Robert M. O’Neil, a scholar of First Amendment law who served in the 1980s as president of the University of Wisconsin system and then as president of the University of Virginia, where he was credited with recruiting more minorities to the faculty and student ranks, died Sunday at his home in Washington. He was 83.
(Video) The United States’ first openly transgender elected state lawmaker paid a visit to UVA to talk to students about her new program.
Also in the nation’s top five, out of the 797 institutions with at least 10 candidates, were the University of Georgia (86.3 percent), Wake Forest University in North Carolina (84.5 percent) and the University of Virginia (84.2 percent).
A Wednesday afternoon fire at a luxury apartment complex for University of Virginia students injured one person and left 14 occupants temporarily homeless.
At least two other public institutions have set $5 billion goals: the University of California at San Francisco, which has brought in $4.3 billion so far, and the University of Virginia, which just announced its campaign goal in June.
State Del. Danica Roem strode into the UVA School of Law Wednesday cracking jokes, fact-checking deans and encouraging current law students to make sure other’s voices are heard. Roem, the first openly transgender person to be elected and seated in a state legislature, focused her message on the need for officials who care about both equality and about bread and butter issues such as transportation and health care.
For an early snapshot of the landscape, UVA student Max Patten did a survey for Axios on the Lawn on Sept. 25, National Voter Registration Day. The bottom line: Patten said he expected to hear much of President Trump. But, he said, “[T]he students never (with the exception of one) mentioned Trump by name, but took views strongly contrary to him on the issues they mentioned.”
By protecting and restoring forests, the world would achieve 18 percent of the emissions mitigation needed by 2030 to avoid runaway climate change, a group of 40 scientists, spanning five countries, said in a statement. “The forest piece of the conversation is often lost,” UVA environmental sciences professor Deborah Lawrence said. “We almost take forests as a given, but we lose forest every year, which means we are diminishing them as a carbon sink.”
Part of the University of Virginia Research Park has been certified as infrastructure ready by the Virginia Business Ready Site Program. The VBRSP is a discretionary program administered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to promote the development and characterizations of sites that contain at least 100 contiguous acres to enhance and promote the competitive business environment in Virginia.
The University of Virginia is working to get wrongfully convicted people out from behind bars. The UVA Law School teamed up with the Virginia chapter of the Innocence Project to raise money for the strenuous legal work it takes to overturn false convictions.
Former University of Virginia President Emeritus Robert O’Neil died Sunday at the age of 83 at his home in Washington, D.C. O’Neil served as the sixth president from 1985 to 1990, and taught at the School of Law until 2007.
Legal experts specializing in torts – civil wrongs that intentionally or accidentally cause injury – have kept a close eye on litigation surrounding the opioid epidemic. UVA Law vice dean Leslie Kendrick said the plethora of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies are “the most significant thing happening in the world of torts right now.”
Dozens of UVA law students and faculty members joined panelists Tuesday at Caplin Pavilion at a fundraiser for the Virginia Innocence Project Pro Bono Clinic to talk about injustices in the criminal system and wrongful convictions.
The findings make a compelling case that health care providers who see mid-life women should ask them about assault, harassment and other traumas, said UVA Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of The North American Menopause Society.
(Commentary by Jennifer L. Lawless, Commonwealth Professor of Politics) On Nov. 6, my eyes will be glued to the returns coming in from Texas' 23rd Congressional District. Three features of the race that pits Republican incumbent Will Hurd against Democratic newcomer Gina Jones make it especially important.
A recent FDA approval will allow the University of Virginia to test a new drug on stroke patients from inside an ambulance. TSC, or trans sodium crocetinate, could buy patients time as it alleviates oxygen deprivation and prevents significant cell death even before the ambulance reaches the hospital.
In a new study, Stanford University researcher Daniel Friedman and co-authors, including researchers from the University of Virginia, examined the neurophysiological basis of variation among colonies in how they regulate their collective foraging behavior.
University of Virginia students are taking to the Lawn to show support for sexual assault survivors and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
The University of Oxford in England was No. 1 in the Times Higher Education ranking, while Stanford University was the top U.S. institution at No. 3. The University of Virginia was ranked No. 107 in the report.
Andrew C. Wicks, Ruffin Professor of Business Administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said MoviePass’s an email to subscribers was "inappropriate and potentially bordering on bullying the customer."