitates economies of scale and encourages stability in family life, all things that are good for the average American’s pocketbook.”
By R.K. Ramazani, the Edward R. Stettinius professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. His latest book is “Independence without Freedom: Iran’s Foreign Policy.”
The finding of a link between the immune system and the brain by Jonathan Kipnis, a professor of neuroscience, and his doctoral student Antoine Louveau made several year-in-review lists as a top scientific discovery.
The Darden School of Business and School of Nursing are uniting for a unique partnership to train physician-nurse pairs together for the first time.
“As a rhetorical matter, they’ve given up on this notion that they represent a ‘moral majority.’ They’ve given up on the possibility of persuasion,” said James Davison Hunter, a UVA sociologist who popularized the term “Culture Wars.”
Members of the Virginia football coaching staff took to the streets Sunday. The frozen, snow-covered streets.
Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist who is also the co-founder and executive director of the Center for Open Science, agreed. He explained that while there are circumstances in which adopting a lower threshold of significance is acceptable, one way to evaluate a decision to do so is to ask whether it suddenly, conveniently gives the researcher far more significant results than they otherwise would have — clearly the case here.
According to Student Council President Abraham Axler, the report looks back at all the reports made in the last 15 years and compiles a single document that focuses on issues most important to UVa students today.
A study was the work of an international team led by William Ruddiman, a University of Virginia climate scientist, who first grabbed attention a dozen years ago with a controversial theory that humans altered the climate by burning massive areas of forests to clear the way for crops and livestock grazing. Dubbed the “early anthropogenic hypothesis,” Ruddiman and his colleagues found that that carbon dioxide levels rose beginning 7,000 years ago, and methane began rising 5,000 years ago.
The Partnership for Public Service is one entity urging transition improvements and offering expert advice, and there are others, including the Miller Center’s First Year 2017 Project at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is also in agreement with the report. “We support Turning the Tide because we philosophically agree with many of the principal points in the document, [like] promoting, encouraging, and developing good citizenship, strong character, personal responsibility, [and] civic engagement in high school students,” says Gregory Roberts, the school’s dean of admissions.
Q&A with Professor Rajkumar Venkatesan, Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, whose research focuses on how analytics helps in earning return on investment, and adds to customer lifetime value.