As a result of work by the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, authorities are backing a request that the Virginia Supreme Court clear the name of Bennett S. Barbour, a James City County man wrongly convicted of a rape in Williamsburg 34 years ago. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Tuesday also asked the justices to expedite a writ of actual innocence for Barbour, 56, convicted of the Feb. 7, 1978, rape of a 19-year-old College of William and Mary student.
"BackStory with the American History Guys," a public radio program produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, will be syndicated on a weekly basis starting May 11. The show is hosted by "18th Century Guy" Peter Onuf, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation professor of history at UVa; "19th Century Guy" Ed Ayers, current president of the University of Richmond, former dean of the UVa College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and "20th Century Guy" Brian Balogh, Hugh P. Kelly professor of history at UVa and director of the Fellowship Program at UVa's Miller Center of Public Affairs...
Officials are encouraging University of Virginia students headed out for the summer to donate and recycle nonperishable food, household goods and furniture, rather than throwing it in the trash. Chuck It for Charity is an annual donation drive sponsored by the school's Office of Community Relations, Office of Off-Grounds Housing and Facilities Management in partnership with groups including the Blue Ridge Apartment Council and the Salvation Army.
Seven central Virginia nonprofits are cashing $100,000 worth of donation checks from University of Virginia students. Those students finish the University's first philanthropy course by handing out grants that will support programs that fight poverty and empower kids in and around Charlottesville.
Dewey Cornell
Curry School professor and head of the Youth Violence Project, which is cioted in this story
Tragedy raised security at Yuba-Sutter high schools
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Chris Holstege
Toxicologist and medical director of The Blue Ridge Poison Control Center at the U.Va. Medical Center
Hand Sanitizer Used For Alcoholic Beverage
Charlottesville Newsplex / April 30
Jason Lawrence
Computer science professor and co-founder of Arqball
3 Examples: Visual Technologies Change The Rules
Information Week / April 30
Neal Kassell
Professor of neurosurgery and cha...
The article briefly profiles presidents, CEOs and/or primary leaders of the Becker\'s Hospital Review 100 Great Hospitals, including Edward Howell, vice president and CEO of the U.Va. Health System.
Bethany Nowviskie, director of digital research and scholarship at the U.Va. Library and president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, describes the Praxis Program, a digital-methods workshop and competitively awarded, yearlong, paid apprenticeship, designed to train emerging scholars and tech-savvy knowledge workers in the humanities.
Former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles, executive director of U.Va.'s Miller Center, discusses the report of the David R. Goode National Transportation Policy Conference and the need to find the political will to make transportation infrastructure a priority.
Dr. Karen C. Johnston of the U.Va. School of Medicine is a clinical principal investigator in a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke-funded study that should determine whether intravenous delivery or the usual shot of insulin works best for treating ischemic stroke patients, about 40 percent of whom arrive at the hospital with high blood glucose levels that can worsen their brain damage.
Highlights research by Greg Mitchell, a social psychologist at the U.Va. School of Law, that seeks to validate the use of social psychology in law enforcement.
If you've ever considered adding a pet to your family, but dismissed the idea, a recent study may cause you to reconsider. After performing a series of experiments on how young children react to animals versus toys, researchers believe that children are more fascinated by living things – spiders and snakes included – than toys, even if those toys were made to replicate real living creatures.
A columnist examines psychology professor Jonathan Haidt\'s new book, "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion."
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell signed several pieces of cancer-related legislation passed by the General Assembly, including HB1182, which allows tobacco settlement funds traditionally used for economic development to also be used to fund scientific research at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia. Speakers Monday also noted dollars in the state budget for the National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers at VCU and U.Va., both of which can use local and state money to leverage federal dollars.
The University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration is accepting applications for the third annual Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards competition.
Despite the national debate over rising tuition and student loan debt, many private and public schools are asking students for donations. The phenomenon appears to be growing, college officials say, and students are giving at what are described as record rates. The goal is not only to collect extra funds, but to instill in students a sense of obligation and philanthropy that will make them lifelong donors. At the University of Virginia, the class of 2011 raised nearly half a million dollars before graduation.
The University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, USA has donated a quantity of medical supplies to the Ghana Association of Charlottesville to support health care delivery in Ghana.
Black Virginians have made educational and economic gains over the last three decades, but they continue to lag far behind their white counterparts. A University of Virginia study released today shows that even among people with the same education level and number of hours worked, household income is substantially higher for white Virginians.
UVA's Community Relations Office began Day in the Life in 2002 as a way to devote University resources to the education of minority youth in Charlottesville. It originated as a mentoring program, which paired local kids with UVA volunteers to experience a "day in the life" of a college student. Today, it has evolved into a highly respected tutoring program that connects UVA students with kids at 25 nearby locations, including schools, churches, and community centers.