Leonard Maltin, film critic and historian, writes about his positive experience at the Virginia Film Festival.
People gathered to sing songs, read poems, and play music. Solene Camus, language adviser at the French House, says the most difficult part was not being able to be there for family and friends during a horrific tragedy.
Getting on the ballot in Virginia is notoriously difficult. During the last presidential cycle, only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were able to meet the requirements. Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry tried but failed. Several Republican presidential campaigns filed a lawsuit challenging Virginia's rules, but the case was dismissed. Most of the Republicans didn't bother because it was so time-consuming and expensive. Since then, the number of signatures required was reduced from 10,000 to 5,000. But it's still a tall order. "Would it stun me if there was a name that we consider kind of ...
Politics watchers said it was a questionable move for a candidate who came into the debate knowing he had to show some foreign policy chops.And the remark he did make — that the U.S. will lead the world in ridding the planet of ISIS — rang false, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. "Sanders … does not sound all that credible when foreign policy talk turns hawkish," he said.
A squid has been caught on video apparently 'dancing' as it wiggles its tentacles before a willing customer who then deposits the sea creature into his mouth whole.Its trembling legs give the gross facade that the animal is still alive, after the customer sprinkles the delicacy with salt.The strange reaction is an automatic response to sodium chloride, and although the deceased squid may lack a functioning brain, its muscle cells, which receive electrical commands, are still intact. Charles Grisham, a chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, explained the process: "Most ...
Defense attorneys rested their case Monday without calling any witnesses in the high-profile trial of ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. Their announcement came shortly after the prosecution rested following weeks of testimony asserting that Blankenship put dollars ahead of human safety in the years before the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in decades. For the defense to rest without calling witnesses is an aggressive and risky move, said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor who wrote a book about corporate prosecutions. "It's a way of saying, 'The prosecution...
(By Carolyn Long Engelhard, the director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences)November 2015 marks the beginning of the third enrollment for the purchase of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or ObamaCare. Many on the right contend that the ACA represents an unacceptable government intrusion into private markets and that the tax credits, or subsidies, under ObamaCare are yet another government welfare program destined to promote learned helplessness and dependency. Although that line of thinkin...
Are you happy? Very happy? If you’re in your 30s or older, a new study has found that you’re less likely to answer “yes” than your parents were. The findings, published online Thursday in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, come on the heels of another recent report that found that death rates of middle-aged white Americans have been rising, largely due to suicide and substance abuse. Shigehiro Oishi, a researcher at the University of Virginia, has documented a growing dissatisfaction with the widening gap between the wealthy and everyone else.
Following the attacks in Paris on Friday, University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said Saturday that all university students currently registered to study or work this semester in France have been accounted for and are safe. “All of us are deeply disturbed and saddened by the violent acts of terrorism that occurred in France just hours ago,” she wrote in a letter addressed to UVa colleagues and students. “We are reaching out to our students from France to offer help and support.”
The University of Virginia’s Cavalier Marching Band will take part in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.U.Va.’s marching band is only one of 10 bands selected in April 2014 out of more than 170 applicants to take part in the parade in New York City. The parade, set for 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 26, generally draws in 50 million television viewers and more than 3 million live viewers.
"Writing interventions can really nudge people from a self-defeating way of thinking into a more optimistic cycle," said Timothy Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia.
A device that represents a rare advance against glioblastoma – the deadliest form of brain cancer – is now available to newly diagnosed patients after successful testing at UVA and more than 80 other sites around the world.
Joel G. Anderson, a UVA assistant professor of nursing, writes about his personal experiences with a family member suffering from dementia, and how it propels his research into the disease.
Michael Coscia is no one’s idea of a 21st-Century Wall Street wizard. Coscia has become the unlikely poster child for the market crime of the moment: spoofing, a kind of electronic pump-and-dump scheme that traders use to profit at others’ expense. “The world of electronic trading is best understood by thinking in terms of the pit,” said Robert Webb, a finance professor at the University of Virginia. “We can mislead ourselves into thinking it’s something beyond human comprehension.”
Get ready for the culture wars to roar back during the presidential primary elections. As a broad field of GOP candidates tries to break out of the pack and give themselves a legitimate shot at the nomination they are going to be targeting the early primary states. What they’ll find is a primary electorate with a disproportionately high percentage of evangelical Christian voters. Evangelicals “dominate” many of the states that hold primaries on or before March 8, according to an analysis by Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. By the tim...
A University of Virginia official has won this year’s Paul Goodloe McIntire Award from the Regional Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Marcus Martin (pictured) was honored Thursday night during the chamber’s annual dinner. He’s a UVA vice president and the school’s chief officer for diversity and equity. Martin was one of the founders of 100 Black Men of Central Virginia, which was created to help African-American males. UVA head baseball coach Brian O’Connor was the featured speaker.
(Cowritten by Kathryn Laughon, Associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia) In an effort to draw support from women, the NRA is attempting to position guns as a women's issue, asserting that females should be "armed and fabulous." Past president of the NRA, Sandra Froman, recently told a group of University of Virginia law students that because women are smaller and weaker than men, they need guns for personal safety. Guns, Froman implied, are the latest way to assert your feminism.
Starting next year, those covered by Humana insurance will get in-network access to the University of Virginia’s hospitals, clinics and physicians located in Culpeper, Charlottesville and throughout Central Virginia. The university recently announced the agreement, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2016.
How would you like to able to see your doctor – without actually seeing your doctor, except perhaps on computer screen? Telemedicine could expand swiftly in New Jersey with the help of new legislation. Virginia has been a focal point for the growth of telemedicine. The University of Virginia Center for Telehealth has helped connect patients with providers 50,000 times.
Saying sorry for any minor transgression may not help the children feel better, but the quick apology can help you mend relations with them, the findings show. "What was surprising was that children who experienced a minor transgression and heard an apology felt just as bad as those who did not hear an apology," said the study's lead author Marissa Drell from University of Virginia in the US.