A local documentary about political gridlock has brought home an Emmy Award for best topical documentary. "Out of Order: Civility in Politics," directed by Paul Tait Roberts, was produced by the University of Virginia Center for Politics and the Community Idea Stations.
Named the Battle Building after husband and wife Bill and Barry Battle who have supported the hospital for many years, the 200,000-square-foot outpatient pediatric facility will contain 28,000 square feet of ambulatory surgical space with the balance dedicated to clinical and administrative support.
Tesla, as Bernard Carlson’s splendid biography notes, was mostly broke. But he combined vision with technical prowess like no one else.
By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at U.Va.Today, marriage is less likely to ground and guide American family life. ... most proponents of the “live with it” approach conveniently ignore, or are in complete denial about, the most fundamental consequence of the American retreat from marriage: growing rates of fatherless families.
Part one tells the U.Va. stories of Chuhan and Tony, while part two will focus on Haiyang, Amy, Ting Ting and Song Fei.
Administrators and professors at the University of Virginia have declared the university's first round of worldwide online classes a success, promising more offerings on the Coursera network in the coming year. The five free courses this year reached more than 150,000 people across the globe, helped increase the visibility of U.Va.'s faculty and inspired talk on teaching innovation, said Kristin Palmer, director of online learning environments at U.Va. At least nine classes have been firmed up for the next year - three repeats and six new entries - with other additions possible.
Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia, in America, is reaching out to that drifting generation of young people who imagine they can take a decade-long gap year. In her book 'The Defining Decade' and in a recent TED Talk conference, Jay argues that 30 is definitely not the new 20.
“For many large companies, the internship is the pathway to a full-time job offer,” says Robert Bruner, dean of the University of Virginia’s Darden School. “If you don’t get that summer job, it can be much harder to line up a position at graduation. It’s enormously important. That’s one of the sea changes in my 30 years at Darden.”
Stephen Colbert’s speech at U.Va. was first on the list. Includes full speech video and sample quote: “While we may be leaving you with an economy with fewer job opportunities for the new graduate to slip into, and while traditional paths may be harder to find, that also means that you may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself.”
Researchers at the University of Virginia found out that men indulge in gossip more than women. They talk about secret liaisons, inept lovers and overpaid colleagues; a colleague’ sexual escapades in and out of the office and such tripe, all to boost their egos. The finding shows that both men and women enjoy passing on mischievous information about others, but men enjoyed it more.
Mary Goldschmidt knew her courses in graduate school at the University of Virginia would be challenging, but the honors graduate never imagined she would have difficulty­ retaining information. By the time she reached the bottom of a page in a ­textbook, she was not sure what she had read at the top. “I had to read information multiple times,” she says. “I was frustrated and a little frightened that I wasn’t going to be able to keep up. I didn’t believe it was an issue with being able to understand information. I just couldn’t put all the pieces toge...
"Because regular church attendance is less common for fathers than mothers, in some ways his religiosity is more important because it's more unusual," said Brad Wilcox, sociology professor at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project.
Of the 21 patients seen at the University of Virginia High Risk Breast and Ovarian Cancer Clinic in Charlottesville on Friday, four got tests to check for gene mutations linked to inherited forms of breast and ovarian cancer, said surgeon David R. Brenin. Several other patients were there for follow-up, having been tested and known to carry the gene mutations. ... Brenin, also co-director of the U.Va. Breast Center and chief of breast surgery, said the whole idea that human genes can be patented is “ludicrous” to him and most of his colleagues.
“Fathers are definitely spending more time than ever with their kids,” said Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “And we’re seeing more and more ways that fathers are bringing something different to the parenting enterprise.”
Tanya Denckla Cobb, associate director for the Institute for Environmental Negotiation at the University of Virginia, has watched a dramatic uptick in recent years of chefs buying local foods. Her recently published book, "Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing What We Eat," documents this growing phenomenon.
...The Virginia Institute of Marine Science report says 26 percent of Virginia Beach's land area could face flooding over the next 50 years, flooding 289 miles of roads. A University of Virginia report released last year that was based on community feedback from city residents said the least socially feasible way of addressing the problem was the purchase of development rights, while the most likely option to help the city prepare for sea level rise was to provide greater education and updated zoning.
“If he is perceived as being one-dimensional in the fall as he is now, he’ll lose,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Walker also the list of Republican presidential contenders put together by Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Conservatives love the fact that he beat the unions and he beat the media," Sabato says.