Our country was founded upon dissent and freedom of speech. During his campaign for President in 1800, Thomas Jefferson endured savage verbal attacks from his political opponents. According to the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, one newspaper wrote that a Jefferson victory would mean "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes." Despite a level of discourse that would be unthinkable today, Jefferson stood his gr...
The University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, found that men ages 71 to 93 who walked more than a quarter-mile a day had half the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease compared to those who walked less.
The ABC7 I-Team is investigating how police are using web pages and platforms to solve crimes and sometimes prevent them. Chicago could do that, according to a recent study of Chicago police crime data paired with Twitter traffic from certain neighborhoods. That combination, according to University of Virginia researchers, improved predictions for 19 of 25 crimes types including theft and assault. Even a tweet as simple as "I'm leaving for work" could tip off burglars... said Matthew Gerber, Ph. D, Predictive Technology Lab at University of Virginia.
Not addressing bullying can have a negative effect on the entire student body. A 2012 study by the University of Virginia Curry School of Education found that high schools with high levels of bullying have a dropout rate 29 percent above the average.
President Kennedy (who had been elected with the support of old-line, segregationist Democrats in the South) moved toward supporting a law that would grant blacks equal opportunity in public accommodations, jobs, etc. But not many months after he made a dramatic speech on June 11, 1963 at the University of Virginia, Kennedy was assassinated.
There has been much debate on whether empathy is learned or innate. A recent University of Virginia study measured brain activity on fMRI scans of students exposed to the threat of mild electrical shocks to themselves or to a friend or a stranger. The brain showed little activity to the threat of shock to a stranger but lit up at the threat to a friend, virtually identically to the activity it displayed to a personal threat.
Every student in the class of 2014 has a story: a struggle, a moment of victory; a parent or friend they’d like to thank; an exam they’d like to forget, and a wish fulfilled. As part of our annual "Nightly News" commencement tradition, we canvassed the country in search of those stories, capturing footage and special moments from more than 40 colleges. (Includes clips from U.Va.’s graduation weekend.)
Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, was quoted in a 2011 article, “There was a time in our history when corporations and major industrial labs, such as Bell Labs, conducted basic research. But gradually over the years corporations have pulled back from basic research and focused on development. …This has left the ‘R’ to universities.”
Longtime University of Virginia faculty member Elizabeth K. Meyer will lead the university’s School of Architecture for a two-year term on July 15. Meyer replaces Kim Tanzer, who will return to teaching full-time after completing a five-year term as dean of the school.
The UVa Children's Hospital is opening an exhibit in the Virginia Discovery Museum in Charlottesville. The exhibit is a replica of one of the clinic rooms in the Battle Building at UVa Children's Hospital.
As the University of Virginia's Rotunda begins its extensive renovation, the East Range Rooms will also receive new roofs. "The framing, sheathing and most of the slate date to the original installation period in the 1830s," said James D. W. Zehmer, UVA historic preservation project manager.
Professors with the University of Virginia also stepped in this year to help out with the students projects. "When they get to experience that they've built the cars on their own, they can test the cars, they've been able to see the impact of different types of weight, different types of design, different types of force, on how far the car travels, that is a tremendous learning moment," says Susan Donohue, UVa. engineering lecturer.
Award winning television and screen actor, Sean Patrick Thomas said a disciplined Guyanese upbringing definitely moulded him into the person he is today. Now on Broadway in the role of Asagai in a “A Raisin in the Sun,” this is the same play that got Thomas noticed at the University of Virginia, his alma mater where he was encouraged to take up acting by his drama teacher.
Rita Dove, a University of Virginia professor and former U.S. poet laureate, said in a statement that while she doesn’t count herself as among the most ardent fans of Angelou’s poetry, she does count herself as a friend of “a phenomenal woman” whose poetry has been a balm to many.
Rita Dove, an Akron native and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, offered the following statement about Maya Angelou, the poet and author who died Wednesday at the age of 86. Dove’s tribute: “Maya Angelou was indeed a phenomenal woman ...
“It’s actually fairly uncommon for incumbents to be denied renomination,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor for Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “In the postwar era, just 2 percent of House incumbents have lost renomination.
“We can speak of Maya Angelou as fulfilling a need for various niches or constituencies in society, and that makes for a legendary human being,” said English professor Deborah McDowell.
AHMEDABAD: A city girl has won the Double Hoo Research Grant from the University of Virginia. Juhi Ranjan, a computer engineer from Gandhinagar, has been given a $5,000 grant which she will utilize for her project, along with a research partner, Rahim Islam, a 4th year undergraduate. She will have to develop a sensing technology that will detect the occupancy of rooms in a commercial building by tracking the number of people entering and exiting.