A coalition of left-leaning academics has established a group aimed at opposing scholarly boycotts, with the self-described goal of "challenging the false choice presented to the academic community that it must either undermine the legitimacy of Israel or accept violations of the rights and dignity of Palestinians." The group's signatories include leading scholars such as Siva Vaidhyanathan of the University of Virginia.
"[Rick] Perry is without doubt a much better politician than the bumbler who came across in 2012. ... The GOP presidential contest is so wide open, two years before the nominating battle begin, that no high-ranking, ambitious officeholder should be ruled out." — Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, on Gov. Rick Perry's chances for a second act on the presidential stage
As this all shakes out, consumers can expect to see volatility, with bubbles in prices and new altcoins popping up. "The everyday consumer should probably be very cautious," says economist Peter Rodriguez, an associate professor at the University of Virginia.
The phenomenon of a three-day shiva, where the mood is livelier, is not new, notes Vanessa Ochs, professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia and the author of the 2007 book “Inventing Jewish Ritual.” “For the past several decades we’ve seen people sitting only one or three days shiva, and often the atmosphere takes on more of a cocktail reception, with catered food and even alcohol,” Ochs explained. “As I see it, it’s simply an appropriation of certain aspects of American Christian social behaviors following ...
“There’s no question that these guys are in the vanguard of where medicine has to go,” said Tom Massaro, UVA’s Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law. A pediatrician, Massaro now lectures on health policy at the University’s law school and the Darden School of Business.
"Putting a man in a position of either lying to Congress or disclosing national security secrets, the fault there was with the senator, not with Clapper," said Bob Turner, associate director of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia. "Clapper has a duty to protect secrets. I don’t see that as covering it up or lying to the American people. It was to keep enemies from knowing our capabilities."
When a researcher relies on another’s data, for example, it should be standard practice to invite the data-providers to be co-authors. Ecologists Clifford Duke and John Porter have suggested guidelines for deciding whether to extend such an invitation; these include noting whether the data are integral to the new analysis, whether the data are unique or particularly novel, and whether the data-provider can fully participate in manuscript-writing by approving draft and final versions.
Just when the Virginia men’s basketball team thought its day couldn’t get any better, it did — at a sports bar in Danville called Kickback Jack’s. That’s where the UVa bus stopped on its way back from the ACC Tournament to watch the NCAA Tournament Selection Show and the Cavaliers learned that, thanks to their impressive win over Duke on Sunday, they had grabbed a No. 1 seed.
Top-seeded UVa, thanks to 23 points from Malcolm Brogdon, 15 points from Tournament MVP Joe Harris and a great defensive performance from Mitchell, defeated Duke on Sunday, 72-63, to win the program’s first ACC Tournament championship since 1976 and just its second ever.
The University of Virginia men’s basketball team made history on Sunday, winning the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship for the second time in program history and the first time since 1976, and then drawing a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Seventy years after he was wounded twice and taken captive during a brutal battle in World War II, 93-year-old James M. Garnett stood as tall as he could Friday afternoon and finally accepted the medals he hadn’t known he was due.
Ashley Deeks of the University of Virginia Law School gives a more detailed explanation in Lawfare, the Brookings Institution's blog on national security law and policy.
It was one of Jeff Jones’ daughters who first made the connection. Jones, the men’s basketball coach at Old Dominion, played on the first University of Virginia basketball team to win an outright regular-season ACC championship. That was in 1981. The Cavaliers didn’t win a second outright title until this season, when the Virginia roster included Jones’ son, Jeff Jr., a non-scholarship freshman.
The Rev. Gerald Fogarty, a historian of Christianity at the University of Virginia who has written on papal visits, said he believed it was the first time a pope has been invited to address Congress.
A Republican does not have to be Che Guevara to attract the Tea Partiers’ ire. Senator Pat Roberts in Kansas, for example, is “a solid conservative”, says Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, adding: “I defy you to look at his voting record and see what he’s done wrong.” But still the SCF has endorsed his primary opponent, Milton Wolf, a radiologist and distant cousin of Mr Obama.
In the late 1940s, the University of Virginia's Reading Clinic devised a new method of speed-reading, using vertical lines and an alarm clock. "There are two ways to read: microscopically — which is the old way — and telescopically," professor Ullin Leavell, the center's director, told the Los Angeles Times in 1949. "Today we are attempting simply to develop an individual to see a thought unit, instead of individual parts."
Scott Walker, Wisconsin’s governor, the man who built a well-deserved national reputation as the politician who eviscerated organized labor in his state, is running for re-election in 2014—and, if we wins, could emerge as the GOP’s favored candidate to replace the beleaguered Chris Christie, New Jersey’s governor. Indeed, according to the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, Walker ought to be considered the front-runner, ahead of Rand Paul and Christie.
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, sociologist at the University of Virginia) In the wake of the divorce revolution that swept Europe and the Americas over the last half-century, Pope Francis-who celebrates his one-year anniversary this week-is convening a major synod of the world's bishops this fall in Rome to retool the Catholic Church's message and ministry to families.
Taking his cues from nature, a University of Virginia aerospace engineer and his team are studying winged insects for inspiration in designs for flying microrobots, a.k.a. drones. The devices could be used for search-and-rescue operations, military surveillance, or package deliveries. “What is the secret to these fliers?” asks Haibo Dong, an associate professor of engineering.