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.
(Audio) Trinh Thuan, a professor of astrophysics from the University of Virginia, has just won the French Legion of Honor for his work promoting science and international collaboration.
Unpublished research by university scientists is exempt from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting an attempt by skeptics of global warming to view the work of a prominent climate researcher during his years at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia student leaders are making strides to combat sexual assault. Student council passed a resolution at its meeting Tuesday night to raise awareness and offer more resources to survivors. SMART, which stands for Sexual Misconduct Awareness Recovery and Tangible Resolution, will involve student groups and administrators.
Geoff Skelley, a veteran analyst with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Beyer’s massive war chest is a huge advantage, and suggests he could afford television ads where others cannot. “That could be helpful, especially in a low-turnout election, just to get more name recognition,” Skelley said. “[But] in a race like this it’s kind of difficult to get a read on it. It’s been a while since he’s been in the political mix.”
“Whenever you work out, you have some muscle breakdown. It’s when you try to outdo someone else or you are not ready for repetitive or challenging exercise that you can do severe damage to the muscle fibers,” said Dr. Chris Holstege, director of the Medical Toxicology Division at the University of Virginia Medical School. Holstege is currently treating three civilian cases of rhabdomyolysis.
But pollsters aren’t convinced that Peterson is as vulnerable as the NRCC is making him out to be. For instance, University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato lists the 7th as a “Likely Democratic” as does the Cook Political Report.
"Generally speaking, when candidates want to make it clear that they're thinking about running, they make it clear," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "There's no reason (for Pence) to close the door. But it's not as though you don't have a large number of hungry candidates already running. I can't see any of them who are going to bow out because Mike Pence has gotten in."
Jamestown High School alumni JT Castner and Taytem Riley are business majors in college. They're now business partners, too, after coming together to develop a mobile app they hope will change the way people listen to music in public spaces such as bars, restaurants and gyms.
The ruling drew applause from academics, disappointment from the institute and some concern from open-government advocates.
If a stranger approaches you with a raised arm on Thursday, don't be alarmed – it's just National High Five Day, an unofficial holiday during which participants raise money for charity by engaging in an all-day high-five-a-thon. The holiday began on the campus of the University of Virginia in 2002, when a group of students set up a stand giving away free high-fives in the middle of a quadrangle. "We discovered two things," Greg Harrell-Edge, executive director of the National High Five Project and one of the original UVA group, told PEOPLE. "One, it's real fun ...
Tom Nachbar, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, frames the question this way: "By performing that service for thousands of people at the same time, although totally individually, are they doing what is essentially a transmission to the public?"
Cell movement plays an important role in a host of biological functions from embryonic development to repairing wounded tissue. It also enables cancer cells to break free from their sites of origin and migrate throughout the body. A new study led by Sharon Campbell, PhD, professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine and member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, deepens the understanding of a pair of proteins – vinculin and actin – that work together to allow a cell to migrate throughout the body. The study was conducted in collaboration with Edw...
The Virginia Supreme Court's ruling Thursday backing the University of Virginia's right to exempt a climate scientist's email messages from a public records request contains no soaring rhetoric about academic freedom; it revolves around the legal narrow definition of "proprietary" information and the intricacies of the state's Freedom of Information Act. But the ruling nonetheless stands as a victory for public universities and scholars who work there, if more for practical than philosophical reasons.
Under state law, Geoffrey Skelley, spokesman for the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said “political shenanigans like Fauquier’s have happened before and they’ll happen again, especially in very low turnout events. “All someone really needs to do is get a good number of supporters to come out and vote to have a shot at winning,” he said.
Fans of new music will have two opportunities this week to hear some of the latest compositions coming from the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music. And if you aren’t a fan yet, take advantage of the fact that both concerts are free.