“I was pretty certain I was going to die,” Mr. Ang Jun Heng, now 24 and a commerce major at the University of Virginia in the United States, told The Sunday Times last week, when two of his assailants were sentenced.
(By Abraham Axler, president of U.Va. Student Council) The success of the University of Virginia’s new financial model, termed “Affordable Excellence,” ought to be determined not by statistics but rather by students’ experiences.
(By Mila Versteeg, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Adam Chilton is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.)Last December, the release of the Senate Torture Report shocked the world. But although the C.I.A.’s use of torture had been more brutal and extensive than previously reported, researchers who study human rights were not surprised to see more evidence that a government—even a democratic one—frequently engages in torture. In fact, there is data suggesting that in 2011, of the 107 democracies i...
Bob Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, said teachers have responded well to the observation method of evaluation. The student academic progress category, Pianta said, is the most controversial because two teachers could deliver the same curriculum in the same manner to two different classes, which could then produce two different levels of test scores.
But if the Supreme Court now decided that laws like Prop. 8 were constitutional, Brown and Harris would have a legal obligation to enforce the ban, said A.E. Dick Howard, a law professor at the University of Virginia widely respected as an authority on constitutional law. That would also be true in other states, like Oregon, Nevada and Virginia, whose top executives declined to defend their marriage laws, he said.
Every day, Americans wake to new reports of fatal gun violence. But in late-14th-century London? That’s the intriguing foundation on which Bruce Holsinger builds “The Invention of Fire,” his second historical novel featuring poet and trader-in-secrets John Gower, a real-life figure of the era.
You will be forgiven if, upon completing Bruce Holsinger’s novel “The Invention of Fire,” you decide that the author spent his early years in late 14th-century London, later to be magically transported to our own time. Holsinger is a scholar of the medieval era who teaches at the University of Virginia. This is his second novel set in the 1380s.
ANNIE ROREM, 29, PUBLIC POLICYThese days, Rorem is a policy associate in the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Demographics Research Group.
“Apart from streets, parks and sidewalks, the government as owners of space can restrict its speech uses as long as it does not engage in discrimination on the basis of point of view,” said Frederick Schauer, a University of Virginia law professor.
“Television is a very passive activity,” says study author Mark D. DeBoer, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia. Combine the ill effects of sitting with TV-related behaviors like more snacking and exposure to commercials selling unhealthy food, and the effects can add up.
“Safety, comfort and all that aside, the efficiency of a dedicated facility is that you can maintain varying speeds,” said Alec Gosse, an author of the UVA study, in an interview this week.
The University of Virginia Medical Center received over one million dollars for research funding from the organization last year alone.
Tickets sold out last December to an all-day Civil War 150 Signature Conference April 18 that brought 13 historians to the University of Virginia to discuss the end of the war.
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors is turning its attention to extending President Teresa Sullivan’s contract following a tumultuous academic year. The board had extended Sullivan’s current contract by a year in 2012, five months after a failed attempt by some members to oust her. The contract runs through July 31, 2016.
It was a career move Doug Lebda almost didn’t make. And one he said would have been a huge missed opportunity. He took the leap 14 years ago, and is now CEO of a company with a more than $685 million market cap that’s constantly looking to expand in the new digital space of today. The journey leading LendingTree as founder and chief executive been one with its fair share of bumps in the road, but it’s one Lebda said has helped prove his entrepreneurial instinct true.
Shireen Lewis, 55, is founder of SisterMentors, which aims to mentor girls from their early academic years through college graduation and help women of color to earn doctorates. The program has helped 26 women to go to college and 56 to earn doctorates. A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Lewis immigrated to the States after high school. She earned her doctorate in French literature from Duke University and her law degree from the University of Virginia.
Hillary Lewis awoke on a clear September morning in 2013 in Charlottesville, Va. with an awful feeling. She’d overslept to 7:30 a.m. (she usually rises at 6:00 a.m.), and she was expecting the biggest delivery of her life – quite literally. Lewis, a 2013 UVA Darden MBA, was in the process of launching Lumi Organics, a startup that produces all-natural juices and pasteurizes them with high-pressure processing, instead of the standard heat or chemical processes that often destroy key nutrients.
Student-athletes at the University of Virginia got some life advice from a former Ohio State University running-back, who says there's a lot to learn from his life. Thursday, Maurice Edward Clarett spoke with students about the real-life consequences that come with making poor decisions in life while in or after leaving college sports.
With the help of some collegiate athletes, students in Albemarle County got a taste of the healthy lifestyle Thursday. Players from the University of Virginia and Louisville women's lacrosse teams visited students at Burley Middle School. They talked about the importance of a health diet, exercise and the role being healthy plays in being an athlete.
Katherine Henry of Great Falls, a student at the University of Virginia, has been named a recipient of a research scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. She is among 260 students nationwide, including two at U.Va., to have received the scholarships, which are designed to support students pursuing careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.