Richard Glasser, a prominent Norfolk attorney who helped thousands of people with asbestos-related illnesses secure financial victories throughout his nearly 54-year law career, died unexpectedly Thursday, his brother said. He was 77. The Glasser family traces its Hampton Roads roots to 1880, and it has been a staple in the region since. Richard went to Norfolk Academy, graduated from the University of Virginia and went on to UVA’s law school.
Perusing the White House list of major players, one sees President Donald Trump at the top of the roster, followed by Vice President Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway — and Thomasville native William Crozer. Crozer, a UVA alumnus, is a special assistant to the president and deputy director in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Beverly Griffin (1930 - 2016). Griffin held two doctorates in chemistry and is best known for her work on the molecular biology of two viruses that cause cancer, polyomavirus and Epstein Barr Virus (EBV). Griffin Received her bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, then received a master’s and PhD at the University of Virginia.
The US homeland security secretary has steadfastly defended a border policy that has provoked condemnation because of its impact on children and families. But why has Kirstjen Nielsen's style also irked her critics?
Only two other states are sending as many Division I basketball programs to the Big Dance as Virginia. Virginia schools account for five teams in the NCAA Tournament’s field of 68, tied with Texas and New York for the most from a single state. The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth, Liberty and Old Dominion all punched their tickets to the tournament. The commonwealth has not had more than three programs make the bracket since 2011, when mid-majors George Mason, Hampton, Old Dominion, Richmond and VCU all played.
Before anyone associated with VCU starts to consider how the Rams will handle Zion (Williamson, but aren’t we reaching the point where he’s known by just his first name?), and before anyone wonders who Virginia will play in the semifinals of the Final Four in Minneapolis, there are other things to consider.
(Subscription required) Virginia became the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed in the men’s NCAA tournament last year. You may have heard something about that. You’re about to hear a whole lot more when March Madness begins this week. And you might be tempted to pick against Virginia in your bracket after being reminded of the biggest upset in the history of the sport. But that’s exactly why you shouldn’t.
Medical students at the University of Virginia and across the country are celebrating the next chapters of their lives.
Fourth-year Engineering student Rehan Baddeliyanage passed away over spring break, according to an email sent out to the University community by Dean of Students Allen Groves Wednesday afternoon.
As a kid in New Zealand, Jack Salt can recall being aware of news reports of the frequent incidents of mass shootings and gun violence in the United States. It wasn’t until Salt, now a fifth-year senior basketball player at the University of Virginia, came to this country for college that he truly grasped the breadth of the problem. “You’d hear about it on the news when I was back in New Zealand, but just coming over here and just seeing, monthly, something so sad, it’s pretty tough to see that go on,” Salt said Friday after UVA’s loss to Florida State in the ACC tournament semifinals. “And to...
Larry Sabato, a widely followed political prognosticator and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Trump's comments are "the latest manifestation of Trump's incurable sickness — the inability to let anything go, the instinct not just to defeat but to destroy any opponent, a debilitating jealousy that continues beyond the grave."
For the most part, however, Republican senators who face the toughest re-election bids next year stuck with Trump, who continues to enjoy strong support from Republican voters at large. "It suggests that they see more electoral peril voting against the president than voting with him," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro also start the race in very different places, said Larry Sabato, Director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. Sabato said O’Rourke starts with a big fundraising network, more name recognition and is clearly one a top-tier candidate — as evidenced by the $80 million that O’Rourke raised in the U.S. Senate race he lost to Republican Ted Cruz.
In 2017 Facebook said it would hire 3,000 people to review videos and other posts, on top of the 4,500 people Facebook already tasks with identifying criminal and other questionable material for removal. But that's just a drop in the bucket of what is needed to police the social media platform, said Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy." If Facebook wanted to monitor every livestream to prevent disturbing content from making it out in the first place, "they would have to hire millions of people," something it's not willing to do,...
It’s not known why no attorney general has ever petitioned the court to have a suspected alien terrorist removed, despite reports of alien terrorists in the U.S. over the years. “I honestly don’t know why it has not decided any cases, but there has been speculation that concerns about its constitutionality may have played a part,” said Robert F. Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia who is familiar with the court.
One of the grants enabled the schools to bring in a consultant, Dr. Julia Taylor of the University of Virginia, who is an assistant professor in the counselor education program at the Curry School of Education & Human Development. A former school counselor and dean of an all-girls’ school in Raleigh, Taylor is an expert on helping school staff work with traumatized children. Last August she met with Orange County Public Schools school psychologists, counselors and social workers. She also met with school administrators and held training sessions for teachers at every school.
Beyond her research accomplishments, Low is remembered at Columbia for championing diversity as an advocate for women and a member of the university’s affirmative action committee. “She was leading a charge that really improved the situation for women in science, and she suffered a lot of bruises for it,” says Philip Bourne, a former postdoc of Low and now a professor at the University of Virginia, in the Columbia memorial.
William Brady, a professor for Emergency Medicine at UVA urged people to use good judgment when deciding what mode of transportation to get to the hospital. "Things like chest pain, shortness of breath, a heart attack, a stroke or a severe asthma attack are just the beginning of the list of emergencies and without a doubt, those patients should call 911," said Brady. "One of the worst things that could happen, an Uber driver is driving you in and you could have a worsening of your condition that's going to distract the driver and could cause an accident."
(Commentary by by Elizabeth Varon, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History) "Ever since the Lee unveiling," Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Virginia wrote to a Massachusetts friend in 1891, "I have felt that this was no place for me." This was a remarkable and revealing confession. Van Lew had long been at odds with the majority of her fellow white Richmonders: while they supported the Confederacy, she had stayed loyal to the Union and played a heroic role during the Civil War as the head of an interracial Federal espionage network in the rebel capital.
(Co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) Has the rise of screen culture—smartphones, gaming, and tablets—hurt relationships? It’s an important question as research shows that the current cohort of young adults (i.e., Millenials and iGen) are dating less, marrying less, and having sex less than older cohorts did when they were the same age. These studies, which have focused on unmarried individuals, have speculated that these relationship trends are due—in part—to the contemporary experience of omnipresent interactive technology...