At the urging of then-Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the General Assembly switched “could” to “would” in Virginia’s writ of actual innocence statute. The amendment took effect July 1, but the Virginia Court of Appeals has decided it makes little, if any, difference. ... Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and author of “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong,” said, “The legislature really did no more than make minor alterations to the statute.”
A year ago this past March, Dr. Sandra Johnson, an associate professor of glaucoma at the University of Virginia's School of Medicine, accompanied Schauer to Cameroon. Johnson believes strongly in IRIS's approach of helping the indigenous ophthalmologists in Cameroon with equipment and training.
Continuing their commitment to silence anyone who might stand in the way of their agenda, gay and lesbian groups are now beginning to criticize supporters who are thought to be insufficiently loyal. The most recent case involves Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor, who is married to the University’s president, Teresa A. Sullivan. A man with impeccable progressive credentials, Laycock has been a longtime supporter of gay rights and same-sex marriage...
“This is going to be another controversy on the plate that Republicans will use and Democrats will have to deal with,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center of Politics at the University of Virginia.
Not all Republican voters are enamored with Portman right now. A year ago, he shocked many of them by coming out for same-sex marriage, saying that his son Will is gay and should have the same right as anyone else to marry. “That was a gutsy move,’’ said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Politics.
“I have yet to find anybody predicting that Kasich isn’t going to win who is not a die-hard partisan Democrat,” said Larry Sabato, center director.
Any fleeting hope of a deal on Virginia’s two-year budget is gone yet again. A compromise on Medicaid expansion proposed Thursday afternoon is already dead in the water, and University of Virginia political expert Larry Sabato says it's unclear whether lawmakers actually want to find a compromise.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, agreed that a Gillespie defeat in Roanoke is unlikely, given the stakes and following Republicans’ losses of all three statewide races in November.
Two weeks ago the state Department of Health revealed several Virginians were exposed to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. ... We asked Dr. Costi Sifri, an epidemiologist at the University of Virginia Health System, what to look for as far as symptoms.
The disagreement is hard to definitively settle, even among legal experts in the field. Robert Turner of the University of Virginia School of Law told the Washington Post, “I am very confident that had he gone to the Hill committees or the NSA or DOD or ODNI IGs, it would have been very difficult for anyone to engage in retribution against him without considerable personal cost.”
"This cannot happen without long-term damage to the ecologic and hydrologic integrity of the Allegheny Highlands, among the best and least altered natural landscapes in the eastern U.S.," Rick Webb wrote in an email. Webb runs vawind.org and is an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia.
... It was a brutal thirty minutes for the Carnegie Mellon team, which managed a fourth place finish behind Yale, University of Virginia and champions University of Chicago at the Alpha Challenge at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the biggest stock picker competition in the country. Four teams emerged from the morning round to compete for the championship. Teams had 15 minutes to pitch one stock they wanted to go long and one stock they wished to short ...
One of Michael Terrell's first stops after coming home from graduation at the University of Virginia on May 18 was Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, where he placed his graduation tassel on his father's grave. "I wish he could have been there," Michael said. Marvin Terrell died two months into his son's first semester at college. His father's sudden death almost made Michael quit school and come home to be near his family.
Amy Rodgers, a 2010 graduate of Central Catholic where she was an outstanding diver, was selected as a student speaker for the valedictory program. "It was a huge honor to be elected and asked and definitely an awesome experience to be on the same stage with Peyton."
Never refer to yourself by the title "Dr."—unless you are a real doctor. For this reason, we should always honor Thomas Jefferson as the founder of the University of Virginia, where he declared that faculty members be called "Mister" and not "Doctor." This will, of course, serve as an antidote to the hubris into which academics often fall.
Could what we eat shape how we think? A new paper in the journal Science by Thomas Talhelm at the University of Virginia and colleagues suggests that agriculture may shape psychology. A bread culture may think differently than a rice-bowl society. ... Dr. Talhelm and colleagues used an ingenious design to test these possibilities.
A team of researchers from MIT -- alongside folks from Adobe and the University of Virginia -- created an algorithm that could allow you to accurately apply the stylings of critically-acclaimed portrait photographers to everyday self-made snapshots.
A team of researchers from MIT -- alongside folks from Adobe and the University of Virginia -- created an algorithm that could allow you to accurately apply the stylings of critically-acclaimed portrait photographers to everyday self-made snapshots.