A public pre-game tailgate is set for Saturday at the University of Virginia before the Cavaliers' home football game against Penn State on Saturday, according to a news release from the university.
By Brandon Garrett, law professorTwo stray hairs sealed Donald Eugene Gates' fate. ... This seemingly airtight murder conviction would unravel decades later to uncover a national scandal. The forensics in his case were deeply flawed, and this past year they led lawyers and journalists to help to uncover additional wrongful convictions and still more possible errors in thousands of old FBI cases spread across the country.
An experimental business model for delivering e-textbooks is expanding, with some adjustments, to 25 colleges and universities this fall. The institutions will participate in a pilot project in which they will buy digital course materials in bulk from publishers to reduce costs for students ... Of the five universities that participated in the spring pilot, three—Cornell University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison—will continue with the fall project.
Talented content curators maintaining high standards in the online content available to the public about your company can mitigate PR damage, speed appropriate response and calm crisis situations. Webinar features Suzie McCarthy, second year PhD student in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.
New college students quickly learn that each school has its own lingo — acronyms, nicknames or Urban-Dictionary-type terms that are casually thrown around by those who know the campus well. ... Some examples: At the University of Virginia, freshmen are called “first years” (sophomore are second years and so on) and campus is referred to as the “grounds.”
Jacqueline Choi became the first female Korean American assistant prosecutor in Bergen County, New Jersey, when the 31-year-old was sworn into office yesterday, according to the Bergen County Record. ... Choi graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2009 and will be the second Korean American assistant prosecutor in Bergen County.
North Carolina State University will lead a national nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it, the National Science Foundation announced today. ... It is a joint effort between NC State and partner institutions Florida International University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia’s Ryan White Program is having its annual benefit to help those affected with HIV and AIDS. The dinner will be held at Orzo’s in Charlottesville at 5:30 pm on Monday.
The Charlottesville City Police are turning down the volume on people who make too much noise. They are giving out fewer warnings to people exceeding maximum sound levels when it comes to noise and music.
For the week’s segment of UVa Today, Edward Gaynor visited the Newsplex to discuss a new exhibit to celebrate Charlottesville’s 250th anniversary.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors’ summer retreat cost the school nearly $35,000 documents released Wednesday show. Roughly one-third of that came from the cost of employing the meeting’s facilitator, Terry MacTaggart.
PLoS One backs a validation initiative that will duplicate experiments. ... According to Brian Nosek, associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Virginia and a member of the Reproducibility Initiative's advisory board, the system aims to address exactly those issues by shifting incentives away from "getting published" to "getting it right"
A pair of events Sept. 12 will examine the University of Virginia’s future. President Teresa A Sullivan will give a talk called “The Way Forward” at 11 a.m.
Michelle TimmonsPrincipal – St. Timothy School, San MateoTimmons has served for 10 years at St. Anne School, San Francisco as first grade teacher and primary level coordinator. She said she is a “daughter in a military family, raised in many parts of the United States” and has been in the Bay Area for 13 years. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in commerce.
George Gartley Lipsey, MD, born in Memphis, TN, October 11, 1934, one of thirteen children to John Wright Lipsey and Lillian Turner Lipsey, died September 5, 2012 from complications related to Parkinson's disease. ... He completed his Medical Residency in Anesthesia at The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA in 1971.
A Colorado university is announcing today that it will give full transfer credit to students who successfully complete a free introductory computer-science course offered by the online-education start-up Udacity. ... CS101 is Udacity's first course and includes appearances by the company's co-founder, Sebastian Thrun. The course, which is open to beginners, is taught by David Evans, an associate professor of computer science who is working for Udacity while on leave from the University of Virginia.
Sept. 13 marks the 161st anniversary of Maj. Walter Reed’s birth. Born in 1851 in Belroi, Va., ... Reed, the youngest of five children, completed his medical degree at the University of Virginia in 1869, two months before he turned 18 (then the youngest graduate in the history of the university's medical school).
The five winners of the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards range from a seafood company on the Eastern Shore to a cafe in the Shenandoah Valley. The awards, presented by the Initiative for Business in Society at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, recognize companies that have overcome significant economic obstacles to grow and create jobs in their communities.
It's going to be a bit noisy over the next couple of days at the University of Virginia. Work to remove river rock used as ballast atop the UVA bookstore is underway.
"You can't legislate good governance," said David Toscano, a democrat from the 57th District. "A lot of what happened is a function of the personalities involved in this dispute. At the same time there are some changes we could make in how we select the visitors to the UVa and we'll look at some of those in the next few months and potentially come up with legislation to deal with that."