Well, it ain’t about daffodils. That’s Bob Chapel’s very brief description of “Spring Awakening,” an amazing, multileveled musical currently in production in the Culbreth Theatre.
“Boredom is a neglected topic in psychology,” noted Timothy Wilson, a leading social psychologist at the University of Virginia who is undertaking boredom studies of his own. He calls the new review a “good, solid paper,” adding, “There is a lot of research on attention and mind wandering, but [until now], no attempt to bring it together under the topic of boredom per se.”
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise will soon have a new leader. The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors will approve and announce the appointment of the eighth chancellor during a meeting Dec. 7.
A University of Virginia student's innovative idea has won him $15,000. Brent Baumgartner, a first-year computer engineering major, put his plan up against 37 other entries in the Vonage-OpenGrounds Future of Social Messaging Concept Competition and came out on top.
The University of Virginia Medical Center has lost an on-call pharmacist’s unencrypted handheld device containing sensitive medical records for more than 1,500 people, officials said Friday.
Students from the University of Virginia have successfully completed their mission of brightening the holiday season for a number of needy families around Charlottesville. Every year the Madison House, UVa's student volunteer center, sponsors Charlottesville families during the holiday season.
The new model suggests that Pluto's atmosphere may reach as far as 6,456 miles into space--that is more than 50 percent of the way to Charon, and approximately 4.5 times the diameter of Pluto itself. "That is amazing, from my perspective," Justin Erwin said in the November 26, 2012 Space.com. Erwin, the lead author of the paper, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia.
A University of Virginia Center for Politics analysis outlines the loss of the blue-collar segment of the Democrats’ coalition in the part of Appalachia stretching south from New York, including chunks of the Rust Belt that once were decent sources of votes for Democrat presidential candidates.
Fracher’s five-page report includes a bolded disclaimer at the bottom stating that the results of his testing method in the case, the Abel Assessment, cannot be used to evaluate a client’s guilt or innocence. “[The Abel method] is far from perfect,” said Dr. Daniel Murrie, director of Psychology at the University of Virginia’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy. “I don’t use it, I’ve never used it.” ... The suspected rate of abuse within the Boy Scouts based on their own internal records is lower than the overall national a...
“He (McAuliffe) got the opponent he really wanted,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “He’s going to do everything humanly possible to remind people of (Cuccinelli’s) record on social issues.”
Gaetano Esposito is a research scientist in aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia. The 28-year-old Italian would like to take a job in the aerospace industry, but faces obstacles because of his temporary H1B visa, which is awarded to skilled foreign workers.
University of Virginia senior Casey Schulman spent the past 14 weeks on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure with the school’s Semester at Sea program. The 22-year-old Falls Church native visited London and Portugal, Africa and the Amazon. This week, finally, she was scheduled to return home. On Saturday, during the ship’s final stop on the Caribbean island of Dominica, Schulman and other students took a break to go snorkeling. As she swam in the pristine tropical waters, a small boat backed into Schulman, killing her.
"Most of the Republican House members and a large number of the party's senators are very safe in a general election. No Democrat can beat them," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "The only place they can lose is in the low-turnout party primary, which is usually dominated by strong conservatives for whom the word 'tax' is almost an obscenity."
(Commentary by orthopedic hand surgeon Dr. Bobby Chhabra, co-director of the Hand Center at the U.Va. Health System.) Texting, typing and surfing — these aren’t exactly strenuous endeavors. But factor in the amount of time most of us spend on these tasks, and you’ll understand why our hands may be feeling the strain of repetitive movement.
If you have never heard the story of reddit, here it is from its creators. The story takes us from the University of Virginia dorms, to Harvard, through dealings with Y Combinator, failed startups ideas, and finally the launch of frontpage of the Internet. If you are a frequent reddit user or simply have an interest in internet culture, this sitdown with site founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman is well worth your time.
Both the Colorado and Washington estimates came with caveats explaining the obvious: Any revenue projection is contingent on the federal government not enforcing the laws that still render possession of an ounce of marijuana illegal -- even in Colorado and Washington. University of Virginia law professor Richard Bonnie, co-author of "Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States," said it's a tricky equation.
Kids got an early Christmas present and a picture with Santa Claus himself this morning's 'Breakfast with Santa' event by the Circle-K International Club at the University of Virginia.
Charlottesville theater buffs are celebrating the opening of the University of Virginia's newly renovated Culbreth Theatre and its fall debut, "Spring Awakening."
In the early years of black studies, the most pressing battles seemed elsewhere. "To focus on sexuality would have been a distortion of the agenda," says Marlon Ross, an English professor at the University of Virginia. It was hard enough to fight for a place at the table for a new academic discipline focusing on black people. Acquiescing to the demands for work on sexuality, many of them coming from gay and lesbian scholars, seemed too dangerous.
"Apple is now blasting Samsung as a copycat. But from its beginning, Apple was an active copier itself,’’ said Christopher Jon Sprigman, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.