University of Virginia professor Brandon Garrett is part of that committee and has pushed eyewitness identification changes in the commonwealth. In a survey last year, Garrett found that fewer than half of the departments in Virginia conducted blind lineups, while only a handful – 6 percent of 144 agencies – adopted the model policy recommending double-blind sequential lineups. “A lineup is designed to test someone’s memory, but a bad lineup can change someone’s memory,” Garrett said. “These policies are important to make sure police don’t work w...
(Press release) NASA’s Physical Science Research Program will fund seven proposals to conduct physics research using the agency’s new microgravity laboratory, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in 2016. Among the proposals that will receive a total of about $12.7 million over a four- to five-year period: Cass Sackett, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, “Development of Atom Interferometry Experiments for the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Laboratory.”
80amps exists side by side with Boost Partners, a marketing and strategic development agency founded by Eric Martin in July 2011. Boost works with Fortune 500 companies, such as Coca-Cola and Verizon, to help them develop products, launch marketing strategies or make operational changes. Martin also is co-founder of the Galant Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, where he is still on the faculty.
Proximity to the University of Virginia attracts many students, said Valerie Palamountain, the college’s dean of Workforce Services. The ease of transferring to UVa after two years is enough to bring students from outside the area. “The benefits of being near UVa are very strong,” she said. “We see people from out of state coming here for the chance to transfer.”
It's been more than 200 years since the U.S. and France fought their revolutionary wars. “To remember that moment is crucial and it has been the basis of Franco-American solidarity is the memory of those revolutions,” said Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History emeritus. That past will collide with the present on Monday when President Obama and President Hollande visit Monticello both for the first time.
Theologian and chemist Joseph Priestley immigrated to the United States in 1794 after a mob destroyed his house and laboratory in Birmingham, England. On the 210th anniversary of his death, curator Deborah Warner shares the story of the relationship between Priestley and one of America's Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson. … Jefferson also valued Priestley's ideas about education, and he often sought Priestley's advice as he developed his own plans for primary schools and for the University of Virginia.
Yet Martelly’s appearance in Washington suggests “the U.S. is fully on board,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti expert at the University of Virginia. He noted that Martelly’s efforts at building a consensus with the opposition and his commitment to an election this year were well received in Washington. Kerry told Martelly he had “great respect for the road” he’s put Haiti on.Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/06/217260/haitis-president-martelly-meets.html#storylink=cpy
Larry Sabato, who directs the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, doesn’t buy it. “It’s not going to happen,” he says. His reasoning: Republicans think Romney lost a winnable race, and they’re not about to give him another nomination.
Police chiefs from Albemarle County and the University of Virginia introduced their plans for a joint firing range to the Planning and Coordination Council Thursday.
Several labor lawyers and professors noted, as did the CRS, that the court could rule narrowly to avoid the chaos that might otherwise result from multiple, repetitious challenges to all those cases. “It would be truly radical” to reopen hundreds of cases, said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato says it would be rare for the Democrats to nominate someone without a primary challenge and he predicts someone will come forward to at least try and make it a contest.
This winter at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, graduate and undergraduate students from each of the school’s four disciplines – Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban and Environmental Planning, and Architectural History – participated in the invigorating third annual all-school design competition, appropriately named “The Vortex.” The event provides students exposure to design competitions, fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, and engages the local community in high-stakes urban design projects.
Kyle Kondik, an analyst for the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said it’s next to impossible to predict a frontrunner with this many candidates lining up. Each contender has their pockets of support, but few metrics to measure their strength.
Although physician groups have generally welcomed congressional efforts to swap the SGR for a value-based payment system, at least one analyst has raised concerns. In a recent blog post for Health Affairs, Jeff Goldsmith, president of Health Futures Inc. and an associate professor at the University of Virginia, said the measures before the congressional committees were “unsound health policy.”
AmeriCorps member Margaret Montague is used to having a steady stream of students come to see her for college advice in her office at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA, just outside the nation's capital. Since starting AmeriCorps last fall, she has already had more than 450 one-on-one meetings with students, including many first-generation Americans at this highly diverse school where more than 100 languages are spoken.
(By Janie Heath, chief academic office at the School of Nursing) Even in an era when smoking has never been a greater turn off, the cigarette – albeit the plastic one with tiny batteries and a warm mist of propylene glycol and carcinogenic nitrosamines, along with highly addictive nicotine – still resonates in Hollywood. Spoof or not, e-cigarettes are no laughing matter. Neither are their largely unknown health consequences.
AAA Mid-Atlantic has awarded four diamond ratings to the lodging and dining facilities at The Boar’s Head Inn – owned by the University of Virginia Foundation – and Keswick Hall. The Old Mill Room restaurant at The Boar’s Head earned the honor for the 27th year. The hotels at The Boar’s Head and Keswick were honored for the 13th year.
Skilled manufacturing could give more Americans the opportunity to climb into the middle class, according to a University of Virginia commission led by two former governors.
Courtesy of Jeff Farrar, the note sped its way around the Internet, bouncing from blog to blog, stirring up conversation about its meaning. On Dec. 17, Farrar, a three-star cornerback out of California, tweeted a picture of a simple note he received from his future coach. “Jeff,” the note began, “YOU!” It was signed by Mike London. Wednesday, London explained the significance of those three letters as he spoke proudly about Virginia’s highly touted 2014 recruiting class.
(Transcript) There's new research now that links the red state/blue state phenomenon with the fact that 40 to 50 million Americans move every year. So we are an increasingly mobile society. I spoke with psychologist Brian Nosek at the University of Virginia. He's been tracking more than a million Americans and they revealed two things about themselves: one, their political orientation and two, their zip code.