The national fight for the hearts and votes of Latino voters is being shaped by two young Texans with Hispanic roots. In the past week, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and Republican Senate nominee Ted Cruz both energized their parties’ national conventions with impassioned stories of the family’s immigrant experience and only-in-America success. ...“Horatio Alger lives, over and over, at both party conventions,” said University of Virginia government professor Larry J. Sabato.
In two studies, researchers found that college students who teamed up to play violent video games later showed more cooperative behavior, and sometimes less signs of aggression, than students who played the games competitively. ... Among the authors of the paper is James DeCoster of the University of Virginia.
UVa has a new medical research center that is 'BIG'. 'BIG' stands for the Brain Immunology and Glia Center. Researchers from many different medical disciplines are coming together to unlock the secrets to many complex diseases and disorders that affect many of us.
A new movie of Anna Karenina has been attacked by film fans because the hero – described as dark-haired in the classic novel – looks like a ‘blond poodle’. … Professor Andy Kaufman, a Tolstoy expert at the University of Virginia, said: ‘One of Tolstoy’s themes is the conflict between Russian values and Western values, and there’s the idea that Vronsky, as a Westernised, particularly Germanised, Russian would be an outsider, and his having blond hair could be a way of demonstrating that. “
Five pairs of masterworks concerts presented by the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra and music director Kate Tamarkin will explore rhythms of dance from around the world.
Op-ed by Kathryn Neeley and Stephanie Moore of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.Online learning appears to offer the ultimate win-win proposition: a combination of efficiency, quality and access. It is no surprise, then, that the online course platform Coursera recently expanded from four to 16 partners, including our own institution, the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia law school’s library is making use of an unusual and valuable gift from an anonymous alumnus by displaying a series of enlarged photographs taken by groundbreaking photojournalist André Kertész.
Applying design-oriented thinking to business development is an essential element of modern management, according to a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
When Jennifer Maiorano and her wife, Samantha, moved to Charlottesville so Samantha could finish her doctorate in developmental psychology, Maiorano’s biggest concern was finding a job.
Following last week’s debate about the Apple vs Samsung verdict Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman, authors of “The Knock-Off Economy,” contacted me to talk about the innovation benefits of imitation. …Here is what Kal (law professor and IP specialist at UCLA) and Chris (research law professor at the University of Virginia) think. Though we touched on Apple vs Samsung, we also talked about imitation more generally.
University Of Virginia student Rory Stolzenberg is a business owner at the age of 20. Stolzenberg wants to revolutionize ordering takeout from a cell phone, using a phone app he developed called Foodio.
Fibroids, benign growths that develop in the muscular wall of the uterus, affect the quality of life for as many as two out of three women in the U.S. They are so prevalent that they have been called a “hidden epidemic” by the National Institutes of Health. Advice by Dr.Dana Redick, medical director of the Uterine Fibroid Treatment Center at University of Virginia Health System, a collaboration of the departments of Interventional Radiology and Gynecology.
Just a few years ago, most Richmond-area schools didn't allow students to carry even the most basic cellphones. But as the communications culture continues to change, school systems can't ignore it. Bert Jacoby, a doctoral fellow in instructional technology at the University of Virginia, said schools are best served by using all the available technological tools because "those tools will be essential in the professional world."
More than 3,000 women hit the pavement through Albemarle County to raise money for breast cancer research. Women got up early to run the Charlottesville Women's Four Miler at Foxfield on Saturday.
An update on the new Contemplative Sciences Center at U.Va.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - A panel discussion is set at the University of Virginia on the short-lived ouster of university President Teresa Sullivan. The event is set for Sept.
Few if any athletes can match the collegiate career of Ralph Sampson (College '83). Now he’s joining another exclusive club – the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The Culpeper Regional Health System, the Culpeper Regional Hospital’s parent company, will host a few free events in September and October. Dr. Kathleen Fuchs, a University of Virginia neuropsychologist, will present a lecture on "What’s Normal and What was the Question?" at the Country Club of Culpeper on Sept. 10 from 6 to 7 p.m.
HOUSTON — This season means more to Texans quarterback Matt Schaub (College '03) than any player on the team. Schaub is preparing for his ninth season — his sixth in Houston — and his health is paramount to the Texans reaching the high expectations that are unprecedented in the 11-year history of the franchise. This weekend he returned to the University of Virginia, where his jersey was retired. He left Charlottesville in 2004 with 22 school records and just about every award the university had to offer for performance on the field as well as academics.
Kathryn Budig and Karly Wade met about a year ago at YogaWorks in Los Angeles, where Ms. Budig, 30, began teaching in 2004. Ms. Budig had set out to be an actress after graduating from the University of Virginia but instead became a yoga instructor. She has nearly 20,000 followers on Facebook and when she travels to yoga studios—33 gigs this year from Idaho to Dubai—it is standing-pose-room-only.