Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, said he doubts Warner’s new support for marriage equality will have an impact on his 2014 re-election prospects. “At present Warner has no opposition for reelection and most doubt he will have a truly serious opponent,” Sabato said. “So I doubt his position on gay marriage will have much impact. The ground has shifted dramatically anyway. This isn’t the intense hot button issue it once was.”
More than a dozen research projects are under way at the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, which officially opened in Prince George County Monday. A consortium of 15 manufacturing companies is collaborating with the University of Virginia, Virginia State University and Virginia Tech to support CCAM, a nonprofit organization. The universities and companies are conducting research there.
Dewey Cornell, director of the U.Va.-based Virginia Youth Violence Project, says Lanza appears to fit a class of mass murder involving a type of severe mental illness that may be vulnerable to media influences from movies, to news coverage of other slayings.
Minutes after the admissions folks at the University of Virginia pushed the button releasing decisions last night, the “regulars” on College Confidential began lighting up the discussion board.
Here's a list that will interest both prospective college students and their parents. College Prowler, a site that says it uses student reviews for insight on nearly 7,000 schools, has compiled a list of 25 colleges where the student bodies are both smart. Among those making the grade, the University of Virginia comes in at No. 3, followed close behind by Georgetown University at No. 4.
The American Association of University Professors continues to closely watch the situation at the University of Virginia, and the group could take further action, the local chapter heard Friday.
Minutes after the admissions folks at the University of Virginia pushed the button releasing decisions last night, the “regulars” on College Confidential began lighting up the discussion board.
After loudly disagreeing with protesters who opposed the practice, the University of Virginia quietly stopped using live cats to teach students how to intubate babies.
"As a kid, I would watch this one particular tree close to our house where occasionally a hawk would land," said Andrew King, who is a researcher at the University of Virginia Darden School's Batten Institute. "When I'd see a hawk I'd get very excited, and run and get my binoculars. In school I had heard about falconry, but only in the context of the Middle Ages. I thought it was too bad that it was dead and gone and part of the distant past. So when we saw the falconer in England, I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, it isn't dead and gone.' Then, when he put his f...
A motley group of people across the globe are working to create the first of its kind archive of human stories dating back to the Partition of 1947, aptly titled The 1947 Partition Archive. Manleen Sandhu, a 24-year-old student of Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in the US, is at present in Punjab conducting interviews of survivors. “The knowledge of the fact that my ancestors are originally from a small village called Kana Kaccha outside Lahore sparked my interest in all matters relating to the moment of severance, August 1947, and the...
Unlike the pro-life movement, however, the religious liberty campaign has a significant academic presence, he said, pointing to the recently established Center for Religious Liberty at Stanford University, funded by the Becket Fund. And religious liberty campaign has succeed in marshaling influential academics, namely Douglas Laycock, a distinguished professor at the University of Virginia Law School, and the conservative Catholic Robert P. George of Princeton University.
Presidential library openings generally include days of festivities, drawing dignitaries and officials from around the world -- as well as all living presidents and first ladies who are able to travel -- not to mention global media coverage. "It is an historic event in and of itself," said Larry Sabato, political analyst and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
In an industry dominated by giants, the leaders of several small, local biotech companies see a new day rising where the world will reap the rewards from breakthroughs sown by the little guys.
The Virginia Festival of the Book wrapped up Sunday after a week of events to celebrate literature. Book lovers and authors alike think about how to define 'book' with technology changing everything.
VCU’s Massey Cancer Center and the University of Virginia’s Cancer Center are the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in the state. Both are seeking the even higher NCI designation of comprehensive cancer center.
Huge ice spikes, known as penitents, found on Earth could form on Europa, they said. "It's a pretty obscure geological feature on the Earth," Dan Hobley, an astronomer at the University of Virginia, told SPACE.com after he presented his findings at the 44th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
John Morley, a law professor at the University of Virginia, says the case could have a "significant impact" on the willingness of people to be mutual-fund directors. If too many are reluctant, mutual funds might have to "start paying directors more," he adds. That would push fund expenses higher and erode returns.
(Video) Jim Coan from the University of Virginia explains the effects friends have on our health and well-being, and the science behind it.
(Book review by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project) Interfaith marriages have helped spread religious tolerance in society but can present intractable problems for some couples.
The University of Virginia has put out admissions numbers for the upcoming freshman class.