(By Gregory Orr, a poet and a professor of English at the University of Virginia.) IT was 50 years ago tomorrow, on June 14, 1965, that I was arrested in Jackson, Miss., for parading without a permit. I’d driven south alone, at 18, from my home in upstate New York, as a volunteer in the civil rights movement on break from college.
With upwards of 16 likely candidates, there's one wrinkle in this cycle: many longshots won't even make it to the primetime debate stage. The Republican National Committee wants to limit participants after the debate-athon four years ago where there were up to 30 contests. "If a candidate can't get into the debates then it's going to be very difficult for those candidates to convince their staff and volunteers to stick around," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
The crimes and misdemeanors of science used to be handled mostly in-house, with a private word at the faculty club, barbed questions at a conference, maybe a quiet dismissal. On the rare occasion when a journal publicly retracted a study, it typically did so in a cryptic footnote. Few were the wiser; many retracted studies have been cited as legitimate evidence by others years after the fact. But that gentlemen’s world has all but evaporated, as a remarkable series of events last month demonstrated. “It’s an extraordinary time,” said Brian Nosek, a professor of psycholo...
Visualize this: a young lobbyist quits his job to start the country’s most successful company offering meditation for professionals. That’s what Serge Eygenson is visualizing with his start-up FitMinds, and it’s why he’ll spend the next 10 weeks in the University of Virginia Darden School of Business’s intensive i.Lab Incubator program. He spoke to Emily Richardson-Lorente about the origins of his idea, how meditation can improve performance at work and at home, and what he hopes to learn in the U.Va. i.Lab Incubator program.
Stephen Henderson talks with Douglas Laycock, Professor of Constitutional Law and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, about Michigan’s new religious freedom law that will allow faith-based adoption agencies to refuse to serve LGBT people, or people of other faiths.
"Jurassic World" roared to an international box office record this weekend — $524.1 million — propelled by a $100 million-plus opening in China. "I think it's not such a surprise," says Aynne Kokas, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and a scholar at Baker Institute China Studies Program at Rice University. Kokas expects China will keep box office records for American films.
The University of Virginia Medical Center has earned national recognition for the quality of its nursing care. The American Nurses Credentialing Center has awarded the hospital with Magnet recognition, a distinction given to about 7 percent of hospitals around the country.
Only one in 14 hospitals in the country receives Magnet recognition. The University of Virginia Medical Center can now boast of that prestigious honor.
The University of Virginia may become one of the first places in the country to “print” body parts to order. Thirteen years ago, Japanese researcher Makoto Nakamura discovered that human cells were the same size as ink droplets in an injet printer. Years later those printers now exist…and scientists at UVA have two of the nation’s four most advanced bioprinters, with which they hope to make human parts.
Intra-abdominal infections are bacterial invasions from the gut that cause painful inflammation. These infections, which include appendicitis, are some of the most common illnesses worldwide. If allowed to spread, infection can lead to body-wide inflammation known as sepsis that can cause organ failure and death. Currently, doctors give antibiotics until 2 days after fever and other symptoms disappear, which can be up to 2 weeks. Some studies, however, have suggested that a shorter course might be just as effective. To find out, a team of researchers led by Dr. Robert Sawyer at the University ...
The U.Va. University Singers (90 singers in all) returned from a two-week concert tour to Europe earlier this summer, including performances in Cambridge and London, as well as Prague, Krakow, Brno, and Vienna (at the Schönbrunn Palace.)
The University of Virginia has countless buildings that honor its faculty from the school’s first two centuries, and something new is being added to the mix. A new dormitory on Alderman Road will recognize a husband and wife who worked as slaves for some of UVA’s earliest professors. Gibbons House will be the home of 200 new Wahoos, and is being named for William and Isabella Gibbons.
The University of Virginia will create a top academic center for scholars, students and archivists studying the Civil War, thanks to the generosity of a Houston couple. On Friday, the university’s board of visitors approved the naming of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
The University of Virginia is using the summer break to expand sexual assault prevention efforts within the Charlottesville community. UVA Prevention Program Coordinator, Nicole Thomas says with the students gone, she can focus more on higher-level strategies.
The newest dorm at the University of Virginia has been named after two former slaves who became prominent community members after Emancipation. According to reports, the university officially dedicated Gibbons House on Friday. The residence hall will house about 200 first-year students starting this fall.
This fall, students will move into a brand new dorm. It’s the first to be dedicated to former slaves. It will become home to over 200 first-year students this fall, and it will serve as recognition of a complicated part of the University's history.
A new dorm opening at the University of Virgina honors two former slaves, Isabella and William Gibbons, who worked at the university before they were emancipated. The Commission on Slavery and the university hosted a ceremony for the Gibbons House Friday afternoon.
Lt. Ken Kanger commands the Omaha Police Department's gang unit. On May 20, one of his officers, 29-year-old Kerrie Orozco, was fatally shot while attempting to serve a warrant one day before she was scheduled to take maternity leave to care for her daughter, Olivia Ruth, born prematurely in February. The incident attracted national headlines and drew the attention of the Virginia baseball team, for which Kanger served in the dugout at TD Ameritrade Park last year during the Cavaliers' run to the championship game of the College World Series. Back in Omaha this year, the Cavaliers, ear...
Brandi King, a health plan adviser for Anthem, Inc, eagerly awaited the announcement from the higher-ups. n June, the insurance company went public about its partnership with College for America at Southern New Hampshire University. The deal? To provide a competency-based online education, at no up-front cost, to eligible workers. "We're talking about monopolistic deals that limit student choice and that, in many cases, don't actually deliver on the promise of a free or subsidized education," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia...
If there is such a thing as Bush family fatigue among American voters, Jeb Bush is about to test it. On Monday, he officially launches his presidential campaign. He is the third Bush family politician to reach for the White House. When Jeb Bush and George W. Bush are compared side by side, they appear to be a study in opposites. One is diplomatic, introverted and cerebral. The other can be caustic, extroverted and emotional. But Barbara A. Perry, co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia, has a different take. In Jeb Bush, especially ...