Hundreds of students at the University of Virginia had a rare opportunity: a chance to talk politics with a fellow Hoo, who also happens to be Virginia's attorney general.
A University of Virginia student has been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, but school officials say the treatment was immediate and they expect a prompt recovery.
Virginia’s presumptive Republican nominee for governor touted his accomplishments as attorney general Wednesday and predicted that a "wait and see" attitude is likely to shape statewide and nationwide legislative policies on key issues. Ken Cuccinelli shared his perspective on politics in front of about 400 University of Virginia students in an introduction to American politics class led by political professor and expert Larry Sabato.
“The State of the Union address is Obama's opportunity to suggest some practical compromises on immigration, gun control, debt-reduction, and other topics,” said University of Virginia political expert Larry Sabato. “Certainly, he won't want to negotiate with himself, but a president can send signals by what he mentions and doesn't mention, what he puts first in a list of possible reforms, and even the words he stresses as he delivers the speech.”
I first met [U.Va. law alumnus] Bob [Michitarian] during Bevan Dufty’s campaign for mayor at the beginning of 2012. I immediately thought that he was going to be a shooting star in San Francisco political, cultural and social life, especially in our LGBT community.
(Commentary) In some cases, these studies even show an elevated risk of death among Medicaid patients compared to the uninsured. The most prominent of these is a University of Virginia study of nearly 900,000 patients, published in Annals of Surgery, showing that surgical patients on Medicaid endured a 97 percent higher likelihood of in-hospital death than patients with private insurance and a 13 percent greater chance of death than those with no insurance at all.
U.Va. football coach Mike London announced the addition of 22 players. including highly touted running back Taquan "Smoke" Mizzell from Bayside HIgh School in Hampton Roads.
Asbury H. Sallenger Jr., a leader in the nation’s research on the causes and effects of sea level rise, storms and other coastal hazards, collapsed and died on Tuesday at his home in Oldsmar, Fla. He was 63. He grew up in Virginia and earned bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in geology and marine science at the University of Virginia, where he played varsity football.
Women are outnumbering men at roughly 55 percent to 45 percent in universities across the United States, according to a recently published report by Forbes. At the University of Virginia, the ratio of females to males mirrors that report, said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Gregory Roberts.
In any challenge, Apple would have to prove that consumers are confusing the alleged copycat stores for theirs. "The million dollar question in this instance, as in pretty much all trade dress cases, is just how close a competitor can come to the design without infringing," Christopher Sprigman, a University of Virginia law professor and the co-author of the book, The Knockoff Economy, told Reuters.
Some scientists think stem cell research needs a shift in focus, particularly to the promise of cord blood stem cells. These cells are being used to treat patients with more than 75 diseases, including various cancers, traumatic brain injury, autism, pediatric stroke, cerebral palsy, Type 1 diabetes and blood, immune and metabolic disorders, said Dr. Mary Laughlin, a physician and expert in marrow and stem transplants at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Laughlin thinks the future of stem cell research depends on better preservation of stem cells collected from newborns after birt...
The finding suggests that even though mole nostrils are separated by a fraction of a centimeter, each gets its own scent information that can guide an animal’s actions. “It’s an elegant demonstration of what many people suspected,” says Peter Brunjes, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia.
Several years ago University of Virginia Professor Eric Turkheimer demonstrated that growing up in an impoverished and chaotic household suppresses I.Q. – without nurture, innate advantages vanish.
Local police chiefs, school leaders and a youth violence expert are coming together Feb. 21 to address concerns about student safety in the wake of December's mass shooting in a Connecticut elementary school. University of Virginia professor Dewey Cornell will begin with a big-picture look at national trends in youth violence and prevention efforts.
(Press release) Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement this evening after the Princeton Review and USA Today named the University of Virginia as the “Best Value Public College” in the nation.
In December, Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, convened a discussion regarding the implications of the 2013 session of the General Assembly on higher education in Virginia.
(Commentary by Saikrishna Prakash, professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law) One aspect of modern warfare in the West is its increasing legalization: lawyers have a greater say in how war is conducted than before because there are more legal constraints on its conduct and because soldiers and sailors can be (and are) punished for violating those limits. Now every military commander needs a lawyer at the ready to answer legal questions.
"If we were to put 1,000 new police officers in our schools, those police officers would have to come from somewhere, and we might inadvertently make things less safe in our communities," Dewey G. Cornell, a law professor at the University of Virginia who's a member of the task force, told WWBT.
Tuesday was National Pancake Day. International House of Pancakes restaurants all over the country participate by giving away free short stacks of buttermilk pancakes for any donation to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. The money raised at the IHOP off Route 29 in Albemarle County will go toward UVA Children's Hospital.
Marty Peterman, a lead IT security analyst at the University of Virginia, is one of the founding members of a group called "Who's Watching Charlottesville" which teaches Internet privacy. "When a child is sitting down at a computer, they don't think that their connection to the Internet is actually a connection to untold number of strangers," he stated. "Seemingly innocent information can be used for bad, bad means."