A Chinese pulp and paper company plans to invest $2 billion and create 2,000 jobs in establishing its first U.S. advanced-manufacturing facility in Chesterfield County. State and county officials describe the move as the largest Chinese investment and job creation project in Virginia’s history. Jerry Z. Peng, the company’s chairman and CEO, received his master’s in business administration from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business; hence the project was dubbed “Project Cavalier” during the planning stages, says Will Davis, Chesterfield&rsquo...
Once Wall began seriously thinking about playing water polo in college and talking to coaches, she began to think about what school she would want to go to. The University of Virginia, where one of her brothers was on the swim team, always stood out to her for its sense of community and the school pride the students there had.
For the first time, there is a chance to see over fifty years of Charlottesville and University of Virginia history through the lens of a legendary photographer. A career-spanning exhibit of Ed Roseberry's photographs are going on display at Alumni Hall.
A new study shows that most cops use the same interrogation techniques on both adults and juveniles—and why that needs to change. ...Todd Warner, a psychology graduate student at the University of Virginia, is interested in the intersections of brain development and criminal justice. As part of his research for his dissertation, Warner recently attended a national conference where police from across the country come to get various kinds of training, and surveyed 178 cops there on this topic.
You'd think that those low-income college students who, despite the odds, applied for federal financial aid, enrolled in college, and had early academic success as freshmen would continue to do what's needed to persist in college. But while many of them do, almost 20 percent don't take what would seem to be a pretty basic step toward continued success: re-filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid for a second year. "They may not know they have to renew, they're likely to be working and really busy, and at some many community colleges, particularly, they probably ...
We’re one step closer to the quantified household. University of Virginia associate professor of computer science, Kamin Whitehouse, is leading a team that’s designing the software to make it possible. “We need to not just be users of the internet of things, we need to also be objects in the internet of things,” Whitehouse told a Massachusetts Institute of Technology digital summit last week.
A few months ago, Milwaukee joined four other cities in the Thriving Cities Project. Each explored “what it means and what it takes to thrive in” their city. The University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture designed the project and over a five year period, hopes to distil their findings into a new method of community assessment.
The findings, published in the journal Child Development, are the result of a decade-long study by researchers at the University of Virginia.
According to a 2013 economic impact study conducted by Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, agriculture is Virginia’s largest industry, generating more than $52 billion per annum.
When he was 4 years old, Ryan started talking about going home to Hollywood. He often directed imaginary movies, yelling “action!” His parents didn’t think much of it until his nightmares started. “He would wake up grabbing his chest and saying he couldn’t breathe. He said that when he was in Hollywood his heart had exploded,” wrote Jim Tucker, M.D., a leading researcher of reincarnation cases, in his book “Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives.” Dr. Tucker is also an associate professor of psychiatry and neurobe...
"There are lots of programs like this that exist in most corporations: They range in everything from funding junior executives to go back to school for higher education and masters programs to these other types of programs that target lower-wage or lower-level workers," said Gregory Fairchild, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia. "They're a way that the company can attract a more personally motivated type of worker rather than one that is less interested in expanding their own developmental potential," he said.
One other interesting idea: States that pay the wrongfully convicted might actually be trying to save money, according to Brandon Garrett, University of Virginia law professor and author of Convicting the Innocent. That's because people who are exonerated can sue states — and sometimes win awards on the order of $1 million per year of imprisonment, Garrett says.
W. Nathaniel Howell, former U.S. ambassador to Kuwait and currently diplomat-in-residence at the University of Virginia, told The ENQUIRER: “President Obama saw this as a chance for him to look like a hero, but we traded five Taliban generals for a deserter.”
“These are really islets,” says James Kraska, Senior Fellow at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law, noting that the Convention contains rules on which types of land generate further territorial control.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato says Katallah’s capture is good news for the White House and Clinton. Sabato says he does not expect the arrest to have any major impact on ongoing congressional hearings into Benghazi, except to give Democrats some debating points.
Talk radio’s Glenn Beck and Mark Levin lent support to Cantor challenger Dave Brat, but the crucial support, University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato told Politico, came from Laura Ingraham. Ingraham talked up Brat on her radio show; she also made personal appearances on Brat’s behalf. “She electrified the crowd when he had almost no money,” Sabato said. “He won the seat with peanuts, compared to Cantor’s millions. It was a clever substitution of free media for paid media.”
Larry J. Sabato, the Center for Politics Director at the University of Virginia, said this terrorist group is “led by the worst of the worst” and that Americans should be concerned as well. “Of course Americans should be concerned,” Sabato told CBSDC.