Frederick Hitz, a former CIA inspector general, said he sees the airing of the dispute as a sign that members of Congress, including those like Feinstein who have been supportive of intelligence agencies, will be stepping up their oversight of those agencies. “It is not going to be a happy period,” said Hitz, who now teaches at the University of Virginia.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe will search for a new state schools chief to replace Patricia I. Wright, who will retire from her post as superintendent of public instruction May 1.
Tuesday’s announcement confirmed what we all knew would happen: Virginia’s Tony Bennett was a landslide choice for ACC Coach of the Year.
After leading the Virginia men’s basketball team to its first outright ACC regular season title since 1981, Tony Bennett was named the league’s coach of the year Tuesday by media members who cover the conference.
Even after seeing its 13-game winning streak end in an overtime loss to Maryland in its regular-season finale, Virginia heads to the ACC tournament as the top seed with a 16-2 record in league play. On one hand, that would seem to make the sixth-ranked Cavaliers the favorites to cut down the nets at Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina. But on the other hand: Virginia hasn’t won the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in 38 years, hasn’t so much as reached the semifinals since 1995 and has lost 18 of its last 22 game in tourney play. It’s not just opponents the Cavaliers ha...
Business accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars have come to occupy a critical geography in the tech landscape, and today two professors are announcing the results of their survey to determine which ones have come out on top at South By Southwest. Yael Hochberg, a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and her colleague, Professor Susan Cohen of the University of Richmond and the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, used original research and data from CrunchBase to determine the best 15 accelerators in the U.S.
In May, the University of Virginia will sponsor a Civil Rights South Seminar as part of its lifetime learning program. Julian Bond will lead the excursion, which will include stops in Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery and Monroeville. The program chastens Virginians as well. American slavery traces its roots to Colonial Virginia. Neither Richmond nor Virginia has done enough to recognize the totality of its past.
Equality Virginia, the commonwealth's major LGBT organization, on Monday announced the winners of its OUTstanding Virginians awards, which are given annually to LGBT Virginians who have made an impact on behalf of the LGBT community and represent the community with distinction. This year's recipients of the OUTstanding Virginian awards include Allen Groves, the associate vice president and dean of students at the University of Virginia.
Also, according to data gathered by University of Virginia researchers as part of the National Marriage Project, marriages in which the couples score highest on a "generosity scale" are far more likely to say they are "very happy" in their marriages.
When the Berlin Wall came down nearly 25 years ago, it ended conflict over communism in the German capital. Now portions of the wall are going up at the University of Virginia to mark the anniversary of the collapse.
Brad Pasanek, an 18th-century literature specialist at the University of Virginia, agreed, saying of the original novel that “The characters other than the protagonist are so often surrounded by people who aren’t fully human, like machines that keep repeating the same things over and over again. All those characters shuffling in and out of scenes, always frustrating the protagonists. It’s a crowded but eerie landscape. What’s wrong with those people? They don’t dance well but move in jerky fits. Oh, they are headed this way!"
What can public policy do to create more two-parent households? I discuss that and related matters with Prof. Brad Wilcox, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he directs The Home Economics Project. Inaugurated in the fall of 2013, the research project explores the links between family structure and economic growth in 20 countries around the world — more specifically, how marriage and a strong family life foster free enterprise. Wilcox is also an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Virginia, where he directs the National Marria...
The University of Virginia School of Law is once again in the top 10 nationwide, according to U.S. News & World Report. The university’s schools of business, medicine, education and engineering also received high marks.
The University of Virginia Medical Center is one of 28 hospitals around the country participating in a series of neurological clinical trials. UVa recently enrolled in NeuroNEXT – Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials – allowing the hospital to participate in large-scale trials for treatments of various brain and neurological conditions.
"The talkathon is an effort by Democrats to let the environmental movement know they haven't forgotten about climate change, even though party and philosophical polarization doesn't permit real legislative action. It's a collective valentine headlined 'We Care' to a vital constituency in the Democratic Party that produces money and workers in a midterm election year," said Larry Sabato, a professor of American politics at the University of Virginia.
(By Joshua Dunn, associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado–Colorado Springs, and Martha Derthick, professor emerita of government at the University of Virginia) Insisting that it was not hostile to vouchers—or, by extension, to the children, parents, or private schools that could benefit from them—the Obama administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in August 2013 mounted an attack on Governor Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana voucher program that shocked the editorial page of the Washington Post (“Voucher Madness,” September 2, 2...
On April 5, the foundation plans to team up with about 200 students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business to remake 11 homes and a church in the Charlottesville area.
A Japanese architect, a former U.S. senator and a high-profile attorney will receive this year’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. The award, co-sponsored by the University of Virginia, is UVa’s highest honor — the university does not award honorary degrees. Each year, UVa, in conjunction with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and operates Monticello, presents medals in architecture, law and citizen leadership, in honor of the third president of the United States.
Robert Turner, associate director at the center for national security law at the University of Virginia School of Law, believes that as a practical matter, Snowden should have gone to oversight committees or the inspector general without much fear of retaliation. ”I am very confident that had he gone to the Hill committees or the NSA or DOD or ODNI IGs, it would have been difficult for anyone to engage in retribution against him without considerable personal cost,” he said. ”I can’t imagine that there is anyone in a senior position in D.C. dealing with the I...
What these so-called laws do not do, however, is directly implicate First Amendment protections. Idaho, in other words, won't likely have its new law overturned by the courts solely on constitutional grounds. "First Amendment law says nothing about whether states can punish people who apply for or get jobs by failing to reveal their true purpose," University of Virginia School of Law professor Frederick Schauer told me via email. "Similarly, the First Amendment has very little to do, under current law, with a state's attempts to protect the premises or privacy of a busin...