People in Albemarle County had the opportunity to observe the civil rights movement and talk to a key participant on Thursday night. The Crozet Library hosted a film exploring the life and accomplishments of civil rights leader Julian Bond. The film, "Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement," covered events leading to the March on Washington, about 50 years ago, to Bond's lectures as a professor at the University of Virginia, about two years ago.
Growing up as an athlete, Virginia junior pole vaulter Sarah DeVita had always been healthy and in great shape, but that changed late in her freshman season.
A well-known sociologist stopped in Charlottesville to discuss how the design of cities influences social life. Richard Sennett spoke on a concept called "The Open City" in Minor Hall at the University of Virginia Thursday afternoon. He stresses the importance of "street life" and public spaces that facilitate interactions among people of diverse backgrounds.
People working for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who owned stock in companies under investigation were more likely to sell shares than other investors in the months before the agency announced it was taking enforcement actions, according to a new academic paper. Emory University accounting professor Shivaram Rajgopal, who plans to present the work today at a University of Virginia accounting seminar, said in a telephone interview that while the analysis doesn’t prove misconduct, it points out a suspicious pattern.
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."