(Commentary co-written by Inez Feltscher, a first-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law) Thomas Jefferson, like many of the Founders, envisioned a future America with a universal system of education. Universal education -- of a sort -- has been achieved in the 20th century, mostly through a wide network of public primary schools, but would Jefferson have approved of today's educational model or its results?
U.Va. is mentioned as one of several schools to have expressed interest in a university research and education center in Waynesboro that would provide a living laboratory centering on science, engineering, math and environmental technologies.
A Princeton University professor and foreign policy expert will speak at the University of Virginia School of Law about drones and detention policy at 5 p.m. Friday in Caplin Auditorium. Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Bert G. Kertsetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, will deliver the 15th Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lecture.
(Commentary) A 2012 article entitled “What is a Good Society? Taxation and Happiness” reports on a study conducted at the University of Virginia. The lead researcher, Shigehiro Oishi, reports, "[A] key to a happy society is quality public and common goods. [A]s long as it [society] can afford good public transportation, education system, health care, and so forth, citizens are likely to be happy."
There's a new way to order delivery or take-out in the Charlottesville area, all thanks to two University of Virginia students. Foodio has been two years in the making for co-founders Rory Stolzenberg and DJ Collier, but the food ordering app has now launched.
(Commentary by Elizabeth Dobbins, a U.Va. law student) All I’m saying, future self, is that it doesn’t necessarily get worse. I don’t think you should compare one season of your life with another, because each is so characteristically different. At 25, I look forward to not having acne and having an apartment with air conditioning. You know, the simple things. There is magic in the summer just as in the spring; it just takes on a different color. Middle age is valuable, productive and rich. So quit reminiscing in your 40s and start looking forward, because the autumn of your ...
"When a doctor tells you to come back, whether it's in 3 weeks, 6 months, or a year, ask why. A phone call might suffice," says Arthur Garson Jr., MD, former dean and vice president of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and author of “Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality.” When a specialist orders a test, such as an x-ray or MRI, ask your primary-care doctor if it's necessary.
David Marrs, a rising forth-year student at the University of Virginia, took a page out of his head coach’s personal playbook, and traveled to the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University on March 25, to donate stem cells to an elderly female patient with leukemia in an effort to save her life.
“Overall, there seems to be an increased sensitivity to things that in the past we might have let it roll off our backs,” says Josh Wheeler, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, a First Amendment legal policy group at the University of Virginia. “Nowadays, people aren’t afraid to express their objections, which isn’t a bad thing, but people are more willing to censor [speech] to remove the offending speech or language.”
A red meat allergy linked to certain tick bites has affected some Virginia children, researchers strongly suspect. Previously documented in adults, this phenomenon has been linked to the Lone Star tick, said study co-author Dr. Scott Commins, an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Virginia.
The National Governors Association prided itself on finding consensus on issues that divided the parties in Congress, recalled Raymond Scheppach, now a University of Virginia professor of public policy, who served as the group’s executive director from 1983 through 2010. “A lot of the times, 10 or 15 years ago, you would sit in the room with the governors and you couldn’t account for who were the Republicans and who were the Democrats,” he says.
U.Va. law grads rank eighth nationally in the number of federal judicial clerkships they land.
If Thomas Jefferson were to return to the University of Virginia, he’d likely be pleased with the latest academic addition, President Teresa A. Sullivan said Thursday. About 200 people gathered to celebrate the reopening of the innovation laboratory, or iLab, at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
Former Chariho High track distance star Mike Marsella is on the mend as he recovers from serious injuries suffered in a January motor vehicle accident. Marsella, a freshman at the University of Virginia, was injured in Charlottesville, Va. on Jan. 15, according to an e-mail from Lt. Ronnie Roberts, public information officer for the Charlottesville police.
Advances in our understanding of the neurological underpinnings of learning, memory and behavior have the potential to improve education, but findings so far have been extrapolated far beyond the strength of their studies, conclude researchers in the latest edition of Nature Reviews Neuroscience. In "Power Failure: Why Small Sample Size Undermines the Reliability of Neuroscience," researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, the University of Virginia, Charlottesville and Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., warn that most brain ...
Even at reduced speeds, jumping from a moving car is a frightening prospect, said William Brady, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia. He has studied similar cases and expected injuries upon hearing the story. “In general, when someone jumps from a moving vehicle, they are going to strike the ground, a guardrail, a telephone pole, all at the speed the vehicle was traveling,” Brady said. “Types of injuries can range from simple scrapes and bruises on the minor end to very significant fractures of the extremities, injuries to the spine, head injuries an...
At the University of Virginia, computer science professor David Evans is working on a shared third-party computation project that would take a person’s genomic information and compare it to studies of how various medicines work on people with different genotypes. The result is a personalized drug treatment that would not require the patient to share his or her information with the pharmaceutical company (or insurer), according to Evans.
As Founder's Day approaches, President Teresa Sullivan is asking a big question: what would Thomas Jefferson think of the university if he returned for a visit? Thursday, Sullivan gave a speech at UVA answering that question.
University of Virginia students took a stand Thursday night against what they call a "silent epidemic." All this week, they were working to raise awareness about sexual assault and domestic violence.
Soon, people across the country will have access to a multitude of historic photos taken around central Virginia. The Digital Public Library of America launches next week and the University of Virginia is contributing the Holsinger Studio Collection to it.