If the polls hold up through Labor Day, Republicans are poised to gain seats in both houses of Congress and even take control of the Senate, says political scientist Larry Sabato. Appearing on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Sabato, head of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said if the GOP still leads in September, they can expect to pick up the six Senate seats needed for a majority.
Atlanta Falcons running back Jason Snelling announced on Tuesday that he was retiring from the League after seven seasons with the Falcons.
Psychologists at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville surveyed a sample of mostly white children at age five, seven, and 10. The children rated how much pain they expected two other children -- one black and one white -- would feel in certain situations, like biting their tongue, or hitting their head. The five-year-olds reported that the two children would feel about the same amount of pain. But a weak racial bias emerged in the seven-year-olds, and by age 10, the children showed a "strong and reliable racial bias" in that the white child would feel more pain than the black...
(Commentary) On the question of the federal law applying to business, RFRA expert Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia (a supporter of gay marriage) seems to make a very strong case in this post: “The government’s speculations about what Congress might have thought, must have thought, should have thought, cannot compare to this explicit record of what Congress actually did think. For-profit corporations do not often exercise religion, but when they do, they are covered by RFRA.”
Greene said Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia, along with NASA, have also used drones in Virginia for research.
Virginia’s foreign-born population has grown exponentially since 1970 from 1 in 100 to 1 in 9 in 2012, University of Virginia researchers found in census data. The population shift, most notably in Northern Virginia, is changing the state’s educational, political and social landscape.
"He did this case hand written on lined paper from his prison cell. All the way through the district court, the court of appeals and the Supreme Court and he got this injunction pending appeal, on his own," said Douglas Laycock, a lawyer from the University of Virginia, representing Holt, "That's not seen very often at all."
Danny Hultzen can only watch. In front of him, stretched down the foul line of Field No. 1 at the Mariners' complex, his fellow pitchers play catch during spring training. It's a daily ritual in pitcher's life. There is talk, laughter and the repetitive pop of baseballs striking leather gloves. Dressed in his full uniform, glove on his right hand, baseball in his left and a hopeful look on his face, Hultzen stands on the side as a spectator.
Virginia’s first outright ACC regular season title in more than 30 years made an impression on the voters in college basketball’s national polls. The Cavaliers moved up to No. 5 in the latest Associated Press and USA Today coaches polls released Monday, two days after a 75-56 victory over Syracuse in Charlottesville.
(Podcast) George Mentore, professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses his fieldwork experiences in the jungle of South America and the vital role that anthropology continues to play in the curriculum of a powerful liberal arts education.
“Immunosuppression is so much better, and we have fantastic new technology, and that’s what’s made all the difference,’’ says Irving L. Kron, a spokesman for the American Heart Association and a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. “There’s a really good chance that people will be around in 20 or more years.’’
In a reply brief, Mr. Holt, now represented by Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said 39 state corrections systems and the federal system allow prisoners to grow beards. He added that the justifications for the policy were illogical as there were easier places to hide contraband – shoes, say – than in a short beard.
"The pregnancy hormones progesterone and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) cause milk ducts to activate and breast tissue to swell--possibly by as much as two cup sizes," says James E. Ferguson II, M.D., professor and department chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
According to researchers, the human brain puts strangers in one bin and the people we know in another compartment. People in your social network literally become entwined with your sense of self at a neural level. "With familiarity, other people become part of ourselves," said James Coan, a psychology professor in University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences who used functional magnetic resonance imaging brain (fMRI) scans to find that people closely correlate people to whom they are attached to themselves.
Democrats could well lose the Senate in the coming midterm elections, says Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
The lights stayed on and most people stayed home as snow fell throughout Central Virginia and temperatures plummeted from the 30s to the teens Monday. A winter storm dumped 4 to 8 inches of snow throughout the area Monday morning and tapered off in the afternoon, leaving roads snow-packed and icy. Area schools, including the University of Virginia, closed doors to students.
A bill crafted by students at the University of Virginia is on its way to the governor's desk. If signed into law, the bill will require Virginia’s colleges and universities to feature on their websites a page dedicated solely to the mental health resources available to students.
But the absent-father crisis is almost entirely a function of the breakdown of marriage. “For most men, marriage and fatherhood are a package deal,” University of Virginia scholar Bradford Wilcox points out. “If you want one, you need the other.”
Most students, parents and even college coaches aren't happy with the situation but believe they have to participate in the insanity for fear of being left out. Parents and athletes don't want to miss out on a college scholarship and coaches don't want to miss out on elite players. "To me, it's the singular biggest problem in college athletics," according to University of Virginia women's soccer coach Steve Swanson.
Supporters of the Mississippi bill have a letter signed by 14 out-of-state law professors who endorse the measure. The letter's author, Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia, wrote that the bill is similar to religious freedom restoration laws enacted by the federal government and 18 states. Laycock wrote that the Article 3, Section 18 of the Mississippi Constitution guarantees religious freedom.