Legal experts say the category of specially designated global terrorist, as Humayqani is described, is strictly a financial classification. But the Treasury’s depiction of Humayqani’s activities in al-Qaeda — as more than simply a financier — also raises the possibility that he could find himself on a U.S. kill list, said Ashley Deeks, a University of Virginia law professor and former legal adviser to the State Department.
Walt Heinecke, a University of Virginia professor who argued for a commission with enforcement powers, said he hopes Tewksbury’s office eventually will expand its investigations to bigger employers. “My intention was, once the commission gets going, to ask them to reconsider the piece about having the EEOC come in when it is a bigger employer than 15 employees,” he said.
Biosimilars likely would undercut prices by only 10 percent initially, and it’s difficult to predict the savings that could be realized longer term, said University of Virginia Health System Pharmacy Administrator Rafael Saenz. Still, he said, for someone paying out of pocket for monthly treatments that cost more than a mortgage, “it’ll be of high impact.” “We are seeing a dramatic increase in the need and use of these products, to the point where it’s hard to keep up with our own budget,” Saenz said. “They wreak havoc on our budget for sure, but...
Earlier this week, the University of Virginia hosted a conference on the issue that attracted college officials and students from across the country. The sold-out conference, which organizers called the first of its kind, came a month after President Obama announced the formation of The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault and roughly three years after his administration issued revised guidelines for institutions of higher education dealing with rape and other incidents of sexual assault and misconduct.
Students at the University of Virginia danced for 16 hours straight and raised more than $71,000 at a dance marathon benefiting UVA's Children's Hospital.
Neeti Nair, who teaches at the University of Virginia and is author of “Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India,” noted last year in the Indian Economic and Social History Review, “how prescient some of the objections to this piece of legislation (Section 295A, IPC) were” when it was passed.
Some of the benefits of marriage that the pope spoke of were documented in a study by the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project in March of 2013. The study found that the average age of marriage in America is 29 for men and 27 for women. And while the study examines the pros and cons of marrying later, it did find that married people were more likely to be satisfied with their lives than their single or cohabitating counterparts.
The House of Delegates' revised budget proposal has more money for colleges, hospitals, mental health treatment, state pension obligations, bonuses for state workers, and even a long-range plan to build new office space for state lawmakers.
It put Monument Valley High in the running for Title I School Improvement Grants, which could mean $600,000 to $800,000 for the school during the next three years. And it will send district and school administrators this spring and summer to a boot camp: The Partnership for Leaders in Education at the University of Virginia.
(By Bob Gibson, executive director of U.Va.’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership) My brother is gay. He also is left-handed. Neither biological trait should disqualify him from leading a happily married life or holding gainful employment.
On March 22, 2013, Paxson MacDonald's doctor had the difficult task of telling her that she had a rare brain tumor called glioblastoma. The outlook was bleak, with most patients succumbing within a year. As the first anniversary of the diagnosis nears, one particular worry continues to push to the forefront of MacDonald's thoughts. Who will take her place as the advisor and go-to person for the Zeta Tau Alpha Run for Life 5K race?
State employees fare well in the two-year budget rewrite the House Appropriations Committee will release today, which includes money for raises for some employees, bonuses for others, and full funding of pension rates recommended by the Virginia Retirement System. … The House budget also includes significant boosts for hospitals that had suffered cuts in reimbursements under the budget McDonnell proposed in December, as well as free clinics and community health centers. The committee has proposed an additional $81 million in matching state and federal Medicaid funds to adjust for inflat...
"To be fighting over money and profit is to dishonor everything their father stood for," said Deborah E. McDowell, director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies and Alice Griffin professor of English at the University of Virginia.
The public memorial service will take place at the John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia on Monday, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
A Ritchie County native made headlines in scientific publications across the nation when the results of his Arctic research expedition were published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. The results of the study have proven so ground-breaking that they have been spoken about in more than a dozen scientific publications, including the Los Angeles Times environment homepage, Scientific American magazine, NASA publications, Live Science publications, EarthSky.org and ClimateCentral.org. Chris Moore, a native of Ritchie County, was raised locally on Mellin Ridge between Harrisville and Smithville.
Two professors at the University of Virginia – Alan Taylor and Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy – are among the three finalists for this year’s George Washington Book prize. The $50,000 award, one of the country’s most lucrative literary prizes, recognizes the best new book about early American history.
Ashrafian says that the man who served as Leonardo’s model for his illustration of human perfection probably had a hernia. If the model was a corpse, the hernia may have been what killed him. If he was a live model, he may ultimately have died from its complications. Other experts agree with Ashrafian, including Jeffrey Young, director at the University of Virginia’s Trauma Center. … The possibility that Vitruvian Man had a hernia is just that, a possibility. “The cool thing with art is it is all in the eye of the beholder,” says Peter Hallowell, director of bari...
According to the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, men and women are currently getting married three and four years later, respectively, than they were in 1990. They’re getting married seven years later than they were in 1960.
W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia and Jeffrey Dew at Utah State University point out that while many, many recent studies have focused on how couples’ access to and use of different resources (such as education, income, and division of labor) impact their chances of staying together, very few have focused on “other factors now influencing marriages, including positive attitudes and behaviors that may be associated with high-quality, stable marriages.”
Black History Month celebrates talented African-Americans, but it also should be a time to reflect on distorted white history that has ignored damage inflicted by racist ideologues, like how Thomas Jefferson’s hypocrisies helped give us the Civil War and the Tea Party, writes Robert Parry.