A clinical psychologist testified Monday that a western Kentucky school shooter was likely incompetent when he pleaded guilty in 1998 to killing three classmates and wounding five others. Dewey Cornell, who works and teaches at the University of Virginia, said Michael Adam Carneal, now 27, did not gain enough control over his mental illness to rationally understand his crime until May 2004.
It’s not yet clear if the hijacking of the yacht Quest and subsequent deaths of its crew is a blip or a change in the way piracy happens in Somalia, said an expert Thursday. Brad Kieserman, who helped oversee the rescue operation that freed the captain of the U.S. ship Maersk Alabama, made the remarks while speaking at a University of Virginia panel on the rescue.
The group originally known as the Cabell House Men has come a long way over the decades, performing its a cappella harmonies everywhere from Monticello to Moscow. ,,, Listeners know the group today as the Virginia Glee Club. And tonight, the singers will start a reunion-filled 140th anniversary weekend with a public concert in Cabell Hall Auditorium.
… [B]uilding cities as we have in the past is not an option for deep thinkers like Timothy Beatley, professor of sustainable communities at the University of Virginia. He believes the future of our species is intimately tied with our ability to coexist with the natural world.
It's a match made in medicine for University of Virginia students. After years of intense studying and interviews, 133 fourth-year University of Virginia medical students found out their future on Thursday. Sixteen are staying at UVa.
Three literary magazines were underdog winners of the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media, called Ellies. … The Virginia Quarterly Review won the Ellie for multimedia package for "Assignment Afghanistan," a combination of photo, video and written journalism by Elliott Woods.
A Smithsonian museum is restoring the Jefferson Bible, a unique volume the third president cut and pasted himself -- omitting lots of theology -- from portions of the New Testament.
Denise Laughlin Stewart
Who has a master's degree in playwriting
Denise Laughlin Stewart, originally from Mooresville, is a woman who loves stories—listening to them and telling them. Her new one-woman show, “Dirty Barbie and Other Girlhood Tales,” will make its world premiere at Lee Street Theatre in Salisbury, March 23-26 at 7:30 p.m.
[Chris] Henrich is 32-2 this season and the fifth seed in the 174-pound weight class. He finished third at the same weight last year and is now the Cavaliers' only two-time All-America, their all-time winningest wrestler at 133-18, and if all goes as planned Saturday night, the school's first national champion.
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
The lessons of globalisation
The Economist / March 16
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics
Aristide expected to return to Haiti in days after seven years in exile
Miami Herald / March 16
W. Reed Johnson
Professor emeritus of nuclear engineering
Politics determine nuclear roadmap: experts
MarketWatch / March 16
Douglas Laycock
Professor of law
Debating the Display of Ten Commandments in Public Schools and Buildings
Voice of America / March 16
Brad Wilcox
Associate professor of sociology
Christians question divorce statist...
University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says that would be an even race hinging on President Obama's popularity in the commonwealth.
The University of Virginia (UVA) is planning a 2012 launch of its Hy-V (high five) hypersonic engine demonstrator on a two-stage sounding rocket out of the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
[Michael] Suarez told a Virginia Festival of the Book audience on Wednesday that digitizing books may preserve linguistic codes, but that other aspects of a book disappear.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan will be formally installed next month as the eighth president of the state’s flagship university.
Long before most students drag themselves out of their beds this morning, the University of Virginia football players will have completed a workout. Coach Mike London opens spring practice today with a new start time for daily practices – 6 a.m.
No. 6 Virginia is off to a great start again, sporting a 16-1 record, having just swept a three-game weekend series at No. 4 Clemson. But the game the Cavaliers are playing this year in no way resembles what they did last year. And the fans and players know it. And there is one big reason why — the bat. … The new standards placed on college bats were to make them more like their wooden counterparts, and tone down the velocity of the ball off the bat.
Alphabet Management LLC, a New York-based hedge fund that uses options to bet on the volatility of stocks and other assets, promoted Nelson Saiers to chief investment officer eight months after he joined the firm. … He earned his doctorate in math from the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, at 23.
Features Griffith, a graduate in political and social thought, who will become director of Washington University's John C. Danforth Center for Religion & Politics in July
Karin Agness, College '06, Law '09, founder of Network of Enlightened Women
The Marines aren’t the only ones looking for a few good men. So is the Network of Enlightened Women. Specifically, it wants a few good gentlemen. The conservative college women’s organization has tapped March, the month that celebrates women’s history, for its annual Gentlemen’s Showcase, an online popularity contest that culls the testosterone-infused, scraggly bearded herd roaming most college campuses looking for a few “keepers.”
Essay by Hannah Silver, third-year undergraduate architecture student, a finalist in Nicholas Kristof's competition, Win-a-Trip.