The University of Virginia has sent notices alerting more than 18,000 students that their Social Security numbers were exposed.
In a game often associated with routine, there hasn’t been a lot of sameness from game to game this baseball season for Richmond Flying Squirrels outfielder Jarrett Parker.
When Robert Chapel was planning this season's lineup for Heritage Theatre Festival, he wanted it to be balanced and offer something for nearly every taste. To close out the 2013 season, he decided on "Next to Normal," because he wanted to present a thought-provoking play that could educate as well as entertain.
Normally, this outer cocoon of hot gas would prevent astronomers from peering inside the disk where the gas had frozen out. “It would be like trying to find a small, sunny patch hidden within a dense fogbank,” said Karin Oberg, a researcher with Harvard University and the University of Virginia. The astronomers were able to pierce the intervening CO fog by instead hunting for a different molecule known as diazenylium. This fragile molecule is easily destroyed in the presence of CO gas, so would only appear in detectable amounts in regions where CO had frozen out, and is hence a pro...
Calvin Lai and Brian Nosek at the University of Virginia recently challenged scientists to come up with ways to ameliorate such biases. The idea, said Harvard University psychologist Mahzarin Banaji, one of the researchers, was to evaluate whether there were rapid-fire ways to disable stereotypes. Groups of scientists "raced" one another to see if their favorite techniques worked. All the scientists focused on reducing unconscious racial bias against blacks.
University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Kyle Kondik says the rental agreement between McDonnell and Romero has the appearance of impropriety at a time when that's the last thing the governor needs. "There may be a good excuse for the governor in this particular instance, but it's easy to be skeptical about it in light of everything else," he says.
While you're checking out the candidates and turning in your ballots Tuesday evening, you might be expecting the same old song and dance. But thanks to the cast of "The Marvelous Wonderettes," classic pop songs from the 1950s and '60s will sound fresh again. Each audience member filing into the University of Virginia's new Ruth Caplin Theatre next week will receive a ballot with the playbill. Don't misplace it, because you'll be asked to cast your vote for prom queen pretty early in the Heritage Theatre Festival musical, which can be seen at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, Wed...
In a striking development, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Nisha Desai Biswal, an accomplished Indian-American administrator, to head the South Asia bureau in the US state department.
Jackson faces two challenges, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
A third-party mail vendor violated protocol in failing to review address labels listing Social Security numbers on brochures sent to 18,700 University of Virginia students, a health insurance provider said Thursday.
Public policy professor William M. Shobe of the University of Virginia said the true cost of carbon dioxide emissions -- accounting for damage to the environment -- is more than $10 per ton. The lower price at which allowances are traded reflects an early belief by policymakers that the federal government would establish a national cap-and-trade program, he said.
Douglas Laycock, an expert in religious court cases at the University of Virginia Law School, said the case could get tricky because it centers around cloudy questions of religious belief. “This will very much depend on what the religious group said and what the SPLC is able to prove,” Laycock said. “To the extent that the prospect of conversion depends on religious faith, it’s going to be very hard to make a fraud claim.”
(Audio) Paul Martin, a public policy specialist and director of professional development at the Batten School of Leadership, appeared this week on “Virginia Insight”: to talk about health care reform.
When an IBD Meetup grows from three members to more than 100, you know the organizers are doing something right. Meet Jim and Cathy Popp, self-described conservative investors who go by the motto: "A couple who trades together stays together." They've been running the Charlottesville, Va., Meetup since 2003. Jim is an Oracle database administrator at the University of Virginia. Cathy is a former flight attendant.
"McDonnell will probably only resign if it's as a part of some sort of plea deal to avoid any criminal penalties," said Geoffrey Skelley with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Robert O'Neil, former president of the University of Virginia and a leading expert on academic free speech issues, said the broader response to the emails would depend on whether such expressions by Daniels were limited to his time as governor or continued after taking over at Purdue. "I suspect there are some Purdue faculty who would give him a pass and others who would find it censurable," O'Neil said.
Engineering students at the University of Virginia have simulated a hybrid electric plane that’s capable of carrying 50 people. Using Flight Optimization System (FLOPS) software, the team of undergraduates led by aerospace engineering students Sohail Ahmad and Kelly Thomas evaluated several potential designs based on existing airplanes and propulsion systems. The goal was to test the feasibility of hybrid (internal combustion engine + electric motor) propulsion systems for passenger aircraft.