Surrounded by TV cameras outside a federal courthouse, former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship stood quietly and let his attorney do the talking after being convicted on a misdemeanor conspiracy charge in connection with the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. If found guilty of all charges, he could have been imprisoned for up to 30 years. University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett said the verdict shows jurors can hold a corporate chief accountable in a complex case.
(Co-written by Jason Johnston, the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law) Early in October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unleashed its latest effort to remake the American consumer credit system. This time, the bureau is targeting the provisions in consumer credit contracts that require disputes to be handled through arbitration rather than class action lawsuits. Our recent Mercatus Center working paper suggests that-despite the consumer protection rhetoric-class action lawyers, not consumers, will benefit from the bu...
The Battle Building, a seven-story, 200,000-sq. ft. ambulatory care facility at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, Charlottesville, which opened in June 2014, features full-height glass in the lobby to provide a visual connection to an adjacent park that was designed and built as part of the Battle Building project. Waiting rooms on the upper floors have views to the nearby Shenandoah Valley. A third-floor rooftop garden gives patients, families and staff a place for outdoor respite.
Some students from the University of Virginia Computer Science Department and Energize! Charlottesville are working together to create a game that will help residents save energy around their homes. The project combines the city's environmental goals, the competition for the $5 million Georgetown University Energy Prize, and the UVa Game Design Research Group's mission to us games to provide solution to broader societal issues.
Muslim students at UVA say they're tackling Islamophobia one hug at a time. They say that Donald trump himself is harmless, but his message is dangerous.
Leonard Schoppa, professor of politics, addresses the plight of refugees, and the vibrancy they add to the community.
If what you see is what you get, the University of Virginia has hired perhaps the most intriguing, uncommon and outspoken coach in the 127-year history of Cavaliers football.
At Bronco Mendenhall’s introductory news conference at John Paul Jones Arena, Virginia Athletic Director Craig Littlepage said the 49-year-old coach matched all the requirements and characteristics Virginia had on its wish list, including consistent, humble and data-driven. “From my standpoint, he’s a truly remarkable coach,” Littlepage said. “He’s a remarkable man.”
Bronco Mendenhall doesn’t believe success in the classroom and on the football field are mutually exclusive. Mendenhall said Monday his teams proved it can be done it in 11 years at BYU and he plans to continue that now that he is coaching at Virginia. The 49-year-old Mendenhall laid out his plans on Monday, saying he would effect change by leaning on his strengths as a teacher.
Bronco Mendenhall, a pleasantly brash 49-year-old who has compiled a 99-42 record in 11 seasons at Brigham Young University, was formally introduced Monday as the 40th head coach in Cavaliers history. Speaking at a standing-room-only press conference that included university president Theresa Sullivan and rector Bill Goodwin, Mendenhall said he intends – no, expects – to win in Charlottesville.
Francesca Tripodi, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Virginia, is working on a dissertation about Yik Yak. She observed comments on the app three times a day for an entire year and interviewed dozens of students who used it. “For the students who already feel they belong to the university, Yik Yak is reaffirming,” Tripodi said. “The jokes were particular to their community, their campus, what’s been going on around them. They find it really relevant to their lives.”
On Monday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders became the third Democratic presidential nominee to roll out a climate change plan, tying the issue to several broader themes in his campaign, including economic inequality and money in politics, in a bid to separate himself from his Democratic rivals. "If you ask people if they think climate change is an important issue they’ll say yes, but if you think of it comparatively to other important issues it kind of falls to the wayside," Geoffrey Skelley, a spokesman for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told The Christian S...
According to the UVA student body president, a recent survey of 400 students showed that 84 percent of students were against carrying guns on Grounds.
Examples from Olivier Zunz’s history, “Philanthropy in America,” are useful context after last week’s discussion and debate about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for his fortune. Zunz is a historian at the University of Virginia.
At the University of Virginia, scientists are fine-tuning what could be the cheapest method for delaying or preventing the onset of diabetes.
Brigham Young’s Bronco Mendenhall was late to a scheduled team meeting Friday in Provo, Utah. He had spent the previous three hours considering the terms of a contract Virginia had sent him earlier that afternoon. The paperwork concerned becoming the new coach of the Cavaliers, and, in the end, he decided that growth comes from change. He signed the contract — a five-year deal worth $16.25 million — and will make the move with his family from Utah to Charlottesville to take over the Cavaliers football program.
With glaciers melting, sea levels rising and 2015 about to break last year’s record as the hottest year in the world since modern measurements began in 1880, California Gov. Jerry Brown arrived Saturday at the international climate summit in Paris, bringing with him business executives, political leaders and huge hopes that the trip will make a major difference. “Jerry Brown was never elected president, but he sure wanted to be,” said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “In this sense, I guess he’s playing president. Nobody s...
Larry Sabato, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, says Trump’s supporters are disproportionately blue collar and non-college educated and, with an estimated 10 per cent of the general electorate, he is by no means representative of US public opinion. “Naturally, Trump’s style attracts certain types of voters who see no subtlety in the complicated issues the world faces and just want a strong man to ‘fix’ all the problems,” he said.
UVA historians Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf, co-hosts of the public radio show BackStory, weigh the former president’s complex history.
A group of biomechanics at the University of Virginia is honoring the commitment of soldiers by discovering more ways to keep them safe on the battlefield.