The president might yet turn the tide. But, if he does not do so, experts say the damage would be far reaching. “If he loses this vote, not only is he flummoxed in domestic policy but he’s frustrated in what he wants to do on foreign policy,” said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “It would be kind of shocking to the political system.”
The University of Virginia will host a panel discussion this week on same-sex marriage. The discussion is set for 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Newcomb Hall Ballroom. It's free and open to the public.
Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia expert on school safety, summed up the approach: “How can we intervene before the gunman is in the school parking lot?”
Some hackathons have themes - nonprofit, health-related, mobile-only - but PennApps is "open-ended, so a lot of fun, quirky things come out of it," said Jasdev Singh, 21, a senior at the University of Virginia.
Statistics and interdisciplinary study are the focus of three new academic programs at the University of Virginia. Two of them – both undergraduate – begin this year, while a third – a new Ph.D. program in the School of Architecture – will begin in 2014.
(Editorial) Four years ago, a coalition of Virginia business, civic and political leaders launched a campaign to boost state funding for higher education and reverse a trend of recession-induced budget cuts that had triggered dramatic tuition increases.
The first name that comes to mind is Kalsoom Lakhani, the founder and CEO of Invest2Innovate – a social venture that provides support to seed-stage social enterprises and provides them access to capital in new markets. She received her bachelor’s from University of Virginia, and master’s degree from George Washington University.
The police lineup is a staple of film and television crime stories, but police departments don’t use that technique anymore. Instead, they ask people who’ve witnessed crimes to study photographs, and UVA Law Professor Brandon Garrett says that process can play with people’s memories.
Robert G. Goldsmith said his daughter’s friends told him that she had taken the drug. He said family members discussed whether to make the information public and concluded that they had to warn others. “Shelley deserves a legacy of being someone who cared for people, someone who achieved, someone who contributed, and not a druggie who died,” he said. “That’s not who she was. But if her death can open someone’s eyes, then we need to talk about it.”
In a “sneak preview” of its 2014 Best Colleges rankings, to be announced Tuesday, the magazine lists U.Va. among the top 10 public colleges and universities.
Psychology professor James Coan is scheduled to be the guest Monday at 3 p.m. on the station’s “Virginia Insight” program. He will discuss his research into friendship and empathy.
In the long and fruitful afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe, the city of Boston is closer to celebrating the author as one of its own. The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston is hoping to install a bronze statue of Poe near Boylston and Charles Streets.
In 2010, an important book about education and racial politics appeared. James Ryan’s “Five Miles Away, a World Apart: One City, Two Schools and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America” described conditions at Douglas Freeman and Thomas Jefferson high schools. The book belongs on the required reading lists of everyone who says they are concerned about the state of education. The opening of the new academic year found Ryan not in Charlottesville but in Cambridge where he assumed his duties as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Virginia will miss h...
The political winds appears to be at the back of Murphy, who, earlier this year, co-sponsored a pending bill with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., seeking to block the U.S. from arming Syrian rebels. "I'm sure Connecticut is just like every other place. You can't find many people in favor of this," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
"Boys who grow up in fatherless homes are less likely to get the supervision and modeling they need to steer clear of trouble with the law," Brad Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, told me.
"He's been calling, along with John McCain, for military action in Syria for a long time now, and as the saying goes, the dog has caught the car. What do you do with the car?" said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Virginia’s public middle schools are receiving results of the first statewide school climate survey, developed by a research team at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. “Overall, the results are positive,” lead investigator Dewey Cornell said.
John Casteen, president emeritus of the University of Virginia, said some public colleges suffer from board members with no higher-ed experience but a history of political donations.
Thirteen recent University of Virginia graduates have gone from walking the lawn to walking the halls of state high schools. The grads are now guiding high school students through the college application process. Thinking about college can be overwhelming - especially in families where no one has applied before - but UVA's College Advising Corps helps high school students with the nonacademic aspects of preparing for college.