Transforming its football staff will translate into big financial commitments for the University of Virginia. The Cavaliers are a part of a national trend toward increased pay for assistants, and will spend more than $2.5 million on nine assistant coaches in the 2013 season.
Go beyond your base – Republicans cannot win by appealing only to the party faithful. There just aren’t enough registered voters who adhere to a strict conservative dogma. The GOP has been insulated from this because congressional districts have been drawn to ensure they don’t really need to appeal to moderates, said Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia political scientist.
In its first meeting Thursday, a panel created by Gov. Dannel Malloy in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shootings heard testimony from two experts with experience dealing with school shootings -- former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and University of Virginia law professor Richard Bonnie.
In celebration of this milestone, the club plans to create a special public garden. To finance this effort, members have been holding a series of fundraising lectures, with the final one being held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Farmington Country Club. The speaker will be Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History and chair of the department of architecture at the University of Virginia. His talk will center on his new book, "Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount," and will be followed by a book signing.
A 20-year old sophomore student at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise majoring in psychology was in jail Thursday under no bond following an alleged false police report of a gunman on the campus late Wednesday.
Christopher Swift, a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Center for National Security Law, traveled to Yemen and found that “the factors driving young men into the insurgency are overwhelmingly economic” and are not a result of blowback from drone strikes.
(Commentary) We can say one's 20s are for pure, unadulterated hedonism, but actually, these are formative years. In an Op-Ed that ran in The Times’ Opinion pages last year, Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia, warned recent college grads to take their lives seriously: “Our 20s are life's developmental sweet spot. They matter. A lot.”
Politics professor Larry J. Sabato, director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics, outlines how the 2016 presidential field is shaping up.
Law professor Richard Bonnie, from the University of Virginia, urged the panel to move slowly and noted that it could take years for the group to finish its task. He warned that acting prematurely could lead to “disproportionate responses,” such as eroding privacy rights for the mentally ill.
Next month, University of Virginia students will have the chance to vote on some major changes to the school's honor system. The system dates back to the 1800s, and often gets critiqued for its rigidity and single-sanction policy.
University of Virginia professors got an insider's look at some cutting-edge technology Thursday. The digital media lab hosted an open house to show off high-tech gadgets and teach professors how to incorporate them into their classrooms.
Although mental-health professionals have become more skilled at predicting which patients may commit a violent act, the accuracy of such judgments is still “only slightly better than chance,” said John Monahan, a professor at the University of Virginia whose work has focused on the science of violence prediction.
The University of Virginia's student-run journal of public policy is hosting a national conference for similar journals from universities around the country.
University of Virginia School of Law Professor Richard Bonnie Thursday addressed the first meeting of the 17-member Sandy Hook Advisory Commission named by Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to develop policies on school safety, gun violence reduction and mental health access with an initial report due by mid-March.
The scheme is so blatant in its election-stealing intent that it has pushed Larry Sabato, the well-known and nonpartisan elections expert at the University of Virginia, to condemn it in unusually harsh terms. The plan is “a corrupt and cynical maneuver to frustrate popular will and put a heavy thumb — the whole hand, in fact — on the scale for future Republican candidates.”
Erik Hewlett of U.Va.’s School of Medicine is among a dozen faculty members from Virginia colleges and universities who will receive the 2013 Outstanding Faculty Award.
Now that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat, does this mean that women could potentially be drafted, too? “The answer to that question is clearly yes,” says Anne Coughlin, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville. “The legal argument is clear: If it comes to that kind of wrenching emergency where we have to press young people into service, there is no legal justification for saying that men alone need to shoulder that burden.”
Q&A with Dorrie Fontaine, dean of U.Va.'s School of Nursing.
A very neat new paper from U.Va. researchers Brendan Peterson, Sonal Pandya, and David Leblang shows that in some American states rent-seeking cartels use the licensing process to prevent the inflow of skilled immigrant health care professionals, thereby driving up prices and their own earnings.
A study done by the University of Virginia and the Polytechnic University of Milan is the first-ever assessment of efforts by corporations to "grab" land and water in other countries for agricultural use.