(Commentary) More will follow the blandishments of the GOP “smart set” and vote out of some misguided sense of protecting the credibility of Barack Obama. One such example appears is that of James Ceaser of the University of Virginia whom Bill Kristol tells us is a leading conservative thinker. (I don’t move in those circles so I just have to take his word for that.) They shouldn’t.
Dawn Staley says she can’t imagine who she would be or what she would be doing without basketball. In five days, basketball will say much the same about Staley. A three-time All-American at the University of Virginia, a three-time Olympic gold medalist and one of the first national superstars of women’s basketball’s modern era, Staley will be presented on Sunday with her sport’s highest individual honor: induction into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
Scientists believe a triple-risk model explains many SIDS cases: A baby has a defect in an area of the brain that controls breathing and arousal; the baby is at an age when those brain areas are still immature; and the baby is exposed to an external stress that compromises his breathing or oxygen levels, or that causes overheating. “To have a SIDS death, you have to have at least one of those [factors], and you have a higher risk if you have two or three of those happening at the same time,” says Fern Hauck, a professor of family medicine at the University of Virginia School of Med...
The potential for American military action in Syria is forcing Virginia senator Tim Kaine to cancel a visit to Charlottesville. Kaine was scheduled to speak Tuesday at University of Virginia's Batten School of Leadership to discuss the War Powers Resolution. Kaine is calling for changes to that resolution to more clearly outline how the president consults Congress before authorizing military action.
Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, said the size of her institution would rank it 783 in the Fortune 1000, but said academic leadership is not CEO-like. A university president has to be engaged with faculty and staff and create an environment of shared governance, she said. Faculty have to be allowed to do their best work.
University of Virginia Jefferson Scholar Shelley Goldsmith was at a concert in D.C. on Saturday. Goldsmith's father says she was at a club with friends when she said she wasn't feeling well and asked them to call 911. She collapsed and CPR was performed. Goldsmith died at Providence Hospital later that night.
Next year, voters across the South will decide several key races that will determine if the area remains staunch GOP turf or begins to swing a little more to the middle. Hundreds of congressional and Statehouse races will play out from Arkansas to Virginia, and they together will paint a picture of how the region continues to change. Political science professors Gibbs Knotts of the College of Charleston and Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, recently came up with five of the biggest storylines heading into the coming year.
Even if something looked limited in scope, the fear of deeper involvement is huge. As University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato sarcastically tweeted, "Syria is in the Middle East. What could go wrong?"
Bethany Nowviskie, director of digital research and scholarship at the University of Virginia Library, served as chair of this year's program committee. As she described it to me, "The program becomes both a showcaseof the best scholarship in our field and an evolving projection of our identity as an international community. Our attendees represent diverse intellectual traditions and linguistic, cultural, and social or academic norms. Add to that the complexity and richness of DH as a community of practice—the field is not merely interdisciplinary; it is interprofessional as wel...
“Democrats’ most vulnerable seats are more vulnerable than the Republicans’ most vulnerable seats,” is the take from Kyle Kondik, Crystal Ball House Editor for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Of the 34 seats in the highly competitive leans and toss-up categories — 19 held by Democrats, 15 held by Republicans — Republicans not only have an edge because they have fewer seats to defend, but also because they did better in their seats in 2012 than Democrats did in theirs.”
Toan Nguyen, a UVA Darden School graduate, coffee shop owner, and believer in the power of small businesses, is the driving force behind a local movement to boost the community’s economy through social entrepreneurism.
Ronald Coase, the British-born US economist who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1991, died on Tuesday in Chicago, the University of Chicago announced. He was 102. … Coase moved from Britain to the United States, where he worked at the University of Buffalo, University of Virginia; and the University of Chicago, from 1964.
James Smith, professor of environmental and civil engineering at the University of Virginia called the new work “promising and exciting” but foresees problems with the filter’s production in countries like India and Africa.
The most direct evidence that the Dove commercial is misleading comes from the work of Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago and Erin Whitchurch of the University of Virginia. In a series of studies, Epley and Whitchurch showed that we see ourselves as better looking than we actually are.
Dustin Cable suspected the online map he built to plot the distribution of the entire U.S. population by race – a color-coded dot for all 308.7 million Americans identified by the 2010 Census – would be interesting, useful, and maybe even important. He didn’t think it would be so beautiful.
Lois Shepherd, a professor of biomedical ethics at the University of Virginia Health System, said at the meeting that it is important for researchers to be transparent about the reasons they are doing a study, what they know right now and what they hope to find out. Researchers should explain that the purpose of the trial is to find out if there's a difference between treatments, Shepherd said.
Spotted filing onto the track for the 1 p.m. bull run: one man in a poncho, another in a bright red suit, one man in boxers patterned with American flags, four guys wearing green “Keep Calm and Chive On” tee shirts, two guys wearing skimpy Speedos and Superman shields, a crew of young men and women sporting University of Virginia lacrosse pinnies, the two female hosts of the television show Fit to be Wild, and countless people with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and chests.
The bars near the University of Virginia were packed on graduation day, seniors in billowing black gowns drinking away their final few hours before entering the real world. It was 7 a.m. … “A lot of students do grow out of it,” said Susan Bruce, director of the U-Va. Center for Alcohol and Substance Education, “but there’s really no way to predict which ones will and which ones won’t.” U-Va. has tracked student drinking rates since the 1960s. The heaviest drinking was back in the 1970s and ’80s, when parents of today’s students would have ...
It is an unquestioned fact, however, that for much of the last forty years, the political parties in the United States have had gendered identities. As the linguist George Lakoff has argued, Republicans have taken on the archetypal role of the strict father, while the Democrats have become the party of the nurturing mother. In 2010, Nicholas Winter, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, went about trying to quantify the difference by analyzing the gendered words Americans used to describe the two parties over three decades in response to the American National Election St...
Two constitutional scholars said Thursday that President Obama's administration is relying on an incorrect and "silly" definition of "war" to justify overseas military operations, although one expert said he expects the administration to use a similar justification to attack Syria. Saikrishna Prakash, professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, said in a teleconference that the administration justified military action against Libya in 2011 by saying that action did not constitute a war.