Officials say nearly 1,000 community members joined 100 trained personnel today in searching for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Virginia Department of Emergency Management officials say about 1,500 people registered to search with 984 actually hitting the streets. The search, which began at 8 a.m. and will continue until 6 p.m. will begin anew tomorrow.
... This doesn’t mean that crowd-sourced sleuthing is necessarily bad or that law enforcement should discourage it. On the contrary, in cases like Graham’s disappearance, police are often hoping to reach as many potential witnesses and tipsters as possible, and the efforts of 20,000 avid Facebook users can only help get their message out. The last “major break” in the case, in fact, came from public tips: Multiple callers drew police to a condo, and a car, in an apartment complex off the U.Va. campus.
The University of Virginia student whose Sept. 13 disappearance has triggered a massive search once worked in tornado-damaged Tuscaloosa, her parents said as they asked for information on their only daughter.
University of Virginia's $6.9 billion long-term pool returned 19% in the fiscal year ended June 30. The total return exceeded the policy benchmark by 240 basis points, said the annual report of the University of Virginia Investment Management Co., Charlottesville, which oversees the long-term pool, including $4.2 billion in endowment assets.The best-performing asset class was private equity, which returned 35.3% for the year, followed by real asset resources at 27.1%, public equity at 26.8% and real estate, 14.7%.
To reconcile this paradox, we need some background on college finances. Public colleges depend on two sources of revenue for educating undergraduates: tuition from students and appropriations from their state legislatures. Top research institutions, like the University of Michigan and University of Virginia, also get revenue from endowments, research grants and teaching hospitals. But most students attend public schools where tuition and state funds pay for almost everything.In 1988, state legislatures gave their public colleges an average of $8,600 a student. Students contributed an add...
Saturday is a Banquet for Lydia, a dinner and art auction at Les Yeux de Monde Gallery. The late Lydia Csato Gasman will be honored by her artistic friends in a fashion fashioned after Picasso’s legendary banquet of 1908 for his friend Henri Rousseau.The biannual celebration is a fundraiser for LCGA — the Lydia Csato Gasman Archives for Picasso and Modernist Studies. Proceeds will help this nonprofit preserve and publish the papers of this Picasso scholar, who finished her teaching career here at the University of Virginia.
Henry County Schools Superintendent Jared Cotton said if he or his designee were to receive a request for Gideons Bibles’ New Testaments to be distributed in the county schools, he would discuss it with the school board and legal counsel before a decision is made. ... Douglas Laycock is the Robert E. Scott distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law and “one of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of remedies and also on the law of religious liberty,” according to the university’s website. “The general rule is that the s...
An innovative research replication initiative has generated results that have important implications for eyewitness memory. … Simons, fellow Special Associate Editor for Replication Reports Alex O. Holcombe (Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney), and Perspectives editor Barbara A. Spellman (Professor of Law at the University of Virginia), hope that researchers will fully explore the RRR data, which are publicly available, and conduct their own analyses to identify possible moderators or even discover new effects.
Patrick Kinlaw saw it coming. Henrico’s superintendent predicted that the number of public schools lacking full accreditation would soar. … James Ryan, a former professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and current dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, devotes attention to the SOLs (and to No Child Left Behind). The pictures he paints are not always pretty. In education, equality seems a delusion.
In this two-part commentary, Robert F. Turner from the University of Virginia looks at some points of fact and law in the debate over executive power and American involvement in fighting terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies.“Children with married parents are better off — but marriage isn’t the reason why.” This recent headline from the Washington Post’s Emily Badger offers a crystalline summary of the new progressive wisdom about marriage: Yes, we now acknowledge that children do better in married families, but it isn’t marriage per se that matters for the kids. It’s the money, time and good parenting found at higher rates ...
By John Edwin Mason, who teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia, where he is an associate professor and associate chair of the Corcoran Department of History....Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument, which opens on Sept. 19 at the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art, examines the tension between Parks’ vision of what “Harlem Gang Leader” could have been and the photo essay as LIFE’s editors shaped it. In the exhibition’s catalog, Russell Lord, the show’s original curator at the New Orleans...
Kate Tamarkin and the newly remaned Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia will be teaming up with Free Bridge Quintet for "All That Jazz" in McIntire Amphitheater at UVa.
Ivy League wunderkind invents cutting-edge technology company in his dorm room. Recruits genius buddies to help him. Works around the clock out of a motel in Silicon Valley, developing his secret sauce. … The company, headquartered across from Metro Center in downtown Washington, has 30 clients, including Planned Parenthood, the University of Virginia Law School, the New Balance shoe and apparel company, the Natural Resources Defense Council and both the Republican and Democratic governors associations.
The 80 new American citizens who were sworn in Wednesday at the Frontier Culture Museum represent 30 countries and five different continents.While their collective heritage may span the globe, they are united in affection for their adopted homeland. Rob Merrera IV, a native of the Philippines, said he was appreciative of the opportunities America has brought him. "I can't tell you what this country has done for me,'' said Merrera, who has graduated from the University of Virginia.
The Obama administration has explained why it thinks it has the legal authority to bomb IS in Iraq and Syria although many doubt whether the justifications are sound. ... Ashley Deeks, a University of Virginia Law Professor, does not think that the collective self defense justification would be attractive to the Obama administration.
Steven Dunn, PharmD, who is a pharmacy clinical coordinator in cardiology at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, said the ability to monitor plasma concentrations would be “extremely helpful” in treating patients with the risk factors to which Dr. Schnee referred.