Dr. James Davison Hunter talked about the Christian virtues of faith, hope and love and how they relate to culture at Tuesday morning’s Gather service in Royal Brougham Pavillion.
Don’t believe remodeling your personal universe can be done in this way? Go to Amazon or whatever shopping website you prefer and search out “Strangers to Ourselves” (subtitled “Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious”) by Dr. Timothy D. Wilson (Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia).
It was a busy offseason for Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman. He got married to his longtime girlfriend, and also had surgery on a shoulder that bothered him throughout last season.
There's a lot of debate as to what women are "supposed" to do with our 20s. On the one hand, we can treat this decade as a last chance to truly be young, make mistakes, and extend our adolescence before settling down and having kids. On the other, we have people like Meg Jay, an assistant clinical professor at the University of Virginia, who recently gave a TEDTalk on the subject, who worry about young people trivializing our 20s and wasting what she calls valuable time.
Debra Saunders-White won’t take over officially as the new chancellor of N.C. Central University until June 1. But the announcement that the U.S Department of Education official will become the university’s 11th chancellor – and first permanent female leader – continues to spur excitement on campus, particularly among female students.
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond is showing “Substitutions for a Game Never Played,” an exhibit by University of Virginia arts professor Megan Marlatt.
"The polls are unanimous at the moment: Republicans in Congress would be blamed more than Obama for the pain from the sequester cuts," said Larry Sabato, a professor at the University of Virginia and director of its Center for Politics. "However, the longer the sequester is in effect, it's possible that voters would become unhappy with all the players. The 'pox on all your houses' effect has been seen many times, since people assume that the responsibility for inaction is eventually shared."
The New College Institute aims to start its new telemedicine program, the Southside Telehealth Training Academy and Resource Center, or STAR, by this summer It will teach people to use modern medical technology so health care providers can monitor patients’ chronic health problems and other ailments via electronic links. STAR is a joint venture of NCI and the University of Virginia Health System.
Louis Bloomfield is accustomed to speaking to classrooms of 25 or 30 students, but now he is preparing a syllabus for a crowd so massive that it wouldn’t be out of place at a Justin Bieber concert.
Admissions officers at some of the nation's most selective colleges say they barely look at an applicant's GPA. "It's meaningless," says Greg Roberts, admissions dean at the University of Virginia, ranked as the top public university in this year's 150 Best Value Colleges, published by The Princeton Review and based on academics and affordability.
Q&A with law professor David Martin, who was principal deputy general counsel for Obama’s Department of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2010 and served as general counsel to the Immigration and Naturalization Service during the Clinton administration.
UVA political analyst Larry Sabato says the Dumler situation is only going to get worse. "This is a close call. I've studied dozens if not hundreds of political scandals; what strikes me is every case is different," he said.
University of Virginia cancer researchers will share their latest findings over a free breakfast. The Patients and Friends Steering Committee is hosting the presentation Thursday morning at Alumni Hall.
Political expert Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, says opposition from Republicans makes McDonnell's political future uncertain. That future, Sabato says, likely won't include a return to public office for the political veteran.
"Within the Republican party he broke his pledge not to raise taxes," Sabato said. "And there are many within the GOP who simply won't forgive that."
For all Haitians, it’s a historic moment when they will be challenged to reconcile with the country’s past. “Until you come to terms with the nature of the dictatorship publicly, I don’t think you can go on,” said Robert Fatton, a longtime Haiti watcher and political science professor at the University of Virginia. “It’s true many of the people under Duvalier are old now, but they don’t forget. All of those who have been jailed, or intimidated or sent into exile, they want some clarity on the past.”
Gov. Bob McDonnell says ticket sales from the inaugural Governor’s Holiday Hoops Classic raised more than $48,000 for Virginia’s food banks. The donation adds to the more than 100 tons of food collected for the needy during a month-long drive by the four participating schools. The schools were the University of Virginia, Old Dominion, the University of Richmond and George Mason.
Not everyone is ready to tell parents to keep quiet about their druggy pasts. “I don’t think the broad literature supports the idea that you shouldn’t tell your kids about your past,” said Patrick Tolan, a professor in the Curry School of Education and in the department of psychiatry at the University of Virginia and director of the university’s Youth-Nex Center.
After the Oscar performance, University of Virginia presidential scholar Barbara A. Perry also found herself wondering about Michelle Obama’s political future.
Their views mirror the current disagreement in Congress over how to cut the deficit. Sometimes the facts are obscured in the political rhetoric. “Look at the data. Look at actual spending,” says Jim Savage at the University of Virginia.
So with reputations hanging in the balance, what can be done? That’s the question Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has been pondering. Last year, he launched the crowdsourced Reproducibility Project, with the express mission of replicating psychological studies published in high-profile journals.