Other researchers, including Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said the study will help dispel lingering notions that those who turn to the Internet to find love will fare poorly. But he said the report failed to convince him that meeting online gives couples "a big leg up" when it comes to marriage.
(Editorial) Now, this is impressive. A University of Virginia professor and a former professor have been awarded Asia’s version of a Nobel Prize — which comes with a cool $1 million and a gold medal.
The Verizon Foundation, Swinfen Charitable Trust and the University of Virginia Health System recently announced the expansion of an innovative telemedicine program. It uses telemedicine to connect clinicians at 260 hospitals in 68 developing countries with more than 550 medical specialists around the world, including 68 at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia marriage expert Bradford Wilcox underscores the impact of slow job growth. He noted the survey’s finding “is driven in part by the fact that many of their husbands as under- or unemployed: About one-quarter have husbands who are not working, according to the 2011 American Community Survey.”
Currently Franken appears to be in a good position: Stu Rothenberg calls the seat “safe Democrat,” while the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics has the seat as “leans Democrat.”
Ann J. Lane, 81, of New York City, died on May 27, 2013. … Lane’s interest in advancing women’s careers and scholarship about them earned her appointments as Director of Women’s Studies and Professor of History at two formerly all-male institutions: Colgate University, from 1984 to 1990, and the University of Virginia. She arrived in Virginia in 1990 with two instructions from then-Dean of the Faculty, Raymond J. Nelson: establish Women’s Studies at the university and “make trouble!”
A study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of Virginia suggests that moderate ambient noise – 70 decibels, like that found in a coffee shop – can boost your ability to come up with creative ideas.
Ever tell yourself stories about yourself that bring you down? What if you could remove those limitations... create a much brighter, happier future for yourself... with a little story editing? U.Va. psychologist Tim Wilson says there is lots of research indicating you might be able to do just that.
Dozens of cyclists from around the country stopped in Charlottesville Monday to drop off a very big check. The group, called Bike the US for MS, raised $50,000 for the University of Virginia's multiple sclerosis clinic.
A 2008 study of outpatients with rapid cycling bipolar disorder at the University of Virginia, found that their mood swings correlated quite well with changes in temperature, but much less so with changes in pressure.
Right now there is no cure for degenerative eye disease in people who have diabetes but researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine may be on the brink of changing that result. They are using stem cells from belly fat of the same person with the eye disease to prevent and reverse blindness.
On the list: “Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch,” by Barbara A. Perry, who works with the Miller Center’s Oral History Program. The book is due out July 15.
Derek Fisher jogged toward the dugout with a visible grin creeping out from under the brim of his helmet. Before he could get to the first base-side cutout, Jared King reached out to the sophomore, grabbed him, lifted him and gave him a spin. Not even 10 minutes earlier, both sides of this embrace were a combined 0-for-16 in the Charlottesville Regional. Now, they were directly responsible for sparking Virginia’s first true-to-form rally of the 2013 postseason. The Cavaliers captured their fourth regional title in five years on Sunday night with an 11-3 thumping of Elon by giving the 3,7...
President Obama urged Congress on Friday to pass a new student-loan bill within the next month to prevent what he said would be a doubling of rates on government-subsidized loans for the nation’s college students.
Opponents of race-based affirmative action in college admissions urge that colleges use a different tool to encourage diversity: giving a leg up to poor students. But many educators see real limits to how eager colleges are to enroll more poor students, no matter how qualified – and the reason is money.
Quarterback Phillip Sims’ time at Virginia is finished. The heralded transfer from Alabama is ineligible to play and will leave the university after completing his current summer school session, coach Mike London announced Friday. London said in a statement released by the school that “Phillip did not make the commitment he needed to succeed here.”
(Commentary) A new casebook co-authored by University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett and my brilliant colleague Lee Kovarsky is the first to comprehensively cover habeas corpus, particularly exploring the topics of post-conviction review, executive and national security detention litigation, and the detention of immigrants. The book, just published by Foundation Press, is titled “Federal Habeas Corpus: Executive Detention and Post-conviction Litigation.”
Olivia "Bing Bing" Mann was a tiny infant with a complex, but treatable heart disease. From her home in a Chinese orphanage, it appeared virtually impossible for Bing Bing to receive the medical attention that she so urgently needed. But the London-based Swinfen Charitable Trust intervened and – utilizing the latest in telemedicine technology – was able to link baby Bing Bing with Dr. Karen Rheuban, one of the world's foremost experts in pediatric cardiology. From her offices halfway around the world, Dr. Rheuban, the director of the University of Virginia Center for ...
The Verizon Foundation, Swinfen Charitable Trust and the University of Virginia Health System have announced the expansion of an innovative telemedicine program into rural communities in India and the Philippines. This program will utilize mobile- and cloud-based technology that will connect renowned physicians around the world to doctors in these communities to assist them with patient diagnoses and care.
(Editorial) Of course we support a gubernatorial debate sponsored in part by a hometown organization – the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership – even if the proposed debate isn’t in our hometown. More important than local boosterism, though, is the fact that the Sorensen Institute is a highly regarded, highly effective organization dedicated to improving the quality of politics in Virginia. It is the perfect partner for putting on a debate.