A team of attorneys that includes the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia law school has been working since January 2009 to clear Edgar Coker’s name and get him removed from the registry. He has had two legal victories in that quest.
(Commentary) The truth is, the country sees Washington as a place filled with pompous politicians and self-important bureaucrats, said University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato. “The company man has always been unpopular,” Sabato said. “And Washington is a town full of company men.”
Philip Zelikow packs a lot into his modern world history course, roaming in a given week from the Napoleonic wars to Latin American revolutions to India circa 1800. But the professor sets a casual tone as he teaches dozens of undergraduates at the University of Virginia and tens of thousands of others worldwide through a lecture series delivered entirely online.
Alas, I busted my deadline. As I write this, my assignment was due 13 hours ago. In this case, I was not late in filing a story for The Washington Post. Rather, I failed the other day to complete by 11:59 p.m. a weekly quiz for an online course I am taking called “The Modern World: Global History since 1760.” I signed up for this free class, from University of Virginia Professor Philip Zelikow, to help my reporting for a story on how Zelikow is using online lectures not only to teach masses of adult learners from around the world but also to improve how he teaches U-Va. studen...
Mainstream leadership will position Virginia for growth and success, but Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling said Monday that he is still deciding whether he will accept the challenge and responsibility of providing it as the state's next governor. Bolling delivered his remarks before about 400 University of Virginia students in political expert and professor Larry Sabato’s class.
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist who tracks presidential races, said Christie has “something to prove now” to the conservative base since collaborating with Obama. “He has to show that he’s a tough, conservative Republican who would represent real change from Obama,’’ Sabato said. Signing on to his health care plan would do just the opposite.
The University of Virginia has raised more than $2.9 billion toward a $3 billion campaign goal it hopes to reach by this spring.
The history of Virginia’s only surviving black-owned bank was headed for the trash heap during the renovation of the venerable First State Bank headquarters in Danville. The items from what was founded as The Savings Bank of Danville were diverted from the garbage bin to the bank’s vault for safekeeping before their recent arrival at the University of Virginia.
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Expedition 34 flight engineer, talks about life aboard the orbiting International Space Station.
Elizabeth Stonehill, a graduate of George C. Marshall High School, has been selected to deliver the valedictorian speech at spring undergraduate commencement exercises at the University of Virginia.
The historical monuments in Piedmont Park may seem like they’ve been there forever, but one of them—a simple pillar with a bust set into it—only reappeared in the park around this time last year. It’s the bust of poet and composer Sidney Lanier and it was reinstated near the 14th Street entrance to the park, where the statue stood since 1914 before being vandalized a number of times and eventually, disappearing entirely. We spoke to two of the men responsible for the restoration: Boyd Coons, the Executive Director of the Atlanta Preservation Center and Richard Guy Wilso...
During his State of the Union speech, President Obama talked about manufacturing and referred to something called 3D Printing. That caught the attention of a professor at the University of Virginia who believes that technology will revolutionize the way Americans acquire many products. David Sheffler, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia explains the concept of 3D Printing.
These proceedings routinely rely on the judgments of forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, who use standardized tools to assess future risk. But how reliable are these tools? And how reliable are the forensic mental health experts making the judgments of risk? The fact is this important issue has never been rigorously investigated—until now. University of Virginia psychological scientist Daniel Murrie and his colleagues suspected that forensic experts are far from objective, indeed that they are influenced by the same powerful cognitive biases that shape all human decisions. Murrie s...
Barbara Wixom, program chair for the Business Intelligence Congress as well as an associate professor at University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and program, says the disassociation between software providers and universities remains an issue, though one that has gotten better as both sides attempt to address the skills gap with data careers.
In addition, the Sabre business intelligence team is starting to think about possible uses for gamification, which enables users to earn points toward prizes or other forms of recognition by completing specified tasks in applications. In a presentation at the summit, Barbara Wixom, an associate professor of IT at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, cited the example of apparel designer and retailer Guess Inc.
At the institution founded by the nation’s first Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, Secretary John F. Kerry gave his inaugural public address on Wednesday, in Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia.
A majority of college students believe that social media is more likely to influence their votes than traditional politicking. Jack Byers, a student at the University of Virginia, said he changed his mind about his vote for president after logging onto Twitter and scrolling through the tweets of New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie. At first, Jack was leaning toward casting a vote for Romney, but after reading through Christie’s tweets, his vote was locked for Obama. According to Byers, although Christie is a Republican, he tweeted his personal impressions about Obama that were positive,...
Robert Turner, the associate director of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia, argues that the CIA officials may well have been operating within their rights when they orchestrated the seizure of Nasr.
Patients with limited financial resources are less likely to die at home, according to research published online Feb. 18 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Dr. Joshua S. Barclay from the University of Virginia and colleagues analyzed data from the central administrative and clinical database of a for-profit, multi-state hospice care provider (Jan. 1, 1999, to Dec. 31, 2003) and correlated it to zip codes matched to U.S. census tracts to generate median annual household incomes.
The son of Italian immigrants who came to Virginia by way of Detroit, state Del. Bob Tata is a career educator known as "coach" in the halls of state government, a nickname that harkens back to his athletic days. Tata was a two-sport athlete at the University of Virginia in the early 1950s after he "fell into" a scholarship at the school based on a referral that led to a tryout, then an invitation to join the football team.