Jack Hightower, a five-term Democratic congressman from Texas who later served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, died Aug. 3 at his home in Austin. He was 86. He received a master of laws degree from the University of Virginia in 1992.
Gov. John Kasich has skated out to a clear edge in his upcoming re-election battle, according to a team of well-established political prognosticators. The University of Virginia's latest Crystal Ball report, released Thursday by Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik, reclassifies the Ohio governor's race as "Likely Republican."
Larry Sabato, a nationally recognized political analyst from University of Virginia, adds insight while talking about Illinois in an article written by Dave McKinney for Illinois Issues: “The central and most vital point about corruption is it flourishes where people permit it to, in part because they expect it in the normal course of events. A classic case comes from your state with Otto Kerner being caught solely because the people extending the bribes to him actually deducted it from their taxes as a necessary and ordinary business expense,” he says. “Their argument was, &...
People across central Virginia looking for an ice cream treat on Thursday helped the Children's Miracle Network at the same time. It was the eighth annual Dairy Queen Miracle Treat Day; proceeds from every Blizzard sold at participating Dairy Queen locations were to be donated to University of Virginia Children's Hospital.
(Editorial) Sandra Canada, a commissioner with the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, did not say anything extraordinary when she acknowledged that agents fouled up horrifically in the case of University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly. That’s been clear to everyone for weeks now. But it is extraordinary that someone so high up took at least a modest step toward admitting the tremendous damage the story has done.
Germanna Community College paid tribute Thursday night to a woman GCC President David A. Sam called “a force of nature.” The college held a Celebration of Life in remembrance of Dean of Nursing and Health Care Technologies Mary Blessing Gilkey. Gilkey passed away in June after a long battle with an autoimmune disorder. … Gilkey worked with a member of the GCC Educational Foundation Board, the U.Va. Medical Center Operating Board and Culpeper Regional Health System Board to forge a new agreement between the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Comm...
The University of Virginia has teamed up with Virginia Tech to open a continuing education center in Newport News. The 8,000-square-foot Eastern Regional Center, which opens Monday, will offer classes under UVa’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Author and constitutional scholar Henry Abraham will give a talk at the University of Virginia about “great Supreme Court justices.” Abraham, professor emeritus at UVa, is the keynote speaker at the United Jewish Fund for Charlottesville’s annual breakfast Aug. 18. The breakfast begins at 10 a.m. and will take place at the Brody Jewish Center, on University Circle near Lambeth Field.
The article (somewhat critically) profiles William Holmes McGuffey, a former U.Va. professor whose famed “McGuffey Readers” were a staple of childhood education in the late 19th and early- to mid-10th centuries.
Dr. Christopher Holstege, the director of medical toxicology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, thinks that the science behind the kit is neat, but doesn't see it succeeding commercially. "Beverages already say how many milligrams of caffeine are in them," he said. "It's an interesting concept, but I'm not sure where it would have use to the public."
Researchers at the University of Virginia think they may have found a way to alleviate pain for people who have diabetic neuropathy.
A University of Virginia education professor is in charge of training threat assessment teams now required in local school systems. Dewey Cornell led a workshop on threat assessment this week as part of a school and campus safety training conference in Hampton. Four other workshops are planned this month in Dublin, Weyer's Cave, Fredericksburg and Petersburg.
Get ready for "Night at the Museum," which is set for 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.
At the University of Virginia, John Stankovic is using microphones, modified with accelerometers, to detect the pulse in the arteries of the ear. Using this information, Stankovic hopes to collect enough information to gauge the wearer's physical state, including heart rate and activity level.
(Audio) W. Bernard Carlson, professor and chair of the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia, discusses his book, “Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age” (2013, Princeton University Press).
A top nonpartisan political handicapper said Thursday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is well-positioned to defeat challenges on his left and his right on his way to winning re-election. In the latest edition of the Crystal Ball, the political gurus at the University of Virginia 's Center for Politics say that it is “hard to see” Mr. McConnell losing the May 2014 primary against Louisville businessman Matt Bevin and say the veteran Republican lawmaker should go on to win a sixth term in the fall election against Democratic Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lunderga...
Blue Ridge Community College will be the site Aug. 20 for one of four Virginia workshops designed to train threat assessment teams in Virginia public schools. Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist and professor of education in the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, will lead the workshops. Cornell is also a member of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's task force for school and campus safety.
In “Open the Gates to the Ivy League: A Plan B for Getting into the Top Colleges” (Prentice Hall Press, 2013), author C.W. Henderson exposes "back gateways" for getting into 25 prestigious schools, seven of which are hallowed-hall Ivies. Henderson also cites back entrances to elite universities through transfer programs with less-elite universities, such as transferring to the University of Virginia from any one of the state's community colleges.
(Commentary) In their new book “Gender and Parenthood,” Brad Wilcox and Kathleen Kovner Kline squarely face a current cultural trend that portrays the father as an optional family figure and heralds the concept of gender-neutral parenting. Gleaning the results from the latest research, the authors document the unique role that fathers play in the lives of their children and the changes in men associated with fatherhood that equip them to fulfill that role.
(Commentary by Barın Kayaoglu, a visiting fellow in international security studies at Yale University who is finishing his doctorate in history at the University of Virginia) The Aug. 5 verdicts in the Ergenekon case proved once again that Turkish society still has a long way to go before it develops a culture of democracy and rule of law.