R.K. Ramazani
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Professor of Politics Emeritus
Recent research by a University of Virginia law professor, Brandon Garrett, reveals the inaccurate testimony of eyewitnesses can lead to wrongful conviction in almost 80 percent of cases where people are later exonerated.
Researchers at the University of Virginia get $199,951 to study the impact of stimulus funding on employment in science and engineering fields, while the University of Michigan receives $199,988 to develop a database of the investments in and outcomes of social science projects funded by the ARRA.
Some Charlottesville students graduate from a Math Academy at the University of Virginia. The goal of the program is to help students master math skills that will be useful in higher-level classes.
Ken Buczynski
College, 1996
On four hours of sleep after a late-night emergency C-section, after resuscitating the newborn who wasn't breathing, after a long day of house calls at the nursing home, Dr. Ken Buczynski is back on the maternity ward at 7:30 a.m. with another woman about to deliver.
Pennsylvania lawmakers might be asked to allow prisoners easier access to genetic tests that could prove their innocence. … Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law school professor, found that prosecutors opposed about 20 percent of 225 requests that led to DNA exonerations nationwide.
A group of University of Virginia students will get an education in the current global financial crisis through a new seminar at the law school.
With the death of Farrah Fawcett on Thursday, many will remember the very public battle Fawcett had with the disease that eventually took her life. Dr. Charles Friel, who works at the UVa Medical Center in Charlottesville, deals with the very form of cancer that Farrah Fawcett had, anal cancer.
Even though [Waldo] Jaquith was the first to discover these lifted passages, he told FishbowlNY's Amanda Ernst that he didn't see "malice" in Anderson's actions.
How did the Virginia Quarterly Review connect Chris Anderson's book to Wikipedia, thus unraveling a plagiarism scandal? A strange use of parentheses.
Naomi Huntington
2009 graduate
Jobs are residents' top concern, interns told
Martinsville (Va.) Bulletin / June 26
http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/article.cfm?ID=19450
Richard Hsu
College student
For Hsu, it completes two dreams of his: To travel across the country and help people instead of working during the summer.
[Mark] Colombo, an electrical engineering student at the University of Virginia, is an aficionado of over-the-air TV who gives advice on Web forums about setting up digital converters.
Thomas Hafemeister
An associate professor of law
Family Caregiving on Contract
New York Times / June 25
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/caregiving-on-contract/
Ken Hughes
Presidential recordings researcher at the Miller Center
Nixon: The unexpurgated words of a President close to the edge
The Independent, London / June 25
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nixon-the-unexpurgated-words-of-a-president-close-to-the-edge-1718057.html
Offensive new tapes of Richard Nixon released
Radio New Zealand / June 25
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/mnr/2009/06/25/offensive...
Austin and Brenda [Caperton] hope to raise funds for the three doctors who helped cure them. They pledged $500 each to Dr. Andrew Zelenetz and Dr. Joachim Yahalom of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and Dr. David Jones from the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. Jones is originally from Lewisburg and a West Virginia University graduate.
Low level light therapy (LLLT) holds potential for improving neuronal cell function in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD), according to a new study from the University of Virginia Health System.
[The study] found that in countries where the stereotypes are most firmly established, men got better grades than women in both science and maths at the eighth-grade level.
"We found a general tendency, across every country that we investigated, that people on average have an easier time associating science concepts with male, rather than with female," said lead investigator Brian Nosek, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
… [E]merging markets [are] growing or shrinking autonomously, not just under the influence of rich ones. A study last year by Ayhan Kose of the IMF, Christopher Otrok of the University of Virginia and Eswar Prasad of Cornell University gave some support to this idea.
Prior to joining CNBC, Ms. Brennan majored in foreign affairs at the University of Virginia [College '02], studied Arabic at a university in Jordan as a Fulbright-Hayes scholar, and interned at CNN's international newsdesk.
Alongside FSU on virtually the same timeline in choosing a president will be the University of Virginia, where on June 12 John T. Casteen III announced his intention to step down next summer after 20 years in the post, the longest tenure of any of the ACC's public institutions.