“All the polls say President Obama is a winner and the congressional Republicans are losers,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. “Almost any president would be in this position; there is no way for the institution of Congress to compete with the White House bully pulpit.”
(Commentary) The governance crisis at the University of Virginia is over and the results are surprisingly positive. A strong president remains in place and a great university remains on track.
Letting a robotic system do your cell culturing can pay off in more ways than just sparing you carpal tunnel. “If each person in your group has more than two or three cell types to culture, or if you have to feed [or replace the media on] cells frequently, especially on weekends, you should look into automation,” says Robin Felder of the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, cofounder of Global Cell Solutions, a company that sells cell-culture products.
But would Bolling actually be more help to McAuliffe as an independent spoiler in the governor’s race, peeling moderate Republican votes away from Cuccinelli? That appears to be the conventional wisdom, but University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato disagrees. “Bolling has been taking very moderate positions and as a consequence, I could see him taking a lot of votes from both candidates,” he said.
Brazilian pianist Caio Pagano will present "An Unforgettable Evening of Beethoven" at 8 tonight in Cabell Hall Auditorium. He is regarded as "one of the great Beethoven recitalists of our day," Richard Will, chairman of the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Music, said in a news release.
Health care is a big industry in Virginia. The following pages offer a peak at the recent performance of major hospitals, nursing homes, health and accident insurance companies, and life insurers operating in the commonwealth.
Virginia is home to some of the nation’s most notable colleges and universities, which date back to our nation’s beginnings.
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.
A team of undergraduate students participating in a special summer research program for minority students at the University of Virginia conducted some of the experiments leading to the discovery of cyanomethanimine. The students worked under U.Va. professors Brooks Pate and Ed Murphy, and Remijan. The program, funded by the National Science Foundation, brought students from four universities for summer research experiences.
Several studies suggest that companies that focus on multiple stakeholders tend to achieve better financial performance over the long term. Intuitively, this makes sense, too, because, as professor Ed Freeman of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia puts it, "business is about how customers, suppliers, employees, financiers, communities, and managers interact and create value."
Sam Shank is a travel-obsessed serial entrepreneur and investor focused on mobile, hospitality, online travel and ecommerce. Shank is the co-founder and CEO of HotelTonight, sold his first startup TravelPost to what became Kayak.
“The cuts will not immediately affect most of the country,” Eric Patashnik, a professor of public policy and politics at the University of Virginia, said. “Because the effects are not going to be highly visible to most citizens, many of the members of Congress will not feel immense pressure to solve the problem, but it will have a significant impact on some states and jurisdictions including Virginia.”
University of Virginia clinical psychologist Meg Jay will get a ton of views once this Ted talk goes live. Her message to young professionals is simple: Don’t waste your 20s.
(Press release) The Supreme Court must protect the right of same-sex couples to marry, AJC argued in an amicus brief in two cases regarding religious institution opposition to such unions. The brief was prepared by Professor Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia Law School, one of the nation's foremost authorities on religious liberty.
Thursday, a University of Virginia health group is doing its part to help women live healthy lives and prevent heart disease. Club Red wants to educate people about the number one killer of women in the U.S.
Dean Robert Bruner with the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia says these cuts mean much more than just some short-term pain. He says the cuts, and other unsuccessful efforts to reduce the nation's deficit, show that this is just the start of deeper challenges ahead.
In Charlottesville, Va., a rediscovery of architect Mr. Bradbury – who designed many of the town's most significant buildings as well as more modest homes in the early 20th century – was driven by University of Virginia architectural-history professor Daniel Bluestone.
But "most people are shrugging," concedes Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia historian, noting that Americans are simply exhausted from a never-ending series of deadlines and manufactured crises.
But even if Democrats don’t make the strides they plan to make as fast as they hope to make them, they can be sure that the Republican Party will be forced to fight back against their efforts. And that fight will cost the GOP crucial resources. “On the whole, Republicans want to nail Texas down enough so that they not only win it, they also don’t have to spend any money there,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told TheDC. “They need the cash in too many other places.”
Christians who want to transform society need to be a faithful presence instead of trying to dominate or flee from culture, said a sociologist who studies Christianity and culture at Tuesday night’s Inaugural Symposium lecture. “If changing the world was a business venture, the business model has failed,” said Dr. James Davison Hunter, a professor at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World.