Virginia lawmakers are calling for mandatory reporting of campus sexual assaults to law enforcement agencies after allegations of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, under fire for the institution’s handling of sexual assault allegations, spoke briefly to students Monday afternoon, saying, “Our university has been placed at the center of this crisis. We will not shrink from it. We will lead.”
The writer of a blockbuster Rolling Stone magazine story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity has said that she was unable to contact or interview the men who supposedly perpetrated the crime.
The president of the University of Virginia canceled a speech to the National Press Club in favor of speaking to students Monday. She pledged a series of changes to combat sexual assault on campus – among them, forcing fraternities to operate under new rules and pressing police to arrest sellers of date rape drugs.
A secret society at the University of Virginia placed banners as well as a letter on grounds Monday detailing how the school should change its culture.
No school sends more students to the University of Virginia than the one in Fairfax County named after the university’s founder. Sixty-five freshmen in Charlottesville this fall come from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, one of the top magnet schools in the country. Suddenly, some TJ seniors who had been strongly considering U-Va. are wondering about that choice, as recent allegations about a brutal gang rape at a fraternity there have caused turmoil, just weeks after U-Va. sophomore Hannah Graham was found dead after vanishing from a Char...
Student groups at the University of Virginia are demonstrating their outrage over the decision of a Missouri grand jury to not indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager.
The University of Virginia will re-examine policies that let victims decide whether sexual violence will be prosecuted and other students determine whether an assault has occurred, U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan said Monday.
The PEN American Center, an organization that defends freedom of expression world-wide, asked 61 of America’s most famous writers and 14 artists to annotate first editions of their classic works. The results will be auctioned at Christie’s on Tuesday evening as a benefit for PEN. On this side of the pond, U.Va. professor James Salter is one of the authors whose annotations are said to be the most extensive. His contribution to the sale is his first novel, “The Hunters,” based on his experience as a fighter pilot during the Korean War.
We're not born with racial prejudices. We may never even have been "taught" them. Rather, explains U.Va. psychologist Brian Nosek, prejudice draws on "many of the same tools that help our minds figure out what's good and what's bad."
Color-coded maps, created by Dustin Cable, a senior research associate at the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia, show both population density and race. Caucasians are in blue, blacks in green, hispanics in orange, Asians in red; other races are in brown.
Gov. Christie, who is openly weighing a run for president, in recent months has met with donors across the country and made multiple trips to the early presidential nominating states of New Hampshire and Iowa. And though Christie doesn't have a fund-raising committee, he did have "a leadership PAC in a very real sense," the RGA, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science Department of Systems and Information Engineering announced the success of an early-stage demonstration to improve defenses for unmanned aerial vehicles against cyber attacks.
U.Va. professor Christa Dierksheide has published a new book, “Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas” by (University of Virginia Press. The book discusses slave owners in the British Caribbean and South who advocated a gradual process toward eventual abolition.
In their latest paper “Marriage, Divorce and Asymmetric Information,” Steven Stern and Leora Friedberg, both esteemed professors at the University of Virginia, take an economist’s look at perceived happiness within marriages.
An inmate in the Fluvanna prison system may be surprised to find a professor from one of the nation’s premier business schools leading a workshop on entrepreneurship– but this vision of self-employment can be one that transforms the prospect of life after prison in an otherwise bleak job market. Greg Fairchild is a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and was ranked by CNN as one of the top 10 business professors in the globe.
In 2011, Elizabeth Dunn of the University of British Columbia, Daniel Gilbert of Harvard, and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia sought to figure out how to shop in a way that optimizes happiness. They came up with 8 rules.
By all accounts, he is an extreme long shot, but Jim Webb has set up an “exploratory committee” to see about running for president in 2016. Aaron Blake, writing for The Fix at The Washington Post, lays out several criticisms against Mr. Webb. “He retired after one term in the Senate and didn’t seem to particularly enjoy being in public life.” He also refers readers to Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia professor commonly referred to as the “dean” of Virginia politics, who said after Mr. Webb’s retirement from the Sena...
Some political analysts and policy makers warn, however, that Rand Paul may encounter stiff headwinds on the campaign trail for straddling or flip-flopping on sensitive issues. “Trying to have it both ways is fairly common in politics, but there’s a cost,” said Larry J. Sabato, a prominent University of Virginia political scientist. “His likely presidential opponents in the GOP are already taking note. The opposition research reports on Rand Paul will be substantial. The TV ads write themselves: ‘Which Rand Paul are you voting for?’”
Violins, ukuleles, guitars, and banjos all have strings, but in one UVa professor's engineering class the instruments come with a Surgeon General's warning. A down-home jam session isn't exactly what you'd expect to hear in an Introduction to Engineering class at the University of Virginia, but it's all part of Professor Keith Williams' message to his First Years.