A local competition of Virginia Tech and University of Virginia fans was a close call similar to the rivals’ recent basketball game, but with a different outcome. A friendly “food fight” between two familiar Virginia rivals ended with Virginia Tech on top and FeedMore’s biggest win in 10 years. Local Virginia Tech and University of Virginia fan bases raised $16,658 and donated 59,755 food items — an equivalent of 128,000 meals — during the counterparts’ 10th annual “Hokies vs. ’Hoos Food Fight” in partnership with FeedMore, Martin&rsq...
"These state RFRAs were enacted in response to Supreme Court decisions that had nothing to do with gay rights or same-sex marriage," explained University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock in an e-mail. "And the state court decisions interpreting their state constitutions arose in all sorts of contexts, mostly far removed from gay rights or same-sex marriage. There were cases about Amish buggies, hunting moose for native Alaskan funeral rituals, an attempt to take a church building by eminent domain, landmark laws that prohibited churches from modifying their ...
“My heart is bleeding when I see what’s going on there,” Yuri Urbanovich, a Slavic studies professor at the University of Virginia, said last week shortly before the Russian parliament approved troop deployments to the Black Sea. Urbanovich and members of the Slavic Student Association at UVa helped to stage a forum on the unfolding drama in Ukraine just the week before.
“That whole concept (of equity crowdfunding) upends the Securities Act of 1933 almost entirely,” said Sean D. Carr, executive director of the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia. That act was established “to protect investors and help defray the possibility of fraud by limiting the ways that solicitations can be made,” Carr said.
Dozens of states will hold Senate primaries this year, beginning with Texas on Tuesday. Here is a look at the key races in every state. The outlook of each contest is based on an analysis of data from the Cook Political Report and from Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia.
Virginia senior Joe Harris, at the end of a marathon set of questions concerning his final college basketball game at John Paul Jones Arena, recounted this last story with particular glee. A friend in the “Hoo Crew,” the student section for Cavaliers home games, told him about it. A couple of weeks ago, when Virginia students had to request online to be in the ticket lottery for Saturday’s game against No. 4 Syracuse, half of the more than 14,000 undergraduates on campus overloaded the system and caused the school’s ticketing service to crash. “That’s never ...
While Virginia was in the process of demolishing Miami earlier this week — setting up the biggest game in Charlottesville in 30-plus years — a few observant Cavaliers fans were concentrating on something more exciting than the score: backup point guard Teven Jones. The 6-foot guard manages to get some attention on the sideline by being one of the better stand-in-place celebratory bench dancers you’ll find.
No. 12 Virginia ran away from No. 4 Syracuse, 75-56, on Saturday to secure its first outright ACC regular season title since 1981, the culmination of a season in which the Cavaliers have gone from ACC also-rans to national contenders in a matter of months.
No. 12 Virginia, thanks to yet another one of its big second-half runs, hammered No. 4 Syracuse, 75-56, in front of a sold-out crowd that stayed on the floor celebrating for a good 30 minutes after the game’s conclusion.
By next spring, the University of Virginia plans to have new initiatives in place to help students build solid post-college career plans.
One woman is defying the odds and inspiring others to make heart health a priority. Leta Richardson of Staunton received the UVA Health System’s Club Red 2014 Inspiration Award this month for her dedication to a heart healthy lifestyle.
“The debate has been captured by utterly intolerant people on both sides. Everybody wants religious liberty for me, and my opponent ground into the dust.” –University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, quoted by The Washington Post about how the current controversy over gay rights and religious freedom in several U.S. states is “creating a public that is hostile to the very idea of religious liberty.”
Democrats would need to win 17 seats to gain control of the House. “The consensus of analysts who follow House races is that Democrats almost certainly cannot regain control this November; in fact, they may lose a few more seats,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Alone time doesn’t guarantee a great marriage. But, according to a 2012 study from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, couples who spend more one-on-one time together are less prone to divorce and report higher levels of sexual satisfaction, communication and commitment. “Husbands and wives who engaged in couple time with their mates at least once a week were approximately 3.5 times more likely to report being ‘very happy’ in their marriages,” the study added.
“The bill has been egregiously misrepresented by many of its critics,” stated Douglas Laycock, a leading expert on religious freedom at the University of Virginia Law School.
"Even just this little pipsqueak of an epidemic showed that we couldn't get vaccines to the people who needed it in time, even in the US — the country with one of the most advanced health systems in the world," says David Fedson, a retired infectious disease and vaccine expert from the University of Virginia. "The vaccine prevented maybe 2 to 4 percent of swine flu deaths."
Kyle Kondik, with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Scott likely will win in heavily Republican South Carolina but not due to a groundswell of black support. “Black voters prefer Democrats to Republicans in overwhelming numbers,” Kondik said. “Black voters don’t feel like Republicans understand their own history in the country.”
Caruso said the psychologist who evaluated Brown, Daniel C. Murrie of the University of Virginia, has completed his evaluation but the final draft of the report is not yet ready. The final report is to be submitted to the court by the close of business March 3.