...University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett, author of the 2011 book "Convicting the Innocent," reviewed 250 cases of people who were exonerated by DNA evidence. Garrett found that suspects confessed in detail to crimes they didn’t commit in 40 of those cases. None of the interrogations in those cases was recorded in its entirety, Garrett says.
...New research shows that teens like Kimberly who are able to express themselves to their moms are better able to resist peer pressure and say no to drugs and alcohol. The findings appear in Child Development. Researchers interviewed more than 150 teens and their parents about substance use and abuse, daily interactions, and relationships with friends. The teens who were able to hold their own in discussions with their moms particularly about grades, money, rules, and friends were better prepared to stand up to their peers, the study showed. “Parents who can have the right kind of discu...
In November, a student team led by Professor Anne Coughlin of the University of Virginia Law School announced that they are going to challenge the combat exclusion policies of the military. Dubbed the Molly Pitcher Project, the objective is to “educate the public, the courts, whoever necessary that women have been engaged in protecting the homeland in combat roles for a very long time…”
...when Poets and Quants sought to select its first Dean of the Year honor, there was no shortage of worthy candidates. ...But it was the understated Robert Bruner who rose to the top of the list. Why? As the chairman of a task force on the globalization of management, he brought much clarity and focus to one of the most pressing issues facing business schools today. ... Bruner has dramatically rebuilt the base of Darden's applicants so that there are now eight applicants for each available seat. He restored the hiring of top faculty, having brought aboard more than one in four of the school&r...
Rakesh Chawla
Mississippi native who graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce and the Wharton School
Albemarle family of 4, U.Va. grad killed in plane crash
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Dec. 20
"Many of his colleagues that worked with him at Greenhill and many of his fellow alums are obviously very distraught and upset by what's happened," said Dean Carl Zeithaml of the U.Va. McIntire School of Commerce.
and
Greenhill Says 2 Executives Died in Plane Crash
New York Times / Dec. 20
Virginia athletics director Craig Littlepage announced Tuesday (Dec. 20) that Bryan Fetzer, the top assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Harvard the past two years, has been named the Cavaliers’ director of track and field/cross country.
Ronald G. Dimberg
Associate professor, Corcoran Department of History
Kim Jong Il is Dead--What Next?
Human Events / Dec. 20
Vigen Guroian
Professor of religious studies
Armenian women still have average of 8 and as high as 20 abortions in lifetime
LifeSiteNews / Dec. 20
Jody Kielbasa
Executive director of the Virginia Film Festival
Jody Kielbasa
Charlottesville Right Now / Dec. 20
Kyle Kondik
Political analyst, Center for Politics
Democrats line up to challenge Republican Rep. Farenthold, Democratic incumbent Hinojosa
Houston Chronicle / Dec. 20
Dr. Scott Sanoff
Assistant professor...
For the first time, a website is being launched to measure hidden attitudes and associations related to mental health, while informing visitors of their own attitudes toward the mentally ill. The website is being created by Project Implicit Mental Health, a research project for behavioral sciences spearheaded by faculty from Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington. Bethany Teachman is the principal investigator of the site and an associate professor of psychology in UVa’s College of Arts & Sciences.
Colvin Wang
Second-year student
High school students GIVE through tutoring
Fairfax Times / Dec. 20
University of Virginia sophomore Colvin Wang, 19, was at Sunday's tutoring session in Annandale. Wang was among the Thomas Jefferson students to start the group Study Buddies, which eventually became GIVE.
Together, the top eight public universities (arguably, Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, the College of William and Mary, Georgia Tech and either UC San Diego or Davis) educate many times more students than the eight members of the Ivy League.
A group of nursing students from the University of Virginia are on Grand Bahama to assess the island's health care system.
Speaking in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, local legislators said Tuesday that the commitments the state has made in the form of employee pensions must be addressed.
Kyle Kondik
Political analyst at the Center for Politics
Four Democrats now seek Texas congressional seat
San Antonio Express-News / Dec. 20
and
GOP foes line up in bid to oust Casey
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review / Dec. 20
Karen Rheuban
President of Virginia Telehealth Network and medical director of the Office of Telemedicine
People With Disabilities Connecting Via Video Chat, Online Networks
iHealth Beat / Dec. 19
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Did Gingrich bend campaign laws with his 'independent' committee?
Miami Herald / Dec. 20
Saras Sarasvathy
...
Cammy Brothers
Associate professor of architecture
Commentary: Ideology Through Geometry
Wall Street Journal / Dec. 20
Brothers reviews "Building the Revolution: Soviet Art & Architecture 1915-1935," a small exhibition now on view at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which "conveys the electric energy and genuine radicalism of the works created during this period."
Researchers from University of Virginia's National Marriage Project say that husbands and wives who are more generous in their marriages are more likely to report that they are "very happy."
It appears that some of the information about a biomarker of myelodysplastic syndrome has been taken out of context and was not being considered within the clinical setting, said coauthor Michael Williams, chief of the hematologic malignancies section at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. This resulted in patients receiving an expensive therapy with no proven benefit instead of a drug with a documented survival advantage, he told Medscape Medical News.