Sometime Sunday evening in frosty MetLife Stadium, David Wyant will point to the sky, a symbolic final thank-you to those responsible for his career as an NFL referee. A lifelong Albemarle County resident and former member of the Board of Supervisors, Wyant never has forgotten those old refs who helped him along the way. After 23 years in the NFL, Wyant is calling his first Super Bowl, and probably his last.
Beshear's name has already come up as a potential running mate in the 2016 election conversations among some political watchers around the country, said University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato. "I've heard his name mentioned," said Sabato. "I certainly wouldn't rule it out."
The Virginia Women's Chorus at the University of Virginia is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
After a nearly 20-year presence on The Corner, the Student Book Store recently closed its doors, citing waning sales driven by online competition. The store, an independent shop not affiliated with the University of Virginia's bookstore operations, was slated to close this past Friday, manager John Kelm confirmed.
One of the world’s deadliest diseases until being nearly eliminated by antibiotics and better hygiene, tuberculosis is making a comeback in certain corners, especially in parts of Russia. Two University of Virginia physicians are working with Russian researchers seeking to curb the outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, which has more than twice the mortality rate of the disease’s normal — or drug-susceptible — strain.
Sunday, people of all ages and athletic abilities got active in Charlottesville to celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day. The University of Virginia honored a former women's volleyball player and hosted a new activity as part of the day's festivities.
Their focus instead is on arguing that the attorney general has a duty to defend the ban because it’s a law passed by the voters, said Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “In Virginia it’s the same thing that’s happened nationally: Public opinion has shifted dramatically in favor of same-sex marriage,” Sabato said. “It was an alien concept for most people. Then the more they thought about it and the more they discussed it with gay friends and gay family members, the more they were inclined to back it.”
Exactly what happened as Co. B passed Foster & Moore's Store about 4 p.m. has been lost in a thicket of varying accounts, writes Ervin L. Jordan Jr., now a University of Virginia research librarian, who explored the shooting and trial in his 1979 master's thesis.
“Importantly, microglia, unlike other cells in the brain, can be replaced in the adult brain,” added Jonathan Kipnis from the University of Virginia in an e-mail. “We need to gain a better understanding of these cells to be able to better manipulate them in adulthood.”
Water resource management involves numerous and often distinct areas, such as hydrology, engineering, economics, public policy, chemistry, ecology and agriculture, among others. It is a multi-disciplinary field, each with its own set of challenges and, in turn, its own set of computer models. Jonathan Goodall's mission is "to take all these models from different groups and somehow glue them together," he says. The National Science Foundation-funded scientist and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Virginia, is working to design an integ...
A University of Virginia graduate's private foundation is giving $10 million to the school to support its new Data Science Institute.
As an alternative, paramedics can use their smartphones in the field to snap a picture of the tracing and send it to a doctor at the hospital via email. But as anyone who has ever tried to email a picture from their phone knows, it's far from foolproof. Large, high-quality images -- the kind doctors need to see -- can take several minutes to send and receive. To address the issue, Dr. David Burt, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, challenged a class of systems engineering students to develop an app that could shrink images to make them faster to sen...
Although gender roles have changed in the last few decades, with men shouldering more responsibility for raising children and women sharing more of the financial burden, traditional attitudes on parenting still hold sway for many voters, said W. Bradford Wilcox, associate professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “On the one hand, people are embracing more flexible views of gender; they’re much more open to flexible working and family arrangements,” Mr. Wilcox said. “But at the same time, there is a more residual...
(Audio) Interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan, chair and professor in the Department of Media Studies. Vaidhyanathan explores the prescient themes of his book, the truth about the American Surveillance State, media and democracy, and speaks candidly about the death of net neutrality and what that could mean for Americans. (Note: Video also here.)
A recent national survey by The Washington Post and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center points to some surprising findings. In many cases, Hispanic residents’ faith in the American Dream exceeds that of whites and African Americans — an optimism that contrasts sharply with the current economic status of Hispanics.
The story details three generations of Wilsons, including the late Harrison B. “Harry B.” Wilson, a U.Va. grad and father of Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.
“Although individual skirmishes will provide plenty of drama, the end result – a Republican hold in the House – is almost a certainty,” write University of Virginia political scientists Larry Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley in their latest Center for Politics “Crystal Ball” forecast.
(By Saras Sarasvathy, Isidore Horween Research Associate Professor at the Darden School of Business) Have you ever thought about changing the world? Most of us have at one time or another. Maybe you even came up with a game plan for it. But did you act on your idea? If you did, what happened? If you didn't, what prevented you?
An exclusive U.S. News analysis shows how well colleges and universities are succeeding at graduating higher-income students compared with the graduation rate of the overall student body. (U.Va. is listed in the “Top Performers” category.)