Advocates for diversity in the legal profession have long identified the Law School Admissions Test as a major barrier to black and Hispanic law school applicants because on average they score lower than do whites and Asians-Americans. The blame is misplaced, University of Virginia School of Law professor Alex Johnson, Jr. argues in an article titled “Knots in the Pipeline for Perspective Lawyers of Color: The LSAT Is Not the Problem and Affirmative Action Is Not the Answer.” It appears in the latest edition of the Stanford Law & Policy Review.
Nowadays, vampires are everywhere: television, the big screen, books – and the University of Virginia. This fall, the venerable public university will offer a course titled “Dracula,” a three-unit class that fulfills an English or Slavic elective. Taught by Professor Stanley Stepanic, the class is incredibly popular among students (as of Monday the 150-seat class was at capacity and had amassed 45 students on its waiting list). Spring and summer sections have also been added. It’s also been called an Easy A, as the course, which has been taught at UVA for the last eight...
The University of Virginia has won widespread praise for a program to cover essentially all costs for low-income students. And the program appears linked to increasing numbers of such students enrolling. But citing the high costs associated with those increases, the university is now making its aid packages less generous -- and will start to require that loans make up part of the package. The move is being criticized by student leaders, who say that adding $28,000 in loans for low-income students undercuts the ideas behind Access UVa, as the program is called, and could discourage some student...
As many pundits see Virginia’s gubernatorial election as a political barometer ahead of 2014 midterms, the contentiousness of this race has drawn many outside interests. “I think it does show that we are in an era now where individual, basically rich-people donors can try to inject issues into races when those issues may not have necessarily been a big deal in the race prior to their involvement,” said Kyle Kondik, political analyst for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “That’s somewhat of a newer phenomenon in American politics, post-Citizen...
The University of Virginia’s library has unveiled a 20-year trove of digitized news footage and anchor scripts from WSLS-TV, a local station in Roanoke, Va. The online material, covering the years 1951 to 1971, includes some 3,600 clips of silent, 16-millimeter film footage in black-and-white and color, with nearly 10,000 more remaining to be digitized and uploaded.
Sustainable and affordable are two words that aren’t typically seen together in the building industry. The juxtaposition is what caught the eyes of the jury as it reviewed the high-performance, modular housing design led by John Quale, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Virginia (UVa). Over the past decade, the EcoMod project has pooled the research and development efforts of more than 370 students from UVa’s architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, planning, business, and historic preservation programs. Together, they’ve ventured into mergi...
The University of Virginia will scale back the amount of scholarship and grant money it provides to low- and middle-income students as part of the public school’s plan to save millions of dollars a year, a change slated to begin in the 2014-15 school year.
The award-winning ecoMod green housing project in South Boston is nearing completion, with installation of energy-saving appliances one of the final steps. The project, a cooperative effort between the Town of South Boston, University of Virginia, SIPS of Blairs, SVHEC and Cardinal Homes of Wylliesburg, was initiated by the town and Southside Outreach Group.
University of Virginia head football coach Mike London may want to review the boilerplate scholarship offer he uses to send to recruits.
Georgetown College's new president has been announced. He is M. Dwaine Greene, who has been academic vice president and provost since 2001 at Campbell University in North Carolina.
University of Virginia political analyst Kyle Kondik says that while the speech will not “necessarily” help Obama accomplish his immediate economic goals, it will help him in the long run. “He can’t really make Republicans in Congress act, but he’s setting them up to take the blame for something bad that invariably happens in the fall,” Kondik said.
An experimental treatment for alcohol dependence works better in individuals who possess specific combinations of genes that regulate the function and binding of serotonin, a brain chemical affected by the treatment, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health.
It's easy for a middle manager to resemble "a rat on a wheel," working hard but not actually advancing, says Lynn Isabella, an associate professor of leadership and organizational behavior at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
According to former officials charged with civil-rights enforcement, however, convicting people of hate crimes is not easy. "Juries are very reluctant to find that animus motivated a violent crime," says Rachel A. Harmon, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who worked as a prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice during the Clinton and second Bush administrations.
Typos, intentional or not, occur in all realms of society, even among elite academics. On Monday, a University of Virginia football scholarship offer letter made the cyber-rounds – for printing "formerly" instead of "formally." In the first paragraph.
Andrew Block, who leads the Child Advocacy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, called the law “problematic,” in part because it provides almost no guidance to district officials about how it should be enforced.
“To have a SIDS death, you have to have at least one of those [factors], and you have a higher risk if you have two or three of those happening at the same time,” says Fern Hauck, a professor of family medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Nansemond-Suffolk Academy alumna Taylor Hart Odom has visited or lived in 24 countries – and she’s only 23 years old. She spent the last year teaching English in Thailand after graduating from the University of Virginia with a major in foreign affairs, part of which was spent studying abroad in Italy. Her cosmopolitan nature made Odom the perfect candidate to represent Suffolk recently on behalf of Suffolk Sister Cities at the organization’s conference in San Antonio, Texas. She accepted an Innovation Award for Youth and Education for the Suffolk organization and was able to ...