A Norfolk man sentenced to 132 years for a 1997 armed robbery is getting help from the University of Virginia Innocence Project to clear his name.
A new book, “The Key to the Door,” tells the stories of some of UVA’s first African-American students, documents their struggles and achievements, and discusses their impact on the generations of black students and faculty who followed in their footsteps.
UVA students are grieving the death of classmate and friend, Otto Warmbier, who died Monday afternoon in his hometown of Cincinnati days after being released by North Korea in a comatose state.
A campus rabbi who knows Otto Warmbier, the student who was released by North Korea last week, has said the 22-year-old was heavily involved with the Jewish community at the University of Virginia.
His parents, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, were told he had been in a coma since shortly after being sentenced March 16, 2016, to 15 years of prison with hard labor. If life had gone to plan, he today would be in his first month as a new graduate of the University of Virginia.
U.Va. recently completed $6 million in upgrades that include control rooms and a spacious studio. Years in the planning, the project awaited only last summer’s green light from the conference and its broadcast partner, ESPN. If the ACC Network launched today, Virginia would have the tools in place.
UVA’s W. Bradford Wilcox and the Institute for Family Studies are less inhibited about recommending life decisions that will conduce to happiness and human flourishing. The latest IFS paper examines how Millennials are doing on what Haskins and Sawhill have labeled the “success sequence.” What is the sequence? It’s the same three things that the Annie E. Casey Foundation noted back in the 1990s – finish high school, get a full-time job (any job), and wait to be married before having your first child.
Members of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Twenty-First Century have gathered to hear from experts, debate ideas and try to formulate solutions for a more effective and efficient array of services. Its work group heard an update from its expert advisory panel led by Dr. Richard Bonnie, director of UVA’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy. His testimony nodded to the achievement of having passed legislation expanding services provided through the community services boards, but outlined the challenges of proceeding without the funding needed for implemen...
Initially, such research focused on lesbian couples. However, Charlotte Patterson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, said recent research suggests children adopted by gay male couples also are faring well.
“Their bark [progressive activists] may be worse than their bite,” said Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “They have a lot more work to do if they want the reality of their influence to match what they think their influence is.”
“There’s no question that the surprise of the night was that the Republican Primary was closer than the Democrats,” with Gillespie’s victory “a knife’s edge,” says Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Research by University of Virginia’s Robert S. Harris, University of Oxford’s Tim Jenkinson, Chicago Booth’s Steve Kaplan, and Rüdiger Stucke of private-equity firm Warburg Pincus suggests that one type of private-equity FOF has been able to overcome that fee hurdle.
Slavery has been in the news a lot lately. From the discovery of the auction of 272 enslaved people that enabled Georgetown University to remain in operation to the McGraw-Hill textbook controversy over calling slaves “workers from Africa” and the slavery memorial being built at the University of Virginia, Americans are having conversations about this difficult period in American history.
At a Board of Visitors meeting earlier this month, Melody Bianchetto, the university’s vice president for finance, reminded board members that the university is lucky enough to have a steady stream of philanthropic income — more than $150 million in operating money projected over the next year.
The University of Virginia, in honoring an alumnus who died in combat, is establishing a $10,000 annual scholarship. The Capt. Humayun Khan Memorial Bicentennial Scholarship is a need-based award that will go to one student each year.
The University of Virginia Foundation is planning to expand the squash facility at the Boar's Head Sports Club in anticipation of the World Masters Squash Championships next year.
Randy Jones, associate professor in the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing, is using a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help prostate cancer patients make more informed decisions about their care.
In the midst of an increasingly polarizing debate over the future of the Lee and Jackson statues in downtown Charlottesville, we can’t help but notice the progress being made toward a contrasting memorial being planned for a prominent position on the UVA Grounds.
Despite the 50-50 leadership split at the Ivies, only 20 percent of U.S. colleges and universities are run by women. Dr. Faust’s appointment could have a lasting impact on the gender imbalance among faculty at Harvard, and in the leadership ranks across academia, experts say. “This is a crack in the glass ceiling, in the sense that to have as prestigious an institution as Harvard expand their notion of suitability for the presidency, sets an example for the rest of academia that’s hard to ignore,” says Margaret Miller, professor of higher education at the University of Virginia.
If you need further information check out “the Switch Study,” a clinical study performed by UVA researchers. Their research discovered that switching baby formulas is safe and well tolerated by infants. This can help assure parents and care givers to be confident in making the switch to store brand infant formula.