Over winter recess, more than 200 students donated their time and legal services, logging about 10,000 hours in less than a month.
Brandon Garrett
Law professor
UVa professor 'not surprised' by Hash case
Media General / March 18
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Garrett: Convictions need to be policed
Culpeper Star-Exponent / March 18
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Conflicting Moralities
Wall Street Journal / March 18
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Talk to the elephant
National Post / March 17
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Science Asks: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
The Atlantic / March 16
T’ai Roulston
Curator of the State Arboretum at Blandy Experimental Farm and associate professor of Environmental Sciences
Warm winter = early pollen
Northern Virginia Daily / March 17
Larry Sabato
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Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Despite what you might have learned in Economics 101, people aren’t always selfish. In politics, they’re more often groupish. When people feel that a group they value — be it racial, religious, regional or ideological — is under attack, they rally to its defense, even at some cost to themselves. We evolved to be tribal, and politics is a competition among coalitions of tribes.
Bob Gibson
Executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
A diverse range of courses and workforce training opportunities allows students to successfully transfer to the University of Virginia or James Madison University after two years or to study wine making or nursing.
Bernie Frischer
Classics and art history professor
Mentions researchers at the University of Virginia who in 2005 reviewed 70 studies found yoga promising as a "safe and cost-effective" way to improve heart health.
The study was done in mice, not humans, but the genes that determine sex are similar in mammals, so the results might be applicable, especially in males with Klinefelter's syndrome, who are genetically XXY. "Whether this is a specific phenomenon to mice, or even to this particular inbred background strain of laboratory mice, is still an open question, but we did find similar results in two different genetic models of mice," study researcher Paul Bonthuis, a graduate student at the University of Virginia.
Researchers have gained federal approval for the next key testing phase for a new, University of Virginia-designed, cell phone-based artificial pancreas they hope could soon help millions of diabetes patients
A University of Virginia-developed artificial pancreas that could potentially automate care for millions of Type 1 diabetes patients has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a key testing phase.
A team led by neuroimmunologists Noël Derecki and Jonathan Kipnis of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville set out to explore a hypothesis that had received little if any previous consideration: that immune cells called microglia might play a role in Rett syndrome.
Scientists from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, speculated that the brain-dwelling immune cells called microglia are defective in those.
Among those in attendance at today's news conference and forum were Dierdre Enright, Matthew Engle and several students associated with the Innocence Project of the University of Virginia School of Law.
Turner became Henry Goings, a name he assumed to facilitate his escape to free soil in 1839. Under this name, he wrote the 1869 book, "Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery." At 4 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium of the Harrison Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, two of the three editors of the book, Michael Plunkett and Edward Gaynor, will participate with other authors in "The Many Faces of American Slavery."
Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist and education professor, says incidents like the one in Chardon, Ohio, and the infamous mass shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and at Virginia Tech have reinforced a perception that schools can be dangerous places. "But that's just not true," says Cornell, who has been examining school violence for decades.
"If we show the immune system is playing a very important role in Rett patients and we could replace it in a safe way, we may develop some feasible therapies in the future," says Jonathan Kipnis, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, who led the study.
Sullivan, along with top deputies Michael Strine, executive vice president and chief operating officer, and John Simon, executive vice president and provost, are trying to pilot a legendarily traditional school through what they see as a period of inevitable and dramatic change.
The story of the making of Chad Harbach's debut novel, "The Art of Fielding," was documented in Vanity Fair last fall by Harbach's friend and n+1 co-founder, Keith Gessen.