(By Emma Copley Eisenberg, who teaches creative writing and academic composition to undergraduates at the University of Virginia) If a reporter had asked me why I showed up for the Graham search day, I would have faltered. I had no ready answer. Perhaps I would have said: “I teach at UVA.” But there was something else.
Much of the big money in Virginia politics flows through the war chests of men and women who don't have challengers. They're the ones who've risen up the seniority ladder to lead their party caucuses or the key committees that have the power to kill legislation that special interests don't like. Climbing the seniority ladder helps in the fundraising game of course. "It certainly helps a member's standing in the party if he or she doesn't have a competitive race or opposition and is willing to assist someone with a more competitive contest with campaign funds,"...
How much can consumers control their credit? Experts disagree about exactly who pays more for insurance when credit is factored in, and why. “Credit…is not as much in one’s control as how many auto accidents you have, and sometimes credit scores are wrong and sloppily prepared, and therefore unreliable,” says Kenneth Abraham, the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.
Governor Christie will go to Canada to pitch his “North American energy renaissance” message, a trip his office announced Monday as the governor was in Washington to meet with newly elected Republican congressmen. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, noted that the two countries on Christie’s itinerary this year — Mexico and Canada — are traditionally the first travel destinations of U.S. presidents. “It allows him to take a strong position that conservative Republicans will like,” Sabato said. “He&rsqu...
Hampton University, a traditionally black school in southeastern Virginia, teased an upcoming poll they had conducted. But the poll was never released. Why wasn’t it released and what impact could it have made on the election? The polling of the Virginia race was so badly skewed in favor of Warner prior to the election that University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato called for a probe. “I want an investigation of the polls in Virginia,” Sabato said after the election. “They were completely wrong.”
There's an unlikely partnership forming in Charlottesville between sexual assault counselors and bartenders after the community was shocked by the disappearance and murder of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. It started with one bar in the downtown mall where Graham went missing and quickly grew to 10 -- all interested in educating their employees about what to look for if customers are in trouble.
According to a University of Virginia study, holding hands can reduce the stress-related activity in the hypothalamus region of the brain, part of our emotional center. Touch can actually stop certain regions of the brain from responding to threat clues. It’s not surprising, then, that stroking a dog can lower blood pressure and heart rate and boost levels of serotonin and dopamine.
There can be a lot said for the psychological process that goes into interracial dating, but a recent study conducted by Northwestern University and the University of Virginia for the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal, such human behavior can be attributed to hocus pocus and mumbo jumbo.
The dismal condition of Yamuna, the river on whose banks Delhi has sprawled and straddled and which in the face of a flood threatens to affect at least one million people living on its plains, forms the basis of a new study. Conducted by students and faculty at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, the study rings a warning bell for the dismal condition of the river, which researchers say lies disconnected and neglected by the city. "If the Yamuna floods, the city's infrastructure from power plants to cement factories, the train lines, the pedestrian crossings all will be...
State health officials are investigating an illness that sickened more than a dozen University of Virginia students.
A 24-hour stomach bug with violent vomiting is going around Charlottesville. Currently, nobody knows the source of it, but a rumor is circulating that it is food poisoning. "I think everyone should be cautious, we don't know where this came from,” said Dr. Chris P. Holstege, M.D. Director of Student Health.
The current tension over proposed tuition hikes at the University of California — as much as 5% each year for the next five years — shouldn't be mistaken for just another debate about how much students can or should pay. It's nothing less than a battle for UC's soul. No one wants a tuition increase, but it's worth remembering that even with the price hike, which would bring tuition and fees to about $15,500 after five years, UC would still be less expensive than other top-ranked public universities such as the University of Virginia.
The following episode of Serial was devoted to interviewing Deidre Enright, a professor from the University of Virginia School of Law and head of the school’s Innocence Project.
A few years back, I wrote about prosecutorial misconduct in the Northern Virginia capital murder trial of Justin Wolfe. … As part of her investigation into the prosecution and conviction of Adnan Syed for a 1999 Baltimore murder, Koenig found her way to Wolfe and one of his vast team of lawyers and defenders, Deirdre Enright, the director of the University of Virginia Innocence Project Clinic. (Disclosure: Enright is a friend.)
It's not just banks, though — in his new book, Too Big to Jail, University of Virginia Law professor Brandon Garrett explains that even while fines for ...
... corporate prosecution is the subject of a new book called Too Big to Jail by Brandon Garrett, a professor of the University of Virginia School of Law.