Angry parents have been killing each other since the beginning of time, and domestic violence has been a public health issue for more than 30 years. But little is known about the effect of family murders on children. That’s because surviving children are not classified as victims, making them hard to find and follow. However, the number of kids affected is significant: A 2007 report, Adult Perspectives on Growing Up Following Uxoricide, estimated more than 4,000 children nationwide had lost a parent to domestic violence annually — more than the number of some childhood cancer cases...
Sitting in the A’s dugout Friday afternoon and talking with the media about his long-term deal with the organization, Sean Doolittle took a moment to absorb the news. “It still hasn’t totally sunk in yet. It’s still a little bit surreal,” the left-handed reliever admitted. That’s perfectly understandable. Rare is it for a reliever to receive a five-year contract. Even rarer for one who’s not a closer. Even rarer for someone whose professional pitching career began in earnest a mere two years ago.
When a 33-year-old Todd Wagner quit his job as a lawyer to follow his entrepreneurial dream, the corner-office partner told him he would be back in a few months, “begging for a job.” Fast forward two decades and Wagner is one of America’s most influential dot-com billionaires. Aged 53 with an estimated net worth of US$1.3 billion according to Wealth-X, Wagner made the bulk of his fortune through selling his first business, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo in 1999 after setting it up just five years before.
Although Dietrich Bonhoeffer was just 39 years old when he was executed for participating in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he left behind enough of his inspiring thoughts and beliefs to fill 16 volumes. Now, after eight years of meticulous research and writing, University of Virginia professor of religious studies Charles Marsh offers a definitive biography of the man many consider a saint and martyr.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, chair of the media-studies department at the University of Virginia, describes Ms. Hargittai as a "pioneer of empirical Internet studies." It is "absolutely untrue" that young people understand how the Internet works when they enroll in college, he says. "That myth is in the direct interest of education-technology companies and Silicon Valley itself. If we all decide that young people have some sort of savantlike talent with digital technology, than we’re easily led to policies and buying decisions and pedagogical decisions that pander to Sili...
(Commentary) I noted with interest the other day the awarding of a second Pulitzer Prize for History to former UC Davis Professor Alan Taylor, now at the University of Virginia. It’s hard to win a Pulitzer. I was a finalist once, and I can assure you that winning one in editorial cartooning is a far different pursuit than winning one in history. For example, cartooning is stuff I make up, and historians really frown upon that device.
The first time Bill Minor got his hands on some of the letters Charles Minor Blackford, a distant relative, exchanged with his wife during the Civil War, it was while doing research at the University of Virginia’s special collections library. “They lock you in a room with a legal pad,” he said, laughing. Those letters eventually became the subject of “Love Letters of Lynchburg,” a CD commissioned by the Historic Sandusky Foundation, and have since evolved into a series of live readings held across the country, from Minor’s current home in Pacific Grove, Cali...
The University of Virginia's College at Wise will host the formal inauguration of Donna Price Henry as the eighth chancellor of the college at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the David J. Prior Convocation Center.
Hidden in the Twittersphere are nuggets of information that could prove useful to crime fighters - even before a crime has been committed. Researchers at the University of Virginia demonstrated tweets could predict certain kinds of crimes if the correct analysis is applied.
By the time Nicole Muller graduates from college, she will have collected close to a million pounds of food for food banks across the country. This month, the office of Gov. Terry McAuliffe recognized her efforts with the Governor’s Volunteerism Award.
Earth Week will be celebrated locally with a citywide picnic, an expo at the University of Virginia and a guided paddle tour on the Rivanna River, among other activities. This year, Earth Week began April 12 and will wrap up April 27, coinciding with UVa’s “One HellUVa Planet” Week.
A University of Virginia study from 2005, With Sadness Comes Accuracy; With Happiness, False Memory, found that happiness tends to generate false memories while unhappiness dredges up accurate ones.
“The common thread is that there’s a Democrat in the White House who’s not that popular,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan research group at the University of Virginia. “It wouldn’t be surprising if any of those states went Republican.’
“I research how technology makes the state and the state makes technology,” Vera Katelyn Wilde says. Her work has proved that automation can inflame racial issues—she’s working on creating the nation’s first police profiling database—and that lie detectors are ethically questionable. Government-run technology, Wilde says, “lets the state assert the right to look through people’s bodies and other boundaries, often without probable cause.” So far, she has won more than a dozen awards, including a hard-to-get National Science Foundation disser...
While disapproving of a congressional calendar that keeps lawmakers away from work two thirds of the year, congressional experts argue that that is merely a symptom of the larger problem of partisan gridlock and the inability of Republicans and Democrats to agree on any major issues or tactics. “If Congress really wanted to assert itself, they'd do it,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “Planes, trains, and automobiles work better than ever. It has nothing to do with their schedule, and everything to do with the deep polarization that divide...
(By Erika Herz, Associate Director of Sustainability Programs at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and Andrea Larson, a professor of entrepreneurship at Darden; adapted from an original Darden case by Larson and Mark Meier) The big idea: Entrepreneur Brent Constantz, a coral reef scientist, was well aware of the destructive effects of carbon dioxide (CO2). In 2007, he founded Calera Corp. to make cement, the main binder for concrete, by mimicking nature’s low-energy process. The company soon discovered a host of other waste reuse, waste reduction and revenue-generatin...
Tuition at the University of Virginia could increase next year, with out-of-state students seeing a hike of more than $2,200. The university’s Board of Visitors will meet in Abingdon to vote on the issue Wednesday. The proposed increase for in-state students is 4.7 percent, or $468, which is close to last year’s $452 hike. But under the plan, out-of-state students would pay an additional $2,268, an increase of 6.2 percent.
If you’ve heard the name Jen Sorensen, it may be because she’s the 2014 winner and first female recipient of the prestigious Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning—or because she’s been published in C-VILLE Weekly for more than a decade.
As Christians prepare to celebrate Easter, the new issue of Virginia Quarterly Review offers an essay by Carlene Bauer called “A Difficult Balance: Some Thoughts on the Intersection of Faith and Fiction.” It’s a searching, candid piece about the discomfort of hovering between certainties.
Deborah Lawrence, Professor of Environmental Sciences, discusses a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that warns of dire consequences if the world does not act quickly to curb carbon emissions.