(Podcast) Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at U.Va.’s Center for Politics, gives us insight into the possible popular candidates for the GOP in the 2016 Presidential election.
(Podcast) Dr. Christopher Ali, assistant professor in U.Va.’s Department of Media Studies, discusses the proposed deal between Apple TV and Comcast.
Disease was everywhere during the Civil War. By far, the biggest killer during the conflict were communicable illnesses caused by unsanitary conditions at camp and in the field. As Andrew M. Bell of the University of Virginia has documented, early in the fighting military leaders on both sides of the war began to grasp the concept of disease vectors, as weapons.
The University of Virginia Medical Center, in Charlottesville, Va., typically uses 48 to 50 infusions of nitroglycerin a month. Since the restrictions were imposed in January, the hospital is limited to no more than 24 a month, said Dr. Robert E. O’Connor, the chairman of the emergency medicine department at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He said the hospital’s stock was currently down to just four infusions, each of which would treat a patient for 18 to 20 hours. “It really limits how we can take care of patients,” he said.
One night back in December, as the Virginia men’s basketball team was stumbling to a disappointing 9-4 record in nonconference play, associate head coach Ritchie McKay could tell his boss’s approach wasn’t working. Some of the talented Cavaliers seemed more concerned with individual playing time than team goals, and Coach Tony Bennett’s instinctive response was to push harder, demand more. McKay suggested a different tactic.
Jessica Gephart, environmental sciences graduate student at UVA, talks about her research that found eating fish saves water.
Rebecca Dore, graduate student in developmental psychology at the University of Virginia and lead investigator of a study on racial bias in pain perception among children, discusses her study, Racial Bias in Pain Perception Appears Among Children as Young as 7.
A recent paper by Daphna Bassok and Anna Rorem at the University of Virginia takes a hard and balanced look at the early education push. "For some kids," the authors write, "learning to read in kindergarten is just fine. For many others it isn't. They just aren't ready. In years gone by, kids were given time to develop and learn to read in the early grades without being seen as failures. Even kids who took time learning how to read were able to excel. Today kids aren't given time and space to learn at their own speed."
Robert S. Mueller III, who was director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 12 years before stepping down in September, is joining the law firm WilmerHale as a partner.
(By Douglas Laycock, constitutional law professor) Blue states are more willing to ban private discrimination against gays and lesbians, and to enact same-sex marriage, and red states are more willing to protect religious liberty. We need all three: nondiscrimination, marriage equality and religious liberty.
That frustrated RFRA’s supporters, including Douglas Laycock, a law professor who remains a prominent voice in support of “religious liberty” bills. “I simply don’t understand why elements of the prolife community have allied themselves with people who are suspicious of all religious exemptions,” he testified before a House subcommittee in May 1992. “Conservatives need this bill as much as liberals. Mainstream liberals need it as much as minority faith.”
The University of Virginia men's basketball team is headed to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. ‘Hoo fans have been celebrating not just in Charlottesville, but Hoo-fever is spreading coast to coast. UVa. basketball wins boost school spirit, and retail sales. "In the thirty years I've been here. ... I've never seen anything like it," said UVa. Bookstore Executive Director John Kates.
Tony Bennett and the University of Virginia agreed years ago he would have to accomplish more in a season to get incentive bonuses than many other men's basketball coaches. But if that happened, they also agreed he would be in position for a lot of bonus money beyond his roughly $1.8 million base compensation. This season, he's there.
Bruce Holsinger has won prizes for his nonfiction books on the medieval period from the Modern Language Association and the Medieval Academy of America. He’s also a professor in the English department at the University of Virginia. But when he decided to write a fiction book set in the middle ages, he discovered how much he didn’t know.
With the rapidly rising price of college tuition, many top students are realizing you don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a quality education, and that state schools are just as great. (U.Va. ranks No. 4 on the list.)
(With audio) Brian Banks is a former NFL linebacker whose career was derailed by a wrongful conviction for rape. After he spent five years in prison, the woman who accused him admitted she had lied. Now, Banks is coming to Virginia to help the Innocence Project — an organization that helps inmates prove they are not criminals. Banks will speak Wednesday at UVA’s law school to raise money for an expanded Innocence Project.
A special summer camp is helping children cope with cancer. Camp Kesem at the University of Virginia is for children and teens whose parents have cancer, are in remission or have succumbed to the disease.
Madison Square Garden’s 53-year wait to host another men’s National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament game has helped regional-round tickets surge to record levels on the secondary market.
The odds of the University of Virginia being crowned national champions are 10/1, according to sports betting site Bovada.