How many books do you read each year? How many do you first hear about at the Virginia Festival of the Book? A five-day celebration designed to honor book culture and promote reading and literacy, the festival has enchanted readers, encouraged writers, and made Charlottesville a book lover’s paradise every March since 1994.
W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, says that fathers' special input differs from mothers' in at least four ways: playing, encouraging risk, protecting, and disciplining.
(Commentary) In psychology, the Many Labs Replication Project, supported by the Center for Open Science, an institute of the University of Virginia, has rerun 13 experiments about widely accepted theories. Only 10 were validated. The center also has launched what it calls the Cancer Biology Reproducibility Project, to look at 50 recent oncology studies.
Charlottesville ranks No. 3, behind Hanover, N.H. and Bryn Mawr, Pa.
More than 70 years after being wounded twice and falling prisoner to Hitler’s forces in Altavilla, Italy, Charlottesville resident James M. Garnett was finally recognized Friday at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School at the University of Virginia. Garnett, a 1942 graduate of UVa, was awarded a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart with one bronze oak leaf cluster, the Prisoner of War Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the WWII Victory Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge for his service.
Democratic Senator Mark Warner is facing his first re-election bid. Early polls show Warner with a commanding lead, but with the rocky rollout of Obamacare and a still-recovering economy, analysts say the national political landscape could create a competitive race. “Even being a strong incumbent is not going to save you if your party does very badly in an election cycle,” said Geoff Skelley, a political analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
A hundred voices will honor Sarah Creech on Friday night, but her life was a blend of a much larger chorus line. She was a child of the theater on Hilton Head Island, often dancing on stage while her mother, Janice, played the piano in the orchestra pit. She took her talents to New York City before deciding to follow her father in the field of law. On Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, Sarah took a board test for law school. The next night, she died unexpectedly of an acute asthma attack. She was only 27.
Twelve students from Husson College in Maine and six from the University of Virginia spent their spring breaks working on a Habitat for Humanity house in Logan as part of the Habitat Collegiate Challenge program.
During the debate over passage of Arizona's S.B. 1062, critics claimed the bill would allow business owners to ban gays from public accommodations. A group of 11 law professors sent Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer (R) a letter explaining that the bill would not do that and those critics are "trying to deceive you." One of the signers of that letter was Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law, who supports same-sex marriage and religious freedom.
Larry Sabato at University of Virginia looks at the Senate playing field. He rates Democrat Kay Hagan’s seat the fifth most likely in the nation to switch parties.
Michael J. Wolf, former president of MTV and now with entertainment industry consultant Activate, said Participant's social-action campaigns have inspired many people because they are "heart felt" and gimmick-free. But Siva Vaidhyanathan, chairman of the Media Studies Department at the University of Virginia, questioned the value of activism that lives mainly online. He said real political change requires deeper sacrifice — from individuals giving their money, time or long-term commitments.
A few University of Virginia students took a break from work and research on Friday to help protect water quality in the Shenandoah River and Chesapeake Bay. They teamed with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to repair and maintain a riparian buffer that is intended to filter runoff from fertilizer and sediment at a farm along Cub Run in Penn Laird.
Previous research has found that both black and white people assume that black people feel less pain than whites after the same injury. Psychologists at the University of Virginia have now traced this bias as far back as childhood.
In Virginia, they said, racial disparities narrowed in long-term suspension rates in schools that used threat assessment guidelines that provide procedures for examining the intent and risks associated with student misbehavior, according to research by Dewey Cornell of the University of Virginia and JustChildren, a child advocacy program of the Legal Aid Justice Center.
(By Kyle Kondik, political analyst at U.Va.’s Center for Politics) In what order should we expect upper chamber seats to flip? To demonstrate just how Republican this year’s Senate playing field is, consider this: Of the 36 Senate elections this year (33 regularly scheduled and three specials), the Crystal Ball sees 16 as at least potentially competitive at the moment. Of those races, 14 are currently held by Democrats, and just two are held by Republicans.
Over the last three years, Cavaliers Against Cancer has raised over $30,000 and Saturday's goal was to raise an additional $20,000. "We've got three different levels of tournaments -- we've got a beginner, main and high stakes tournament, so folks can come out and have an opportunity to play in a tournament in their appropriate skill level and a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes," said Shawn Brydge, Co-founder of Cavaliers Against Cancer. All net proceeds from the event will be donated to the Rebecca Clary Harris Memorial Fellowship at the University of Virginia Cancer...
1. Love lessens our physical perception of pain and threat: In a groundbreaking experiment, Dr. Jim Coan at the University of Virginia gathered a group of happily married women and put them in a functional MRI machine.
High Point native Anthony Gill partied like it was 1976 with his University of Virginia teammates on the floor of the Greensboro Coliseum on Sunday.
Doctors at the University of Virginia will talk about the latest breakthroughs in blood cancer research at a free public breakfast on Grounds on Thursday. The breakfast, hosted by UVa Patients & Friends, also will feature the new director of the UVa Cancer Center, Dr. Thomas Loughran. It all starts at 8 a.m. at Alumni Hall.
Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said he doubts Republicans, wary of facing primary challengers from their right flank, will hand McAuliffe a win.