But back to Brendan. Republicans are putting out the narrative that he owes his job as U.S. attorney to his father. That it was all a big setup for Brendan to assume the family political dynasty. Larry Sabato, the political wizard at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, thinks it’s a narrative that could hinder the younger Johnson. “If Brendan Johnson does run, he’ll have to carve out his own identity,” Sabato told me. “Other than party, that’s his biggest problem.”
Daniel John Meador, a renowned University of Virginia law professor known for his work in establishing a new federal appeals courts, died Saturday at age 86 after a short illness.
(Editorial) Discouraging. Community college interests might have dealt a deathblow to one of two bills by Del. R. Steven Landes, R-Weyers Cave, to reform college and university governance in the wake of last year’s leadership crisis at the University of Virginia.
I remember driving across the Tar Heel State back in the ’80s, en route from my home in Virginia to the home place in Graniteville. It was common then to see bumper stickers that read, “Honk if you’re from Carolina; moo if y’all fum State.” “Carolina,” north of the border, meant the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The bumper sticker was considered a put-down for North Carolina State, the proud institution in Raleigh, just a few miles from the hallowed grounds at Chapel Hill. It is to the Tar Heels what Clemson is to the Gamecocks. Today &n...
But false confessions aren’t just a strange anomaly—they’re a phenomenon that’s beginning to get attention by criminal justice experts and legal academics. In his book “Convicting the Innocent: Where Prosecutions Go Wrong,” Brandon L. Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia, looked at 250 cases in which innocent people were cleared by DNA evidence, including 40 in which there were false confessions.
"Presidents have very limited ability to motivate Congress by going over their heads to the American people," said Russell Riley, an expert on presidential rhetoric at the University of Virginia.
Bonding over college antics at the University of Virginia and a love for Southern cocktails, Eric Prum and Joshua Williams were also building a business relationship that ultimately led them to their Mason Shaker. The concept of using a mason jar as a cocktail shaker was refined over a two-year period, and it took less than a month to generate almost $80,000 on Kickstarter.
"If I was giving the speech, I'd hit immigration last because that's an issue that seems to have real bipartisan possibilities," said Sidney Milkis, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.
The mood of the country was cautious optimism, says Edward Lengel, editor-in-chief of the George Washington Papers at the University of Virginia. "Washington appeared steady at the helm, and government appeared to be working with reasonable efficiency."
The University of Virginia is hosting Senator Mark Warner Monday for a discussion on the nation's debt crisis. The senator's visit is part of the student-run ‘Up to Us' campaign.
The University of Virginia's Miller Center is remembering one of its former directors. The center is planning a memorial service in the next few weeks for Kenneth Thompson.
(U.Va. law alumnus) William H. Hines is a fast talker – so fast that his words tumble over each other and his sentences often veer off in unexpected directions. But even this self-confessed Type A personality, who compartmentalizes so well that he can manage a 385-lawyer firm while performing a multitude of civic activities, was at a loss for words last November, when the Rex organization’s selection committee told him he would reign on Mardi Gras as Rex 2013, king of Carnival.
(Commentary) The #foemooc stumble gave fuel to a growing backlash of academics such as Cathy Davidson at Duke and Siva Vaidhyanathan at the University of Virginia, who are questioning the business models and pedagogical soundness of these courses.
The more things change the more they stay the same. Although its latest lineup has been together for a decade and a half, progressive bluegrass pioneers, The Seldom Scene continues to build on the foundations set by the original group more than a half-century ago. "People tell me that we still sound like The Seldom Scene," banjo player (and U.Va. grad) Ben Eldridge, the sole remaining founding member, said.
Repubican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli conceptually signaled support for marijuana initiatives in Colorado and Washington -- voters in both states last year approved efforts to legalize pot -- during an appearance at the University of Virginia this week, according to news reports.
"When a naïve CD4 cell comes across its target pathogen, it takes days or even weeks before the immune system is full mobilized against that pathogen. But an activated-memory CD4 cell can cause the immune system to mount a full-blown response within hours," said William Petri, MD, PhD, chief of infectious diseases and international health at the University of Virginia.
A judge has certified charges against the man accused of attempting to abduct a University of Virginia student last November. Twenty-seven-year-old Matthew Beaulieu appeared in Charlottesville General District Court Thursday afternoon.
But gasify uranium with flourine and put it in a rapidly spinning centrifuge, and you can separate the nuclear wheat from the chaff. As the centrifuge spins, the heavier, non-radioactive U-238 moves to the centrifuge wall, while the U-235 moves toward the center, explains Houston Wood, a University of Virginia engineering professor who worked on gas centrifuges at the U.S. Department of Energy.
A former University of Virginia employee who police say asked an undercover detective posing as a 13-year-old girl to transmit semi-nude images of herself online is out on bond.
Health officials at the University of Virginia are working to stop the spread of a deadly bacterium that has already infected one student.