"I am beginning to think that Democrats may be able to actually gain a few seats in 2014. It would be unprecedented for them to retake control of the House," said Geoff Skelley, political analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
College students hand in millions of papers each year, and most end up in the trash, but a University of Virginia undergraduate was surprised and honored when her 26-page paper was given to hundreds of experts on counter-terrorism.
They've got rhythm. They've got Gershwin. The cast of "Crazy for You" has caught the get-happy musical bug, and director Robert Chapel couldn't ask for anything more.
(Video) High west Distillery Proprietor David Perkins and Adviser Investments Co-Founder and CEO Dan Wiener discuss the heritage and history of High West Distillery. They speak with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock."
(Commentary) Republicans would be reluctant to give McAuliffe any significant victories. They did so with a previous Democratic governor, Mark Warner, and later regretted it when Warner – now a senator – became enormously popular. “Why would they create another monster, from their point of view?” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.
The education research of recent years has pointed overwhelmingly to the importance of teachers. Perhaps more than anything else – quality of principal, size of school, size of class – the strength or weakness of classroom teachers influences how much students learn and even how they fare later in life. The great unknown is how to improve teacher quality, be it by attracting more good teachers, weeding out more bad teachers or helping teachers become better at their craft. A new study, released on Thursday, offers powerful if still tentative evidence that teacher-evaluation program...
Rewards and punishments embedded in the District’s controversial teacher evaluation program have shaped the school system’s workforce, affecting both retention and performance, according to a study scheduled for release Thursday. Written by James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia and Thomas Dee of Stanford University, the study suggests that incentives such as those pioneered in the District “can substantially improve the measured performance of the teaching workforce.”
Five businesses that overcame adversity to grow and create jobs have been named winners of the 2013 Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards. The winning companies range from a farmer’s cooperative to government contractors that changed course in the face of federal budget cutbacks. The awards were presented on Tuesday at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Darden’s Institute for Business in Society sponsors the annual competition, which began in 2010.
What really defines a great college in 2013 is how well it prepares you for life after commencement. With that in mind, The Daily Beast crunched the data for nearly 2,000 colleges and universities across the country, factoring in everything that students actually care about – from affordability to future earnings to diversity to activities – to come up with a list of the very best schools in terms of real value. Our list takes into account nine factors, with future earnings, affordability and graduation rate weighted most heavily. The other criteria include academics, diversity, at...
(Audio) The University of Virginia has just expanded its presence in China, establishing its first overseas office in Shanghai.
“Pusht-e har taareekee, roshanee ast. After every darkness is light.” To US Navy Capt. Edward Zellem, proverbs, specifically Dari proverbs, are one of those lights. “If Afghanistan is going to have any future it has to improve its literacy and education,” says Captain Zellem, author of the book “Zarbul Masalha: 151 Dari Proverbs.” After more than 30 years of war more than 70 percent of the Afghan population can’t read. Zellem’s new book of proverbs is one step toward greater literacy for many Afghans.
(By Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia) Kennedy’s final days paint a picture of a man who craved excitement. Perhaps because two of his siblings, Joe and Kathleen, had died young and the president himself had repeatedly faced death — as a youth, in World War II, and after a back operation in the 1950s — JFK seemed unusually conscious that his time on earth was fleeting.
The app which works alongside the Septimu earbuds is called Musical Heart, and was developed by researchers at the University of Virginia Center for Wireless Health. This feature uses biorhythms to pick up on your current mood and then play a song best suited to remedy the situation.
Sara E. Neher, assistant dean for MBA admissions at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, told Bloomberg Businessweek that this sense of purpose is one of the benefits of being an older student. With post-graduation career goals comes focus.
A joint police firearms range in Albemarle County is still in the planning phase. The range would be used by Albemarle, Charlottesville and University of Virginia police as a training facility.
Experts I spoke to who wanted young women to get this information said they were aware of how loaded it has become to give warnings to women about their behavior. "I'm always feeling defensive that my main advice is: 'Protect yourself. Don't make yourself vulnerable to the point of losing your cognitive faculties,' " says Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, who has written on rape and teaches feminist jurisprudence. She adds that by not telling them the truth — that they are responsible for keeping their wits about them &mdash...
“It’s a symbolic victory, but also a Pyrrhic victory,” says political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. “Obama won and the Republicans lost. It’s obvious. At the same time, what did he win? A brief extension, and we’re going to be having the same fight over and over and over again. I call him the ‘Groundhog Day’ president,” Mr. Sabato says. “It’s Sonny and Cher at 6 a.m., every day.”
(Audio) On the Oct. 13 edition of the “Wake Up Call,” host Rick Moore talks with Carolyn L. Engelhard, an assistant professor, health policy analyst and the director of the Health Policy Program for the University of Virginia Health System, about the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
In 2012, Tudor Investments fonder Paul Jones and his wife Sonia donated $12 million to establish the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia. The exploration of contemplative and yogic practices is close to both of their hearts. "We both started practicing Ashtunga Yoga in 2000 and it changed our lives," the couple said when they announced the gift. "Our hope is that every person that goes into the Contemplative Sciences Center can have the same great experience that my wife and I and our family and all our friends have had."
State police have concluded a review of a University of Virginia student’s arrest by Alcoholic Beverage Control agents who mistook a crate of water for a case of beer, the agency’s top official said Wednesday. But that review won’t be made public until ABC completes its own internal review of the more than six-month-old case, board Chairman J. Neal Insley said. It was unclear precisely when that might happen, or how much the agency might disclose about either its findings or those of state police.