In a ranking by how likely grads were to land a job where a law degree was required or "helpful," three California law schools made the top 25: Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UCLA - all with employment rates in the low 90s. But that wasn't enough to break into the top 10.1. University of Virginia (VA) 98%2. University of Pennsylvania (PA) 97%
Ken Hughes, a researcher at the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia and author of Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate, has spent the last decade listening to, transcribing, and analyzing hundreds of hours of the Nixon tapes. Hughes spoke to The Daily Beast about how the tapes became public, what’s on them, and the best places to listen to them online.
An analysis by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia says, "Ultimately, the White House tapes must shape any assessment of Nixon's impact and legacy. They ended his presidency by furnishing proof of his involvement in the Watergate cover-up, fueled a generation's skepticism about political leaders, and today provide ample evidence of the political calculation behind the most important decisions of his presidency. They make his presidency an object lesson in the difference between image and reality, a lesson that each generation must learn anew."
At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, "I see two to three new cases every week," said Dr. Scott Commins, who with a colleague, Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, published the first paper tying the tick to the illness in 2011. Doctors don't know whether the allergy is permanent. Some patients show signs of declining antibodies over time. The meat allergy "does not seem to be lifelong, but the caveat is, additional tick bites bring it back," Commins said.
Doctors did not even know tick bites could trigger the food allergy until researchers at the University of Virginia made the connection. Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills led the team that noticed the trend of people developing the allergy later in life.
The connection between tick bites and the red-meat food allergy was only recently revealed through research at the University of Virginia, led by Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills.
A new study showed that just a little bit of video gaming leads to a better adjusted child, while too much may lead to negative behavior. "It's no longer a realistic idea that parents can keep this out of kids lives just like you can't keep junk food out of your kids lives because they would go to other kids houses. if one of the kids has access to it then other kids have access to it," comments Dr. Patrick Tolan, professor of education at UVA.
Researchers from the University of California at Irvine, the University of Virginia, and the University of California at Los Angeles collaborated to study how Whites, Asian Americans, and African Americans evaluate diversity. The research included three studies, and participants were asked to rate the diversity of various groups of people that were presented as a team at work.
A recent study led by University of Virginia psychologists produced some startling results. Research subjects were given time to sit alone and reflect. They quickly grew restless and unhappy. After only a few minutes away from their desktops and mobile devices, some subjects grew so anxious they self-administered electric shocks to stop the experiment!
Coping with water scarcity is a local and global issue that needs to be addressed immediately. As Dr. W. Hugh Moomaw of the University of Virginia states, “water will be the human rights issue of the upcoming generation.”
The University of Virginia Health System has released a new app that helps parents and families personalize their hospital experience. The service is free for families at U.Va.'s Children's Hospital. The app shows information like important phone numbers, medical records and services the hospital offers.
True education has value in and of itself, a value that leads to self-actualization and that cannot be measured with standardized tests. Through education, and especially through studying the humanities, we learn what happiness is and how to become our best selves. As University of Virginia philosophy professor Talbot Brewer points out in his excellent essay, “The Coup That Failed: How the Near-Sacking of a University President Exposed the Fault Lines of American Higher Education” (Hedgehog Review, Summer 2014), “The humanities are…a gateway to and instigator of a life...
"Part of the power of incumbency is getting an office and then using that, and your political skills, to survive," said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
“This is Howard Baker’s state,” says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “They’re not fire-and-brimstone Republicans.”
"The stakes here, symbolically and politically, are very high," said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, citing the clash between religious teachings and the [Obama] administration's embattled health care law.
"The Democrats are really behind the eight-ball now, and with just three months to go until the election, any substitute candidate is going to start well behind in fundraising and issue development," said Larry Sabato, a political analyst and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "Schweitzer has statewide name ID, but this applies even to him." ... Kyle Kondik, political analyst and managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said with Schweitzer out of the mix, Democrats are in trouble come November....