Students will always remember Lexington Middle School principal Rosa Lovelace at the door greeting them with smiles, hugs and good mornings as they started their school day each morning.
Addressing only gun policy is not the answer, according to University of Virginia clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell. He is one of nine school safety researchers who released a statement on the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.
UVA psychologist Dewey Cornell says we should think about the shooting not as a school shooting, but as a shooting that happened in a school, and that mindset will help our society address the problems that had been building up long before this tragedy occurred.
Patients and their families at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital got a special visit from Santa Claus Thursday. He brought boxes of presents to children there, thanks to a special helper.
"Colonial" encapsulates a broad array of styles, from clapboard or shingle siding in New England to brick in the South, but it usually means a home with a fairly steeply pitched roof and a symmetrical design, says Richard Guy Wilson, professor of architectural history at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture.
Some people say the Mayan calendar describes the world as ending on Dec. 21, 2012. Not everybody agrees. Lydia Rodriguez is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Virginia's anthropology department. She's specializing in Mayan culture and says the world is not ending Friday.
Saras D. Sarasvathy, associate professor at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, delivered the keynote address introducing the concept of expert entrepreneurship.
Several children who are spending Christmas in the hospital in Charlottesville got a visit from Santa on Thursday, and he had a big box full of gifts for them.
With tuition and student debt skyrocketing and dim job prospects awaiting many graduates, states are trying to show residents what kind of return they can realistically expect for investing in a degree from a public college or university. That’s why Virginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas are collecting salary data on their graduates and posting it online at CollegeMeasures.org, a website run by a former education official in the Bush administration.
University of Virginia-led research earned a nod in a list of 2012’s significant findings penned by Dr. Thomas R. Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
Members of a team that won a design contest earlier this year to come up with new ideas for the replacement of the Belmont Bridge have expressed concern that they were not contacted to help turn their entry into a reality.
Any time you need to have surgery to treat cancer, it's serious business, and can be a scary proposition. But a new technique at the University of Virginia is allowing doctors to treat patients quickly, and with much less pain.
Many Kentucky parents don’t realize that their children are obese or overweight, or at least aren’t willing to acknowledge it. That is the obvious conclusion to draw from the latest results of the Kentucky Parent Survey. The survey, taken by land-line and cell telephone from July 19 to Aug. 22 by the Center for Survey Research at the University of Virginia, interviewed 1,006 Kentucky parents, step-parents, grandparents, foster parents or other legal guardians of children in Kentucky selected at random.
In addition to Gibson, R-N.Y., the DCCC has targeted five other Republican representatives with video ads — Gary Miller of California, Dan Webster of Florida, Tom Latham of Iowa, John Kline of Minnesota and Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington. All six are considered vulnerable in 2014 according to Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
If lawyers from outside the Birmingham bar “start with an assumption that someone who practiced in West Virginia and is now a judge in Alabama is not sophisticated enough, they are in for a rude shock,” said Frederick Schauer, a longtime Harvard professor who now teaches the University of Virginia’s law school, of his former student.
"The report certainly isn't the 'hail and farewell' Hillary Clinton hoped for, and it isn't pretty. But two points: Clinton has been in the national public eye for 20 years, so any new piece of information is put into a much larger context. That will help her," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
National political experts say Scott is the most imperiled governor in the nation, even though Florida has been dominated by the GOP for the last 18 years. "In the entire nation, he's the incumbent governor in the worst shape," said Larry Sabato, Director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The 2012 winter season begins today. Should we expect plenty of snow? Will there be chilling temperatures or will it be a mild winter? According to Jerry Stenger, the state climatologist at the University of Virginia, nobody knows.
Last month, the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture released survey results assessing the “Culture of American Families.” One of the results, based on interviews with thousands of parents nationwide, was that parents often delude themselves when it comes to their own children’s behavior.
After the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors called for the forced resignation of the school’s president, Teresa Sullivan, during the summer, students, faculty and alumni continually gathered on the lawn outside the campus’ Rotunda in protest.