(Editorial) In a Thursday speech to the Senate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., noted that while Congress formally has declared war five times, presidents have initiated military intervention more than 100 times. In other instances Congress has authorized the use of force while stopping short of declaring war. The comments came during remarks announcing a joint effort by Kaine and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to reform the War Powers Resolution. Their campaign takes its inspiration from the National War Powers Commission, a 2007 project of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
Richard Guy Wilson, commonwealth professor and chairman of the Department of Architectural History at the University of Virginia, has directed the Victorian Society’s Nineteenth Century Summer School in Newport since he started it in 1978 and ran it in other American cities.
The International Hospitality Program is celebrating 60 years of pairing University of Virginia students from other countries with families in Charlottesville. They're now asking for the community's help to make sure every student has a home away from home.
Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said he's not alone in calling Corbett "the most vulnerable incumbent governor in the nation -- certainly the most vulnerable Republican."
APOGEE’s identification of which stars are part of the bar will allow astronomers to study how stars in the bar and in the rest of the galaxy react to one another. ‘The bar is like a giant mixer for our galaxy,’ says Steve Majewski, a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia and the principal investigator for the APOGEE project. ‘As the bar rotates, it churns up the motions of nearby stars. Over time, this mixing should have a big effect on the spiral arms where we live, but this effect is not well understood. With our new sample of bar stars, we should be a...
While both sides bicker over who took more money from out-of-state donors, political analysts have long expected a steady cash flow from all over the United States to fuel the contests in Virginia this year. “Wealthy people and organizations that play in the political money game have Virginia prominently on their radar,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “It’s the only competitive contest for governor in the country, and the press will draw some conclusions from the Virginia outcome about 2014’s midterm elections,&rd...
University of Virginia researchers found that infants who spent at least one night per week away from their mothers had more insecure attachments to the mother. (Note: This article was distributed worldwide.)
Lead author Samantha Tornello, a PhD psychology student at the University of Virginia, said attachments during the critical first year serve as the basis for healthy relationships in adulthood.
(Commentary co-written by Paul D. Farris, the Landmark Communications professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business) How do you get Customers to pay more for your products? Yet they have little choice but to ratchet up. The cost of making consumer goods and getting them to stores has been rising for some time. And a lot of the old strategies for shaving overhead, such as outsourcing, are getting less effective in economic terms and more unpopular in humanitarian terms.
As the weaponless Redcoats walked away from the huge pile of bent and broken swords and muskets at Yorktown, many must have wondered, "How can this be?" More than 230 years later, a new book reveals how this near miracle of history occurred – but from the British point of view. A few weeks ago, Yale University Press published "The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire" by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. The author is Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticell...
(By Dr. Michael Williams, chief of the University of Virginia Cancer Center Hematology/Oncology Division and director of the Hematologic Malignancies Section) Blood cancer research long has been a base of discovery for new cancer treatments, beginning with chemotherapy, which was first used to treat leukemia. Unlike solid tumors, blood is easier to collect, and cells are easily isolated for study. In recent years, this research has led to the introduction of new, targeted agents that are part of a global push toward personalized medicine.
(Editorial) Then, on Friday, the Post reported another angle of the investigation: whether Maureen McDonnell received free cosmetic dental surgery from a wealthy Richmond doctor who, in 2010, was appointed to the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors. As University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said, “It’s just plain bad judgment, and the latest sign that we have a governor whose sense of propriety is lacking.”
Karsten Nohl, the chief scientist who led the research team and will reveal the details at Black Hat, said the hacking only works on SIMs that use an old encryption technology known as DES.
The technology is still used on at least one out of eight SIMs, or a minimum of 500 million phones, according to Nohl.
The ITU estimates some 6 billion mobile phones are in use worldwide. It plans to work with the industry to identify how to protect vulnerable devices from attack, Touré said.
Once a hacker copies a SIM, it can be used to make calls and send text messages impersonating the owner of the phon...
The last name Kennedy is always going to be a draw. For Barbara A. Perry, it's her livelihood. The author, Kennedy scholar and presidential historian at the University of Virginia, has made Rose Kennedy the subject of her latest book, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch” (*** out of 4).
Researchers at the University of Virginia are also undertaking a four-year, randomized study of the program's impact.
For his part, McDonnell’s defense is that he’s just playing by the rules that are in place. Larry Sabato, who leads the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, succinctly pointed out why that’s not very satisfying. “For a moment, forget partisan politics,” he tweeted July 13. “Under VA’s very lax gift laws, our pols can be wholly owned subsidiaries of one or few rich.”
Dr. Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, said the report clearing Cuccinelli helps him distance himself from a broader political scandal engulfing McDonnell. "By no means was the report a vindication of Cuccinelli," Sabato said. "He was sloppy in his gift reporting, and arguably shouldn't have been indebting himself to someone like Jonnie Williams. But Virginia's gift laws are very loose."
Virginia has a more difficult road than most states to repeal its ban. "In order to get that on the ballot," said Kyle Kondik, with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, "the General Assembly has to vote in two straight sessions to put it on the ballot." And with a strong Republican majority in the House of Delegates, Kondik says that's not likely to happen soon.
Larry Sabato of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia noted that King is “well-known, at least to the political community, and he’s clearly associated with terrorism and national security issues. Those are all pluses.”