Boston-based architects Höweler+Yoon, along with Mabel O. Wilson, Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect, and Dr. Frank Dukes, are designing a circular memorial to honor the slaves who helped build the University of Virginia. The memorial was approved Friday by the UVA Board of Visitors’ Buildings and Grounds Committee.
"This has been an unimaginable, traumatic year for them," said Sara Kenny, UVA Student Council president, about the Warmbier family. Halfway through his third year at UVA, Warmbier was arrested in North Korea. Just this past May, his class graduated.
A plane carrying University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea for 17 months and was in a coma for most of it, touched down in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.
A UVA student who was arrested, tried and sentenced to hard labor in North Korea has been released, but his family says he’s in a coma. Sandy Hausman reports on what’s known about Otto Warmbier and on reaction from the University of Virginia, where he would have graduated this year.
University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who spent 17 long months in detention in North Korea, has finally come home – in a coma.
Yun went on a secret mission to North Korea to bring out Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who was detained in January last year and had fallen into a coma for reasons that are not yet clear. Warmbier arrived home in Cincinnati on Tuesday and was being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Kyle's Guy's infamous man bun is no more. The rising sophomore Virginia basketball player posted a photo of his new haircut with a short note to his old hairdo on Tuesday night.
Of the first 250 cases where DNA evidence exonerated wrongfully convicted people, 190 involved inaccurate eyewitness accounts, said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor and author of “Convicting the Innocent.” “Eyewitnesses are much less reliable than people think,” Garrett said. “They have real problems identifying faces.”
Congratulations to James B. Murray, an Albemarle County resident who has been elected vice rector of the University of Virginia. Congratulations as well to new Rector Frank N. “Rusty” Conner. A partner at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, he specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance. This skill set, along with his experience on other boards of directors, will serve him well in helping to guide the University.
UVA student Otto Warmbier, who has been detained in North Korea for 17 months, has been medically evacuated from the country in a coma, his parents told The Washington Post Tuesday.
Otto F. Warmbier, an American college student held prisoner in North Korea for more than a year, has been released and is on his way back to the United States, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said on Tuesday.
Otto Warmbier, an American sentenced to 15 years hard labor by North Korea for alleged “anti-state acts,” has been released. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Tuesday morning that 22-year-old Warmbier was on his way back to the U.S. to be reunited with his family. Warmbier has apparently been in a coma since shortly after his trial, according to the Washington Post. He was sentenced in March 2016.
According to Daphna Bassok, an assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, 80 percent of teachers believed that children should learn to read while in kindergarten in 2001, up from 30 percent in 1998.
(By Chris Lu, senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) This week, the Trump administration will try once again to focus its policy agenda around a single theme. With an erratic chief executive and rapidly changing news developments, that’s easier said than done.
The UVA community is honoring the victims of a mass shooting from one year ago. Monday night, the student body at UVA hosted a memorial service to honor the 49 victims who lost their lives at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Sara O’Leary is the new head coach of the Virginia women’s tennis program, the school announced Monday. O’Leary served as the head coach at Davidson the past three seasons.
A regional culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, along with growth in digital technology education, are among the goals of a cash infusion from the University of Virginia to its College at Wise. UVA-Wise’s Wise Innovation Ecosystem will receive $3.5 million from the University’s Strategic Investment Fund.
But Clinton-Sanders II not quite the right way to frame this race, says Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics. The contest has tightened, he says, not because of a lingering squabble in the Democratic base, but because Perriello has made it about who can be the stronger antagonist to President Trump.
On a recent afternoon, Kyle Edwards, a UVA Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, and fourth-year student Christina Monroe dug into an area near the foundation of a two-story white building adjacent to the guest house at Highland, the estate of former President James Monroe.