Larsen, who holds a bachelor's degree from William and Mary and a juris doctor from the University of Virginia, joined the Law School faculty in 2010 after ...
Charlottesville attorney Leigh B. Middleditch, a co-founder of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia, is the driving force ...
You surely think that Eben Alexander is either a fraud or sent from Heaven, but there’s little middle ground. Ironically, it's Alexander who says it’s middle ground we badly need.Hmm. This is tricky. How to review The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion and Ordinary People are Proving the Afterlife, best-selling author and neurosurgeon Eben Alexander’s new book, which presents a cartography of heaven?... Statistically, this group touches roughly 50 percent of Americans, at least in terms of the research I’ve surveyed on extraordinary perceptions around death or dyi...
Researchers have found it's possible to detect ovarian cancer gene mutations in vaginal fluid samples -- a finding they hope is a step toward an effective screening test for the disease.In a pilot study, researchers were able to detect tumor DNA in tampons from several women with advanced ovarian cancer. It's a "proof of principle" that genetic evidence of the cancer can be uncovered in vaginal samples, they noted.Ovarian cancer is highly treatable if it's caught in the early stages, but most women are diagnosed only after the cancer has advanced. Because of that, only 44...
Many people aim for life moments they can describe as "epic," but new research shows sharing extraordinary experiences can come at a social cost."Having epic experiences can make it hard to relate to other people," says psychological scientist Gus Cooney, of Harvard University.Cooney's co-authored research, "The Unforeseen Costs of Extraordinary Experience", is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science."When we think about extraordinary experiences we mostly think about how enjoyable they are in the moment,...
However, a new book, Cutting Edge Marketing Analytics, designed to help marketing managers of all levels better understand how to effectively leverage analytics in decision making, recently hit the Amazon bookshelves. The authors, Raj Venkatesan (analytics professor for EMBA and MBA classes), Paul Farris (author of Marketing Metrics), and Ron Wilcox (author of several articles on conjoint and other methodological tools), professors at the Darden School of Business University of Virginia, apply their collective teaching and consulting experience in the creation of this book. In full disclo...
Everyone from Mark Twain to John Shaft will be attending the 27th annual Virginia Film Festival next month in Charlottesville.The festival, to be presented by the University of Virginia from Nov. 6 to 9, will reel in more than 100 film screenings, parties, family activities and other events. This year’s guests include Hal Holbrook, Jenna Elfman, Frank Langella, Patrick Wilson, Barry Levinson, Katie Couric, Richard Roundtree and Jasmine Guy.
... Festival director Jody Kielbasa announced this year's program at an October 7 press conference held at the historic Jefferson Theater. After the formal announcement, he spoke with the Charlottesville Libertarian Examiner about documentaries and other films that will be screened during the weekend of November 6-9 at a variety of venues in downtown Charlottesville and on the grounds of the University of Virginia.
We surveyed more than 19,500 students at 169 law schools, in addition to collecting data from school administrators, to create our book's school profiles and its 11 unique ranking lists. … University of Virginia School of Law: Best Career Prospects No. 8, Best Classroom Experience No. 3, Best Professors No. 3, Best Quality of Life No. 1, Toughest to get into No. 7
With the help of lawyers at the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law and the support of Williamsburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Nate Green, Barbour won a writ of actual innocence from the Virginia Supreme Court later that year.His name cleared, Barbour, near death from bone cancer, hoped to vote for the first time in his life but was unable to because of an unrelated, non-violent felony conviction.Former Gov. Bob McDonnell — convicted last month in a federal corruption trial — and former Secretary of the Commonwealth Janet Kelly and volunteers ste...
The Ebola virus — which has killed 3,400 people in West Africa and is beginning to spread to other parts of the world — was the subject of a panel discussion at the University of Virginia on Tuesday.
...Hundreds of people filled the UVA medical education building to learn about vaccines and methods for stopping the spread of the deadly virus.
Just as graphics card makers like Nvidia found a secondary market for their wares as system-fortifying coprocessors, Micron is plotting to sell booster computational elements based on its memory technologies.Called AP (Automata Processor), the technology "is fundamentally built on memory technology, but it is a processor, not a storage device," said Paul Dlugosch, Micron director of Automata Processor development. ... To further get the word out about AP, Micron has also partnered with the University of Virginia to found the Center for Automata Processing, to provide a home for resea...
To help educate users on the new technology, Micron has partnered with the University of Virginia to create the Center for Automata Processing, where research and teaching about the technology can take place.
A new group is coming together to talk about community safety in light of the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. It hopes a united front can make the area surrounding UVA more secure. ...The group will be evaluating high-traffic areas, any possible hot spots and where surveillance cameras are placed. There are already 600 surveillance cameras at UVA that are monitored 24/7.
Police are filling in vital gaps of information about where Jesse Matthew was the weekend of Hannah Graham's disappearance. At the same time, search teams continue to comb through areas in Albemarle County farther from Charlottesville.... Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo believes law enforcement is narrowing that time gap.
GALVESTON, Texas - ...It is still not known why Jesse Matthew, the suspect in the disappearance of a missing 18-year-old University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, came to the Texas Gulf Coast.The blue sedan that reportedly belongs to his sister is still sitting at a wrecker down the street from the Galveston County Sheriff's Office.Inside is a glimpse of the life of a man on the run: an ashtray filled with cigarette butts, a business card for a Charlottesville, Virginia detective thrown in the backseat, and an envelope with the words "tools to release God's power" written...
As searchers continue scouring Albemarle County for missing University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Elizabeth Graham, one group is planning to visit Virginia to remind everyone of what Morgan Harrington’s mother, Gil, describes as a “cluster phenomenon” of disappearances in central Virginia.The Community United Effort’s Center for Missing Persons will visit Virginia with its 11th annual “On the Road to Remember” tour, raising awareness for the missing persons and unsolved homicide cases that devastate families and communities around the country.
... Fifty-five people were on the ground in the search Tuesday, and officials say those numbers will increase to 75 personnel tomorrow to clear particular areas.
Nearly five years after David Bass found the remains of a murdered Virginia Tech student on his farm, the 75-year-old looks out at his 700-acre property and wonders if the body of another missing woman lies somewhere out there, in a shallow grave, hidden within dense woods or left in some remote ravine.