Cash crises, political grudge matches, suicide. None of it stopped David Walentas from forging a 10-digit fortune by creating an entire neighbourhood in New York's underdog borough. And he's about to do it all again.
A group of 11 law professors, both liberal and conservative – including Douglas Laycock of the U.Va. School of Law – have written a letter to Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer (R) explaining that she is being deceived by many of the critics of S.B. 1062, who have described the bill as "gay discrimination."
There's another reason to just get the papers published and done with: avoid the slow drip drip of new revelations over time. That's exactly what Republicans want and what Clinton needs to avoid. "Assuming they dribbled out over time, it would affect Hillary Clinton's narrative for 2016 – not the one she is telling, but the one the press and her opponents would tell," said political scientist Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia. "The goal is simple: Regenerate Clinton fatigue, which was a major malady for a while in the 1990s and even as Bill Clinton lef...
The Thriving Cities Project was born at the University of Virginia. It makes its first public appearance in Milwaukee Wednesday as a focus group explores “what it means and what it takes to thrive.” Portland, Oregon; Richmond Virginia; and Orlando, Florida are also part of the project, created by the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.
The audit was conducted from October to January by Carolyn Callahan, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, and education consultant Karen Lelli Austin. The district paid about $46,000 for the consultants’ services. “This is not an instant-fix situation,” Callahan said. “This is really going to require some major overhauls that are going to take some time.”
Once a reliable wedge issue for Republicans seeking to divide Democrats, gay rights are now causing serious strain within the GOP. “Here’s another indication of how the GOP’s business wing and the party’s social conservative faction are at loggerheads,” Larry Sabato, director of the Centre for Politics at the University of Virginia, told Bloomberg. “Business supports mainstream social issue positions and wants what’s good for business - the veto of the bill - while social conservatives insist their agenda trumps all other concerns.”
Still, some students believe there is value in college entrance exams. Blake Blaze, a senior at the University of Virginia, 22, says that the SAT is a good predictor of college success because it is an objective way to compare and rank applicants. “It is in some ways an intelligence test and also an example of how much learning a student has already done, which is a combination of ability and work ethic,” Blaze says. “The problem is that GPA is not at all standardized across schools so colleges can’t use GPA as effectively in ranking applicants. From a college’s s...
Larry Sabato, a prominent political analyst at the University of Virginia who had placed Walker atop his early list of Republican presidential hopefuls, said he didn't think the emails and documents hurt Walker. "I would put a big red asterisk to anything I say," Sabato said, noting the huge number of documents could be hiding something damaging. "It could be Bridgegate. But I don't think it's like Bridgegate. I just don't think it is nearly as serious."
When Dr. Susan Bohannon Hardwicke became interested in a project, she poured all her devotion into it and wanted the freedom to use all her talents. After graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia, earning a doctorate in industrial psychology at George Washington University and working on multimillion-dollar project bids for California defense contractor Logicon Inc., the Richmond native was “very frustrated with the male hierarchy, and that was part of the reason she left Logicon” in 1992. She developed her own consulting business, TQI, which led ...
Two Richmond area entrepreneurs launched their online payment technology startup Wednesday in front of an audience of thousands in San Francisco. Thomas Eide and Tommy Nicholas introduced Knox Payments during a live presentation at the Launch Festival attended by nearly 10,000 entrepreneurs, investors and others. The festival is a gathering of technology entrepreneurs where 50 startups officially launch their products or services over three days. The company won the festival's "best enterprise" award, which carries a $25,000 prize.
As the frontman for Pavement, one of the ’90s’ most cherished and influential indie-rock bands, Stephen Malkmus threw together brainy phraseology and detached irony as if each verse were its own Jackson Pollock painting. With gnarled guitar riffs and ramshackle musicianship, he helped birth a unique brand of artsy slacker-rock.
(Podcast) Don Brown, director of U.Va.’s Data Science Institute, joins Les Sinclair to talk about a new degree program at UVA.
Even in the digital age, kids still stare in wonder at clowns, high-wire walkers still defy gravity in ways that inspire awe and guys on motorcycles still find ways to spin circles around each other inside a cage. “Nothing beats a live show,” said LaVahn Hoh, a theater professor at the University of Virginia who for the past 32 years has taught what’s believed to be the only circus history class at an American college. “I look at stuff on YouTube for my class, but a live show … it still brings thrills and chills.”
Christopher Ali, a professor of media studies, explores the proposed merger between Comcast and Time-Warner, the role of the FCC, and the implications for net neutrality. He talks as well about the Jeffersonian principle of a free press and its vital role in a democracy – and the fate of that idea in today’s high-tech world.
As many as three in ten adults have trouble sleeping. They spend more than $32 billion a year on medications, books and recordings, hoping to get a good night’s rest. Now, a team at the University of Virginia is offering another solution online.
Other attorneys and scholars want states to find a middle ground. Douglas Laycock, the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School, said from Charlottesville, Va.: "On the more specific issue of objections to participating in or facilitating same-sex marriages, I think the small entrepreneur who's providing services, like the wedding photographer in New Mexico — they ought to be protected."
Mental illness is a growing problem across college campuses and the University of Virginia isn't immune. The number of students reporting mental health issues has gone up dramatically over the past decade.
(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) While the competition is formidable, one case today best illustrates why the judiciary is ill suited to crafting education policy. Flores v. Huppenthal (formerly Horne v. Flores and Flores v. Arizona) has been in federal court since 1992 and could very well stagger on for several more years.
Dermatology has long been concerned with obtaining and storing patient images and information to track patient progress over the years. This, according to Karen Rheuban, MD, medical director of the University of Virginia’s office of telemedicine, makes dermatology the perfect partner to demonstrate the utility of telemedicine expansion. … University of Virginia dermatologist Kenneth Greer, MD, first began using telemedicine to offer consults to prisoners in the Virginia state penal system. The difficulty and logistics of getting a specialist to see high-risk prisoners led to a pio...
Four University of Virginia students are interning for President Teresa Sullivan this semester, but one of them really stands out. That's because Akil Mitchell is six-foot-eight and the top rebounder for the ACC-leading Cavaliers.