A bill aimed at making Virginia a national and global leader in nuclear energy sailed out of a House of Delegates committee on a 22-0 vote Thursday. The Nuclear Energy Conosrtium's members would include four universities -- including U.Va. -- plus federal research laboratories based in Virginia and business entities “that are engaged in activities directly related to the nuclear energy industry,” according to the bill’s language.
(Commentary) A study released this week by the American Institutes for Research showed that universities in the top tier of the NCAA, the Football Bowl Subdivision, spent on average $92,000 per athlete in 2010.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address, unemployment was almost 25 percent, and while the speech acknowledges the "dark realities of the moment," it also assures the nation that it can overcome these difficulties and establishes the comforting voice that made him such a revered, trusted father figure to so many Americans. "He calms the nation with the famous phrase 'the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,'" said Barbara A. Perry, a presidential scholar and senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
(Editorial) Various factors contributed to the rumpus in Charlottesville. One theme in the controversy involving the University of Virginia — the forced departure of President Teresa Sullivan and her re-instatement — apparently concerned the school’s adaptation to the digital age.
From staff reports "Arts into Action" will unite poetry, drama, music, film and visual arts to explore how the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence is resonating in today's society and circumstances.
Terry Belanger, the recently retired director of the Rare Book School at U.Va., contributed to a new exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York.
University of Virginia Rector Helen Dragas is one step closer to keeping her seat on the board of visitors after a legislative committee voted to send her nomination on to the full Senate.
The internet has already revolutionized the working environment, the music industry, the media and shopping habits.
Much has been said about America’s political divide – about red, blue and purple states. Now, social scientists at the University of Virginia have identified four different kinds of families.
(Commentary by E.D. Hirsch Jr., professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia and the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation.) The key to increasing upward mobility is expanding vocabulary.
Politics professor Larry J. Sabato, director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics, was interviewed about President Obama's proposed gun legislation.
Larry Sabato, heads of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, agreed that Reid was "positioning himself to only pass things in the Senate that can pass the House."
At a forum for students to discuss their thoughts on the University of Virginia's strategic planning efforts, two items stood out: Concerns about the academic advising system and a suggestion to increase the number of out-of-state students.
Brad Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, worries that legalizing pot opens up a “Pandora’s box that will only create one more potential problem” for the lower classes. He explains, “The new world we live in is about freedom and choice in any number of domains. People who are well-educated and affluent can successfully navigate those choices. But Americans with fewer advantages fall into self-destructive patterns.”
(Commentary) For Helen Dragas, the controversial board chief at the University of Virginia, the meeting must have felt akin to being called into the principal’s office.
Political intrigue, assassination and espionage aren’t commonly associated with Athens, Ohio — but Ohio University Press has brought ink to paper to create an award-winning novel based on just those themes. "Ministers of Fire," by Mark Saunders, interim director of the U.Va. Press, was rated as a Top 50 work of fiction by The Washington Post in 2012 and chosen as one of the “Top Ten Mysteries of 2012” by The Wall Street Journal, all because of a conversation that occurred in Sept. 2010.
If colleges and universities thought they could ride out the current revenue challenges by becoming more like some other institution, Moody's Investors Service has a bit of bad news for them: The grass isn't greener on anybody else's quad.
(Editorial) If 37 percent of Kentucky children are obese or overweight, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control report, why is it that only 14 percent of Kentucky parents think their child weighs too much? As much as we might wish to write off this finding from the Kentucky Parent Survey as a statistical aberration, the truth probably is that a lot of parents are in denial about their child's weight and their own weight. The poll was commissioned by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and conducted last summer by the University of Virginia's Center for Survey Research.
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the money race reflects the opinion polls: “Any polling that’s been done so far has shown the two candidates to be neck and neck, so I’d say that the race is very close.”
Jerry Stenger, the director of the climatology office at the University of Virginia, thinks this storm could be pretty significant.