Members of the Kappa Delta sorority at the University of Virginia spent Sunday afternoon preparing for Halloween with the Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline Council. They painted pumpkins on the Lawn at UVA and sorority members gave the Girl Scouts tips on how to paint some very artistic pumpkins.
The James Madison Regional Library hosted the Swanson Case Commemoration Sunday afternoon to recognize a groundbreaking civil rights lawsuit in Charlottesville. Gregory Swanson was a black attorney that was barred from applying to the University of Virginia School of Law in 1950. Swanson filed suit in the old United States District Court which is now the library's McIntire Room.
The idea that there could be a relationship between the immune system and brain disease isn't new. Autoantibodies were reported in schizophrenia patients in the 1930s. Subsequent work has detected antibodies to various neurotransmitter receptors in the brains of psychiatric patients, while a number of brain disorders, including multiple sclerosis, are known to involve abnormal immune system activity. Researchers at the University of Virginia recently identified a previously undiscovered network of vessels directly connecting the brain with the immune system; the authors concluded that an i...
(By Allan Stam, dean of the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) What will America's next war look like? The challenge of divining our best course in Syria presses the question. As our nation learned through hard experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a conundrum that often confronts U.S. leaders who propose to engage in the world's conflicts.
By UVA sociologist Bradford Wilcox, Robert I. Lerman and Joseph Price are the authors of the report “Strong Families, Prosperous States: Do Healthy Families Affect the Wealth of States?” Our new study found that strong families are an important vehicle for lifting growth
The American Cancer Society (ACS) announced that it was adjusting its recommendations for breast cancer screenings. It now advises women to begin annual screenings at 45 years of age, rather than 40. “Ideally any good screening test should find early disease such that better treatment options and outcomes are available to the patient. Recognizing the limitations of mammography, screening mammography is the only test proven to do this for breast cancer,” said Dr. Brandi Nicholson, medical director of breast imaging for the University of Virginia Health System and UVa Culpeper Hospit...
The American Cancer Society announced last week its latest recommendations for women with average risk for breast cancer to start yearly screening at 45 years old, five years later than when women typically start getting annual mammograms. Dr. Brandi Nicholson, medical director of breast imaging for the University of Virginia Health System and UVa Culpeper Hospital, said breast cancer is the number one cancer affecting women and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths for women.
The recent Justice Department settlement with GM was the latest in a long line of coddling arrangements for giant corporate scofflaws. Do large corporations and their executives have a get-out-of-jail free card that protects them from prosecution for criminal wrongdoing? University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett found more than 300 of these deferred prosecutions in the past decade, many involving big, publicly traded companies.
More than 2,700 attendees and 200 speakers are expected to flock to Salt Lake City for the World Congress of Families IX, which kicks off Tuesday. W. Bradford Wilcox, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and the director of the National Marriage Project, is nationally recognized for his research on marriage and relationships. On Thursday, Wilcox will speak alongside other economists and social scientists on a panel titled "Marriage, Economics, and Poverty."
Albemarle County’s anti-solicitation ordinance, which recently was suspended as it undergoes legal review of its constitutionality, was fine as it was, but recent court cases do now put it in question, a University of Virginia law professor says. Leslie Kendrick, a law professor at UVA, said if it had not been for cases such as one in Massachusetts and one in Charlottesville, she wouldn’t see any reason why the county’s ordinance would need to be reviewed.
“It definitely doesn’t address poverty, and it may not work for everybody,” said Patricia Jennings, an associate professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and the author of a book called “Mindfulness for Teachers.”
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Ms. Clinton did better than at the 2013 Senate hearing.
Sixty-five years ago, a federal hearing was held to determine if Gregory Swanson, a black attorney, would be allowed to enroll as a graduate student in the UVA School of Law.
A worker renovating UVA’s Rotunda made an unexpected discovery when he crawled through a hole in the wall: Thomas Jefferson’s lost chemistry hearth.
Saturday marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, and UVA commemorated by announcing the creation of an award named after the former student who went on to become the first American ambassador to the UN.
By Barın Kayaoğlu is an independent political analyst and consultant in Washington, D.C. He recently finished a doctorate in history at the University of Virginia.
In the late 1950s, graduate student Bascom Deaver worked with William Fairbank at Stanford University in California to test this prediction. … Deaver, now an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, said both experiments convincingly demonstrated flux quantization.
Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia education professor who developed threat assessment guidelines for the state, said school shootings generally are preceded by threats or alarming statements that are discounted or overlooked.
University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett compared 21 capital murder trials held since 2005 in Virginia with 20 capital trials from 1996 to 2004. Capital defendants received life sentences in more than half the trials since 2005, double the number in the older group of trials.
“His endorsement matters, and sooner or later he’ll follow President Obama and give the nod to Clinton,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “A unified party may be one of the Democrats’ greatest assets next fall. Look at what’s happening on the Republican side.”