The late Dr. Ian Stevenson (1918–2007) of the University of Virginia was the preeminent reincarnation researcher. Dr. Jim Tucker, who has taken over where Stevenson left off, described some efforts to get his and Stevenson’s joint research published in mainstream peer-reviewed journals—frustrated efforts. ... Even if many mainstream journals didn’t accept most of his work, Dr. Stevenson did earn some recognition. In 1975, The Journal of the American Medical Association, wrote: “In regard to reincarnation he has painstakingly and unemotionally collected a...
Writing in the journal Science, researcher Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia reported that almost no studies had been done on “simply letting people go off and think.” Wilson conducted 11 experiments with more than 700 people. The majority of participants found it unpleasant to be alone in a room with just their thoughts for between six and 15 minutes.
"White, heterosexual women have apparently been the prime beneficiaries of the recent surge in medical infertility treatments," study author Bernadette Blanchfield, a doctoral student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said in a journal news release.
By Jack Hamilton, Slate’s pop critic and assistant professor of American studies and media studies at U.Va.The story of Moe is, in many ways, the story of how The Simpsons went from being a catchphrase-laden pop-culture supernova to one of the most influential cultural works of the late 20th century.
By Jack Hamilton, Slate’s pop critic and assistant professor of American studies and media studies at U.Va.The story of Moe is, in many ways, the story of how The Simpsons went from being a catchphrase-laden pop-culture supernova to one of the most influential cultural works of the late 20th century.
Scramjets have been a concept since the 1950s, says Chris Goyne, an aerospace engineer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. ...“Compared to a Boeing 747, if you look at designs for hypersonic aircraft they really don’t have very much wing surface area at all,” said Goyne. “That’s because when you fly at hypersonic velocities you really don’t need wings; you can get enough lift just from the body of the [fuselage].”
“She became the voice of the Iranian people,” Farzaneh Milani, a University of Virginia professor who translated many of her poems into English, said in an interview on Thursday. “She was the elegant voice of dissent, of conscience, of nonviolence, of refusal to be ideological.”
... NYU's Michael Livermore: They Calculated Costs "In An Insane Way."Michael Livermore, senior advisor at New York University's (NYU) Institute for Policy Integrity explained during a telephone interview with Media Matters how NERA calculated costs in their study.
The Bank of America deal has been telegraphed for weeks now. And it didn’t take long for the critics to rip it as soon as it was unveiled this morning. “This looks like yet another massive omnibus civil settlement with a bank not filed in court and not subject to any judicial oversight,” said University of Virginia School of Law Professor Brandon Garrett.
Lara “might be playing something of a long game in this district: Run a decent race this time, and then come back in 2016 with a bigger, more pro-Democratic electorate,” says Kyle Kondik, who studies congressional races at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Democrats cite her often as a strong candidate, but the environment and the district fundamentals … probably make this a bridge too far for 2014.”
The mural’s future home is a 180-foot retaining wall located along the 200 block of West Market Street that borders the McGuffey Hill Condominiums and the McGuffey Art Center. The mural’s design features a silhouetted series of cyclists rolling downhill along the wall. “One of the reasons we liked the theme is because it has a civic message,” said Mark Quigg, a professor of neurology at the University of Virginia who also is a member of the group proposing the mural.
If Pennsylvania did join RGGI, it would virtually double the size of the cap-and-trade program because the state is such a large emitter of carbon dioxide. The impact would be mostly positive for other RGGI states, although it would present some challenges, according to William M. Shobe, director of the Center for Eco- nomic & Policy Studies at the University of Virginia.Shobe said the addition of other states, particularly Pennsylvania, would greatly reduce the potential for ‘‘leakage’’ of emissions from the RGGI cap. Leakage is the term used to describe the purcha...
The weak showing of American men at this year's U.S. Open is the natural outcome of a culture that hasn't caught on to Europe's wunderkind-raising ways.... “All those factors make going to college and developing your body while in school, rather than traveling the world and playing low-level future events every week, a very appealing option to top juniors,” says Dustin Taylor, an assistant coach at the University of Virginia. ... Taylor, for example, believes that top-tier players are developed more effectively in smaller and tighter communities and in kids who hav...
"As strong as she in was '06, the tea has brewed for eight more years and she is much stronger, " said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "It's going to be awfully tough to beat her."
W. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, associate professor of sociology and senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. He joins Les Sinclair to explain the latest research indicating that bigger weddings and fewer partners lead to happier marriages.
Four college students – three hailing from U.Va. – gained hands-on experience by interning for two months at chemical company BASF's Suffolk site this summer.
Once we arrive to the spot, Nazuk Kochhar, whom the organizers more casually refer to as “Naz” explains how she got to this point. A 22-year-old graduate of University of Virginia of Indian descent, she read the old blog when she was still attending Herndon High. “I used to read the blog pretty religiously when I was in high school. home of the Hornets. Not an eventful place, the only thing they have is a bagel shop. I used to read the blog everyday,” she said. To call Naz enthusiastic would be a grave understatement.As some might say, she’s “bout that ...
Former congressman Thomas M. Davis III will become the next leader of the governing board of George Mason University, officials announced Thursday. Davis, a Republican who represented Northern Virginia in the House from January 1995 to November 2008, was elected rector of the university’s Board of Visitors in a vote of the board. Mason, with nearly 34,000 students last fall at the main campus in Fairfax County and at satellite campuses, is Virginia’s largest public university.
During his years at the University of Virginia, Jerry Reid was, for the most part, a typical busy member of the Class of 2014. He worked hard in his classes, joined a fraternity, was a member of the debating society, played flag football, and cheered for school sports teams.But in one significant way, Reid was far from typical: He enrolled in college at the age of 66, receiving his bachelor’s degree this spring at 70. “I have become the man that I always wanted to be,” the triumphant new graduate told CBS News.While few of his peers are likely to replicate Reid’s ...