The Virginia Colleges and Universities Studying Slavery group held its first meeting at Morven Farm at the University of Virginia.
With data science comes non-technical questions related to privacy, compliance and ethics. Because the field is so new, “best practices” are yet to be defined… The University of Virginia’s department of systems and information engineering is tackling this challenge head-on. Last winter, a $10 million gift established an endowment to support the university’s new Data Science Institute. “Our program takes students through the major computational and analytic topics in data science as well as the ethical, legal and policy issues involved,” says the insti...
With the shrug, Trump is communicating “Do you know who I am? Who are you?” says Larry Sabato, a long-time political analyst and director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says Democrats supporting Mr. Sanders are “voting their hearts” and attempting to send a message.
Big donors, as well as establishment types, want a good bet to win the November election. At this point, that’s not Trump. Chances are that as the voting begins, they’ll coalesce behind an alternative. “There will be deals made,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
A commentary By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of the Center for Politics on the Republican field of nominees.
By Deborah A. Boucoyannis, assistant professor of politicsFrom Athens to Berlin to Washington, there is one thing about Greece that many seem to agree on: The country’s main problem is a bloated, overpaid, and corrupt state, which is suffocating the private sector. This diagnosis is only half correct.
“With the advances in technology, the change in the Prime Meridian was inevitable,” said Ken Siedelmann, an astronomer at the University of Virginia and co-author of the study published in the Journal of Geodesy. “Perhaps a new marker should be installed in the Greenwich Park for the new Prime Meridian.”
Three rising ninth-graders from Suffolk participated in the BLAST program for science, technology, engineering and math at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech this summer.
According to a 2015 report by Kiplinger on the best values among public colleges, the top-ranking schools are: 1. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2. University of Virginia and 3. University of Florida.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world descend on the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to pose for a photograph astride the Prime Meridian, the famous line which divides the eastern and western hemispheres of the earth. “With the advancements in technology, the change in the prime meridian was inevitable,” said Ken Seidelmann, an astronomer at the University of Virginia and co-author of the study, published in the Journal of Geodesy.
The University of Virginia is an amazing school. The campus is the very definition of stately. Charlottesville is postcard perfect. What’s even better, UVA doesn’t gouge students to attend. Virginia residents pay a sweet $10,016 to join the family of Wahoos — founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819.
In recent years, “we’ve seen marked declines in birth rates among working-class, poor, younger, less-educated women,” said Brad Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. Part of the change is “the shift in millennial demographics.”
“The old rule was campaigns don’t end; the money just runs out. But in a field of 17, there’s a widespread desire for early winnowing, even if the money hasn’t run out,” said Larry J. Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said that breaking the threshold will be difficult.
Federal prosecutors have allowed lenders suspected of money laundering to enter into deferred-prosecution agreements, or have charged them with lesser violations, such as failing to report suspicious activity to government authorities, to avoid these hearings, said Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia law school and author of the book “Too Big to Jail.”
By John M. Owen IV and J. Judd OwenBy now, the pattern is predictable. Jihadists carry out a suicide bombing, a ritual beheading, an immolation, a murder in a Western city, or some other such barbarism, and newspapers, magazines, and blogs demand or suggest an Islamic enlightenment. By “enlightenment,” they generally mean the turn that the West took centuries ago from faith to reason, from religion to science, from traditional authority to democracy, and from religious violence to tolerance: in short, modernity.John M. Owen is Taylor Professor of Politics at the University of Virgi...
The Greenwich prime meridian has changed and the scientists now explain it was expected all thanks to advanced technology. … Co-author and astronomer Ken Seidelmann at the University of Virginia said with the advancements in technology, the change in the prime meridian was inevitable.
“It was a pretty wild day,” lifeguard Erika Kilgore, 19, said of Sunday. “We were trying to keep people knee-deep, but they were still getting sucked out to sea, that’s how strong the current was.” Kilgore, a University of Virginia student, made four rescues that day.
From big Ivy Leagues to teeny tiny liberal arts colleges, there’s no shortage of gorgeousness when it comes to higher education. These are our 11 picks for the most beautiful academic establishments in the country.