A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday lost one of his sons, Hamza El-Rufai, in a fatal motor accident in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. Hamza attended the University of Virginia and the United World College of the Atlantic, according to information on his Facebook page. His age as well as the course he studied are unknown at this time.
Oday Aboushi gently placed the young boy on the hospital room bed, and quickly stepped aside. The child's mother broke down at the sight of her suddenly unrecognizable son. His once-misshapen mouth appeared nearly normal. She turned to Aboushi, an offensive lineman for the New York Jets, and hugged him. Aboushi wasn't ready for it. And then, he cried, too. "I was like, "Man. Just, wow,"' Aboushi recalled after a recent training camp practice. "That's when it hit me what we were doing there." There are 185 new smiles in Sudan these days, and Aboushi help...
A University of Virginia student is experiencing the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza firsthand. She's spending the summer interning in the Israeli capital city. Jennifer Keltz is living in Jerusalem. She's been there since June. The third-year public policy major is interning there through Hillel International. It's a program run independently from UVA.
Hey, US taxpayers: Want to hear what your money is buying in northeastern Brazil? "It's sort of this metallic structure and it has these leg stands jutting out from the sides," says Elizabeth Duffield, a student at the University of Virginia. "It actually reminds me of a lizard stretching out along the boardwalk along the beach." She's describing the new, massive aquarium that's going up in Fortaleza, one of Brazil's biggest cities. It will be the largest in South America, and the United States is helping foot the bill.
(By Larry J. Sabato, politics professor and director of U.Va.’s Center for Politics) If there is one nightmare common to all U.S. senators, it’s the possibility of an unexpected upset by an underdog challenger come Election Day. Not only do they lose their seat, but the shock of defeat becomes one of the most notable parts of their biography. This November, no one wants to be the Senate’s Eric Cantor. For my money, one of the most jaw-dropping Senate results in modern history occurred exactly 50 years ago.
The article examines election forecasters’ take on the upcoming U.S. Senate races, including the predictions of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, published by politic professor Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik of U.Va.’s Center for Politics.
Sarah Palin’s new pay-to-view online news channel represents the next big thing in how some politicians will communicate with followers. “You have to already have intense followers, like she does, to make this work,” said Larry Sabato, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “You have to have people who are ready to go where you go.” Such subscription-based Internet channels are more likely to be used by conservatives than liberals, he said. The sites “are a natural followup to conservative dominance on talk radio,” he said.
The Virginia gay marriage case is one of several that could go to the U.S. Supreme Court. A professor at the UVa law school says it is a complicated case that could be challenged. “This case, like the case is California, has a complicated standing question,” says Deborah Hellman, F.D.G. Ribble Professor of Law. “That is, who is it that gets to challenge what the Fourth Circuit has done. Normally the state defends its own law, and with the elected officials in Virginia no longer wanting to defend the law, it has an additional complication. It won't just be about the issue ...
At a time when McDonnell's political and personal reputation is in tatters, his transportation funding solution has won some wonkish admirers. “I really think it is the kernel of a well-balanced approach,” said Andrew Mondschein, an urban planning professor at the University of Virginia, told Capital. “There are other alternatives out there that are more controversial, like congestion pricing or vehicle miles traveled [fees], but I don’t think that those are realistic in the near future or even the longer term," he continued. "I’m always happy to be ...
In “Chasing Shadows,” Ken Hughes, a Nixon-tapes expert who has done valuable work for the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program, explores why Nixon was so eager to break into Brookings and retrieve the file on Johnson’s bombing halt.
We’re both older and younger, and whiter and poorer than the average for Virginia. We’re also the third fastest-growing area of the state. That’s the profile of Central Virginia, as drawn by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. The profile, one of eight the center developed for regions across the state, is based on recent U.S. Census Bureau statistics and the center’s population estimates.
After California became the first state to offer paid parental leave, new mothers were more likely to return to work, according to a study by Maya Rossin-Slater and Jane Waldfogel of Columbia University and Christopher Ruhm of the University of Virginia.
Middle and high school students are camped out at the University of Virginia Monday night. Rising eighth- and ninth-graders will be staying in the dorms until Wednesday, to get a college experience while building model solar cars, Mars rovers, and more. The camp is called BLAST, which stands for Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology. The goal is to advance the students by giving them hands-on experience with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
During the week, Chris LaPierre is cutting his teeth as a young businessman in New York City. The 2009 Shawnee High School graduate recently got a job with Bank of America, so he's learning the ropes of the sales and trading industry. He makes the daily commute between his home in Stamford, Connecticut, and midtown Manhattan. On Friday nights and Saturdays, he could be in cities like Denver, Boston or Rochester — or even his home away from home in Boca Raton, Florida. That's when LaPierre takes off the jacket, puts on his cleats and grabs a stick. It's when "Shocker"...
Carmen Foster recently completed her doctor of education degree at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation examines the integration of Chandler Junior High School in the 1960s. The school in Richmond’s North Side was the first previously all-white city public school to enroll black students.
A group of students from the University of Virginia have challenged Millennials to get educated about why the National Debt defines their future by developing a video showcasing how the National Debt has an impact on their lives.
(By Edward D. Hess, professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business) Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human counterparts. The displacement of workers by technology is nothing new, of course, but the nature of our rapidly advancing technology is, as is the wide variety of roles it’s poised to replace. To survive in this new environment, we human beings face some pressing questions: What can we do better than smart machines? How can more of ...
(By Robert F. Bruner, dean of U.Va.’s Darden School of Business) On July 20, we observed the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing. The observance looks like a media event; and much of it seems to be about technology (rockets), big organizations (NASA), geopolitics (the space race) and national will (JFK’s aspiration to put a man on the moon). Where are the real people in all of that? What was the experience of the team? With what did they contend? What can we learn from them that could be relevant to the rest of us in our daily lives? Ultimately, the observance asks a radical...
(By Ken Hughes, a historian at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs) On all 2,636 hours of secretly recorded Nixon White House tapes that the government has declassified to date, you can hear the president of the United States order precisely one break-in. It wasn’t Watergate, but it does expose the roots of the cover-up that ultimately brought down Richard Milhous Nixon. Investigation of its origin reveals almost as much about the president’s rise as his fall.