The family went through several attorneys before coming to the University of Virginia School of Law, where the Innocence Project and the Child Advocacy Clinic took up his case, which went before the Supreme Court of Virginia.
In September 2013, algae biofuels tested as very close to petroleum in energy efficient-production, according to a University of Virginia study. The study, performed at Sapphire’s demonstration plant in New Mexico, demonstrated that carbon emissions of algae biofuels come in at 50-70 percent lower than that of petroleum.
A recent paper by Daphna Bassok and Anna Rorem at the University of Virginia takes a hard and balanced look at the early education push.
If you would like to learn more about Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia and Monticello are launching a free 6-week online course starting this Monday. Historian and UVa professor emeritus Peter Onuf is teaching the course. Over 6,000 people have signed up for it.
The Wahoo war chest still reigns supreme in Virginia. The University of Virginia endowment fund grew to $5.16 billion during fiscal 2013, up 7.9 percent from a market value of $4.78 billion in 2012, according to a study released this month by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. That makes it by far the largest college or university endowment in the state and the 19th largest in the nation based on market value, the NACUBO report found.
(Commentary) Even more important, the data does not distinguish between nominal “conservative Protestants” and those who actively practice their faith. Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia has documented that this distinction makes a great deal of difference.
As we reported last year, a study of children published in the Archives Of Diseases in Childhood, a sister publication of the British Medical Journal, concluded that low-fat milk was associated with more weight gain over time. "It really surprised us," study author Mark DeBoer, a pediatrician at the University of Virginia, told us.
Since the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights affirmed in its 2011 "Dear Colleague" letter that colleges should use a lower standard of evidence than criminal courts when adjudicating sexual assault complaints, many civil liberties advocates, lawyers and even politicians have accused the federal government of trampling students' right to due process. Campus officials, for the most part, have stressed that adjudication is an educational experience, where students are found "responsible" rather than "guilty," so their processes should be diff...
The University of Virginia is one of the top ranking schools in the country in the production of Peace Corps volunteers. On Tuesday, the Peace Corps released the latest rankings of schools in the large, medium and small schools categories. Currently there are 44 former U.Va. students serving in countries across the world. Those numbers rank U.Va. second in the medium-sized school category.
(By Andrew D. Kaufman, lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literature) We've long known that Russia operates differently than America does. Russia settles disputes with neighbors by turning off their gas and stifles free expression by murdering journalists. This disrespect for human life was most recently exemplified by Putin's freeing of political prisoners as a pre-Olympics publicity stunt.
Gene Block recalled Monday that during his time as provost at the University of Virginia, he watched then-President John T. Casteen III give a lecture about the school's Honor Code. Afterward, he took the men aside for a talk about sexual assault. "It was very explicit - actually jarringly explicit - about what he expected of young men on campus," Block said. "I remember thinking that was harsh, but now I think that was right on the mark." Block, now the chancellor at the University of California at Los Angeles, joined UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan and presidents of ...
The University of Virginia is known for having one of the most generous financial aid programs in public higher education. But it also has a relatively low share of students from low-income families. That is crucial context for the debate over changes to the aid program known as AccessUVa. On Sunday, The Post reported on a $4 million gift to U-Va. connected to that debate.
Biology students and staff at the University of Virginia celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin's birthday. The department kicked off the event with poster sessions and an open house of nine different labs Monday. Organizers say they wanted to show how Darwin's ideas influenced contemporary issues such as medicine, agriculture and conservation.
Even programs that succeed would not solve all the instability experienced by fragile families in America, said Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "Both government and civic institutions and culture need to move in a more family-friendly direction if we are to strengthen and stabilize family life among low-income couples," he said.
If a voter doesn’t like the president and his policies, explained University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, he or she is less likely to see the country moving in a positive direction. “The job approval number … usually incorporates the public’s view of the economy – whether they are happy or not, optimistic or not,” Sabato said in an email. “My sense is that ‘economic confidence’ measurements are in part a reflection of people’s politics and partisan identity, and their view of President Obama.”
“A handful of New Jersey cases threw the project of monitorships into serious jeopardy,” said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who has an upcoming book on the practice, called “Too Big to Jail.” “They made useful changes to the guidelines because of the New Jersey cases. It was because of how [Christie] was using them.”
The Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine is a fascinating place. Founded in 1967 by Dr. Ian Stevenson – originally as the Division of Personality Studies – its mission is “the scientific empirical investigation of phenomena that suggest that currently accepted scientific assumptions and theories about the nature of mind or consciousness, and its relation to matter, may be incomplete.”
Carolyn Cullen was honored as the recipient of the chamber's 2014 Q Businesswoman Award. The award recognizes the strengths, capabilities and contributions of women in the local economy and community. "The award certainly means a tremendous amount to me," Cullen said. "Charlottesville is unique in that it has a very vibrant professional women's network. I don't know of too many communities this size that would do a conference annually." A resident of the Charlottesville area for nearly a decade, Cullen is part of the employee engagement team within the human res...
One of the lighter moments of a conference on campus sexual misconduct here at the University of Virginia on Monday followed a serious question from a student, who asked the six presidents on a much-anticipated panel how they were specifically assisting minority and low-income survivors, who are especially vulnerable to assault. The presidents didn't get a chance to answer -- Association of American Universities President Hunter Rawlings, who moderated the panel, cut in to ask the student whether he had any suggestions. "Oh, you wanted advice?" the student said, clearly in surpri...