Charlottesville’s youth leaders are talking, and Charlottesville’s Youth Council found City Council listening. The group also backs forming a responsibility campaign, similar to the University of Virginia’s “Hoos Got Your Back,” initiative, which encourages people to help prevent sexual assault.
Not all U.S. Supreme Court law clerks head to law firms with long-established practices at the high court after a year with their justices. McGuireWoods announced Thursday it has hired three former Supreme Court law clerks among 33 new associates at the firm. All three are University of Virginia School of Law graduates. Coincidentally, the Virginia law school recently announced that four of its graduates will clerk for the high court next term, tying a five-year-old record for the school. Since 2005, University of Virginia has come in fourth in placing graduates in Supreme Court clerkships.
In May, the journal Science published a study, led by a young University of Virginia psychologist, Thomas Talhelm, that ascribed these different orientations to the social worlds created by wheat farming and rice farming. The authors of the study in Science argue that over thousands of years, rice- and wheat-growing societies developed distinctive cultures: “You do not need to farm rice yourself to inherit rice culture.”
To ensure your business concept meets people’s needs, testing is essential. Treat your idea like a hypothesis, says Jeanne M. Liedtka, a professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. She says that too many times managers try to confirm their ideas and not disprove them, as a scientist might.
As Rachel A. Harmon, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a former prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division explains, civil rights violations by police are exceptionally hard to prove. “There is an extra burden in federal civil rights cases because the statute requires that the defendant acted ‘willfully,’ ” Harmon said. “It is not enough to prove that he used too much force. You have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did so willfully.”
Good design can play a central role in addressing today's complex health challenges. In Charlottesville, Virginia, VMDO Architects collaborated with Dr. Matthew Trowbridge, assistant professor at the University of Virginia Medical School, to study how to reduce incidence rates of childhood obesity through design. The team leveraged this research at the new Buckingham County Primary and Elementary School in Dillwyn, VA, with a goal of supporting healthy eating and physical activity through educational design strategies.
Two weeks after Rolling Stone published an exposé about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, media critics are increasingly questioning the reporter’s methods and the accuracy of the article. Students at the University of Virginia, though, are drawing a distinction between criticizing the article’s presentation and questioning its veracity.
A scandal at the University of Virginia raises new concerns about the role of Greek life in college sexual assaults.
Following a harrowing Rolling Stone story on the gang rape of a University of Virginia student, several state lawmakers are proposing new legislation that would require university officials to notify the police when they receive a report of sexual violence against students -- or potentially face prosecution themselves.
Several outlets are now calling into question the credibility of the Rolling Stone magazine article centered on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. Some are skeptical, but others defend the article's integrity.
Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Springfield has introduced a bill that would require campus and local law enforcement to report complaints to prosecutors within 48 hours, and several other lawmakers have announced plans to introduce similar legislation.
The critics aren’t wrong that colleges and universities, for the most part, are doing a bad job responding to sexual-assault victims on their campuses. But these shortcomings aren’t reason for colleges to abandon their duties in this arena. They need, instead, to finally live up to their responsibilities.
Less than two weeks after the publication of the dramatic Rolling Stone account of an alleged brutal fraternity gang rape and administrative cover-up at the University of Virginia—a report that prompted a new outcry against America’s “rape culture” and led UVA president Teresa Sullivan to suspend all fraternity activities on campus—questions are swirling about the story’s authenticity.
Emily Renda was raped when she was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Virginia, she said. She didn’t go to the police. Renda now wishes she had. It could have given other women the courage to come forward and report sexual assaults.
The Rolling Stone story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia has, in the eyes of many in the media, gone from bombshell reporting to journalistic malpractice in the bat of an eye.
The women's center at the University of Virginia is hiring an additional counselor to work with survivors of sexual assault.
Students from 13 Virginia colleges, including James Madison University (JMU) and the University of Virginia (UVA), are teaming up to ask Governor Terry McAuliffe not to cut funding for their schools.
The American Humane Society calls pet overpopulation a tragic problem, forcing shelters to euthanize millions of cats and dogs each year. Now, students at the University of Virginia have a solution – a non-surgical, reversible form of birth control for pets.
A landmark event took place exactly one week ago at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Victoria Island, Lagos. It was the public presentation of the scholarly book written by the outstanding and highly regarded businessman and philanthropist, Poly Ike Emenike (MON andOdenigbo Nanka), who is the chairman and chief executive officer of NEROS Pharmaceuticals Limited. The book is also being used as a set text at the University of Virginia, Wise, where the Napoleon Hill Foundation teaches the Key to Success to 100 and 300-level students.
State health officials have designated 35 U.S. hospitals, including the University of Virginia, as Ebola treatment centers, a move that will at least triple the number of beds available to treat future patients.