The disagreement is hard to definitively settle, even among legal experts in the field. Robert Turner of the University of Virginia School of Law told the Washington Post, “I am very confident that had he gone to the Hill committees or the NSA or DOD or ODNI IGs, it would have been very difficult for anyone to engage in retribution against him without considerable personal cost.”
"This cannot happen without long-term damage to the ecologic and hydrologic integrity of the Allegheny Highlands, among the best and least altered natural landscapes in the eastern U.S.," Rick Webb wrote in an email. Webb runs vawind.org and is an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia.
... It was a brutal thirty minutes for the Carnegie Mellon team, which managed a fourth place finish behind Yale, University of Virginia and champions University of Chicago at the Alpha Challenge at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the biggest stock picker competition in the country. Four teams emerged from the morning round to compete for the championship. Teams had 15 minutes to pitch one stock they wanted to go long and one stock they wished to short ...
One of Michael Terrell's first stops after coming home from graduation at the University of Virginia on May 18 was Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, where he placed his graduation tassel on his father's grave. "I wish he could have been there," Michael said. Marvin Terrell died two months into his son's first semester at college. His father's sudden death almost made Michael quit school and come home to be near his family.
Amy Rodgers, a 2010 graduate of Central Catholic where she was an outstanding diver, was selected as a student speaker for the valedictory program. "It was a huge honor to be elected and asked and definitely an awesome experience to be on the same stage with Peyton."
Never refer to yourself by the title "Dr."—unless you are a real doctor. For this reason, we should always honor Thomas Jefferson as the founder of the University of Virginia, where he declared that faculty members be called "Mister" and not "Doctor." This will, of course, serve as an antidote to the hubris into which academics often fall.
Could what we eat shape how we think? A new paper in the journal Science by Thomas Talhelm at the University of Virginia and colleagues suggests that agriculture may shape psychology. A bread culture may think differently than a rice-bowl society. ... Dr. Talhelm and colleagues used an ingenious design to test these possibilities.
A team of researchers from MIT -- alongside folks from Adobe and the University of Virginia -- created an algorithm that could allow you to accurately apply the stylings of critically-acclaimed portrait photographers to everyday self-made snapshots.
A team of researchers from MIT -- alongside folks from Adobe and the University of Virginia -- created an algorithm that could allow you to accurately apply the stylings of critically-acclaimed portrait photographers to everyday self-made snapshots.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are known for making incredible medical discoveries, with their most recent exploration of how the deadly Ebola virus smashes into human cells proving how powerful the minds of UVa's best and brightest can be.
Our new research data show that focusing anti-poverty policy exclusively on single-parent families is misguidedly myopic. It turns out that the face of economic insecurity may, in contrast to the broader narrative, be a child supported by married parents.
Warner visited the new office of Hemoshear, a company that works with the pharmaceutical industry to develop safer drugs and treatment methods for patients. The company was started in 2009 by two University of Virginia faculty members and now employs about 35 people, according to CEO James C. Powers.
Representative Joseph Kennedy III (D-MA) gave the commencement address to the 2014 University of Virginia Law School graduating class.
The Virginia Discovery Museum is celebrating a partnership with the University of Virginia Children's Hospital and the Charlottesville Fire Department Friday with the opening of two new exhibits. Kids got to play in a smaller-scale version of a hospital clinic modeled after those in the new Battle Building.
Charlottesville's Office of Human Rights will honor the work of some the city's civil rights activists Monday. A University of Virginia Curry School professor will give a presentation to recognize the work of "The Consultative Resource Center for School Desegregation." The center prepared school workers and teachers for desegregation during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Organizers say given Virginia's history, just creating that center was a big accomplishment at the time.
The University of Virginia will replace the roofs over the East Range rooms behind the Lawn.
About 70 percent of students who enrolled at public four-year colleges and universities in Virginia in fall 2007 received a degree within six academic years, putting the state second only to Delaware in its graduation rate, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia reported Friday. The six-year graduation rates at Virginia’s 15 public schools ranged from 34 percent at Norfolk State University to 93 percent at the University of Virginia.