It’s 6:40 a.m. in a frigid South Jersey TV studio, and in 20 minutes Me­lissa Stark—who looks better at this g­roggy hour than you ever will—goes live on-air.
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced today, at NBA All-Star Weekend in Houston, an elite list of players and coaches, as the 12 finalists from the North American and Women's committees to be considered for election in 2013. Among the nominees: Former U.Va. women’s basketball star Dawn Staley.
Norman Vladimir almost went to law school instead of following the one passion that had been with him his entire life. The New York-based music artist had just graduated from the University of Virginia and was working on a research grant when he was considering taking a job at a law firm.
Hassan Askari (1919-1978) was thrilled about the idea of Pakistan. At the time of Partition, the Urdu scholar used to tell his contemporaries that they were living in exciting times when a whole country was being formed and a new culture was in the process of creation “based entirely on Urdu.” “He lived in a fantasy world and had high expectations from the authors of that time,” said Mehr Afshan Farooqi, assistant professor of Urdu and South Asian literature at the University of Virginia, at a session titled “Postcolonial Minds: Askari and Ahmad Ali”.
The 2013 edition of the Best Doctors in America List includes 189 physicians from the University of Virginia Health System.
A documentary produced in part by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics will air this month on more than 180 PBS stations across the country.
(Commentary) Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia who often sides with proponents of broader religious liberty, has taken to warning his friends that their aggressive positions on abortion, gay rights and now contraception are undermining the longstanding American respect for free exercise of religion. "The religious community cannot take religious liberty for granted," he said in a speech before the contraceptive issue blew up. "It needs to expend a lot more energy defending the right to religious liberty, and it would help to spend a lot less energy a...
One of the co-founders of Coursera, the provider of massive open online courses with which the University of Virginia has partnered, will be speaking at UVa on Wednesday.
Drivers with ADHD are also more likely to run out of gas, according to a 2007 study by the Medical University of South Carolina and University of Virginia Health System. Researchers at the universities concluded that there are some ADHD individuals who can actually become good drivers but certainly not easy or quickly.
Lifting the ban is not a women’s issue, said UVa law professor Anne Coughlin, who formed the Molly Pitcher Project with students Rebecca Cohn, Ariel Linet, Kyle Mallinak and Helen O’Bierne Hardiman. “Precluding women from even competing for these jobs does tell us that we are lesser in some way,” Coughlin said. “It says that no matter how smart or how brave you are, you don’t count, and that’s deeply disrespectful – especially to the women who have fought and died for their country.”
University of Virginia engineering students gave some special lessons in applied science Saturday afternoon.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the polls don’t lie. “There is no question that Tom Latham would be a much stronger general election candidate, but the problem is convincing the most conservative activists who show up to vote in primaries,” Sabato said.
Marriage occurs in a very uneven fashion, W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, told the Deseret News last spring. Highly educated Americans are more likely to marry. That includes the third of Americans with a college degree. Marriage is less likely among those who have some college education or less, what he called a "retreat from marriage in middle America."
Everyone agrees that the virus infects us by getting into our noses and tear ducts. But when it comes to how it gets there – specifically, the importance of hand-to-hand transfer – the best information we have comes from experiments done about 30 years ago by a pair of doctors who disagreed with each other passionately. Jack Gwaltney, now retired, was then a professor of infectious disease at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Dr. Barbara Perry, senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center in Charlottesville and an expert on the Kennedy presidency, said "If we eliminate every person from the presidency who had an affair, we would eliminate some of our greatest presidents."
In Charlottesville, “Of all the economic generators, there is truly one that helps define the nature of much of region and is considered the anchor to the local economy, and that is the University of Virginia,” Charlottesville Albemarle Airport spokesman Jason Burch wrote in an e-mail. Burch said UVa traffic not only makes up a “good portion” of the airport’s business and holiday travels, but charters from the school’s athletic programs also support the airport’s success.
To regain a House majority, Democrats must win at least a few more seats in states such as Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan, according to Kyle Kondik, a University of Virginia political analyst.
“All of these states voted for the president twice but redistricting has made that task harder,” he said.
Last year, a poll by GOP pollster Frank Luntz found that 74 percent of NRA members supported more comprehensive background checks for gun purchasers – a reform that University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato says is the most likely to become law.
The story describes the economic impact of large student housing projects being built locally.
Officials at the University of Virginia are hoping a new grant program will boost the role of women faculty members in the sciences, but the grant is just the latest effort in an area that’s long been a top concern.