Here are some incredible stats cited by the Wall Street Journal: “Between 2001 and 2012, no individuals were charged in 65 percent of 255 cases in which the Justice Department reached deferred-prosecution agreements or nonprosecution agreements, which allow firms to avoid criminal convictions, according to an analysis of data by Brandon Garrett, the University of Virginia law professor, in his coming book `Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.’ At the same time, no employees were charged in 75% of 125 cases in which public companies were charged and convict...
Dick Ambrose, born in New Rochelle, turns 61 on Friday. Ambrose, a former U.Va. football linebacker who played nine seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns from 1975 to 1983, was born January 17, 1953. Ambrose has been a judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas since 2004.
University of Virginia officials outlined the university’s efforts to attract high-achieving, low-income students at a White House summit. The university says President Teresa Sullivan and Ben Castleman of the Curry School of Education attended Thursday’s meeting with President Barack Obama and other administration officials. Leaders of other universities and public and private organizations also attended the meeting on increasing college opportunities.
University of Virginia law professor Darryl K. Brown said in an email that "reasonable judges could disagree about whether ‘employees of the Board’ lose their power to enforce alcohol laws if the Board has no members." State code "gives or ‘vests’ enforcement to the Board and the Board's employees," Brown said. "It doesn't clearly say that the employees lose their power if the Board is vacant, although that's a plausible interpretation, because the Board is the one that's supposed to make policy that the employees follow."
(Audio) Ever wonder what’s up there on the Red Planet? Then don’t miss your chance to speak with Alan Howard. For almost 40 years this "geomorphologist" has been studying similarities between the Earth and Mars. And lately that research has been heating up.
A recent University of Virginia study referenced in the meeting found that 3.4 percent of patients don’t find a bed within six hours. Deeds and other senators who support a 24-hour period argued that it would only be necessary in a small but critical number of cases.
In his speech, Obama singled out the University of Virginia for an effort to recruit high-achieving high school students in economic need. The program will send students personalized messages about college costs, financial aid and net price, among other steps to help them apply. U-Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan, in the audience, tweeted: “POTUS shout out to UVA commitment to reach low-income high school students directly. #Opportunityforall.”
There is another way out of those story lines in which we always end up defeated, failing, or falling short: re-write the script. Tim Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, says re-thinking your life story and re-examining your memories through a different lens can help strengthen your emotional health.
The stakes in the state political debate over Medicaid expansion are becoming starker for Virginia hospitals, which are counting on new revenue from patients who are now uninsured to offset cuts in Medicare reimbursements and subsidies for indigent care.
Research has shown that school suspensions are linked to higher dropout rates and an increased risk of incarceration, and a new study by UVA education professor Dewey Cornell and the Legal Aid Justice Center brings more bad news: Black male students are suspended for minor infractions at more than twice the rate of white males.
California’s program increased the probability that mothers in that state would be back at work within nine months to a year after giving birth, according to research by Christopher J. Ruhm, professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and Charles L. Baum, professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.
(By Julian Bond, professor emeritus of history) I hosted NBC'S Saturday Night Live back in April 1977, during its second season. I used to say that I was an SNL host when it was a comedy show, and people would laugh. More recently, I had taken to saying that I hosted SNL when it had black people on it. So as a former host, I was happy to read the news that an African-American woman (Sasheer Zamata) and two black female writers (LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones) were hired for the show because people of color, especially women, have been conspicuous by their absence.
A White House meeting of higher education leaders Thursday will spotlight a plethora of efforts to draw more students from low-income families into college, one of President Obama’s top priorities. Among them is the College Advising Corps, a program that sent Alexandria Johnston, 21, a brand-new graduate from the University of Virginia, to southern Virginia to help disadvantaged high school students navigate the labyrinths of applying to college and obtaining financial aid.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday recognized a University of Virginia professor who contributed to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Higgs boson particle. Brad Cox, a professor of physics at UVa, was named one of two outstanding scientists for 2014 for his contribution to the massive worldwide project searching for the evidence of a subatomic particle first theorized in the 1960s.
A group of University of Virginia students had come up with a bill to improve mental health services at state colleges. The students drafted a bill requiring incoming students to fill out an online form covering their schools mental health services.
“How rare, how wondrous it is for a poet to get a rise out of our dozing populace!” said Rita Dove, former U.S. poet laureate and English professor at the University of Virginia. “Whether one agreed with Amiri Baraka’s politics, and often I did not, his ability to rouse the complacent and disgruntled alike from their respective torpor was as undeniable as his artistic fervor. It’s impossible to imagine the Black Arts movement without his fiery presence and piercing poems, which then, in turn, enabled so many younger poets. In my early days as a writer, he provoked...