In Newport News, Hokies and Wahoos are on the same team. Though their mascots may divide them, Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia have opened a joint education center on the Peninsula that state and local officials hope will further workforce development.
First-year international students at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business will share diversions from their native countries at an Aug. 19 event, Games People Play. Students from each country will staff a booth, where they will teach visitors the rules and offer them a chance to try their hand at each game. Hopscotch (from India), Truco (a card game from Spain and Latin America), Corn Hole (the beanbag toss from the U.S.), Ayò (a game from Nigeria that involves seeds or pebbles), and Alkkagi (a Korean board game) are among the pastimes visitors will experience.
For their new paper "Intimate Inequalities: Love and Work in a Post-Industrial Landscape," University of Virginia sociologist Sarah Corse and Harvard sociologist Jennifer Silva interviewed 300 working- and middle-class Americans about their work and relationships. They found that as the American workforce and the American marriage have destabilized over the past half-century, marriage has become an increasingly inaccessible option for working-class Americans.
It’s one of the weirdest findings in economics: Recessions – horrible as they are – lead to longer life expectancy. But that might be changing. A new working paper by the University of Virginia’s Christopher Ruhm finds that the odd relationship between recessions and mortality has disappeared in recent years.
Gigi Davis, a career counselor in the guidance office at Charlottesville High School, agrees, which is why she thinks college visits are so necessary—and the more schools you see, the more you’ll realize how many “great options are out there,” she said. A double-’Hoo, Davis is obviously a fan of the University of Virginia, but she frequently reminds her students that UVA “is not the only game in town. Well, actually it is,” she said with a laugh, and then quickly added that Virginia Tech has a very strong engineering school; JMU’s computer scienc...
“If there’s a shocker in the GOP Senate primaries, (Graham) is currently the top candidate,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, wrote last week. Sabato said the race “leans Graham,” noting the crowded primary field would work for the incumbent, who has a huge fundraising lead, by dividing the Tea Party vote. However, to win re-election, Graham might have to “temper his tongue and very public alliance with McCain,” Sabato added.
As soon as I found out that Sean Doolittle, setup man for the Oakland Athletics, was filling in for Buster Olney on his blog, I immediately signed up for an ESPN Insider account. The Twitter funny man (@whatwouldDoodo) didn’t disappoint. It’s time to give Doolittle a platform of his own. In the process, the former University of Virginia standout, who actually writes better than most of the people who do so on a daily basis, could just raise that low national profile.
Long-haul truck drivers in the United States have adapted to increasing demands for efficiency and speed in getting shipments from one point to another, but in doing so they've had to push their bodies to the limit, sacrificing sleep and a healthy diet, according to a new study. Benjamin Snyder, a graduate sociology student at the University of Virginia, spent three years interviewing long-haul truck drivers and other American workers for his dissertation. His conclusion: The job requires a difficult balancing act.
As senior curator Chen Shen notes, the Royal Ontario Museum may not have masterpiece examples from every place and time, but its Chinese collection is impressively comprehensive. Interested in Tang funerary figurines, specifically of women holding purses? Or looking for rare depictions of four-clawed dragons? Do what Dorothy Wong of the University of Virginia did when researching a book on Chinese steles. Remember the ROM. "It's a treasure house," she says.
Last week, Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Michaud's entry into the race and poor poll numbers for LePage had changed the Maine governor's race from a "toss-up" to "leans Democratic/independent." "The point of our ratings change is to make clear that we believe Mainers are growing weary of the LePage act, and usually the curtain comes down on the show one way or the other in these circumstances," he noted at his website Sabato's "Crystal Ball." "As of today, we suspect that Michaud has the b...
This map is covered in dots. In fact, there are 308,745,538 of the little things — each one representing a single individual living in the US, and its colour indicating ethnicity. Sure, sorta similar maps have existed before, but none this detailed. Created by Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, it’s based on the publicly available 2010 census and colours by ethnicity.
On the first floor of Jordan Hall at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is a 12-by-8 room that, at first glance, looks like a rundown storage space. It is only when you see four incubators attached to six tanks of carbon dioxide that you get the feeling something more intriguing is taking place here. Inside these incubators Dr. Anindya Dutta stores cell cultures that he believes hold the key to a massive advancement in health care. Dutta is currently navigating the biggest obstacle of his career. Five years after he received a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Healt...
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, called Land “a respectable candidate,” but said she will need a tidal wave of Republican turnout for Gov. Rick Snyder’s re-election bid to win the seat Levin has held since 1979.
James Sterling Young, who founded the nation’s only oral history program focused on American presidents at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, has died. He was 85.
“A well-funded, professionally run write-in campaign could have a measureable impact,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “There are so many people who don’t like the major-party nominees, you hear it everywhere,” he added. “Sure, most people will end up voting their party label, but a Bolling option could actually increase the overall turnout – adding independent-minded or alienated voters who just wouldn’t have shown up otherwise.”
As people switch from one device to another throughout their day, advertisers have had a doozy of a time keeping track of consumers to target them with consistent ad campaigns. Today, AOL released its first set of findings from a new cross-channel advertising study in conjunction with University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, finding that nearly a third (31 percent) of sales conversions across the verticals of travel, retail, auto and telecom, came from mobile devices.