Albemarle’s ambitions come as no surprise to Glen Bull, professor of instructional technology at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. Bull said Albemarle County has a record of setting the bar in secondary education. “Albemarle, for more than 30 years, has been a national leader,” he said. “A number of innovations piloted at Albemarle have later been adopted nationally.”
Cherri Dulaney says she has confidence in the attorneys now working to clear her son’s name and get it removed from the state’s sex offender registry. But Edgar Coker’s father, Edgar Dulaney, noted at the conclusion of the two-day hearing this week, “We’re not done yet.” Since January 2009, a team of attorneys with the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia law school, the law school’s Child Advocacy Clinic and JustChildren/Legal Aid of Charlottesville has been working on behalf of the former Stafford County family.
According to the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the city’s small population grew 7.2 percent between April 2010 and July 2012, easily outpacing the region’s 2.6 percent growth.
“Truly, no one knows what will happen. No question that McDonnell does not want to become the first Virginia governor to resign because of scandal, and he's helped by having just a half-year left in his term,” said Larry Sabato, political science professor and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) Only if Virginia, the state, can get itself together in terms of its top leadership, will Virginia, the university, have a chance to climb higher in the national hierarchy of higher education. It is now necessary for the state government to have the courage and leadership to establish a new system of governance for UVa – and perhaps the other, older state universities, such as W&M and Virginia Tech – much as was done in setting up independent funding and budget procedures seven years ago.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, executive director of U.Va.’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership) Is politics becoming a losing proposition dominated by petty partisanship, unethical dunderheads and hedonistic hacks? Absolutely not, despite a raft of newspaper headlines that might suggest bad behavior outweighs public spiritedness and decency. Public service through politics remains an honest calling for the vast majority of elected officials across Virginia and the nation.
Researchers from two Virginia colleges – Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia – received research funding from Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals. The grants were announced in August 2011 – during a luncheon at the Executive Mansion organized for the launch of Anatabloc by Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell’s office. At U.Va., one research project on anatabine was conducted by researchers at the School of Medicine under a $40,000 grant. The U.Va. research, which also used laboratory animals, looked at the effects of anatabine on inflammatory bowel ...
The University of Virginia emailed students for the second time in as many days Friday in the scramble to respond following the hiccup that resulted in an insurer mailing 18,700 brochures bearing students’ Social Security numbers.
"Clearly, Americans as a group feel indebted to veterans and the military," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "I think it's even more true today than before because we have a volunteer service. Everyone doesn't serve in the military, so we tend to be particularly attentive to the needs of those who have."
(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...