Headliners for the 25th annual Virginia Festival of the Book were announced Tuesday, and tickets for some of the event’s most popular programs will go on sale Thursday.
Official Washington is full of impasses; we are truly fortunate when we have the means to avoid them in our personal lives. One of the many rewards of living in the Charlottesville area is a luncheon date with others who share a strong interest in things nuclear. We’ve been meeting one a month or so for eight years. We are a diverse bunch. There’s Houston Wood, born and raised in Mississippi, who is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia and a renowned expert on centrifuges. He expressed deep skepticism about the U.S. intelligence community’s complian...
The University of Virginia is addressing the roles of social media in this new cyber age by carrying out research, education, and hosting a series of speakers. The series is all part of UVA's Cyber Innovation and Society Institute.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce is welcoming its new president with a reception on Monday evening. Elizabeth Cromwell will take over the position on Oct. 1. Cromwell is coming from the Chamber of Commerce in Frederick, Maryland.The University of Virginia is hosting the reception for business and community leaders to meet Cromwell at the Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center.
Harvard University, the wealthiest school in the nation, has added nearly $10 billion to its coffers through a record-breaking capital campaign. The previous record for a college capital campaign was held by Stanford University, which wrapped up a five-year fund drive in 2012 to the tune of $6.2 billion. Major capital campaigns underway include a $5 billion effort at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by Nicholas Jacobs, Ph.D. candidate) As Barack Obama has begun campaigning for Democrats in the 2018 midterms, we’ve seen a predictable partisan reaction. Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen charged that Obama was “breaking presidential norms with his self-serving foray into partisan demagoguery.” My research, however, suggests that Obama is following a well-worn path.
In 2017, UVA renamed Jordan Hall, which had honored the prominent and influential eugenicist Harvey E. Jordan. The building is now named for Vivian Pinn, the only African-American in her 1967 class at the university’s School of Medicine and the first director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health.
(Video) A longtime landmark at the University of Virginia is coming down. UVA plans to start work this week to tear down the Cavalier Inn, but unexpected delays are pushing back the demolition.
President Donald Trump had not even taken office before critics who considered him dangerous began imagining how to get him out. One idea floated from the very start was the clause in the Constitution permitting the removal of a president deemed unable to discharge his duties. “Like so much with this president, it’s quite literally without precedent,” said Russell L. Riley, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center. “To anyone’s knowledge, we’ve never been anywhere close to this situation before.”
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation once seemed like a slam dunk. Now, it’s no longer a sure thing. “The single most important explanation for rejections of Supreme Court nominations lies in the political relations at the time between the President and the Senate,” John Harrison, who teaches constitutional history at the University of Virginia School of Law, told Bloomberg Law.
Academic careers are largely built on how much one publishes and in which journals. As a result, researchers compete to produce positive, new and clear results – but work that produces negative results or validates previous findings should also be rewarded, argued Brian Nosek, a UVA psychology professor who heads the pro-transparency Center for Open Science.
Sending reminder texts to students who relied on support from counselors to apply to colleges and seek financial aid while still in high school substantially increases the share who successfully enroll come fall, according to studies by Dr. Ben Castleman at the University of Virginia and Dr. Lindsay Page at the University of Pittsburgh.
The state in February joined nine others in a federal lawsuit in New York attempting to the force the Environmental Protection Agency to implement the Clean Water Rule. “Several cases involving that rule, and an effort by the current administration to repeal it, are now winding their way through the courts and are likely to find an audience before the Supreme Court soon,” UVA law professor Michael Livermore wrote in a July 18 post on SCOTUSblog.
“CMOs are more of a conductor than ever before,” said Kim Whitler, assistant professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business and former CMO of David’s Bridal. “[They’re] more ambidextrous. A CMO has to be the person who stands at the top of the org chart and gets everyone to work together in concert with the rest of the firm,” she said.
(Commentary co-written by UVA Law professor Albert Choi) Over the next two days, the Comcast/Fox contest will culminate in an old-school auction – one ordered by the UK Takeover Panel, which oversees and regulates all public takeover activity in the UK. The dynamics of this auction will prove interesting to anyone curious about company valuation and sales-process design.
A recent study has also determined that breastfeeding for at least two months can decrease a baby’s risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome by at least 50 percent. According to the study, mothers do not have to breastfeed exclusively for their baby to enjoy this benefit, which is good news for mothers who rely on other methods to nourish their infants. Researcher Kawai Tanabe of the UVA School of Medicine, shared, “These results are very powerful! Our study found that babies who are breastfed for at least two months have a significant reduction in their risk of dying from SIDS. Breastfeeding is b...
Recent research by Angelene Lillard of the University of Virginia and colleagues found that children from lower-income families who won a lottery spot in a public Montessori program were more likely to catch up to their wealthier peers than children who did not get a spot and attended programs elsewhere.
(Video) At UVA’s Saturday football game, military veterans were honored to celebrate Military Appreciation Day.