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.
Dove talks about how dancing gave her a new lease on life, and reads her poem “Foxtrot Fridays,” the first she wrote after her house burned down in a fire.
In Trump's case, some travel ban opponents say, one doesn't need a long memory because he never stopped talking in stark terms about the travel ban. “There is a continuous run of statements from the campaign, through the election, through the inauguration and right up to this week," says Micah Schwartzman, a UVA law professor specializing in religion. "The president has never expressly disavowed those earlier statements."
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said the race can be viewed as a redux of Clinton vs. Sanders to the extent that it pits an establishment favorite against an insurgent, but the analogy is imperfect. Northam has only been in state politics a decade while Clinton had been “around forever,” he said, and Perriello isn’t exactly pushing an entirely new brand of Democratic politics.
UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, gives advice to young fathers about striking the right balance between work and family.
Universities are also encouraging the practice of mindfulness. David Mick is a marketing professor at UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce who teaches a “Wisdom and Well-Being” course that equips business students with philosophical concepts and mindfulness practices that can improve their professional and personal lives. Each week, students apply readings on philosophy and mindfulness to business cases and to their lives.
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Friday approved a $3.4 billion budget that sets aside more funding for instruction, research and financial aid.The budget, which covers both academic and Medical Center spending, represents a $400 million increase over last year’s $3 billion budget.