The General Assembly has approved more than $520,000 in compensation for Gary Linwood Bush, who served almost 11 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of two bank robberies. The Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law helped Bush and Deeds throughout the process.
(Video) Employees from UVA’s Facilities Management hosted a free “Queens of DIY: Toolbox Workshop,” teaching women basic skills in plumbing, carpentry and electrical work.
Larry Terry, executive director of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is joining five state officials to form a commission considering how parole officials can help reduce the number of prisoners returning to jail.
Rather than advocating for censorship, political revolutionaries in the 18th century doubled down on the importance of the free press. Figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were responsible for creating important institutions of reason and learning, such as the University of Pennsylvania and University of Virginia, precisely for the purpose of educating America’s citizens.
Brennan is marking one year in the anchor chair of “Face the Nation” and is the currently the only female host on the Sunday circuit. The career trajectory of Brennan, who graduated with honors from UVA, has been a rapid ascent.
“The big theme is a return to light-hearted humor," University of Virginia professor Kim Whitler said. "There's an acknowledgement the Super Bowl is about entertainment."
An ad promoting its Google Translate service pointed out that although "words can hurt and sometimes divide," the most translated words in the world are "How are you," ''Thank you" and "I love you." Kim Whitler, marketing professor at the University of Virginia, said the ad was an example of how the night's "most powerful ads focused on unity, positivity and commonality."
The American College of Healthcare Executives each year recognizes industry leaders for their work in transforming care delivery at organizational, local and national levels. ACHE's Gold Medal Award is the organization's highest honor. This year's winners include Kenneth White, associate dean for strategic partnerships and innovation at the University of Virginia's School of Nursing.
This year two economists – Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford University and Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia– published a working paper that looks at how colleges define their success in serving low-income students, and suggests a new way to measure an individual institution’s goals. Current methods often focus on students who qualify for Pell Grants, which could mean less support for students who are just above that threshold. The researchers stressed that no one is saying colleges shouldn’t do more for low-income students. Rather, they said, how colleges are going about it ma...
It doesn’t really matter which Republican candidate takes on Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in November 2020, as long as is isn’t Roy Moore. If the GOP can avoid a candidate with the kind of baggage Moore had, Jones seems destined to lose his bid to win a full term representing Alabama in the Senate. Jones is the most vulnerable Senate Democrat facing re-election in 2020, and most think he's as good as gone. The University of Virginia's Larry Sabato rates the race as a toss-up, but admitted "that probably is being kind to Jones."
Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, said that poor showings in New Hampshire in 2020 could be a significant hurdle for Warren and Sanders, especially as the primary contest moves into South Carolina and Nevada. “I think it’d be reasonable to look at it like a home game for them,” Kondik said.
This year’s county elections come as the locality’s population sits just a few hundred shy of the 100,000 mark, according to estimates recently released by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Policy. Montgomery County is estimated to have grown by about 5 percent since the last census in 2010, and projections put the county on pace to surpass Roanoke by 2030 to become Southwest Virginia’s largest locality by population.
In a diverse group of American children between the ages of 2 and 19, nearly one in five will be obese, and if all the kids are Hispanic, that number rises to more than one in four. That’s bad news, according to Anna Maria Siega-Riz, associate dean at UVA’s School of Nursing, because she says, "Once you’re obese, it’s really hard to reverse it."
Epidemiologist Joellen Schildkraut, a UVA professor of public health, has said that studies to date on talc powder and cancer – including some of her own – don’t meet scientific criteria for causality. Part of the problem, she said, is that media coverage and publicity that question the safety of baby powder have skewed people's perceptions and memories.
As the Watergate scandal unfolded, Nixon’s Republican allies raised questions about the partisan leanings of investigators and sought to undermine some of their conclusions. One thing they didn’t do: Investigate the investigators. Nixon’s allies in Congress levied some of the same criticism against Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox that Republicans use today about Mueller, said Ken Hughes, a Watergate expert at UVA’s Miller Center.
(Commentary by Anne J. Verbiscer, professor of astronomy) The discovery of Hippocamp is intriguing because of the moon’s relationship to Proteus and the role that both objects might have had in the history of Neptune’s inner system. Hippocamp, the smallest known inner moon of Neptune, orbits just 12,000 km inside the orbit of Proteus, the planet’s largest inner moon.
The UVA School of Engineering is at the forefront of developing a solution to make the world’s jet engines more efficient. A multidisciplinary team is seeking to identify and develop thermoelectric materials that can harness excess energy -- and save millions of dollars in the process.
(Video) UVA students are hoping to change the conversation surrounding the craft beer industry.
"This is the most intensely religious and most intensely sectarian symbol that there is," says Douglas Laycock, a leading scholar on religious liberty and law professor at the University of Virginia and University of Texas-Austin. As for the difficult church-state divide, he says, "All the justices, left to right, have a problem trying to draw lines."
UVA cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham sparked a lively Twitter conversation about the purpose of school with his tweet about whether schools should teach kids how to do their laundry.