TEL AVIV, Israel — Jubilant Israeli basketball fans are still celebrating Maccabi Tel Aviv’s dream season, which culminated with an overtime victory over Real Madrid in the Euroleague basketball final in Milan. ... “Amazing the support Israel is giving us. Feels like we brought together an entire country,” tweeted Sylven Landesberg, a former University of Virginia guard who was born in the U.S. Their foreign players, including former UVa forward Devin Smith, were instrumental in Sunday’s victory.
After three combat deployments in a dozen years, Sean Gobin stepped onto the Appalachian Trail in Georgia to walk off the war. He founded the Warrior Hike to coordinate hikes for other veterans who are struggling to adapt to civilian life. This spring, 26 veterans set off on hikes along the AT, the Continental Divide Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. On Saturday, Gobin drove his motorcycle from Charlottesville, where he just graduated from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, to the parking area for the McAfee Knob trail along Virginia 311 to meet up with this year&rs...
“Credit Suisse is a really big case, but people want to see accountability for the global financial crisis, and this just won’t do that,” said Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of a new book, “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations.”
"The World Health Organization has said ADA isn't absorbed in our body, we typically excrete it in feces," said Angie Hasemann, a pediatric dietitian at the University of Virginia. "Many times there is negative publicity and we think we don't want this strange chemical in our body when research shows this one might not be that harmful."
Erika Hayes James, a former senior associate dean for executive education at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, will assume her new role at Emory on July 15. ... While three minority women are currently deans at American colleges of business, James will be the first to lead a full-time MBA program at a top-25 business school, according to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Andrew Kaufman, a lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, said the tangled lives of Tolstoy’s characters never have been more relevant than they are today – nearly 150 years after “War and Peace” was published. Kaufman drives the point home in his new book, “Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times.”
Robert O’Neil, former president of and professor of law at the University of Virginia, and author of “Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University,” said that faculty members “who hold academic deanships enjoy somewhat less freedom in their professorial capacities than in their administrative roles.”
“Bevin was not to be taken lightly as a Tea Party primary foe, and McConnell didn’t,” says Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
In University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato’s most recent “Crystal Ball” forecasts, Republicans are on track to pick up between four and eight Senate seats in November.
The problem is that the incentives in science today are all about breaking new ground, and there's much less incentive to making sure that the ground you're standing on is actually solid. ... I spoke with psychologist Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia. He's been working on this issue for a while. BRIAN NOSEK: The issues are pervasive in every science. Scientists are rewarded for publication over accuracy. There isn't a culture of replication across most disciplines.
After a string of scandals involving accusations of misconduct and retracted papers, social psychology is engaged in intense self-examination—and the process is turning out to be painful. This week, a global network of nearly 100 researchers unveiled the results of an effort to replicate 27 well-known studies in the field. In more than half of the cases, the result was a partial or complete failure. About half of the replications are the work of Many Labs, a network of about 50 psychologists around the world. The results of their first 13 replications, released online in November, were g...
Many college graduates look back at their years on campus as the best time of their lives. One member of the Class of 2014 might agree with that. Wyatt Andrews shares the story of 70-year-old Jerry Reid, who finally aced college on his third try.
When Massachusetts Congressman Joseph Kennedy agreed to deliver a commencement address at the University of Virginia Law School, he didn't realize he'd be receiving a diploma too. At the end of Sunday's ceremonies, Kennedy was presented with the diploma his great-uncle, the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, earned from the school in 1959. Fifty-five years ago, Ted Kennedy skipped commencement because he was helping run his brother John's presidential campaign.
Final Exercises are over, and the cleanup in underway on the Lawn of the University of Virginia.
Pan-African human rights defender, Rumbidzai Dube, wants strong institutional structures to promote accountability and good governance. She says the invitation to participate in the first ever Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) Washington Fellowship in June will allow her to reflect on her work and life experiences in Zimbabwe while searching for innovative ways to expand and strengthen her work. Rumbidzai will spend six weeks at the University of Virginia/ William & Mary.
Dominion Resources chief executive Thomas Farrell contacted a college buddy from the University of Virginia, David Kennedy, who had become a Navy fighter pilot and wrote screenplays in his downtime on aircraft carriers. Farrell pitched Kennedy, who had moved to Los Angeles, about his idea for a film, and Kennedy was intrigued.
Coffeewood Correctional Center warden Sam Pruett retires after nearly 38 years in the correctional industry July 1. He has served as warden at Coffeewood since 2008.
5. RedditThe product of a long line of technical evolution across the internet, Reddit was conceived by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian while studying at the University of Virginia.
Under the elms of Trinity's College quadrangle, broadcast journalist Katie Couric charmed and inspired graduates and their families Sunday with tales of getting rejected, the need for passion and chutzpah in a career, and a few of her own salty insights.