The police lineup is a staple of film and television crime stories, but police departments don’t use that technique anymore. Instead, they ask people who’ve witnessed crimes to study photographs, and UVA Law Professor Brandon Garrett says that process can play with people’s memories.
Robert G. Goldsmith said his daughter’s friends told him that she had taken the drug. He said family members discussed whether to make the information public and concluded that they had to warn others. “Shelley deserves a legacy of being someone who cared for people, someone who achieved, someone who contributed, and not a druggie who died,” he said. “That’s not who she was. But if her death can open someone’s eyes, then we need to talk about it.”
In a “sneak preview” of its 2014 Best Colleges rankings, to be announced Tuesday, the magazine lists U.Va. among the top 10 public colleges and universities.
Psychology professor James Coan is scheduled to be the guest Monday at 3 p.m. on the station’s “Virginia Insight” program. He will discuss his research into friendship and empathy.
In the long and fruitful afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe, the city of Boston is closer to celebrating the author as one of its own. The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston is hoping to install a bronze statue of Poe near Boylston and Charles Streets.
In 2010, an important book about education and racial politics appeared. James Ryan’s “Five Miles Away, a World Apart: One City, Two Schools and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America” described conditions at Douglas Freeman and Thomas Jefferson high schools. The book belongs on the required reading lists of everyone who says they are concerned about the state of education. The opening of the new academic year found Ryan not in Charlottesville but in Cambridge where he assumed his duties as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Virginia will miss h...
The political winds appears to be at the back of Murphy, who, earlier this year, co-sponsored a pending bill with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., seeking to block the U.S. from arming Syrian rebels. "I'm sure Connecticut is just like every other place. You can't find many people in favor of this," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
"Boys who grow up in fatherless homes are less likely to get the supervision and modeling they need to steer clear of trouble with the law," Brad Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, told me.
"He's been calling, along with John McCain, for military action in Syria for a long time now, and as the saying goes, the dog has caught the car. What do you do with the car?" said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Virginia’s public middle schools are receiving results of the first statewide school climate survey, developed by a research team at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. “Overall, the results are positive,” lead investigator Dewey Cornell said.
John Casteen, president emeritus of the University of Virginia, said some public colleges suffer from board members with no higher-ed experience but a history of political donations.
Thirteen recent University of Virginia graduates have gone from walking the lawn to walking the halls of state high schools. The grads are now guiding high school students through the college application process. Thinking about college can be overwhelming - especially in families where no one has applied before - but UVA's College Advising Corps helps high school students with the nonacademic aspects of preparing for college.
A report from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia summed up the data well: “Marriage is an emerging dividing line between America’s moderately educated middle and those with college degrees.”
Virginia Tech will join four other universities – including U.Va. – to work on a project intended to increase the accessibility and security of broadband wireless networks across the nation.
The women of Alpha Phi paid tribute to one of their own Thursday night. Dozens packed the lawn of the sorority house to honor the life of University of Virginia student Shelley Goldsmith.
In the 1990s, Dr. Benjamin Ray, University of Virginia professor, whose ancestors came from Danvers, received a grant to build a website at the university relating to the Witchcraft Delusion. He approached Trask for his input. With the approval of the trustees, the Danvers Archival Center became co-sponsor of the site.
An opening reception will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 this evening at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia for "Ngau Gidthal (My Stories)" by David Bosun. Bosun is a printmaker and woodcarver from Mua Island in the Torres Strait.
Leading up to last year’s presidential election, many national pundits were predicting a dead heat, a dramatic ending to one of the most polarizing races in recent history. The result – incumbent President Barack Obama beating challenger Mitt Romney by a 126-electoral vote margin – did not live up to the hype. University of Virginia political science professor Larry J. Sabato and Princeton neuroscientist Sam Wang attempted to answer why the pundits missed the mark at a forum in Nau Hall Thursday night.
Virginia has 14,000 more undergraduates enrolled in the state’s public and private colleges than it did four years ago, says a coalition seeking to increase the number of Virginians with degrees. And the number of working-age adults with a two- or four-year degree has increased from 42 percent to 45 percent, on the way to a goal of 55 percent by 2025. The Grow By Degrees coalition, which before the last gubernatorial campaign launched a press for reinvestment in higher education, made its own campaign stops across the state Thursday to tout the successes since then.
Research suggests children are more likely to flourish in two-parent homes and in communities with a high concentration of fathers in the homes. One reason for that is the parents, particularly mothers, are more likely to be involved in the local schools, said Brad Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.