The ruling drew applause from academics, disappointment from the institute and some concern from open-government advocates.
If a stranger approaches you with a raised arm on Thursday, don't be alarmed – it's just National High Five Day, an unofficial holiday during which participants raise money for charity by engaging in an all-day high-five-a-thon. The holiday began on the campus of the University of Virginia in 2002, when a group of students set up a stand giving away free high-fives in the middle of a quadrangle. "We discovered two things," Greg Harrell-Edge, executive director of the National High Five Project and one of the original UVA group, told PEOPLE. "One, it's real fun ...
Tom Nachbar, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, frames the question this way: "By performing that service for thousands of people at the same time, although totally individually, are they doing what is essentially a transmission to the public?"
Cell movement plays an important role in a host of biological functions from embryonic development to repairing wounded tissue. It also enables cancer cells to break free from their sites of origin and migrate throughout the body. A new study led by Sharon Campbell, PhD, professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine and member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, deepens the understanding of a pair of proteins – vinculin and actin – that work together to allow a cell to migrate throughout the body. The study was conducted in collaboration with Edw...
The Virginia Supreme Court's ruling Thursday backing the University of Virginia's right to exempt a climate scientist's email messages from a public records request contains no soaring rhetoric about academic freedom; it revolves around the legal narrow definition of "proprietary" information and the intricacies of the state's Freedom of Information Act. But the ruling nonetheless stands as a victory for public universities and scholars who work there, if more for practical than philosophical reasons.
Under state law, Geoffrey Skelley, spokesman for the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said “political shenanigans like Fauquier’s have happened before and they’ll happen again, especially in very low turnout events. “All someone really needs to do is get a good number of supporters to come out and vote to have a shot at winning,” he said.
Fans of new music will have two opportunities this week to hear some of the latest compositions coming from the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music. And if you aren’t a fan yet, take advantage of the fact that both concerts are free.
Profile of Boston Marathon bombing victim Heather Abbott, who mentions that she will speak at the School of Medicine’s diploma ceremony.
Here’s a hint at how often: Nationwide, 1,342 people have been exonerated, often after spending decades in jail, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint effort of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University law schools. In Virginia, 36 people have been cleared of committing heinous crimes, 17 of those thanks to DNA evidence. “That’s not even the tip of the iceberg,” said Harding, who went on to read UVA law professor Brandon Garrett’s “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong,” an examination of the f...
Josh Bowers, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, says it is tough for juries even to think beyond the harshest punishments because of mandatory minimums: “Mandatory life without parole is part of a larger push in criminal law in the direction of mandatory minimums. Those who don't like discretion or who worry about discretion tend to like mandatory minimums because they think that mandatory minimums get past the problem with discretion. I don't think that's so. They force discretion away from certain criminal justice actors, judges and juries, and in the ...
Nurses doing research is not new, said Karen Rose, an associate professor of nursing and assistant dean for innovation at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Rose points to Florence Nightingale, considered the founder of modern nursing, as an example. Nightingale kept statistics on the war-wounded in the Crimean War and used that data to push for changes, including better sanitation, in hospitals. “We have a rich history in our profession of conducting research,” said Rose, who has a two-year $428,269 grant to study incontinence in Alzheimer’s patients. … Men...
The way Americans tell our story is as a steady march of expanding liberty, and, particularly in the early days of the Republic, as a challenge to the idea of a nation-state ruled by nobles and sovereigns. But to the enslaved Africans in America at the time, the new America was their oppressor and jailer. Alan Taylor's “The Internal Enemy,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, tells the little-known story of 3,000 enslaved Africans who escaped from Virginia and fought the War of 1812 alongside the British against the Americans.
"I know on the heels of any school shooting, there's the perception that violence is on the rise. It's not," Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist and education professor at the University of Virginia, told NPR. "In fact, there's been a very steady downward trend for the past 15 years."
As part of the lead up to the White House Summit on Working Families, we have been seeking input from a wide variety of stakeholders to identify best practices for developing workplaces that work for all Americans and better meet the needs of women and working families. We did not think this goal could be achieved without thinking of the business leaders of tomorrow, and that is why today, we met with a group of deans from our nation’s leading business schools (including Robert F. Bruner of U.Va.’s Darden School of Business) to discuss best practices for business schools that can b...
2002 - National High Five Day (NH5D) is created when a group of students at the University of Virginia set up a stand giving out lemonade and hand slaps. Today NH5D uses the high five to raise money for various charities.
Former retirement system board member and current University of Virginia economics professor Ed Burton disagreed. He argued that cost-of-living increases and merit raises will pile up on top of the state-mandated pay hike, eventually forcing the fund to pay out more to retired workers. “I raised that at the [Virginia Retirement System] meeting when it was presented,” he said, “and it was the board’s feeling at the time that it didn’t matter.”
There are certain things you don’t expect to see together on any one person’s biography, life experiences such as: Serving as a Green Beret in Vietnam and as a cast member of the TV soap “One Life to Live.” Getting an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania followed by years on the U.S. bobsled team. Stints at a monastery in the Scottish highlands and a Canadian gold mine followed by a recurring role as a lawyer on the 1980s TV series “Falcon Crest.” Actor, author, military veteran and lifelong adventurer John Rixey Moore’s life i...
The date of the last freeze varies by location. It’s later farther to the west, earlier to the east, according to the University of Virginia Climatology Office.