Commentary by Jonathan M. Sackier, a visiting professor of surgery and medicine at the University of Virginia.
Days after Americans went to the polls, political scientists began their in-depth analysis of what happened. Sandy Hausman talked with a member of the Crystal Ball Team at the University of Virginia, political analyst Geoffrey Skelley, about lessons learned in 2012.
The role that great thinkers such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Alexis de Tocqueville played in the shaping of America's self-conception has been well examined. Yet English professor Paul Cantor notes that scholars have curiously ignored certain equally important questions—like what would the author of "Democracy in America" have thought of "The Day the Earth Stood Still?"
An online auction to raise funds to restore the Rotunda at the University of Virginia closed Sunday afternoon. Organizers say it was very successful with several bids on every item. They expect to raise between $10,000 and $15,000 this time, and they're hoping to host an auction again in the spring.
Charlottesville is the first stop for a statewide tour aimed at promoting a support network for entrepreneurial ventures in Virginia. The tour promoting Startup Virginia kicks off Monday morning in the Darden Innovation Laboratory at the University of Virginia.
The U.S. Supreme Court this week takes up the question of who qualifies as a supervisor when the issue is harassment in the workplace. The court's answer to that question could significantly restrict employer liability in racial and sexual harassment cases, or, in the view of some business organizations, it could result in frivolous litigation. "There are lots of situations where people have power over other employees when they don't have the power to fire them, to discipline them, to promote them, to set their wages or things like that," says University of Virginia law ...
A holiday congestion tracker shows expected periods of heavy traffic. The University of Virginia developed the tracker for VDOT so drivers can avoid the worst congestion during peak travel times.
Bruce Greyson, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, challenged Koch’s view of consciousness. He said that, “if you take these near death experiences at face value, then they suggest that the mind or the consciousness seems to function without the physical body.”
Pam Stucky measures her son’s age by the number of years that have passed since her husband was killed. Phillip Stucky is 22. Now a student at the University of Virginia, he was six weeks old when a Naval Reserve officer with a blood alcohol content of 0.23 percent swerved a vehicle across a double yellow line, plowing head-on into Dean Stucky's pickup truck.
Diversity-oriented admissions events are "incredibly valuable" for their opportunities to network and interact closely with admissions officials, says Nicole Lindsay, a 2000 University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business Administration MBA who runs the website Diversity MBA Prep. But they might mislead some applicants, who assume that they are representative of the actual b-school experience.
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) One of the abiding fissures in American life exposed by presidential election was religion. Exit polls indicated that about 60 percent of Americans who regularly attend church voted for Mitt Romney, and about 60 percent of Americans who rarely or never attend religious services voted for President Obama.
The Hokies and the 'Hoos are preparing to go head to head on the football field this weekend. But, already their fans are squaring off in a "bloody" battle.
Hillary Hurd, a fourth-year student at the University of Virginia, has been named a 2013 Marshall Scholar by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.
Students involved with the Queer Student Union at the University of Virginia say hate crimes are a problem on college campuses across the country, with many attacks going unreported.
Volunteers from the University of Virginia's cancer research fund are giving thanks this holiday week to a family of supporters. Members of the Patients and Friends Research Fund surprised the Lorenzoni family Monday at their store, Ragged Mountain Running Shop. The Charlottesville running shop sponsored the Women's Four Miler, which donated a record $68,000 this year to Patients and Friends to support cancer research.
Some University of Virginia nursing students have found a creative way to give advice about how to deal with challenging situations. The 2013 class has compiled a book called "This Journal Belongs to a Nursing Student" to give a glimpse into their everyday lives.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said McCain and Dole were well liked by at least some parts of the Republican Party structure. “I just don’t think Romney ever established an emotional connection with much of anybody in the party,” said Sabato. “He was essentially a cyborg designed to win the presidency, and when he failed he was placed in the disposal bin.”
Leaving 60 years of tradition behind, Maryland pulled up its deep-rooted history with the Atlantic Coast Conference on Monday in an admitted money grab and cast its future with the Midwest-based Big Ten Conference.
Nicole Muller started a food collection initiative called Neighbors-4-Neighbors when she was a 16-year-old Western Albemarle High School student. Now, four years later, she's continuing her efforts at the University of Virginia and Neighbors-4-Neighbors has just hit a major milestone. Four years ago, Muller set out to raise 500 pounds of food. Now, she's raised 500,000, and her work has helped people across the country put food on the table.
Christopher Ruhm, professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Virginia, has demonstrated that during economic expansions use of tobacco and alcohol as well as obesity increase while exercise decreases.