WMRA’s Kara Lofton takes a detailed look at the current Guatemalan healthcare crisis and the attempt of one UVA physician to provide some relief.
Students at the University of Virginia are marking America Recycles Day by using things tossed out to make a point.
A new report has named the University of Virginia one of the top 25 colleges sending students on study-abroad programs for the first time in school history.
(subscription required)One man’s shattered shin does not compare to those tragedies, but everybody remembers where they were when it happened. “It was sort of a collective pain and shock we all felt,” Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan said. He’s now a professor of modern media studies at the University of Virginia. On Nov. 18, 1985, he was watching the game with his dorm buddies at Texas. “Monday Night Football” was America’s campfire. In that pre-digital age, everybody gathered around it.
In practice, however, corporate crime prosecutions are already relatively rare and frequently skip over executives and other top managers. “When employees are charged, it’s often lower-level employees,” University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett told HuffPost Live in September.
He says the massive ground search for University of Virginia student Hannah Graham in fall 2014 spurred the sheriff's office to look into UAS technology.
Some military experts in Charlottesville debated the president's foreign policy strategy in Syria on the University of Virginia campus Monday night.The Alexander Hamilton Society hosted a debate on whether the United States has an obligation to intervene in Syria.
“A character that looks like the changing demographic we live in can be a very positive influence,” says Shilpa Davé, an assistant professor of media studies and American studies at UVA. “It shows that heroes come in all shapes and sizes and from different backgrounds.”
Leonard Maltin, film critic and historian, writes about his positive experience at the Virginia Film Festival.
People gathered to sing songs, read poems, and play music. Solene Camus, language adviser at the French House, says the most difficult part was not being able to be there for family and friends during a horrific tragedy.
Getting on the ballot in Virginia is notoriously difficult. During the last presidential cycle, only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were able to meet the requirements. Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry tried but failed. Several Republican presidential campaigns filed a lawsuit challenging Virginia's rules, but the case was dismissed. Most of the Republicans didn't bother because it was so time-consuming and expensive. Since then, the number of signatures required was reduced from 10,000 to 5,000. But it's still a tall order. "Would it stun me if there was a name that we consider kind of ...
Politics watchers said it was a questionable move for a candidate who came into the debate knowing he had to show some foreign policy chops.And the remark he did make — that the U.S. will lead the world in ridding the planet of ISIS — rang false, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. "Sanders … does not sound all that credible when foreign policy talk turns hawkish," he said.
A squid has been caught on video apparently 'dancing' as it wiggles its tentacles before a willing customer who then deposits the sea creature into his mouth whole.Its trembling legs give the gross facade that the animal is still alive, after the customer sprinkles the delicacy with salt.The strange reaction is an automatic response to sodium chloride, and although the deceased squid may lack a functioning brain, its muscle cells, which receive electrical commands, are still intact. Charles Grisham, a chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, explained the process: "Most ...
Defense attorneys rested their case Monday without calling any witnesses in the high-profile trial of ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. Their announcement came shortly after the prosecution rested following weeks of testimony asserting that Blankenship put dollars ahead of human safety in the years before the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in decades. For the defense to rest without calling witnesses is an aggressive and risky move, said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor who wrote a book about corporate prosecutions. "It's a way of saying, 'The prosecution...
(By Carolyn Long Engelhard, the director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences)November 2015 marks the beginning of the third enrollment for the purchase of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or ObamaCare. Many on the right contend that the ACA represents an unacceptable government intrusion into private markets and that the tax credits, or subsidies, under ObamaCare are yet another government welfare program destined to promote learned helplessness and dependency. Although that line of thinkin...
Are you happy? Very happy? If you’re in your 30s or older, a new study has found that you’re less likely to answer “yes” than your parents were. The findings, published online Thursday in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, come on the heels of another recent report that found that death rates of middle-aged white Americans have been rising, largely due to suicide and substance abuse. Shigehiro Oishi, a researcher at the University of Virginia, has documented a growing dissatisfaction with the widening gap between the wealthy and everyone else.
Following the attacks in Paris on Friday, University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said Saturday that all university students currently registered to study or work this semester in France have been accounted for and are safe. “All of us are deeply disturbed and saddened by the violent acts of terrorism that occurred in France just hours ago,” she wrote in a letter addressed to UVa colleagues and students. “We are reaching out to our students from France to offer help and support.”
The University of Virginia’s Cavalier Marching Band will take part in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.U.Va.’s marching band is only one of 10 bands selected in April 2014 out of more than 170 applicants to take part in the parade in New York City. The parade, set for 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 26, generally draws in 50 million television viewers and more than 3 million live viewers.
"Writing interventions can really nudge people from a self-defeating way of thinking into a more optimistic cycle," said Timothy Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia.
A device that represents a rare advance against glioblastoma – the deadliest form of brain cancer – is now available to newly diagnosed patients after successful testing at UVA and more than 80 other sites around the world.