Deirdre Enright, director of investigation for the Innocence Project clinic, said that Coker can now go back to the circuit court for a hearing on his claims that he received ineffective assistance of counsel, which paved the way to his wrongful conviction.
Weakley's current lawyers with the University of Virginia Law School Innocence Project Clinic said they will seek a pardon from the governor.
The stakes involved in this fight were on full display Friday, when the Virginia Supreme Court rejected Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II’s two-year effort to force the University of Virginia to turn over e-mails, drafts and handwritten notes prominent that climate scientist Michael E. Mann had written while serving on the faculty there. Mann, now a professor at Pennsylvania State University, accused Cuccinelli of engaging in a campaign of 'character assassination' against him.
After two years and more than half a million dollars in legal fees, the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday rejected Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II’s assertion that the state’s flagship university had to turn over documents related to global warming. The decision was a defeat for Cuccinelli (R), a global-warming skeptic who has garnered national attention for a string of high-profile lawsuits, just as he kicks off his campaign for governor next year.
The Virginia Supreme Court late last week shut down an effort by the state’s attorney general to obtain records related to a former University of Virginia researcher whose work supports the widely accepted theory that climate change is a serious environmental issue.
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture on April 13 to Rafael Moneo, the Spanish architect known for innovative modern buildings that respect existing environments. The medal will be presented on Jefferson's birthday by U.Va., which he founded in Charlottesville in 1819, and by the foundation, the independent, nonprofit organization that owns and operates his home, Monticello.
JDRF is funding artificial pancreas trials at 13 sites worldwide, including Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Virginia and the University of Colorado.
Patients with persistent asthma reported significant improvements in quality of life after four months of structured exercise in a gym, researchers reported here. Among adult patients participating in the three-times weekly sessions, 78% reported improvements on the asthma quality of life questionnaire compared with 39.5% of controls (P=0.05), according to Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The pitch for the online course sounds like a late-night television ad, or maybe a subway poster: "Learn programming in seven weeks starting Feb. 20. We'll teach you enough about computer science that you can build a Web search engine like Google or Yahoo." But this course, Building a Search Engine, is taught by two prominent computer scientists, Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford research professor and Google fellow, and David Evans, a professor on leave from the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Supreme Court says Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has no authority to demand records related to a former University of Virginia climate researcher's work.
Valerie Lewis
Earned an undergraduate degree in biology and graduate degree in law
Thomas Woltz
Woltz earned his bachelor's and master's of architecture and landscape architecture from the School of Architecture
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Professor of law
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Director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation
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Jonathan Haidt
A psychology professor
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Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
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A recent study from the University of Virginia suggests that when a school has a climate of bullying, it’s not just the targeted kids who suffer — the entire school lags academically.
Fathers often talk the talk about sharing parenting duties with mothers when it comes to a newborn. But a new study finds that couples who profess to believe in equally shared parenting rarely do so in practice. ... The study, in the January issue of the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, was conducted by Steven Rhoads, a political scientist at the University of Virginia and his son, Christopher Rhoads, an assistant professor of education at the University of Connecticut.
Hash and Weakley were 15 and 16, respectively, at the time of the murder and were charged as juveniles. Weakley is now represented by the University of Virginia School of Law’s Innocence Project.
Fans of Italian art may want to visit the University of Virginia Art Museum Friday. An exhibit featuring The Adoration of the Magi by Bartolo di Fredi will open to the public for viewing. The altarpiece from Siena, Italy was completed around 1385. However, at the turn of the 19th century it was dismantled and divided into at least four portions. Three of the sections are now on display at the art museum.