Profile of Hugh Keogh, former president of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, who attended U.Va. on a Navy ROTC scholarship.
Matthew Engle, one of Barbour's lawyers and co-director of U.Va.'s Innocence Project, said, "He just made a mistake. He thought that when the Supreme Court granted his writ that he was no longer a convicted felon. He misunderstood."
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, execuive director of U.Va.'s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.) The brave new world of online courses is alive and well and growing at the University of Virginia, which has yet to determine how to turn a profit on these ventures.
Audio interview with politics professor Larry J. Sabato, director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics.
A report by the Boy Scouts in September said that 829 of the files from Jan. 1, 1965, to June 30, 1984, involved suspicions or confirmations of inappropriate sexual behavior with 1,622 youth. The report was done for the organization by Dr. Janet Warren, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia.
Co-investigators on the grant include Patrick Concannon, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at University of Virginia.
Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, agrees. "In the early part of the republic, we had candidates who lived in Virginia, and moved around some," he says. "But this is the modern era, where candidates move a great deal."
In 2009 University of Virginia psychologist Christopher S. Hulleman described a semester-long intervention in which one group of high school students wrote about how science related to their lives and another group simply summarized what they had learned in science class.
Commentary by Philip Zelikow, history professor and associate dean of Arts & Sciences for graduate academic programs.
“In a rather archaic tradition,” says Kyle Kondik, a tie throws the presidential decision to the House — which has a current GOP majority. Each of the 50 state delegations casts a single vote and the candidate who wins the most votes wins the White House, said Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia.
A candidate “gets face time on the news broadcasts, and he gets written up in the newspaper,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Whatever sound bite is produced out of the visit will be repeated on television.”
Anthrax has the unexpected ability to grow and reproduce while lurking in soil — increasing the deadly bacteria’s chances to infect cattle and other mammals, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered.
According to Dr. Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, “the president won this debate over Romney”, though he added that it was not as “decisive” as Romney’s triumph in the first face-off.
"It gives her more exposure for as long as she wants it," said University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato. "She can always resign the position to run for office."
"It's panic time," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia. "The notion that a company as powerful as Amazon has such a tremendous amount of influence on what we read, how much money authors make, and the formats that books appear in is really scary to the book industry and other industries as well."
Guest post by Eugene Geh and Andrew King of U.Va’s Darden School of Business.
Ahead of a sold-out benefit concert in Charlottesville, one University of Virginia student is getting the "give back" message out there. The Avett Brothers are teaming up with Cheerwine to present a concert that will raise money for charities including UVA's Children's Hospital.
Over on the University of Virginia’s admissions blog, Senior Assistant Dean of Admissions Jeannine Lalonde got fed up with the misinformation she was seeing on forums and message boards about how many recommendation letters to submit to a college.
A big ticket auction is being held to benefit a historic landmark at the University of Virginia. You can now bid on items that will help pay for the multi-million dollar restoration of the Rotunda, and many of the rare items up for grabs can't be purchased anywhere else.
Michael Corbat is the new chief executive officer of Citigroup after Tuesday’s shocking power transfer that saw Vikram Pandit resign out of the blue. But after yesterday’s stunning events, it seems like the man who is really in charge is Citigroup Chairman Michael O’Neill.