Regent is among three Virginia schools ranked to have the best professors, being joined by the University of Virginia and Washington & Lee University.
The University of Virginia will participate in the broadcast of a town hall meeting on U.S.-China relations next week featuring former President Jimmy Carter.The Daily Progress (http://bit.ly/1scRoFj) reports the university's East Asia Center is one of 70 locations nationwide that will broadcast the Oct. 16 meeting, which will feature a live webcast and a question-and-answer session with Carter.The meeting will cover issues such as security, trade, economics and the environment. It is being conducted by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Carter Center.The webcast at U.V...
When the Supreme Court decided to turn down multiple petitions regarding the constitutionality of same-sex marriage Monday, many public colleges and universities in states with bans on same-sex marriage or benefits to same-sex couples announced changes in their policies. Virginia getting marriage equality, for instance, resulted in the University of Virginia adding same-sex benefits for all of its employees.Now, UVa employees whose same-sex marriages were performed outside of the state are immediately eligible to have their partners covered.
The deliberate, painstaking search for missing University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham stretched into day 26 Wednesday while a national missing persons group prepared to kick off a series of rallies nationwide aimed at ensuring that Graham and others aren't forgotten.
Left inside the car were cigarette butts, a police detective’s business card, emptied energy drink containers and a yellow envelope bearing a handwritten message referring to “tools to release God’s power.”None of those items, police said Wednesday, provides further clues into the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Elizabeth Graham or the case against Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., the man accused of abducting her.... Meanwhile, in the Charlottesville area, 50 officers fanned out Wednesday, covering more ground in the 8-mile radius that has been the ...
In light of second year student Hannah Graham's disappearance, the University of Virginia launched a safety committee with the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.The three entities: UVA, Charlottesville and Albemarle County will conduct a comprehensive review and analysis of the area around UVA grounds. They say it's an effort to better the safety of students and city residents alike.
Searchers on horseback combed a huge farm north of Charlottesville on Wednesday looking for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. The terrain was too large and too difficult for searchers on foot- so investigators made the decision to bring in horses.
Police say they're learning more about Jesse Matthew's whereabouts, the key suspect in missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham's disappearance, between the time Hannah was last seen and the time people started searching for her the next day.Police haven't said what that new information is, but say it suggests that Graham is in Virginia and there's no reason to believe she ever left.
... Sharon Johnson, a retired computer programmer who lives in King George County, is among the many volunteers who have been searching for University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham, who has been missing since Sept. 13.She is the president of DOGS–East, a volunteer canine search-and-rescue organization based in the Fredericksburg area. The team conducts searches at the request of law enforcement agencies and the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.Since joining the group in 1985, Johnson said, she’s participated in about 400 searches in six states.And she estimates tha...
RICHMOND, Virginia — Analysts reviewed aerial images while about three dozen searchers looked for any trace of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.Dawn Eischen of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management says six employees of defense and security giant BAE Systems were examining the aerial images Wednesday. The images were taken over the weekend from an airplane provided by Woolpert, Inc., an engineering and design firm in Dayton, Ohio. Eischen says all of those corporate resources were donated.
Douglas Laycock, who teaches law at the University of Virginia and who filed an amicus brief in Hobby Lobby on behalf of the Christian Legal Society, represents Holt today. He opens his argument by noting that “40 other prison systems permit beards without a length limit, yet Arkansas prohibits even half an inch.”Justice Antonin Scalia, while not inclined to dispute prisoner Holt’s religious beliefs, questions his apparent reasonableness: “Mr. Laycock, the problem I have with your client’s claim of religious requirement is the religious requirement is to grow a fu...
An unusual convergence this year of tight races, likely runoffs, a surging independent candidate and a potential push for party switchers suggest that the 2014 battle for U.S. Senate control may continue weeks after Election Day."Any one of (these variables) could delay the outcome of the Senate for days, weeks, months maybe," said Kyle Kondik, with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
... Commission members include ... John Casteen, president of the University of Virginia and former Virginia secretary of education; ...Only two of the 10 members have no direct ties to political offices.Kelsey said it’s absurd to think politicians are going to reform Virginia’s broken ethics system.“How about an ethical reform panel that didn’t have former legislators and elected officials?” said Kelsey, “instead of asking those people to regulate themselves.”
The failure to confront the country's tumultuous history, and the turbulent and disappointing years following Duvalier's 1986 flight into exile aboard a U.S. military aircraft, have fueled nostalgia for the "order" and "stability" that he had imposed."People simply forget that this was the order of impunity and fear that sought to silence the nation," said Robert Fatton, a Haiti-born political science professor at the University of Virginia. "This is why, ultimately, the vast majority of the population fought against his regime and celebrated his depa...
Dan Ortiz, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia, said that other ninth circuit panels will have to follow the precedent set on Tuesday. “So all the federal district courts in other states in the ninth circuit will now presumably invalidate bans in other states as well,” Ortiz said.
Kyle Kondik, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, said Friday, "I don't think it's a shock that anything in the news will get politicized. Partisans on both sides so despise the other side that they'll blame the other team for just about anything."
According to Kyle Kondik the Managing Editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics third party candidates often do better in polls than they do on Election Day. “That said, third-party candidates can be an alternative in races that become nasty and feature two candidates who are not all that popular,” Kondik explained.
In an interview with The Daily Signal, Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Alaska’s “unique political culture” makes it ripe for seemingly random local issues to sway the race.“Alaska is a place where the default political allegiance is not quite as hardened, though it is pretty Republican,” Skelley said. “You also tend to see a little higher libertarian ethos. Alaskans think it’s important that they get investment from the federal government [for local issues] becaus...