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...
Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush on Monday ordered former Stafford County teen Edgar Coker’s name removed from the state’s Sex Offender Registry and vacated the convictions that put him there. The order resulted from Roush’s ruling that court-appointed attorney Denise Rafferty failed to provide effective assistance of counsel to Coker in 2007 as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Since January 2009, a team of attorneys with the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, the law school’s Child Advocacy Clinic and JustChildren/Legal Aid of Charlottesvi...
Christie became chairman of the RGA this year. His trouble in New Jersey has put Christie in the position of fighting to hold on to the leadership assignment, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. Sabato said Christie wasn't embraced publicly by GOP candidates when he made trips to Florida and Texas in recent weeks. "As long as Christie raises tons of cash for the RGA, they'll keep him. If the cash starts drying up, he goes," Sabato said. "It's already obvious that candidates are choosing to avoid Christie until and unle...
The U.S. Education Department's chief enforcer of civil-rights laws said on Monday that her office would be working “faster and better” to make sure colleges abide by federal law in their handling of campus sexual assaults. Catherine E. Lhamon, the assistant secretary of education who heads the department's Office for Civil Rights, delivered that message to college officials attending a conference here at the University of Virginia called “Dialogue at UVa: Sexual Misconduct Among College Students.”
John Scully, a corrosion expert at the University of Virginia, said Caltrans "can't eliminate all the infiltration points. They are going to have some issues here - as to long-term implications, this will be in the high-maintenance category."
Every Democratic Senate incumbent running for re-election in a tight race had more cash on hand at the end of 2013 than their opponents. In New Hampshire, North Carolina, Minnesota and Colorado the advantage was overwhelming, while Republican challengers were somewhat closer in Arkansas, Alaska and Louisiana. But Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said the advantage shouldn’t be of much comfort to the incumbents because of the flood of money the national parties and outside groups can now pour into races.
Because Sarah’s brain was swelling dangerously, she was flown to the University of Virginia Center for Neurological Injuries in Charlottesville. She was comatose. At U.Va., neurosurgeons noted that an aneurysm occurring in the brain stem region was extremely rare, particularly in someone Sarah’s age.
Over the past 20 years of studying relationships, including how couples regulate each others' emotions, Jim Coan of the University of Virginia became interested in the "cohabitation effect" – the idea that cohabiting couples, compared to married couples, are less stable, show fewer health-related benefits, and may even be more likely to divorce if they ultimately marry. "I've always felt personally skeptical of these findings, not really for any strong empirical reason, they just felt intuitively wrong to me," he says.
Tales of parental overreach are not hard to find on college campuses, said clinical psychologist Meg Jay, author of "The Defining Decade" and an assistant clinical professor at the University of Virginia. "You can have a flat tire, a boss who yells, a class that's harder than expected," Jay said. "Things go wrong that parents can't control and they are worse if you haven't learned skills gradually."
(Audio) February 11, 2014 marks 85 years since the signing of the Lateran Pacts. But what exactly were these pacts? That's what Veronica Scarisbrick asks Jesuit historian Gerald Fogarty, who's currently teaching at the University of Virginia in the United States.
Due to anticipated traffic stemming from President Barack Obama’s visit to the area, the start time for the Maryland men’s basketball team’s Monday night game at Virginia has been changed from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., the Cavaliers announced. The game, once slated for ESPN, will now be broadcast on ESPNU.
Bruce Williams, the Taylor Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia, said it’s hard to find pop culture references that are familiar to most of the 18-year-olds in his large introductory courses. “The media today is much more segmented,” Williams explained. “If I find an example from a popular TV show, say ‘The Big Bang Theory’ (with close to 20 million viewers), fewer than a third of the students are familiar with that show.”
Physics professor Louis Bloomfield is credited as a source in this multimedia presentation on the physics of ski jumping.
One step in the right direction is the $50.9 million unallocated balance former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell left behind in his last budget, the largest unappropriated balance since 1991. I can’t think of a more worthy priority for the commonwealth’s future than making higher education more affordable for Virginia students.
The College of William and Mary plans to launch a new general education curriculum that has put the nation’s second-oldest college in an ideological crossfire about what students should be learning.
(Commentary) What if Americans really do care about politics – and conflicting ideologies? And, in fact, what if they care so much that they’re willing to go to the extreme lengths of actually packing up and moving from one county or state to another to surround themselves with like-minded folks. This is exactly what is happening, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) Generation Y is postponing marriage until, on average, age 29 for men and 27 for women. College-educated millennials in particular view it as a “capstone” to their lives rather than as a “cornerstone,” according to a report whose sponsors include the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
American universities vary as to whether they require applicants to disclose convictions. The University of Virginia, for example, expects students and applicants to furnish up-to-date information on arrests as well as convictions, and advises students to “err on the side of disclosure” if in doubt.