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.
(By Cammy Brothers, an associate professor at the University of Virginia and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture”) In our era of rapid prototyping and 3D printing, technologies that promise to transform the production of everything from medical devices to skyscrapers, it is easy to lose sight of how three-dimensional objects came into being in the predigital age.
(By Edward Hess, a professor of business administration and Batten Executive in-Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business) Old-school competitive advantages that depend on all-knowing leaders and better mousetraps are dead. In today’s rapidly evolving global marketplace, the only way to develop and sustain a competitive advantage is to create a “learning organization,” according to author and professor Edward Hess.
In all the attacks against President Barack Obama’s executive action on illegal immigration, there’s another policy that got caught in the fallout: Obamacare. Critics say the two policies together have created a $3,000 incentive to hire illegal immigrants. "The trigger for the employer mandate is that at least one of their full-time workers obtains a marketplace subsidy -- so the only way an employer could be sure would be to only hire permitted illegal immigrants," said Margaret Riley, a health law professor at the University of Virginia.
A new program lets people purchase e-signatures that enable them to open bank accounts and run a domestic business without being physically present. But according to new research, people may not have the same trust in such businesses as they would others. A new paper finds that people are much more likely to discount the validity of an e-signature than a hand-signed document. "Although e-signatures provide greater efficiency and convenience, they just seem a bit inauthentic," says Eileen Chou of the University of Virginia.
(By Nicholas Sambanis and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, an assistant professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics in the College of Arts & Sciences.) Earlier this year, Iraq’s parliament approved a new power-sharing government led by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi. The move toward political inclusion was encouraging, especially as Iraqi forces continued to battle the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). For weeks, though, two key cabinet positions—Minister of Defense and Minister of the Interior—remained unfilled. Onlookers held their breath as th...
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman barely caused a ripple in the political world with his announcement Tuesday morning that he won’t seek the 2016 GOP presidential. “All candidates are equal, but some are more equal than others,” said Larry J. Sabato, a political scientist with the University of Virginia.
Researchers found that a protein responsible for regulating the body's sleep cycle, or circadian rhythm, also protects the body from developing sporadic forms of cancers. "Over the past two decades we've learned a great deal about the inner workings of the circadian clock, the internal timepiece that controls our sleep:wake cycle and a whole host of other daily bodily rhythms," said Ignacio Provencio, a professor of biology at the University of Virginia who was not involved with the study.