It's time to gear up for game day in Charlottesville. Thursday, field maintenance crews at the University of Virginia painted the football field in Scott Stadium.
Take Noah Rubin. Or Danielle Collins. Both lost in the U.S. Open's first round. Nevertheless, each stood to pocket $35,754 – and each turned the money down in order to remain eligible for college tennis. According to The Wall Street Journal, Collins, the 2014 NCAA singles champion, is returning to the University of Virginia. Collins did the math, calculating that her scholarship was worth more than her prize money. "I had some contradicting thoughts because I would potentially earn $35,000 from just losing in the first round," she told the Journal. "But tuition at UVA ...
(By Rob Cross of U.Va.’s McIntire School of Commerce and Chris Ernst, vice president of leadership and organization effectiveness at Juniper Networks Inc.) For companies to continuously innovate, they must first redesign how jobs are structured to discover and communicate new ideas.
Some researchers are wary. Requiring a preanalysis plan, for instance, could breed resentment, says James Coan, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “It's part of a scientist's job to be canny enough” to do the most appropriate statistical analyses, he says. “The implicit message is that scientists are not to be trusted with those decisions.”
Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, has compiled a database of actions taken against companies by the federal government since 2000. It lists 2,163 corporate convictions and guilty pleas and shows that both the number of convictions and the size of the fines have grown impressively over the period.
The federal Speedy Trial Act Provides federal courts with the authority to review whether or not to approve deferred prosecution agreements. Not so for non prosecution agreements. That’s the conclusion of University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon Garrett.
Investigations are complicated by the fact that police officers are given latitude in their use of force, including in circumstances where an officer reasonably believed the force was necessary to capture a dangerous fleeing felon or had a good basis to fear his life was in imminent danger, said Rachel Harmon, a University of Virginia law professor and former Justice Department civil rights prosecutor.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato’s latest “Crystal Ball” analysis projects a Republican pick-up of four to eight seats – with a GOP Senate gain of six-to-seven seats “the likeliest outcome.”
Russell Berman of The Wire news site has compiled a list of the nation’s most vulnerable governors for the 2014 election cycle, and Gov. Malloy featured prominently. This is at least the third time Gov. Malloy has made a list of this nature. National Public Radio – hardly a conservative outfit – tagged him in August 2013 and University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato, author of the “Sabato’s Crystal Ball” newsletter, followed suit in June 2014.
Kansas’ U. S. Senate race may be more volatile than usual. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, moved the race from “safe Republican” to “likely Republican,” and a new poll showed incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, leading the field, but with 37 percent.
One reflection of these new dynamics came Thursday, when political scientist Larry Sabato and his associates at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics released the latest edition of their nationally read Crystal Ball. Sabato & Co. moved Ohio's race for governor from the "Likely Republican" column to "Safe Republican."
University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato’s “Crystal Ball” rates the most likely Senate outcome a Republican gain of six or seven seats, giving them a small majority.
Professor Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics confidently predicts that the GOP will win between four and eight seats this Fall.
(With audio featured Kyle Kondik of U.Va.’s Center for Politics) The University of Virginia’s Crystal Ball is the latest political prognosticator to declare Ohio’s governor’s race is virtually over. It’s putting incumbent Gov. John Kasich in the “safe” category.
The Library of Congress announced on June 12 that Christ School alumnus Charles Wright (Class of 1953) will be the next United States Poet Laureate.
The University of Virginia Health System announced this week that it has developed the nation's first clinical trial testing a technology's ability to treat benign tumors of the breast. Referred to as fibroadenomas, the most common type of lump found within the breast could soon be removed through an alternative surgery that wouldn't even leave a scar.
(Commentary) Missing out on a job isn’t just hard on teens’ wallets – it’s hard on their career prospects, too. In a new study, economists from the University of Virginia and Middle Tennessee State University found that young adults who worked part time in high school were earning 20 percent more six to nine years after graduation compared to their counterparts who didn’t find part time work while in school.
This volume’s counterpoint is “Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game” by Mark Edmundson, who played high school football in working-class Medford, Mass. His book has more sepia tones than Mr. Almond’s does. It’s about some of the lessons (confidence, discipline) football instills in young men. But it’s a questing, questioning book as well.
At the same time football has endured the endless attack, it has grown bigger than ever and is at the very apotheosis of its power. Like many American institutions, it's too big to fail yet too big to be morally sustainable, and its decline seems both impossible and inevitable. And yet we keep watching. Why? There are two books out this season that seek to answer that question: Mark Edmundson's “Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game” and Steve Almond's “Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto.”
Hmm; research to the rescue! A new study at the University of Virginia in the USA by the National Marriage Project has thrown a spanner in the casual sex works. According to the study, “53 per cent of women who had slept only with their husband, felt satisfied in marriage.” That number dropped slightly to 42 per cent if the wife had at least two sexual partners prior to marriage, and further down to 22 per cent if the sexual partners exceeded 10.