Profile of Boston Marathon bombing victim Heather Abbott, who mentions that she will speak at the School of Medicine’s diploma ceremony.
Here’s a hint at how often: Nationwide, 1,342 people have been exonerated, often after spending decades in jail, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint effort of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University law schools. In Virginia, 36 people have been cleared of committing heinous crimes, 17 of those thanks to DNA evidence. “That’s not even the tip of the iceberg,” said Harding, who went on to read UVA law professor Brandon Garrett’s “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong,” an examination of the f...
Josh Bowers, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, says it is tough for juries even to think beyond the harshest punishments because of mandatory minimums: “Mandatory life without parole is part of a larger push in criminal law in the direction of mandatory minimums. Those who don't like discretion or who worry about discretion tend to like mandatory minimums because they think that mandatory minimums get past the problem with discretion. I don't think that's so. They force discretion away from certain criminal justice actors, judges and juries, and in the ...
Nurses doing research is not new, said Karen Rose, an associate professor of nursing and assistant dean for innovation at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Rose points to Florence Nightingale, considered the founder of modern nursing, as an example. Nightingale kept statistics on the war-wounded in the Crimean War and used that data to push for changes, including better sanitation, in hospitals. “We have a rich history in our profession of conducting research,” said Rose, who has a two-year $428,269 grant to study incontinence in Alzheimer’s patients. … Men...
The way Americans tell our story is as a steady march of expanding liberty, and, particularly in the early days of the Republic, as a challenge to the idea of a nation-state ruled by nobles and sovereigns. But to the enslaved Africans in America at the time, the new America was their oppressor and jailer. Alan Taylor's “The Internal Enemy,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, tells the little-known story of 3,000 enslaved Africans who escaped from Virginia and fought the War of 1812 alongside the British against the Americans.
"I know on the heels of any school shooting, there's the perception that violence is on the rise. It's not," Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist and education professor at the University of Virginia, told NPR. "In fact, there's been a very steady downward trend for the past 15 years."
As part of the lead up to the White House Summit on Working Families, we have been seeking input from a wide variety of stakeholders to identify best practices for developing workplaces that work for all Americans and better meet the needs of women and working families. We did not think this goal could be achieved without thinking of the business leaders of tomorrow, and that is why today, we met with a group of deans from our nation’s leading business schools (including Robert F. Bruner of U.Va.’s Darden School of Business) to discuss best practices for business schools that can b...
2002 - National High Five Day (NH5D) is created when a group of students at the University of Virginia set up a stand giving out lemonade and hand slaps. Today NH5D uses the high five to raise money for various charities.
Former retirement system board member and current University of Virginia economics professor Ed Burton disagreed. He argued that cost-of-living increases and merit raises will pile up on top of the state-mandated pay hike, eventually forcing the fund to pay out more to retired workers. “I raised that at the [Virginia Retirement System] meeting when it was presented,” he said, “and it was the board’s feeling at the time that it didn’t matter.”
There are certain things you don’t expect to see together on any one person’s biography, life experiences such as: Serving as a Green Beret in Vietnam and as a cast member of the TV soap “One Life to Live.” Getting an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania followed by years on the U.S. bobsled team. Stints at a monastery in the Scottish highlands and a Canadian gold mine followed by a recurring role as a lawyer on the 1980s TV series “Falcon Crest.” Actor, author, military veteran and lifelong adventurer John Rixey Moore’s life i...
The date of the last freeze varies by location. It’s later farther to the west, earlier to the east, according to the University of Virginia Climatology Office.
The University of Virginia recently unveiled a surprising work of art – a painting by one of Germany’s best known graffiti artists -- on four panels of the Berlin Wall. (With audio)
(Essay) I have gotten to know the members of the Run Now Relay in the first few days very well and would consider them family. The bond that is developed on a journey like this builds relationships that can last a lifetime. But an unexpected joy has been the people along the way. … The University of Virginia students who cheered on our runners …
With trophies the size of children and a whole year’s worth of bragging rights, the teams danced as if everything was riding on hitting each knee bend and shoulder shake. Reigning champions, the University of Virginia’s Di Shaan group, successfully defended their first place with the blue and orange school colors flying high.
After Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, D-Va., spoke Monday to the class of Larry J. Sabato, a University of Virginia professor and political analyst, a student from Midlothian came up to say hello. The student wasn’t interested in talking about Kaine’s tenure as governor or his work in the Senate. He wanted to talk about Kaine’s time on the Richmond City Council and to tell Kaine how proud he is to be from the Richmond region. Kaine said the student’s comment – that he’s proud to be from Richmond – dovetails with what his children tell him about the city on a re...
Or you could ask experts who know what they're seeing, maybe a guy like Tim Beatley. He's got a windy job title – he's the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. But he's also an expert in biophilic cities, meaning he studies the primal but complex ways nature affects humans when they live in urban environments.
(By Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor at U.Va.’s Center for Politics) Over the past 40 years, there have been many ways to leave the U.S. House of Representatives. Specifically, nine different methods. The main ones, beyond losing a primary or general election, are to retire or run for another office. But a member can also do one of the following: be appointed to another office, resign, be expelled, pass away or, in the rarest of instances, have the House vacate one’s seat.
(Video) Throughout history, many legislative breakthroughs have occurred in Washington due to efforts that combined outside pressure with an inside game. Author Gerald Warburg, a professor in U.Va.’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, discusses his new book “Dispatches From the Eastern Front.”
Maine youngsters who are considering careers in history might want to study up on Alan Taylor. The Bonny Eagle High School and Colby College graduate won his second Pulitzer Prize for history Monday for his book about runaway slaves who helped the British military, “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.”