Leigh Middleditch, co-founder of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, launched the Virginia 2021 effort to seek nonpartisan redistricting, which means boundaries would no longer be drawn by lawmakers who pick their voters.
"Districts should be drawn with citizens' interests in mind, encouraging healthy debate and public participation in the process," said Leigh Middleditch, the organizer of a new nonprofit group, Virginians for Fair Redistricting. Middleditch is a co-founder of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.
We've known for decades that being married often leads to better health, but now we know more about why. A study presented in Austin Friday revealed key facts about how our brains react to stress after more than 100 couples were subjected to the threat of electric shocks. Researchers from the University of Virginia experimented on 27 married couples and 27 co-habiting couples.
Most athletes can get the recommended amount of protein through diet alone, without the use of supplements. Protein powders and protein supplements are great for convenience, but are not necessary, even for elite athletic performance. For example, sports dietitian Kelly Rossi works with athletes at the University of Virginia and only relies on protein powders when athletes need immediate protein right after a workout and don’t have time for a meal.
(Commentary) Tony Bennett was relieved and honest. “We were very fortunate,” the University of Virginia men’s basketball coach said. “I feel like we stole one.”
(Commentary) Over at Inside Higher Ed, UCLA’s Alexander Astin has an important, but flawed piece on college accreditation and institutional autonomy. He argues that American higher education has remained relatively free of government interference, because our private accreditation system assures quality without centralized government standards. Astin’s first mistake is overstating the autonomy and diversity of accreditation agencies. We don’t really have a “private” accreditation system, as he claims. … Furthermore, while universities may not often deal wit...
Ingrid Yung is a made-up character, but her story seems to resonate with the real-life Asian American lawyers gathered for a book reading in the Washington offices of the corporate law firm Wiley Rein. Ingrid, a minority and a woman, is a “two-fer” in the parlance of her fictional firm, where her impatience with its clumsy approach to diversity threatens her promising career. “We didn’t need [expletive] Dumpling Day in the firm cafeteria,” Ingrid fumes in the new novel “The Partner Track,” published by St. Martin’s Press. “We needed decoder...
(Transcript and video) The report includes an interview with Glen Bull of U.Va.’s Curry School of Education.
The University of Virginia could begin offering master’s degrees in data science and European studies if the Board of Visitors approves the programs at this week’s meetings. The board also expects to hear from a Harvard University higher education expert on governance, which has been scrutinized at UVa since the attempted ouster of President Teresa A. Sullivan in 2012. The board is scheduled to meet Wednesday through Friday.
'Trustworthiness was never the Clintons' long suit,' University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato told MailOnline.
A local non-profit is putting thousands of books in the hands of sick children at the University of Virginia. They're pledging to donate 60,000 books to the new children's hospital.
A pair of proposed amendments to Virginia’s two-year budget target fees paid by public college and university students to subsidize school athletics programs.
Every aspiring entrepreneur must check out the website Effectuation.org for useful success tips compiled and researched by Prof Saras Saraswathy of the University of Virginia's Darden School! She describes effectuation as a methodology for entrepreneurs to interact with their ecosystem and co-create ideas, products, services, firms and markets. It is a scientific approach that cuts across industry sectors and geographies, and is a logic for framing offerings and customers.
Dierdre Enright, director of U.Va. Innocence Project Clinic, believed clearing Coker’s name — overturning the conviction and getting his name removed from the sex offender list — would be fairly easy. But a procedural obstacle forced a legal battle that went all the way up to the state Supreme Court. “Getting him released was the easy part,” Enright said. “The tough thing was getting him vindicated.”
Political prognosticators, including the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato, rate Comstock the favorite in the race because of her fund-raising prowess and high-end political connections.
(By Kevin Hart, Edwin B. Kyle Chair of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia) When Christians say "Our Father," as we do when reciting the Lord's Prayer, what do we mean by "Our"? Is it understood that we are speaking for our congregation, our denomination, or for all Christians? Or for all Christians and Jews, since, after all, when Jesus taught the prayer he was a Jew speaking to Jews? Or for all believers in the Abrahamic faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - for whom God is the one Father? Or for all people, rega...
Deirdre Enright, the U.Va. Innocence Project’s director of investigations, said she wasn’t surprised to hear Coker and Dulaney’s current outlook on the ruling. “They’ve watched for seven years while people hid behind procedural hurdles so as not to address the merits of the recantation,” she said. “I think it’s going to take a long time before they fully believe it is real.”
He helped create a library full of music and an orchestra to play it, but Ernest Campbell “Boots” Mead was best known for his effort at making students feel like an integral part of their university. Mr. Mead, 95, served as professor of music and former head of the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia and led an effort to establish the UVa Music Library. He died Feb. 13.
It’s been over a year since the publication of a new book about Thomas Jefferson and his slaves. It won rave reviews from many parts of the country, but in Charlottesville the author is still attacked in certain circles.
Hobby Lobby’s argument won a favorable ruling from the 10th Circuit, and other leading legal experts on religious freedom believe that the Greens have a strong case. “Congress explicitly understood RFRA to protect for-profit corporations and their owners,” stated Douglas Laycock, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, in a brief filed on behalf of the Christian Legal Society.