... In his first interview since his daughter’s disappearance, John Graham told The Washington Post about the search for his youngest child and the excruciating loss the family has experienced. “She made us smile. She made us laugh,” Graham said. “She was clearly a remarkable young woman and someone we are very proud of. She was bright. She was witty. She was beautiful. And she made people happy.”
Hannah Elizabeth Graham was so smart that when her high school teacher was grading tests and came across a wrong answer, she would check the answer key and make sure there wasn’t some kind of mistake. As often as not, the answer key was wrong, not Graham.Stories about Graham’s intelligence, dry humor and unbridled zeal for life abounded Saturday at a memorial service billed as a celebration of Graham’s life.
Hundreds of University of Virginia students and friends of Hannah Graham gathered Saturday for a memorial service at her alma mater, West Potomac High School near Alexandria. Speakers from all parts of Graham’s life — professors, high school friends, fellow members of the college ski club — came together to honor a young woman they described as caring, generous and a bit sassy.
In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. His painting of the scene was later exhibited at the Royal Gallery in London in 1861. In her book, "Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade," Maurie McInnis describes the impact of the painting which is part of an exhibition she curated at the Library of Virginia, “To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade.”
A 15-year-old murder case is now riveting the nation.The attention doesn't come courtesy of a new TV series or movie, or anything involving a screen, for that matter, but a free podcast called “Serial,” a nonfiction story from the producers of “This American Life” that unspools week by week over the earphones of an unusually broad and fervent audience. Legal experts are riveted by “Serial.” Deirdre Enright, director of investigation at the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, assigned a team of students to delve int...
Sen. Mark Warner (D) will represent Virginia on Capitol Hill for another six years, after Republican challenger Ed Gillespie conceded the close race last week. Geoff Skelley, a veteran analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, was still trying to wrap his head around the numbers nearly a week later. Last year’s gubernatorial election actually outperformed last week’s midterm, a rarity in modern politics.
Don Blankenship joined a small club of executives when he was indicted on federal charges in the 2010 West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 people. The explosion and investigation led to the overhaul of the way the federal government oversees mine safety. University of Virginia law professor Brandon L. Garrett has been tracking corporate prosecutions since 2001 and has written a book on the subject, "Too Big to Jail."
With marriage in crisis in the modern world, the faithful have a duty to work for its restoration, promoting the ‘culture of encounter’ called for by the Holy Father, said a leading U.S. bishop. He pointed to an address given by Prof. W. Bradford Wilcox to the bishops at their June general assembly in New Orleans. The University of Virginia professor, who heads the National Marriage Project at the university, spoke about the connection between the strength of marriages and family poverty. “If you care about poverty, if you care about income inequality; if ...
Experts explained that if Hillary Clinton does take another shot at the White House, that it will be difficult for her to distance herself from President Barack Obama. “That won’t be easy. A nominee of the incumbent president’s party is always held accountable, to a considerable degree, for the White House’s performance,” said political expert Larry Sabato.
Justin Wolfe, in prison for capital murder, is back on the radar this week because he was featured in Episode 7 of Serial, the new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. As part of her investigation into the prosecution and conviction of Adnan Syed for a 1999 Baltimore murder, Koenig found her way to Wolfe and one of his vast team of lawyers and defenders, Deirdre Enright, the director of the University of Virginia Innocence Project Clinic.
A Virginia toddler born without thumbs has learned how to use his hands after the missing digits were recreated from his index fingers, according to reports. Connor Woodle, from Charlottesville, was born with rare thumb aplasia, which affects just one in every 100,000 infants. Connor’s parents approached the University of Virginia Hand Center, where doctors said they could perform digit pollicization.
You’re probably using a bowl cleaner to disinfect your toilets, but is the kitchen sink getting equal treatment? Your salt and pepper shakers dispense salt and pepper, but they also dispense cold viruses and other nastiness. A University of Virginia study tested the salt and pepper shakers of 30 adults who were showing signs of a cold, and every one of those shakers tested positive for the cold virus.
If you can't get close enough to your significant other (or non-significant other), scientific studies have your back, quite literally. As it turns out, cuddling might as well be a miracle drug. James Coan, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, conducted a study that illustrated the helpfulness of the human touch, specifically hand holding. While administering MRIs, he warned 16 married women that they might "experience shock." Each woman's state of anxiety was instantly illuminated in the MRI scans. But when these women held eac...
Three panel discussions on Friday will coincide with the release of an independent oral history of the Clinton White House put out by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
Average student debt at the University of Virginia has climbed 51 percent in the past decade, according to the university’s own estimates, but remains below national and state averages. Average UVa student debt at graduation is now $22,933, up from $15,176 a decade ago. But that number is still below the state average of $25,017 and the nationwide average for four-year public institutions of $29,309.
According to a 2013 economic impact study conducted by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, agriculture and forestry are two of Virginia's largest industries with a combined economic impact of $70 billion annually.
The University of Virginia partnered with APCO Worldwide this year to develop what they're calling a ranking of the world's "Top 100 Champion Brands." And the highest-scoring brands of 2014? Microsoft, Intel, Google, Nestlé and Disney.The Institute for Business in Society at UVa's Darden School of Business worked with the global communication and business strategy firm to create the ranking, which is based on a 2014 first-of-its-kind global opinion survey of more than 35,000 people in 14 global economies – all countries selected to account for the maj...