Three small satellites that were developed at four public universities in Virginia, including UVA, will be lifting off into space next month. They’re part of what’s called the Virginia Cubesat Constellation mission.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, has suggested Facebook’s move wasn’t about privacy at all: Zuckerberg has never appeared to care much for privacy, Vaidhyanathan wrote, but he cares about winning.
Two architects, an oceanographer and a federal judge are the recipients of the 2019 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. The awards, which are the highest honors presented by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the University of Virginia, recognize contributions in fields in which the third president excelled or that he admired.
Physical evidence gathered in 1999 was never tested for Syed’s DNA. The reasons for that aren’t clear, but Syed has reportedly said that his lawyer, Maria Cristina Gutierrez, never told him about the evidence. She was later disbarred by consent, in 2001, after a series of client complaints emerged. At the time of her disbarment, she told The Baltimore Sun she had been struggling with multiple sclerosis. She died in 2004. The Season 1 finale of “Serial” revealed that the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia Law School was looking at the case, and hoped to persuade the cou...
A legislative fix that would honor Army Capt. Humayun Khan as intended has passed the U.S. Senate. A contract postal unit on McCormick Road honors the only University of Virginia graduate killed in action during the Iraq War. The problem was that then-Rep. Tom Garrett, R-5th, said he meant to name a full-sized facility after Khan. Another Garrett bill designating a Palmyra facility as the U.S. Navy Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby Post Office was signed into law in July.
Vaughan died Wednesday at the age of 74. Born June 9, 1944, he was the founder of Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, today known as Virginia Humanities, and led the organization for 43 years.
Geography plays a big role in presidential elections, said Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. East Coast states have produced the most presidents by far. But they also had more chances, Perry said, because they were the first states in the Union.
A joint diploma program between Burley High School and UVA allowed about 100 African-American women – and a few men – to become credentialed nurses in the days before schools and hospitals were fully integrated. A UVA research project is trying to find these “hidden nurses” and give them proper recognition.
A more recent study from researchers at the University of Virginia and Washington University in St. Louis found that Air Force recruits liked each other more when they had similar negative personality traits than when they shared positive ones.
The University of Virginia announced Thursday that it is instituting a minimum wage of $15 an hour. “As a university, we should live our values, and part of that means making sure that no one who works at UVA should live in poverty,” said a statement from President Jim Ryan.
The UVA Children's Hospital is using an iPad to monitor Neonatal Intensive Care Unit patients who have been released from care, but are still at risk.
In recent weeks, Ari Emanuel’s firm has returned a $400 million investment by Saudi Arabia, effectively severing Endeavor’s relationship with the kingdom. Greg Fairchild, who teaches business ethics at the University of Virginia’s Darden School, said there was a strong argument for corporate leaders to follow Emanuel’s lead.
In a study of more than 45,000 crash victims over 11 years, UVA researchers found women drivers were much more likely to be injured in a crash than men. They said this was because car safety features had been designed for men.
Two architects, an oceanographer and a federal judge are the recipients of the 2019 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. The awards, which are the highest honors presented by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the University of Virginia, recognize contributions in fields in which the third president excelled or that he admired.
The University of Virginia will pay all full-time employees a living wage of at least $15 an hour starting next year. The university made the announcement Thursday, March 7. Its decision will affect roughly 1,400 people working at UVA and the Medical Center. UVA President Jim Ryan says he is working on a plan to extend that increase to contract employees, as well.
Full-time employees at the University of Virginia's academic division and medical center will soon earn a living wage of at least $15 an hour. According to a release, this will go into effect for all full-time, benefits-eligible employees on Jan. 1, 2020.
The FDA has spent millions, convened experts and pledged to improve its work in device safety in recent years. All the while, it has quietly opened new avenues for the makers of controversial and risky devices to file injury and even death reports with little public review. “This is very frustrating,” said Homa Alemzadeh, a UVA assistant professor of computer engineering who is working to create software to identify errors in real time or before they happen in surgeries performed by robots.
“Our goal is to get the public – members of Charlottesville and the surrounding counties – to get their help telling stories of the people in the portraits,” said John Edwin Mason, a UVA associate professor of history and an organizer of the project.
On Wednesday, UVA President Jim Ryan held an open discussion called “An Hour with President Ryan” at Garrett Hall to show students that their voices speak volumes.
Sources tell CBS News lawmakers are working to build a legal and legislative case to obtain President Trump’s taxes. George Yin, a professor of law and taxation at UVA’s School of Law and former chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation, joins CBSN’s “Red and Blue” to discuss the latest.