Dennis Yang, a professor of business administration at the University of Virginia, agreed. "I think it is very difficult to argue against this case based on national security concerns for a food company," Yang said.
Even though he has yet to draw a Democratic opponent in 2014, Buchanan is one of just four Republican incumbents in Florida considered to have potentially competitive re-election campaigns next year, concludes the Crystal Ball, issued by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
(Commentary) Fred Schauer of the University of Virginia calls such claims “First Amendment opportunism.” Free speech is a cherished American ideal; companies are exploiting that esteem, as he puts it, “to try to accomplish goals that are not so clearly related to speech.”
Americans are happier overall in times of lower income inequality, according to research by University of Virginia professor Shigehiro Oishi, based on national data from the General Social Survey. This happiness gap isn’t an artifact, entirely, of lower incomes themselves, but of the lack of trust and common destiny that the income gap secondarily creates. It’s the oldest saying in the book that “money can’t buy happiness.” Less income inequality, however, does buy more happiness.
Although we tend to think of anthropogenic climate change as something that's only emerged in the last few centuries, palaeoclimatologist William Ruddiman of the University of Virginia has argued that it actually goes back thousands of years.
Dr. Alan Rogol, a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, agreed the new findings only apply to those kids who are short but have no record of growth delay. The kids in this study "had nothing that pointed to difficulty in any system, and many of them were short kids of shorter parents," said Rogol, who reviewed the study for the journal.
Last week, Ashton was in Richmond checking out the 900-square-foot space — formerly a home décor and pastry shop — with Jeremy Bull, another co-founder and a fellow H-SC grad, and Mason Antrim, the company’s chief operating officer. Antrim is a graduate of the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
Fascinated by the historic event, Thomas F. Farrell II worked with Dave Kennedy, a fellow University of Virginia graduate who went into the movie industry after a career as a naval aviator and test pilot, to craft the script and produce the movie.
Ice ages are controlled by cyclic changes in the Earth's orbit and orientation, and calculations suggest another one should have begun several thousand years ago. In 2005, a team led by Professor William Ruddiman of the University of Virginia suggested that man-made global warming might be holding back the next big freeze.
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.
One of Virginia Military Institute’s seminal moments in history will soon get the big screen treatment. An independent film titled “Field of Lost Shoes” will begin principal photography on the VMI campus early next week. The film will be based on the famous Civil War Battle of New Market in which 10 VMI cadets died in a battle against Union forces. Six of those 10 cadets are buried on the VMI campus. David Kennedy, a Navy veteran who graduated from the University of Virginia, wrote the script for the movie.
Jarmere Jenkins had a chance to pull off a rare tennis trifecta this week, as he reached the final round of the NCAA Division I men’s singles and doubles championships and led his University of Virginia team to the finals of the team event. I first met Jarmere more than a decade ago, when I wrote a profile of his family for Tennis magazine. At the time, he was a precocious 10-year-old living with eight siblings in the family’s modest home in College Park, Ga. Tennis was only part of what made them special. Jarmere’s parents, Jackie Sr. and Brenda, adopted six of their childre...
U.S. colleges face a "perfect storm" of problems as tuition costs soar, opportunities for graduates sag, and employers complain they cannot find enough workers with key technical skills. One solution may be found in the growing number and quality of online classes. The digital revolution might transform universities the way the Internet has already changed music, publishing, journalism, retail, and other businesses. "This is pretty amazing," said the University of Virginia's David Evans, teaching an online introduction to Computer Science.
Researchers are sharing cutting-edge discoveries in children's health at the 25th Pediatric Research Symposium at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia professor John Hawley and former UVa professor Steven Balbus have been selected to receive the 2013 Shaw Prize in Astronomy for groundbreaking work they performed at the school in the early 1990s. The Hong Kong-based Shaw Prize Foundation awards $1 million to individuals active in the fields of astronomy, life science and medicine and mathematical sciences. The distinction is considered to be Asia's Nobel Prize, and is awarded in categories not specifically considered by the Swedish institution.
Microphones need not limit themselves to listening to the human voice, however. John Stankovic of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville is using microphones to capture heartbeats. Researchers in his group are using earphones modified with accelerometers and additional microphones that detect the pulse in arteries in the wearer’s ear. This makes it possible to collect information about the wearer’s physical state, including heart rate and activity level, which is transmitted to the smartphone via the audio jack. The researchers even created an app, called MusicalHeart, that ...
But a psychiatrist retained by the government, Dr. Gregory B. Saathoff of the University of Virginia, disagreed with the defense expert’s findings, testifying in another hearing Wednesday that he did not believe Arbabsiar was suffering from a bipolar disorder.
Various research teams have been involved in a cordial competition to explain the science of capsid construction. One team led by Mark J. Yeager, chairman of the department of molecular physiology and biological physics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, did foundational research on how about 1,300 copies of the same protein chemically connect into groups of five or six to become the bricks from which the capsid is built. "It is gratifying to see this beautiful piece of work published with the insights into how we can do our next work," said Dr. Yeager, whose research ...
The nation’s state colleges and universities finally are getting some relief from declining taxpayer support, which has driven a steady increase in student costs. ... The University of Virginia’s state support is around 10 percent, though its endowment — at $5.9 billion as of March 31 — is the envy of even the best private schools. There has been talk of privatizing it, although that seems unlikely.