David Martin, a former DHS immigration lawyer who now teaches at the University of Virginia, said that concerns raised by border agents reflect a “very genuine and legitimate law enforcement and policy concern.” “To send an internal memo that says, ‘We in the field think this is happening and we think consequences need to be changed,’ seems like quite a legitimate internal response,” Martin said.
Robert O’Neil, former president and professor of law at the University of Virginia, and an expert on faculty free speech issues, said via email that although Thursday's decision involved a community college administrator, the non-academic nature of the speech in question didn't offer great support for faculty members who do not want Garcetti applied to their speech. But O'Neil said that professors should be pleased that -- in a unanimous decision -- the Supreme Court cited its Keyishian ruling, which in 1967 found that state education agencies could not bar the hiring of empl...
“There is no question which Texas officeholder is laps ahead in the Olympic swimming pool,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Perry looks like the past and Cruz the future. Maybe Perry isn’t worn out, but after 14 years as governor and a disastrous bid for president in 2012, Perry seems like a syndicated rerun.”
“There’s a temptation to say, ‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,’” suggested Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, though he acknowledged that “they have very different personalities and approaches.”
The Favre strategy might work. It’s an ad that will cut through the clutter and impress itself upon many state voters, tweets Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Favre is, or at least was recently, beloved in the state.
Church support for marriage among poor and middle class Americans can play a key role in combating income inequality and providing a good environment for children, a sociologist told the U.S. bishops. “If you care about bridging the marriage divide, you should care about economic justice, cultural change, and the renewal of civil society,” Professor W. Bradford Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociology professor, told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ general assembly in New Orleans on June 12.
Two Virginia scientists maintain that, if you really want to understand the impact of climate change, you need to hear about the walrus. So discuss walruses we will, with longtime walrus investigators Jerry McCormick-Ray and (research partner as well as husband) Carleton Ray.
Nationally, about one in five poorer students don’t end up enrolling even after they’ve received acceptance letters. Drill down into the data and that number could be as high as 40 percent for students who plan to attend a community college. Lindsay Page, an assistant professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh, and Ben Caslteman, her research partner and University of Virginia assistant professor of education, have studied the causes and possible solutions for summer melt among poor and first generation students since 2009. ... While not a surefire solution, p...
Using records from the U.S. Renal Data System, researchers from the University of Virginia, UCLA, the University of Southern California, the University of Utah and the Veterans Affairs Department in Salt Lake City analyzed records of 563,281 patients who began long-term or maintenance hemodialysis between 1995 and 2009. They looked specifically at Hispanics, blacks and whites, and also at three age ranges: ages 18 to 40; 41 to 70; and ages 71 and older. There were unexpected differences by race, age and cause of hospitalization.
Imagine a near future where the walls of your home would notify you when a light has been left on, or remind you of the last time your family all sat down at the table together. These ideas could soon become reality with the work from associate professor Kamin Whitehouse at the University of Virginia. ‘If Homes Could Talk’ is a presentation by MIT Technology Review that reveals the early findings from Whitehouse’s research team and explores what the connected household of the future could look like.
When patients are stuck with fewer choices, they get poorer quality care. That’s why a University of Virginia study found that Medicaid patients are 13 percent more likely to die during surgery than their uninsured counterparts.
The race brought in more than $370,000 last year for the University of Virginia Breast Care Center and this year, race coordinators hope to reach their goal of $400,000. Putting money toward patient care and cancer research is what it's all about for them. "We can help women today but by doing research we help more women in the future, in the country, and even in the world by being better able to find things, treat them,” said Dr. Jennifer Harvey, radiologist at UVA.
The Miss America organization is having a fundraiser at CiCi’s Pizza Thursday. Ten percent of proceeds will benefit the Children's Miracle Network, which includes the University of Virginia Children's Hospital.
The V Foundation, one of the nation’s leading cancer research foundations, is partnering with the Virginia wine industry, the University of Virginia Cancer Center and the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University to raise critical funds for cancer research. Gov. McAuliffe will host a kick-off event tonight at the Executive Mansion.
By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.... marriage is in trouble not just in post-industrial cities like Muncie but, increasingly, in small towns and rural communities across Indiana and the country at large. Divorce remains high, marital happiness is falling, and nonmarital childbearing is rising. All this makes for a growing marriage divide in the Hoosier State.
When it comes to University of Virginia graduates, you can always depend on them to return to their home away from home and give back to the local community. Sasheer Zamata, the newest cast member of Saturday Night Live, recently made her way to Charlottesville, Virginia, to perform at her alma mater in April, giving back in the form of entertainment. Now, Jerry Zhiyuan Peng, chair and CEO of world-leading pulp and paper company Shandong Tranlin Paper Co. Ltd., is giving back, too, but by way of jobs. According to UVa, the 2003 alumnus of the Darden School of Business and member of t...
Hickory High alum Lauren Coughlin sank a 20-footer for birdie on No. 17 to take sole possession of first place and went on to win the VSGA Women's Stroke Play Championship Thursday at Chantilly National Golf and Country Club. Coughlin, a rising senior at U.Va., finished with a 1-under 218 after posting a final-round 1-over 74. Coughlin, the two-time reigning VSGA Women's Amateur champion, became the third player since 1991 to own the Women's Amateur and Women's Stroke Play titles in the same rotation.
These days, Gene Corrigan said, he is just another University of Virginia sports fan, which means one topic is on his mind. Corrigan once was at the center of the action. His career included jobs as UVa athletic director, ACC commissioner and NCAA president. “I follow the [UVa] teams and marvel at what they’ve achieved; I think it’s wonderful,” Corrigan said before the event. “Wonderful coaches across the board, I think, at the university, and it’s just so good to see. Like baseball in years back, way back when we wondered if we should be playing basebal...
Heading into Thursday night’s Mississippi-TCU game, all of one home run had been hit in the 2014 College World Series, a span of nine games. That eye-popping statistic has sparked much discussion this week as teams chase a national championship. UVa could take a dramatic step tonight in its quest for a title: A victory over the Mississippi-TCU winner would vault the Cavaliers into the best-of-three championship series for the first time in school history. It’s a run built as much on preventing runs as scoring them, and, thanks partly to the cavernous TD Ameritrade Park, for all the...