As Larry Sabato and his University of Virginia co-authors summed up "the presidency's political price" for Barack Obama, Democrats lost 63 House seats, six Senators, 8 governorships and 10 state legislatures.
President Bush’s “preventive war” strategy in the Middle East not only “comported with what most Americans believed to be desirable at the time” but followed a bipartisan American tradition in such actions, historian Melvyn Leffler writes in the current “Foreign Affairs” magazine.
Time started the week with some hiring news. Chris Wilson will be Time’s interactive graphics designer. The former Cavalier Daily editor, who was last at Yahoo News, where he was director of news interactives, is a former senior editor at Slate.
BizEd recently spoke to three professors who have delivered MOOCs through the Coursera platform. … Edward Hess is a professor of business administration and executive-in-residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He has taught two rounds of a MOOC called "Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses," based on his book by the same name.
Researcher Rebecca J. Scharf of the University of Virginia and her colleagues found that parents of 4-year-olds who don't get enough sleep are more likely to report that those children are overactive, angry, aggressive, and impulsive, have tantrums, and exhibit annoying behavior than parents of kids with better sleep habits.
(By John Edwin Mason, associate professor of history) Until recently, histories of photography would have ignored Louis H. Draper – not because of the quality of his photographs, but because of the color of his skin.
An exhibition set to open this month at the University of Virginia will examine the family history of Lloyd Patterson, an African-American who emigrated to the Soviet Union in the 1930s and whose son became a child film star and a well-known Soviet poet. Titled “In the Shadow of Stalin: the Patterson Family in Painting and Film,” the exhibition “will examine the Patterson family’s history in order to engage larger issues,” according to the university’s Fralin Museum of Art in Charlottesville, Virginia, which is hosting the exhibit from Aug. 23 to Dec. 22.
"What you're seeing is primarily a gas bubble created by the propellent gas from the bullet," said Dr. Louis Bloomfield of the University of Virginia. "The bubble essentially overexpands because of the water's outward momentum. Once that outward momentum dissipates into the pool, the no-longer-hot, over-expanded propellent gas can't fill the void and so atmospheric pressure crushes the bubble to a much smaller size."
The University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville has embedded a validated nutrition-screening tool into its admission process. All patients are screened and the system will alert a dietician if the patient scores as “at risk.”
At the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, MBA students can participate in a one-day seminar called the Corporate Athlete offered by the school in conjunction with a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, the Human Performance Institute.
Richard Kent, a Ph.D in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and deputy director for the Center for Applied Biomechanics at the University of Virginia, was charged by the NFL to independently evaluate pads for potential use in games.
It’s hard to imagine that an institution as storied as the University of Virginia would have any more stories to tell. But, according to preservationists at Mr. Jefferson’s university, a recent discovery has reaffirmed that the 194-year-old institution can still teach -- and surprise -- those who walk its hallowed Grounds.
Let me tell you about the most famous Augustan that you’ve probably never heard of. James Hamilton Lewis (1863-1939) was a lawyer, a soldier and one of the few men in history to represent different states in Congress.
“Just re-checked my VA Constitution. Requirements for GOV do NOT include being controversial or seedy,” Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, tweeted Friday.
State Alcoholic Beverage Control agents erred in their arrest of a University of Virginia student wrongly suspected of buying beer while underage, an agency commissioner said Friday. "This whole thing has embarrassed these people who have worked here all these years, all because of the poor judgment of six agents in that one incident," said Sandra Canada, an ABC commissioner listed behind only Chairman J. Neal Insley on the agency organization chart.
Among those quoted: J. Ben Rountree, 19, of Virginia Beach, a second-year pre-Commerce major interning this summer with Monarch Bank.
Inside organizations, givers not only find personal success; they turn into energizing forces that boost productivity among those around them. Citing research by University of Virginia professor Rob Cross and Andrew Parker of Stanford, this contrasts with the takers in organizations, who act like "black holes" sucking the energy from others.
My first thought at staring down a serve from a tennis professional: “It’s not that bad.” I saw it coming the whole way – even watched it as it whooshed by my unorthodox two-hand backhand flail. By the time 6-foot-4 Dominic Inglot started blasting serves toward my forehand, I’d seen enough to know exactly where they would bounce. I could shift and make contact. But contact was all it was – racket on ball doesn’t equate to ball in court. And of course, tennis isn’t baseball: a foul ball counts as a point for the other team; a weak mishit a setup f...
Eighteen-year-old Gabrielle Turnquest has made history becoming the youngest to pass the Bar exam at England’s University of Law. This may be just a natural progression for the youngster who graduated from the University of Virginia at 16 with a degree in psychology.
University of Virginia students’ Social Security numbers no longer are downloaded in a central database, the school will halt sending health mailers to students and a “particular query” that pulls information from the database no longer will be used, school officials announced Friday.