Charlottesville awoke with a guarded sigh of relief on this day in 1970, following a tense night of protests between University of Virginia students and local and state law enforcement. The shooting of four Kent State University students by National Guardsmen a week earlier sparked a rash of protests on more than 200 college and university campuses nationwide. The University of Virginia was no exception.
The short story is a “critical genre in Syrian literature,” said Hanadi Al-Samman, a UVA professor of modern Arabic literature. In “Literature from the ‘Axis of Evil,’” an anthology compiled by Words Without Borders, Al-Samman explains that “Syria’s literary tradition has been greatly intertwined with its political background.”
IQ, or intelligence quotient, is a score of mental ability relative to one's peers of the same age. Some researchers – including Jack Naglieri, a UVA professor and senior research scientist at the Devereux Center for Resilient Children – have called for IQ to be scrapped.
"I think it's natural to question when lawmakers vote a certain way," said Kyle Kondik with the UVA Center for Politics. Kondik says there are many factors and variables that influence political decisions.
Helping others achieve academic success is nothing new to UVA law student Andrew Manns. A former teacher, Manns, a native of Leicester, Vt., is being honored for helping his peers with their academic work.
UVA’s vice provost for global affairs, Jeffrey W. Legro, is leaving his post to become the University of Richmond’s provost and vice president for academic affairs.
“It doesn’t evade campaign finance regulation, it doesn’t create a path for deductible campaign spending, and it ought to be protected,” UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said. It’s pure political speech, which the First Amendment was designed to cover.
Texas is among about a dozen states that back the administration while California, Virginia and others attack the ban. Absent comments by Trump and his surrogates, opponents would be on “a much thinner foundation” as courts typically resist reviewing the motives behind a government decision, said David Martin, a UVA law professor.
The subject of whistle-blowers and how they were treated was relegated to a footnote in the 110-page report. What disturbed UVA law professor Brandon L. Garrett, who wrote “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations,” is that “to have a systemic pattern of misconduct on this scale, you needed to make sure that potential whistle-blowers kept quiet.”
The name of the device is the DRoTS - Dynamic Rollover Test System, or dynamic rollover test system. "It makes it possible to test accidents with barrels scientifically," explains David Poulard, a researcher at UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics, “either in a controlled and reproducible way."
"They [crash test dummies] are made of metal and plastic, and filled with sensors," says French engineer David Poulard, a researcher at UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics, one of the largest research centers In the world.
And so it may not be a huge surprise that Comstock was one of a handful of Republicans who voted against the American Health Care Act last week, a bill that ultimately only passed by four votes. “I think she probably had permission probably to vote ‘no,’” said Kyle Kondick, the managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at University of Virginia. “But I wonder if there could have been different circumstances where they needed her vote, and maybe she would have had to have done it.”
The UVA Health System had a Sunday event to showcase the consequences of brain injury and strokes.
The 2017 Fight Cancer Fest is raising money and spreading the word about cancer treatment in Charlottesville. Survivors say the disease affects everyone, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. According to the UVA Cancer Center, thousands of people are diagnosed in this region each year.
Bullying, especially violent bullying, has declined dramatically in the past decade, according to a new study by researchers at UVA’s Curry School of Education.
A University of Virginia study of cold viruses on household surfaces showed the remote control's surface is among the germiest.
Some of the state’s public universities urged their foreign-born students, faculty and staff to avoid traveling overseas, fearing they would not be able to return to their work in Virginia. As Teresa A. Sullivan, the retiring president of the University of Virginia, put it, “Being a great university in the 21st century means being a global university.”
Marcia Invernizzi, a professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education, was one of the creators of Book Buddies. Part of what inspired Invernizzi to start the program was seeing the disparities in her children’s classrooms when they attended elementary school.
You know it's finals season when it's only 9 a.m. and your favorite study spot in the library is already taken. We've all been there. Fortunately, UVA provides a wide variety of on- and off-Grounds locations for students to study besides the library.
Contraline is the brainchild of Kevin Eisenfrats and his late research partner John Herr, who met at the UVA School of Medicine.