The universe is full of mysteries that challenge our current knowledge. In "Beyond Science" Epoch Times collects stories about these strange phenomena to stimulate the imagination and open up previously undreamed of possibilities. Are they true? You decide. Dr. Jim Tucker learned from the best. His predecessor in reincarnation studies at the University of Virginia, Dr. Ian Stevenson (1918–2007), earned the respect of America’s scientific community for his sober analyses, even if he didn’t convince everyone reincarnation undoubtedly exists.
The importance of your Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion credit reports cannot be understated, as all credit scores are based on the information in these reports and your credit standing dictates the credit card and loan terms that you qualify for, where you are able to live, the car you drive, and even the jobs you can get. “It is true that there are many errors in credit reports,” says Brenda E. Castañeda, an attorney in the Charlottesville office of the Legal Aid Justice Center and a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law.
As people around the country flocked to Washington D.C. for the National March For Justice, local activists from Charlottesville made their voices heard as well. But on Saturday in Washington D.C., local activists ranged from grown adults to UVa graduate students, all the way down to high school freshmen who felt it was time to speak up. "Being a couple of hours from D.C., how could I not be apart of it," said Jenna Marthaller, a U.Va. graduate student.
Entering into Sunday’s match, there was very little that the University of Virginia Cavaliers Men’s Soccer team had not done in the game. A six-time champion and a multiple time finalist, the Cavaliers had played and beaten all of the best. Except for one: beat UCLA in the tournament. On the day of the 17th anniversary of these two clubs first battle in the College Cup final it would be Virginia that would finally gain the victory over UCLA. The Cavaliers would narrowly beat the Bruins 3-2 in penalties to capture their seventh College Cup title.
The real issue here in the wake of the story and its unraveling is what will happen outside of the media chatter: How are the people with power at UVA responding? For once, there's actually some good news to report.
On Tuesday, The Washington Post asked U-Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan for her response to the charge that the university failed to warn the community about the incident that allegedly occurred in September 2012. Sullivan declined to address that question and others related to the alleged incident, citing an investigation by Charlottesville police, an investigation the police department has said they initiated at the university’s request.
Since our original discussion last week with UVA associate professor of music Bonnie Gordon, questions have been raised about the accuracy of the Rolling Stone article after several discrepancies were discovered in one student’s account of her alleged gang rape. Now, Gordon described two distinct reactions on campus to the revisions to the Rolling Stone story.
Psychology researchers at the University of Virginia say they may have a way of testing whether a person is racist or not. It's called the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and 2 million people have already taken it online.
As University of Virginia forensic clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell explained in a guest post here earlier this year, kids are 100 times more likely to be murdered outside of school than in. In fact, the school building is just about the safest place your kid can be.
Two University of Virginia faculty members received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Stephen Cushman, a professor of English and Sarah Kucenas, an assistant professor of biology, are among 13 faculty members in Virginia public universities honored by the Council.
This week’s Senate report on the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation methods is neither the first nor the worst time the agency has run afoul of its congressional overseers. Frederick Hitz, who served for three decades in the CIA, including eight years as its inspector general, said the report shows that the agency just isn’t very good at hostile interrogations. “We didn’t know how to do it,” Hitz, who’s now an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said in a phone interview. “It’s not because these are fire-breathers w...
Software billionaire Paul Allen says he's committing $100 million to create a new institute in Seattle focusing on the mechanics of human cell biology. The institute's executive director is Rick Horwitz, who served as the director of the federally funded Cell Migration Consortium for 10 years and has spent the past 15 years doing cell research as a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
(By Jeff Bergner and Gerry Warburg. Jeff Bergner is a lecturer at the Batten School of the University of Virginia, who formerly served as Republican staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as Assistant Secretary of State. Gerry Warburg also teaches at the Batten School, where he is an assistant dean, and formerly served as a Senate Democratic leadership aide.) Congress is weighing whether to vote to authorize the use of force against the terrorist organization ISIS, prodded by members as ideologically diverse as Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine and Kentucky Republican Se...
This week’s Senate report on the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation methods is neither the first nor the worst time the agency has run afoul of its congressional overseers. Frederick Hitz, who served for three decades in the CIA, including eight years as its inspector general, said the report shows that the agency just isn’t very good at hostile interrogations. “We didn’t know how to do it,” Hitz, who’s now an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said in a phone interview.
Physicians and professional piercers agree that over the last six years, plastic surgery on enlarged earlobes has become common enough to earn a name: Earlobeplasty. Anecdotally, though, the trend is clear, as are the sociological reasons for it. Giant bejeweled earlobes are marks of beauty, nobility, bravery, or wisdom in many indigenous and ancient cultures. (The Buddha is often depicted with stretched lobes.) In modern Western cultures, not so much. "These individuals are now thirtysomething. They're done rebelling - I know that's a judgmental thing to say," said Universit...
Willa Brown, a graduate student in history at the University of Virginia, delves into the deeper meaning of lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his flannel-wearing, bearded progeny, who seem to have migrated en masse from Minnesota to populate hipster neighborhoods in urban areas everywhere.
George Gelnovatch conducted two training camps for the University of Virginia men’s soccer team this season. There was the traditional session in August, when the Cavaliers gathered in Charlottesville to begin plotting their return to the College Cup.
A study recently published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery demonstrated that an app can be an effective replacement for joint evaluation. The study, from researchers at the University of Virginia Health Systems, tested the Clinometer app as a replacement for the goniometer tool. A goniometer tool is the clinical and research “gold standard” in evaluating the range of motion for patients’ joints.
Rappahannock County is in the midst of a type of growth that cannot be controlled by zoning, or any other way: the numbers of gray-haired folks are zooming upwards. A research and analysis unit of the University of Virginia, the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, has put numbers to the coming growth in the population of older people; the researchers have done the figuring for the entire commonwealth, and here is what they see ahead for our county: Just six years from now, in 2020, the center expects there will be more than 2,700 people over the age of 60 in Rappahannock. Okay so far. The...
Only about 20 percent of campus sexual assault victims go to police, according to a report released Thursday that provides insight into why so many victims choose to not seek criminal charges.