University of Richmond President Edward L. Ayers, a scholar of the American South who last year won the National Humanities Medal, said Friday that he will resign at the end of the next academic year to return to his research. Ayers, 61, said he will step down June 30, 2015, after eight years as UR president but will remain on the faculty “eager to continue my life as a teacher.”
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a bill "that would have given business owners the right to refuse service to gay men, lesbians and other people based on religious grounds." After vetoing the bill Wednesday night, Brewer said she did it because she believes it would have created more problems than it solved. A University of Virginia law professor and ten of his colleagues wrote a letter to the Arizona governor asking her to re-examine bill, but not for the reasons you would think. In a letter with the signature of UVa professor Douglas Laycock and other leaders in his field, they e...
The University of Virginia’s Black Student Alliance is voicing its concerns about the future of the university. The group held a town hall meeting Friday afternoon, called "Black Student Issues: Setting Our Political Agenda." Students talked about where they stand in the strategic plan and what issues need to be addressed.
CATEC and University of Virginia dental students helped instruct the third-graders on good dental hygiene. Then they worked with professional dentists to clean teeth and apply fluoride.
The executive director of the NFL Players Association - who also attended the University of Virginia - spoke Friday to a group of law students about the $10 billion industry that is professional football.
This is not a partisan issue. Both parties spend a king’s ransom and a salesman’s time getting candidates elected and re-elected. Politics as usual has been widely accepted in the name of public service, which is why our political discourse is so banal. According to Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, “To most people, it is not a shock that politics goes on in elected offices.”
Saturday morning, medical experts from the Brain Injury Clinic at the University of Virginia collaborated with ACAC Fitness Center to put on a seminar about diagnosis and treatment of sports concussions.
Wooing Democrats to Pittsburgh isn't all about logistics, said Kyle Kondik, a spokesman for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. But the location can play a factor in the message the party wants to send to members, he said. “Pittsburgh would be an interesting choice for the Democrats ... if Hillary Clinton is the nominee. I think she's going to try to do better in Appalachia than Obama did, and having it in Pittsburgh would be an interesting, kind of symbolic gesture about what Democrats think about the importance of that part of the country.”
Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, said endorsing Holder’s plan would be risky for Warner. He warned: “Why should Warner endorse it? It’s not going to pass. There would be an upside if somehow he could wave a magic wand and get all the rights restored because disproportionately these people are African American and therefore they would almost certainly vote Democratic. The downside is that it would re-enforce the view Republicans are pushing in the state that Mark Warner is no centrist, he’s just another Obama Democrat, quote unquote, tha...
Teresa Sullivan has given or pledged $473,733 to the University of Virginia since she became president in 2010. Among her largest contributions: $283,295 as an unrestricted gift and more than $100,000 for the restoration of the Rotunda.
Like many family members with divided sports allegiances, the Syverud twins – brothers Scott and Kent – have a good-natured rivalry over their favorite teams. Scott, who attended Syracuse University’s medical school, rooted for the Orange for many years, while his brother rooted on his undergraduate alma mater – Syracuse rival Georgetown University. They’ve switched allegiances, but the rivalry’s still there. Scott, who has been a doctor at the University of Virginia Medical Center since the 1990s, has grown fond of the Virginia Cavaliers. Kent’s conve...
“Moving forward in a normal way isn’t going to happen,” said Deirdre Enright, director of investigations for the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia’s law school. “He can’t believe this is a safe world, and no one in their right mind would tell him it is after what he’s been through,” she said.
"Death has become less of a taboo subject," University of Virginia religious studies professor Heather Warren says. "Look how much more people talk about sex openly, with each other and on television."
(Commentary) On the biggest day of what could be their biggest season in years, the University of Virginia Cavaliers were ready. They were ready for the emotion that accompanies senior day during a successful season. They were ready for national television and Syracuse, the No. 4-ranked team in the country. They were ready to become the regular-season champions of the ACC.
A new psychological study showed many Caucasian children believe African American's feel less pain. This belief was present as young as the age of seven and was prevalent by the age of 10. "Our research shows that a potentially very harmful bias in adults emerges during middle childhood, and appears to develop across childhood," the study's lead investigator, Rebecca Dore, a Ph.D. candidate in developmental psychology at the University of Virginia, said in the news release.
(Press release) As the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship approaches, the University of Virginia has already earned one national title this season. The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) and the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced today that Virginia has won the third annual Naismith Student Section of the Year Award.
Since January 2009, Coker has been represented by a team of attorneys with the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, U.Va. School of Law’s Child Advocacy Clinic and JustChildren/Legal Aid of Charlottesville.
A group of architects is trying to unearth the future identity of a piece of land in Albemarle County. Not just any old tract, though. It’s Morven, the roughly 3,000 acres of lush, rolling nature and stately structures intended to connect the University of Virginia to the world.
“When she became governor upon Napolitano’s resignation, I think it’s fair to say she wasn’t ready—unpolished, unaccustomed to taking charge in the ways a chief executive must, and too tied to one faction – the anti-immigration activists,” said University of Virginia political professor Larry J. Sabato. “Like many do, Brewer has grown into the job.”