Ronald H. Coase, whose insights about why companies work and when government regulation is unnecessary earned him a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1991, died on Monday in Chicago. He was 102. Coase was on the U.Va. faculty in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
(Audio) Interview with U.Va. law professor Brandon Garrett, the author of a new study that reveals an alarming majority of police agencies in Virginia still refuse to adopt best practices in identifying suspects.
Following a study that found most law enforcement agencies in the commonwealth continue to use outdated eyewitness identification procedures two years after a state panel recommended a model policy, several Southwest Virginia departments say they’re already in compliance with the recommendations or plan to update their policies soon. Overall, one-fifth of the 201 agencies that responded to the survey by University of Virginia professor Brandon Garrett didn’t have written policies, and only nine of the 144 agencies that provided him with written policies have implemented the best pr...
Something surprising is happening to rivers in the eastern part of the United States. Scientists from the Universities of Virginia and Maryland say human activities are changing the basic chemistry of the water. (Includes audio)
Miller Center scholar Sidney Milkis teaches a class about President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal domestic economic programs enacted between 1933 and 1936. (Program will be repeated Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. and midnight.)
Larry Sabato, a political scientist and the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the lack of headline-grabbing endorsements for Cuccinelli could open up an opportunity for the Republican’s camp. When asked how Cuccinelli should respond to the slew of Republicans endorsing the Democratic candidate, Sabato said: “I don’t know, perhaps go pure populist, say ‘the establishment in both parties is against me because I’m going to keep them all honest and I care about the little people, not the big boys.’ To some degree, that fits...
There is no easy way to fight breast cancer but doctors at the University of Virginia Cancer Center say they now have a way to treat people in a single day for what once meant weeks and weeks of appointments and discomfort.
Both campaigns have already spent millions of dollars on advertising. But Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, says political action committees from outside the state will spend millions more. "The commercial TV stations are already making plans to ask their non-political advertisers to wait until after Election Day," says Sabato.
Expect more waverers to be given the Oval Office treatment in the days ahead, says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "Every moderate Republican who is smart enough to let it be known publicly that he or she is wavering will dangle that in front of the White House."
CHART OF THE DAY: CURRENT SCHOOL DEMOGRAPHICS CAN PREDICT BROADER POPULATION TRENDS – The census data is consistent with a forecast from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, which projects that by 2040, Hispanics will comprise a majority of the populations of New Mexico (62 percent), California (56 percent), and Texas (55 percent).
A total of 13 recent University of Virginia graduates have moved from walking the Lawn to walking the halls of high schools as members of the Virginia College Advising Corps. Fiona Charles, 23, of Castries, St. Lucia, and Virginia Beach, who graduated from the College of Arts & Sciences as a dual major in African-American studies and sociology, will be an adviser at Fluvanna County High School.
Canada leads other nations in producing laws that become subject to “legal transplantation.” According to University of Virginia law professor Frederick Schauer, “Canadian ideas and Canadian constitutionalists have been particularly influential, especially as compared with the United States. One reason for this is that Canada, unlike the United States, is seen as reflecting an emerging international consensus rather than existing as an outlier.”
In a piece entitled “The Downside of Cohabitating Before Marriage,” psychologist Meg Jay of the University of Virginia describes what is known as the “cohabitation effect”: “Couples who cohabit before marriage ... tend to be less satisfied with their marriages – and more likely to divorce – than couples who do not.”
James Ceaser, professor of politics at the University of Virginia (who the Weekly Standard's William Kristol calls one of "American conservatism's leading thinkers"), wrote a post for First Things on Monday that forcefully calls for Republican lawmakers to support for air strikes, no matter their opinions of the Obama White House.
For the past five decades, Ronald Coase's ideas have brought accolades to the University of Chicago, acclaim that, ironically, could have gone to UVA, where Coase was teaching when he published his most famous treatise – except that UVA let him leave due to what appears to have been a misunderstanding.
A nightclub in the District issued a statement expressing sadness about the death of a 19-year-old University of Virginia student who collapsed at the venue over the long weekend.
While 68 percent of four-year public college presidents would pick new board members if they could, the exact opposite was true for four-year private college presidents. Sixty-seven percent of private college presidents said they would not select different board members, even if given the choice. John Casteen, president emeritus of the University of Virginia, said the survey’s findings are “consistent with what I would describe as the consensus in the business.”
Metropolitan police in Washington, D.C., are investigating a University of Virginia student's death in the city over the weekend, authorities said Tuesday.
Researchers at the University of Virginia say cohabiting mothers face a greater financial risk than single mothers.
An inmate exonerated by DNA waits, on average, two years before being released from prison, according to Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia and the author of “Convicting the Innocent.” That figure, horrifying as it is, actually represents progress – "in the 1990s people didn't understand DNA the way they do today," he says.