A new history website launched Monday by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center features interviews with scholars, policymakers and journalists on wide range of contemporary national and world issues, center officials say. The Great Issues website, at www.millercenter.org/academic/great-issues, contains short videotaped interviews in which experts provide historical insight into some of the nation’s most pressing challenges.
University of Virginia's secret societies are all about doing good on school Grounds, much of which is made possible through lofty donations to support efforts that encourage student leadership, faculty mentorship and worthy causes that positively impact the university community as a whole. UVa's Seven Society offered $57,777.77 for sexual assault prevention in December and the Z Society announced a $30,000 donation to the College and Graduate School of Arts and Science's Faculty Forward initiative in a letter to faculty Friday.
Hot on campus. Binge drinking. Sexual assault. Greek life trouble. And a lot of youthful courage. We’re checking in with college newspaper editors. We wanted to hear straight from campus about what’s going on. We’ve got three top student editors in to share. From Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, Dartmouth. This hour On Point: College now, right from the source.
Reproducibility is a core scientific principle. A result that can’t be reproduced is not necessarily erroneous: Perhaps there were simply variables in the experiment that no one detected or accounted for. Still, science sets high standards for itself, and if experimental results can’t be reproduced it’s hard to know what to make of them. “The whole point of science, the way we know something, is not that I trust Isaac Newton because I think he was a great guy. The whole point is that I can do it myself,” said Brian Nosek, the founder of a start-up in Charlottesvil...
Some legal experts predict judges will be offended by state actions that impede their efforts to impose same-sex marriage in states where either voters or their elected representative have rejected it. “I think they’ll be angry,” Risa Goluboff, a law professor at the University of Virginia, told the New York Times. “I think they’ll see this as outright defiance and treat it that way.”
Getting a conviction reversed is hard because the court system was built upon faith in the jury trial, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who serves on the advisory board of the National Registry of Exonerations. “Beyond a reasonable doubt,” the legal standard at trial, is no longer good enough. The legal standards for reversing a conviction are intended to be high, but whether an argument meets those standards is up to the interpretation of a judge, who has discretion to overturn a conviction and call for a new trial.
Thousands of people packed the John Paul Jones Arena Saturday morning. Some folks camped out overnight and lined up before sunrise, all to secure a spot on ESPN's nationally televised pre-show. SPN's College GameDay show came to Charlottesville to spotlight the University of Virginia Cavaliers for the first time ever.
The University of Virginia recently acquired a collection of 19th-century American and English books in jackets, amassed by bookseller Tom Congalton of Between the Covers. In a post announcing that acquisition, curator David Whitesell wrote, "Relatively few 19th-century jackets survive in institutional collections, and fewer still are available on the market."
The University of Virginia has confirmed one case of mumps at the Elson Student Health Center and is testing four suspected cases. The university doesn’t have confirmation that the diseases is circulating, said Christopher P. Holstege, executive director of the Department of Student Health, in an email to students Friday night.
Virginia's population is growing, but at a noticeably reduced rate, according to a report by University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center. But Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro have increased in population, according to the study.
The infamous column capitals atop the Rotunda at the University of Virginia are finally coming down. They have been covered in black sheets to protect from falling bricks, and now they’re ready to be replaced. They removed the last two on the south wall on Friday, Jan. 30. These capitals had been installed and completed back in 1902 and after a hundred years they really started to crumble. The new capitals are ready to be installed Feb. 9.
The General Assembly is working on bills that could compel college officials to report sexual assaults to law enforcement, but experts and university administrators are both concerned about the problems some proposals could raise. University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said she’s also concerned about any potential clashes between a state law and federal student privacy law.
Amid the echoes of fall's tumult, Teresa A. Sullivan is seeking more time at the top. Contract talks for the first woman to lead the University of Virginia were expected to begin last month under an extension signed following the ultimately failed bid to oust Sullivan in 2012. A meeting to launch the discussions has not been scheduled.
For mothers, social scientists say, the benefits of paid leave go well beyond the fact that newborns need round-the-clock care and mothers need time to recover from childbirth. In California, for example, the paid leave law doubled typical maternity leaves to six to seven weeks, according to a study by three researchers, Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher J. Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel. The increases were striking for unmarried and nonwhite women and those without a college degree, who have been less likely to work at companies with paid leave. Leave-taking among high school graduates rose ...
Since the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration started in 2013, the budget deficit has gotten smaller. But it’s still hundreds of billions of dollars. Sequestration just nibbled at it. At the Pentagon, sequestration forced cuts in training. It meant deferred maintenance, and it limited pay increases. Jim Savage, who teaches politics and public policy at the University of Virginia, doesn’t think much of sequestration.“When you rely upon across-the-board measures, it’s usually the sign of weak management," he says. "It’s also anot...
Married couples can apparently test whether or not they are still in love by asking each other two simple things. University of Virginia economists Leora Friedberg and Steven Stern analysed data from a relationship survey of 4,242 couples that was originally conducted in the 1980s. The original researchers asked couples two questions: How happy are you in your marriage relative to how happy you would be if you weren't in the marriage? and how do you think your spouse answered that question? Participants were asked to grade their answer on a scale of 'much worse' to 'much b...
Martha A. Derthick, a political scientist whose trenchant analyses of typically impenetrable subjects like Social Security, federalism, deregulation and tobacco litigation were praised as “masterful” and “definitive,” died on Jan. 12 at a hospital in Charlottesville, Va. She was 81.
(By Jack Hamilton, assistant professor of American studies and media studies at the University of Virginia) For all our talk of balls lately, one of the weirdest aspects of football is how few people who play the sport have anything to do with them. The vast majority of people on a football field are not supposed to touch the ball; in fact, there are people who play the sport for a living who, if all goes according to someone’s plan, will never lay hands on a football for their entire career. A hugely significant amount of football, the sport, occurs in almost total abstraction to f...
(By Mark Edmundson, who teaches at the University of Virginia and is the author of Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game) What do we talk about when we talk about football? It’s worth asking the question now because, in the past few weeks, there has been more public talk about the game than at almost any time one can remember. We have the deflated balls that (maybe) brought the New England Patriots a significant advantage in a critical play-off game. We have the shrugging Coach Belichick, cowled like a monk in his hoody, saying he did nothing, nothing, nothing wrong. (...
Work is progressing on the University of Virginia’s Rotunda, with workers removing the old, weathered column capitals. Capitals are the uppermost, load-bearing portion of a column. Their replacements were carved in Italy from Carrara marble, famous for its blue-gray hue. They will be installed in February.