(Commentary) According to a Pew Research report entitled "Millennials in Adulthood," they are incredibly well connected to friends, family, and colleagues via all the latest digital platforms. But as University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox says, when it comes to "the core human institutions that have sustained the American experiment - work, marriage, and civil society," the Millennials' ties "are worryingly weak."
(By Mark Edmundson, University Professor) In not too long, I’ll play my last game of basketball. I’m 53 now. Few people play past 40; not many at all reach 50 and still play. You’ll have an easier time finding diamonds in the parking lot than finding 60-year-olds going full court. Full-court basketball, observed the narrator of a novel I recently read, is like adultery: it’s a young man’s game. By no one’s count do I qualify as a young man. And yet …
Gerald Fogarty, a professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Virginia, said these meetings have tended to be "more symbolic than anything substantive." But symbolism can be important, given the pope's special status among world leaders. "It makes the president appear to be independent of partisan politics," Fogarty said.
UVa’s top-seeded Cavaliers face fourth-seeded Michigan State at 9:57 p.m. Friday in New York. It’s UVa’s first trip this deep into the NCAA Tournament since 1995. The Cavs advanced with an East Regional rout of Memphis on Sunday night in Raleigh, N.C. Powerful Michigan State – tabbed by some as a Final Four favorite entering the tournament – is known to travel well, bringing fans in droves wherever the Spartans go. Topping them will be a challenge for UVa. Trekking North and grabbing a seat in the Garden to see whether the 'Hoos march on could be a tall order,...
United States attorney Pamela Marsh and Dr. Dewey Cornell from the University of Virginia were at the event. They made presentations about how to spot students who could be dangerous.
Republicans in the House of Delegates are dead set against approving Medicaid expansion, and many would likely face primary opposition if they changed their position. Meanwhile the threat of a government shutdown in Virginia hangs in the balance. "I think you may see Virginia kind of act like Washington has in recent years, where the closer they get to the precipice the more likely that they will eventually strike some kind of agreement," says Geoff Skelley, an analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia sent out its decisions Friday, a key moment for many Washington-area students.
Conservatives say Congress very clearly intended the law to cover corporations. In a brief filed by the Christian Legal Society, Douglas Laycock, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, wrote that, when it passed the 1993 law, Congress "repeatedly emphasized" that it would "provide universal coverage, applying a single standard to all cases," adding that excluding corporations is "inconsistent with this commitment."
University of Virginia men's basketball fans are scrambling to book their trips to New York City and find a seat in Madison Square Garden for Friday night's game against Michigan State.
The University of Virginia Medical Center credits its role as a teaching and research hospital for attracting some of the nation's top doctors to Charlottesville. This year, 181 UVA Health System physicians made the list of best doctors in America.
"A case of this size is designed to set an example to entire industries," said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia Law School professor and expert on corporate crime. "This isn't a cautious foray into criminal investigations and prosecutions in the auto area," he said, "This case is designed to send a big message."
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan said she has personally written letters to the principals of 80 high schools in low-income areas of the state in an effort to aggressively recruit a more diverse student body. The university also is sending personalized text messages to high-achieving students with financial need to guide them through the admissions and aid processes, Sullivan told a meeting Monday of the Kiwanis Club of Richmond.
(Commentary) The answer brings us back to gerrymandering, which, by its nature, protects the status quo and prevents change. Of 100 House of Delegates races in 2013, “only 12 to 14 were competitive,” notes Leigh Middleditch Jr., a Charlottesville lawyer and a founder of the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.
"Haldeman's note is an important piece of evidence that Nixon interfered with a war-crime prosecution," says Ken Hughes, a researcher with the University of Virginia's Miller Center Presidential Recording Program.
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said he was worried that a ruling against the corporations in Tuesday’s case would threaten to unravel important safeguards in religious freedom laws. “The whole secular left has decided,” he said, that such laws “are very dangerous because they care so much more about the contraception cases and gay rights.”
The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, based at the University of Virginia, released the findings this month. Most of the state’s foreign-born population (68 percent) lives in Northern Virginia, where they comprise nearly a quarter of the population. The study identified the top five countries of origin: El Salvador, India, Mexico, Philippines and South Korea. The foreign-born population includes naturalized citizens, permanent residents, refugees and illegal immigrants. About 10 percent of foreign-born residents live in the Richmond area, said Shonel Sen, a research and policy ana...
Ten ACC schools and various media groups have been subpoenaed in an effort by the University of Maryland to obtain documents connected to the school’s withdrawal from the league, according to court records released Friday.
No. 1 seed Virginia survived a scare Friday night, pulling away from No. 16 seed Coastal Carolina to score a 70-59 victory in an East Region round-of-64 matchup that featured more drama than anybody expected.
(Commentary) What No. 1 seed Virginia did to Memphis late Sunday night in the third round of the NCAA Tournament was not for the faint of heart. It was basketball surgery at its best, a bit gruesome on the receiving end. The Cavaliers removed the eighth-seeded Tigers’ upset dreams with scalpel and forceps in a 78-60 triumph that seemed more like a 30-point blowout.
Senior guard Joe Harris scored 16 points as the one-seed Cavaliers took apart eighth-seeded Memphis, 78-60, in front of a heavily pro-U.Va. crowd at PNC Arena to advance to its first NCAA tournament Sweet 16 since 1994-95.