A separate presentation at Microsoft’s Faculty Summit by Kamin Whitehouse of University of Virginia described trials of a sophisticated use of home automation. Whitehouse, who is not part of the Lab of Things project, installed large numbers of sensors into 20 houses to research how home automation could address energy use.
“Resignation is extreme to most people, and they’re right,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Since the four-year term was established, Virginia has never had a governor resign,” he said, excluding the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
"Words like ‘cultural factors' always seem to be code for: 'We don’t want women there,'" said Anne Coughlin, a University of Virginia law professor who helped inspire a 2012 lawsuit filed by two female service members against then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, opposing the combat ban for women.
But A.E. Dick Howard, professor of law at the University of Virginia, said that the federal Equal Protection Clause in itself does not protect the gay community. “Unless Virginia had a law aimed at the gay community, I don’t think you can presently say that there is equal protection of a gay state employee against discrimination,” he said.
(Commentary) The movie’s West was a wild, lawless place, requiring a certain sort of person to tame it. As the University of Virginia literary critic Paul Cantor has pointed out, that person had prepolitical virtues, a willingness to seek revenge, to mete out justice on his own. That kind of person, the hero of most Westerns, is hard, confrontational, raw and tough to control.
The tall, lanky patient enters the room bent over and shuffling like a man twice his age. He climbs on a gurney and lies back, head throbbing. Then Carlton Haywood pulls out a bottle of Tums, relief-in-waiting for the nausea he fears will come. Haywood, 37, belongs to the 0.003 percent of the US population that suffers from sickle cell disease, which predominantly affects blacks and which he has battled since birth. As rare as the blood disorder is, Haywood’s situation is even rarer. A bioethics and hematology professor at the Johns Hopkins University, he’s one of the few academici...
In the U.S. News state rankings, Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and VCU Medical Center in Richmond both were ranked No. 1. Inova Fairfax Hospital came in third, and University of Virginia Medical Center came in fourth.
Aerospace engineering students at the University of Virginia have taken energy efficiency to new heights. The 16-member team designed a hybrid electric plane, built to carry 50 passengers. The FAA was so impressed the agency recently awarded the group first place in an international competition.
(Commentary) Now comes Barbara A. Perry with “Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch,” who promises to deliver "the definitive biography" of the woman whose iron-fisted image-making produced the mystique that continues to endure. When the John F. Kennedy Library released the papers of the president's mother (300 boxes) in 2006, Perry, a senior fellow in presidential oral history at the University of Virginia's Miller Center in Charlottesville, was first in line, but, alas, Rose had no secrets beyond the few she revealed in her 1974 memoir, &ldqu...
Jeff Goldsmith, an outspoken critic of ACOs, told MedPage Today the news speaks to the lack of ACOs' viability. "If the question is: 'Is this idea going to scale to the rest of the health system?' The results of this first year suggests the answer is probably 'no'," said Goldsmith, professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia. "The ACO is not going to be a 'total replacement' for fee-for-service Medicare."
"The prevailing theory is she's trying to force Enzi out of the race. Because of his age, he may be uninterested in a hard re-election campaign," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "It's bound to a divisive race. I've found the nastiest races are those between candidates who have almost everything in common. Cheney and Enzi agree on 98 or 99 percent of the issues, so they will have to define their differences, and often these contests become very personal and bitter," Sabato said.
Ten medical specialties at the University of Virginia Health System are being recognized by US News and World Report, as part of its Best Hospitals Guide.
The 2012 presidential race showed candidates can't win without the support of female voters. "The political math is simple," said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. "Women comprise a majority of the electorate in every state, and so a candidate simply has to do reasonably well with women to win. You can lose women, but not by a lot."
It just takes a couple clicks around the homepage of Project Implicit -- a collaboration between the University of Washington, Harvard University, and the University of Virginia that explores unconscious bias -- to recognize how insidious these perceptions can be.
Former Virginia linebacker Clint Sintim is kicking off the next chapter of his career in football. Sintim has been added to the coaching staff at the University of West Alabama for the upcoming 2013 season. It's part of the NFL Players Association's coaching internship program.
Two prominent Jewish defense agencies this week came to the defense of Oday Aboushi, a rookie member of the New York Jets football team who is a practicing Muslim from a Palestinian-Arab family. Aboushi, 22, an offensive lineman and sociology graduate of the University of Virginia who is one of the few Palestinians to play in the National Football League, came under fire from some members of the Jewish community after a recent story in FrontPage Magazine criticized him for appearing at a “radical Muslim conference.” The article, which called the player “a Muslim extremist,&rd...
Kai Parham was a success in football at Princess Anne High School and the University of Virginia. And although his pro career never materialized, his self-assurance has helped him succeed off the field. Parham earned a master's degree, served as a U.S. State Department intern and now works in Atlanta as a financial planner.
Jerry Stenger, director of climatology offices at the University of Virginia, said the Valley has been experience a reprieve from the recent moisture – which has been keeping the temperatures down – and seeing higher numbers than before. “But really, it’s a normal summer,” said Stenger. “It reminds us what summer is like in Virginia. We just have to acclimate to it. It’s when we sit in rocking chairs and sip ice tea.”