Donald Black, a sociologist at the University of Virginia and author of Moral Time, an academic work that puts forward a theory of moral conflict in human relationships, said this kind of altruism seems to be growing. Altruism, he said, used to be confined solely to people of the same tribe or family. Charity to strangers was, until fairly recently, considered odd. “The radical, revolutionary change is that people care about complete strangers,” he said, theorizing that the change is the result of an increasingly isolated modern population. As people feel less connected to their im...
Honk if you want to salute 38-year-old Liza Borches, the CEO of Carter Myers Automotive. She was tabbed as one of the “40 Under 40” up-and-comers in the auto-dealership business in the most recent issue of Automotive News.
Larry Sabato, a government professor at the University of Virginia, has said Byrd's move had both national and state implications. "It was a harbinger of the decline of partisan identification that took place in the 1970s and 1980s all across the country," Sabato said. "In Virginia, it helped bring conservatives from the Democratic Party into the Republican Party. Byrd first helped them stop voting Democrat. It was a half-step."
W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, called Tuesday for a renewed commitment to fatherhood and marriage in America to curb the decline of stable, intact families.
For one thing, there may be a language problem. "Family values terminology is so closely connected to the 1980s and Jerry Falwell-esque way of framing it -- it's an immediate turn-off," said Brad Wilcox, the Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "You should be talking about a 'family-friendly agenda.'"
The University of Virginia partnered with the school system in screening candidates to be principals of the Innovation Schools.
An original manuscript of a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe has sold for $300,000 at an auction in Massachusetts.
“What has surprised me most about the South Dakota race ... is the fact that there is so much lingering opposition to a successful two-term Republican governor,” said Larry Sabato, a political analyst and president of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “In a lot of other states, someone like Rounds would waltz into the nomination. Clearly he upset the tea party apple cart and made a lot of enemies on the right. They think he’s a squish. They think he’s a RINO (Republican In Name Only.)”
Brumfield’s primary research sources included his own massive private collection, VCU’s Cabell Library special collections, and the University of Virginia library, which contains the original Bell and Howell microfilms from the underground press syndicate or UPS — a consortium including more than 500 underground papers from across the country in the late ’60s and ’70s.
Women with certain breast tissue abnormalities that raise their risk for cancer can safely take a wait-and-see approach rather than rush into surgery, a new study suggests. Previous research into two breast conditions – atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ – have turned up conflicting results regarding the need for surgery, said Dr. Kristen Atkins, associate professor of pathology at the University of Virginia.
David Evans has been the first instructor for hundreds of thousands of students pursuing their education at Udacity, the massive open online course (MOOC) platform whose unique style he helped define. His Introduction to Computer Science course was one of the first two developed specifically for Udacity. A faculty member at the University of Virginia, Evans returned to teaching there in January following a year-long sabbatical to work with the Udacity team.
Virginia senior men's tennis player Jarmere Jenkins was named the 2013 recipient of the Anthony J. McKevlin Award, given annually to the top male athlete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Jenkins is the fifth Virginia athlete to receive the honor and the first since 2003.
Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, said many of the issues at play in the health care/contraception cases are not a factor in the Archdiocese bankruptcy.
Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) have released a new online public data set featuring 60,000 stars, which could us understand how our Milky Way Galaxy formed. The highlight of “Data Release 10″ is a new set of high-resolution stellar spectra – measurements of the amount of light given off by a star at each wavelength – using infrared light, invisible to human eyes but able to penetrate the veil of dust that obscures the center of the galaxy. “This is the most comprehensive collection of infrared stellar spectra ever made,” Steven ...
A study on detecting apnea – the cessation of breathing – has won its authors the 2012 Martin Black award, an annual prize for the best paper published in Physiological Measurement during the previous year. The winning paper describes an algorithm that can detect episodes of central apnea far more reliably than current methods. The authors – from the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia Health System – used the algorithm to analyse around 100 baby-years of data. They found that even state-of-the-art bedside monitors miss...
McDonnell is in a political rough spot, because he has to apologize, but his lawyers are advising him not to reveal too much, said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. The governor repeatedly has asserted that his behavior is legal – something he reiterated Tuesday. Those assertions probably are made on the advice of his lawyers, but that message waters down his apology, Sabato said. “That’s the problem. These kinds of things may well be legal,” Sabato wrote in an email. “The outrage in Virginia is [over] what’s legal, n...
“Look at the vulnerable races,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “They’re in conservative states like West Virginia, South Dakota, North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alaska. These are red states. That’s really where the Democrats are vulnerable. And where are the Democrats on the offensive? Nowhere.”
"The pads are so much better than last year," NFL vice president of football operations Merton said. “We challenged our suppliers and licensees to submit their pads to the University of Virginia for a scientific test and came up with a number of different options for knee and thigh pads. The player has options for what suits him best and is lightest for him given their position."
University of Virginia law professor Christopher Sprigman says the problem goes beyond how the judges are appointed or how they handle specific requests for wiretapping. He says the major decisions on the nation's surveillance policies should not be made behind closed doors in a one-sided proceeding. The leaked court orders reveal a mass collection policy that "has no limits," he said. It could include all credit card records or all travel records, he said. "We need a public debate if we are going to switch to a mass surveillance policy," Sprigman said. "Congress n...
“There is no end of problems the court has created by deciding the case this way,” says University of Virginia law professor Brandon L. Garrett, an expert on DNA exonerations. “People think this decision is fine because they want serious crimes to be solved, even at a cost to privacy,” adds Garrett, who filed an amicus brief on King’s side. “I don’t think people realize how few unsolved crimes have DNA evidence.”