A special interview with politics professor Allen C. Lynch, a Russia expert and author of the book “Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft (Shapers of International History).”
It should come as no surprise that low-level bank robbers will serve hard time for their crimes, while high-level corporate types often avoid criminal charges, according to Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor and author of the upcoming book “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.”
The death of a loved one also means that one is losing part of one’s mechanism to cope with life—no one will be there 24/7 to hold your hand, cuddle, make you smile, or help you cope with day-to-day tasks. “You have to adjust your stress response. You’re going to be withdrawing resources from your immune-system, and your body is going to take a big hit,” clinical psychologist and neuroscientists James Coan from the University of Virginia in the US explains to Weir over at Nautilus.
The road to a Republican majority in the Senate could hinge on what happens in Alaska, where Sen. Mark Begich is fighting for his political life and, like other vulnerable Democrats, is trying to distance himself from President Obama and some of Mr. Obama’s unpopular policies. Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said Alaska could be ground zero.
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a member of UT's legal team, expects this to be the most likely scenario: a denial of en banc review followed by a request for Supreme Court review and a grant of such review. "But I wouldn't be astonished if they (the Supreme Court justices) refused it," Laycock said.
There's an almost standard rule about what exactly can be transferred from a community college to a four-year school. "The credits do but the grades don't," says Frank Papovich, an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.
"There has never been a political marriage between Boehner and Obama, not even an affair," insists University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato. "Very occasionally they've reached a political bargain, sealed with a handshake, not a kiss."
The University of Virginia SPEED clinic’s Max Prokopy studies what makes elite runners like Bolt so fast. He said Bolt had “tremendous genetic advantages”. For example, his foot springs off the ground with about 453kg of force, almost double the 226kg of force of an average person.
Left alone in a sparsely furnished room for 15 minutes, stripped of all electronic distractions but one, boredom made the electric-shock machine irresistible.
A 2013 study by professors at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the University of Virginia found that the system in Washington led to better retention of and performance by effective teachers and encouraged ineffective teachers to quit or improve.
U.Va. and Johns Hopkins were ranked among the top 50 universities in the world by the Center for World University Rankings. Johns Hopkins earned a score of 71.17, earning the school a No. 19 ranking, while UVa was ranked No. 41 with a score of 58.60.
With the University of Virginia’s acquisition of Culpeper Regional Hospital and its health care affiliates, Culpeper residents can expect big things to come in terms of care for the ailing, the injured and those in need of rehab. As part of the agreement, UVa. plans to invest another $45 million in CRH over the next 10 years, on top of its five-year $40 million investment that began in 2009.
Airbus has joined Virginia’s Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), the two parties announced yesterday at the Farnborough Air Show outside London.
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) has announced that Aerojet Rocketdyne, the missile propulsion and launch system manufacturer, is expanding its membership role in the collaborative research center.
The United States should not deter qualified students from seeking degrees at four-year colleges, but it is time we admit that path is not a cure-all.
What a letdown. And what an irony. The Virginia Supreme Court levied damages of just $250 against the nonprofit Energy & Environment Legal Institute in its bid to obtain climate researcher Michael Mann’s emails while he was a professor at the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Supreme Court has ordered the conservative nonprofit Energy and Environmental Legal Institute to pay $250 in damages to the University of Virginia and a climate scientist who previously worked there.
On June 18, Shandong Tranlin Paper Co Ltd, a Chinese pulp and paper company led by Darden graduate Jerry Peng, announced that it would invest US$2 billion in Virginia over the next five years to establish its manufacturing operations in the US. It was the first overseas expansion for Tranlin, which owns a proprietary technology to produce tree-free, non-chlorine bleached and completely straw paper products made exclusively from organic agricultural field waste such as wheat straw and corn stalks.
Brad Handler (Law School graduate ’95) is now founder and Chairman of Inspirato, a private club that provides its members exclusive access to luxury vacation homes, experiences and VIP offerings. The club controls a real estate portfolio worth over $700 million and has nearly 8,000 members.