The “national retreat” from marriage could worsen social divides between the married and unmarried, according to one scholar who says religious groups’ failure to reach the working class bears part of the blame for the plummeting marriage rates. “We have seen that Catholic and mainline Protestant churches have not been successful in reaching poor working class Americans and bringing them into the pews on a regular basis, particularly men,” William Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project said.
At this point, most political prognosticators expect modest Republican gains, if there is any shift at all. The team at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics projects a slightly more bullish 5-8 seat pick-up for the GOP.
The impeachment talk “is something close to a no-lose proposition for the Democrats. They can raise money off of it AND make the GOP look extreme, which is strategy Nos. 1, 2, and 3 in the Democratic playbook,” says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics in an e-mail. “That said, I think Israel is being a bit overoptimistic in his hopes that this will really gin up [Democratic] turnout.”
They also learn bigger lessons. For example, camp participants learned how a vehicle is built correlates to the task at hand, such as building a vehicle that can travel the farthest, reach the highest speed or perform a task with precision, said Renee Manson, 25, University of Virginia Law School student.
An online startup retailer founded by two University of Virginia graduates is growing with its first physical address in Charlottesville. Country Club Prep is open now on the Corner near UVA. It's the first brick-and-mortar store for a company that's getting national recognition.
It was the start of a new season, a new chapter in his unexpected rise to stardom as a professional basketball player. He was in a new country, had already learned the language, and was looking forward to taking the next step in a career that some people never thought possible. The future was bright for former UVa player Jerome Meyinsse. Until suddenly it wasn’t.
Matt Schaub got right to work on the first day of Oakland Raiders training camp Friday.
M. Caldwell Butler, who as a first-term Republican representative from Virginia wept after he voted to impeach President Richard M. Nixon, whose landslide 1972 re-election victory had propelled Mr. Butler into Congress, died on Tuesday in Roanoke, Va. He was 89.M. Caldwell Butler, former Republican congressman from Roanoke, dies at 89Washington Post / July 29http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/m-caldwell-butler-former-republican-congressman-from-roanoke-dies-at-89/2014/07/29/174f2d7e-1741-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.htmlCaldwell Butler dies, recalled as being "free of politics'Roa...
PVCC President Frank Friedman said he’s also hoping to add two new health care career certificates in the next year. Both would help fill staffing needs at Martha Jefferson Hospital and the University of Virginia Medical Center. Friedman said he’s planning to offer a new central sterile processing technician certificate in January. Friedman said he’s less sure about the timeline on another planned certificate program, which would train pharmacy technicians.
A Virginia-based startup called PsiKick is developing an ultra-low-power microchip for simple sensing tasks. Depending on the application, it consumes between 1 and 0.1 percent of the power of comparable chips on the market, says PsiKick cofounder David Wentzloff. Wentzloff and cofounder Brenton Calhoun did their graduate work together in Anantha Chandrakasan’s Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems lab at MIT. The two went on to become professors at the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, respectively, but continued their collaboration. The startup plans to sell its fi...
A spokeswoman for Rubio pointed to a research brief about the role of fathers in college success by Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. The brief was published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute where Wilcox is a visiting scholar.
A drafted “statement of expectations” scheduled for discussion Wednesday would limit public dissent by members of the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia.
Crews renovating the Rotunda at the University of Virginia now have firsthand experience with pieces of Thomas Jefferson's original dome.They thought the original structure was completely lost in the Rotunda fire of 1895 but that's not the case. In a wall cavity beneath brick and mortar, workers found a distinct new layer of material. It contained pieces of glass and burnt wood, thought to be remnants from the original dome.
Renovations on the University of Virginia's iconic Rotunda began two years ago, but recently some planned probes in the Lower West Oval Room uncovered something exciting for the university and historians alike. Artifacts believed to be from President Thomas Jefferson's original Rotunda are now in the hands of university conservators and a lot is being learned from the pile of old rubble.
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This September, the newly formed Jefferson Education Accelerator will join the ranks of emerging edtech incubators. Supported by the Curry School of Education Foundation, the Jefferson Education Accelerator will take full advantage of its connections to faculty at University of Virginia and other universities to provide research and mentoring services to growth stage edtech companies.
History buffs can now dig deeper into the events surrounding President Richard Nixon's resignation with new resources from the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
At the Town Hall, I talked with a woman from the University of Virginia about the cohort of kids who spent time at UVA during the first part of their fellowship. She said a professor told her that he had never had a better group of students in thirty years of teaching.
The 50 presidents of Virginia institutions of higher education who signed the letter — including the leaders of the University of Virginia, College of William & Mary and George Mason University — said that while they applaud Obama’s efforts to make higher education more affordable, a federal ratings system would wind up limiting the amount of financial aid that many poor students can receive.
16. Known as a “public Ivy,” the University of Virginia offers in-staters a top-notch education at one of the country’s lowest total college costs. What’s more, students live and study inside a UNESCO World Heritage Site (the only U.S. college to have that designation), featuring a spectacularly beautiful campus designed by university founder Thomas Jefferson. Students seem to thrive: U.Va. has the highest graduation rate of any public school in the country: 93%. The undergraduate programs in English, history, education, business and many sciences (especially astr...