(Commentary) The University of Colorado recognized the value in this line of research, and took proactive steps to support campus diversity by considering class in its admissions process. Given last month's Fisher ruling and the Schuette decision to come, other university administrators should follow suit. Sooner would probably be better, to avoid the hasty adoption of class-based policies in the scramble of legal uncertainty. As Greg Roberts, the dean of admission at the University of Virginia, recently pointed out, "If there are changes to how we define diversity then I expect schoo...
In Virginia, where a wave of petty scandal over unreported gifts threatens McDonnell’s ambition to be a national candidate, his wife is in the crosshairs for presenting her husband with a $6,500 Rolex watch procured from a donor with interests before the state. “Nobody forced him to take that Rolex watch,” says Larry Sabato, who directs the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Rene Cabral-Daniels, a graduate of the U.Va. School of Law who is chief executive officer of Community Care Network of Virginia Inc., is profiled.
However, for top-ranked public universities like the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Texas-Austin there is a divergence between their academic reputation rank and their overall rank in the Best Colleges 2013 rankings. This ranking divergence shows that their reputation ranks are somewhat stronger than their overall ranks, which means the other academic data used to compute the rankings is not quite as strong as their reputations.
"Democrats are swimming upstream in red states. Taking health care off the table to a certain degree, I am sure it can help them at least a little bit," says Geoffrey Skelly, a political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Albemarle County supervisors plan on sending a letter to the office of Gov. Bob McDonnell to express concern over the way agents with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control allegedly acted with a University of Virginia student purchasing water.
The DOMA ruling states that the federal government must recognize legal same-sex marriages for those who live in places that have made same-sex marriage legal, said Deborah Hellman, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
Hales Parcells is a mermaid at heart. And, actually, she's sort of one in reality too. The 19-year-old Alanton resident swims in a latex and neoprene mermaid tail that she bought online last August. The tail extends over the lower half of her 5-feet-8-inch frame as she does the butterfly stroke through the water. Since January, Parcells has dressed in her mermaid tail to read local author Daniel Ford’s book, "The Marlin and the Mermaid: Help Save the Bay" at local outdoor events, elementary schools, libraries and museums.
A former University of Virginia basketball standout is the apparent victim in a federal fraud scheme. The man charged with bilking the now professional player out of hundreds of thousands of dollars is his own godfather. This indictment by a federal grand jury in Charlottesville only names the victim as TW, but we have confirmed through sources that TW is former Cavalier star and ACC legend Travis Watson.
On the morning of Monday, July 1, 1776, Thomas Jefferson had, it can safely be said, a lot on his mind.
(Commentary) A top of the line public policy analyst, iconic politic scientist and colleague from the University of Virginia, Professor Martha Derthick, wrote about Hillarycare in a Washington Post op-ed. piece prior to election 1994: "In many years of studying American social policy, I have never read an official document that seemed so suffused with coercion and political naivete . . . with its drastic prescriptions for controlling the conduct of state governments, employers, drug manufacturers, doctors, hospitals and you and me."
Another study in the Archives of Disease in Childhood in March echoed the JAMA study and showed that children who drank lower-fat milk were more likely to be overweight later in life. "Our original hypothesis was that children who drank high-fat milk, either whole milk or 2 percent would be heavier because they were consuming more saturated fat calories," author Dr. Mark Daniel DeBoer, an associate professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the chair-elect for the AAP Committee on Nutrition, explained to TIME. "We were really surpri...
Robert Siegel speaks with Gary Gallagher, history professor at the University of Virginia and Civil War historian, about how Gettysburg has been marked over the years by different presidents and communities.
"I think it's a great example of the impact infectious diseases have had on human evolution," says infectious disease specialist William Petri of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, who wasn't involved with the study.
Rick Hammerly never considered himself a children’s theater type of guy. “Small animals and kids have never been two of my favorite things,” he readily shares. So why is the longtime Washington actor donning a tall, striped hat and fur pants to play the title role in “Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat” for crowds of fidgety youngsters at Adventure Theatre MTC seven shows a week?
An online petition is calling on the Alcoholic Beverage Control to apologize for the April incident involving a University of Virginia student.
If you are looking for indoor activities during the holiday weekend, there's a famous exhibit at the University of Virginia's Fralin Museum of Art you might want to see. On display are almost 50 originals from iconic photographer Ansel Adams.
This difference between the Civil War we know and glorify and the Civil War endured by the Americans who fought and lived it is one of the overarching themes of Gary W. Gallagher, the University of Virginia historian whose Civil War lectures grace courses offered by The Teaching Company. Gallagher repeatedly cautions students to read history forward rather than backward.
We can use MOOCs as platforms for real-world problem solving. This March, over 90,000 life-long learners from 143 countries enrolled in Foundations of Business Strategy, a MOOC offered through Coursera by the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. These learners enrolled to explore the frameworks and theories underlying successful business strategies. Some came from leading international organizations such as General Electric, Grameenphone, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, and Walmart. Many others were intrepid entrepreneurs, small business operators, and social venture founder...
Several forces have aligned to revive the hope that the Internet (or rather, humans using the Internet from Lahore to Palo Alto, Calif.) may finally disrupt higher education – not by simply replacing the distribution method but by reinventing the actual product.