A sense of the power of ordinary people -- that's what Julian Bond hopes people come away with after they've visited places that were central to the civil rights movement. Bond, a civil rights activist and the longtime chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is leading a group on a pilgrimage through Alabama and Georgia for a third year.
Mental powers start to dwindle at 27 after peaking at 22, marking the start of old age, US research suggests. Professor Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia found reasoning, spatial visualisation and speed of thought all decline in our late 20s. Therapies designed to stall or reverse the ageing process may need to start much earlier, he said.
A first-of-its-kind study has found that forensic experts produced flawed evidence in the trials of 82 men -- four in Virginia -- wrongfully convicted of rape or murder in the 1980s. ... The Virginia Law Review study, released today, was written by Brandon L. Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia, and Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project. It examined 137 trials in which transcripts exist and forensic experts testified for the prosecution.
On a cold, gray, rainy afternoon on March 15, 1809, Thomas Jefferson returned to Monticello on horseback, shortly after his second term as president had ended. ... Monticello hosted the commemoration in honor of the 200th anniversary of Jefferson’s return to private life on his Albemarle estate.
Members of the University of Virginia women's basketball team stopped by Walker Upper Elementary School to talk to sixth graders about the importance of reading.
The No. 4 Virginia women's golf team won the second tournament championship in the program's history in record-setting fashion with a five-shot victory in the LSU Golf Classic in Baton Rouge, La. The Cavaliers turned in the best tournament score in school history. Virginia shot shot 4-under 284, equaling the lowest single-round score in team history, to set an all-time low tournament scoring mark of 8-under 856. U.Va.'s previous best tournament score was 8-over 872 at last year's ACC tournament.
George Cohen
A law professor
Va., Tenn., Among States with No Attorney-Client Sexual Relations Ban
Bristol Herald Courier (TN) / Mar. 16
http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/va._tenn._among_states_with_no_attorney-client_sexual_relations_ban/21737/
Gregory Fairchild
An associate professor at Darden
Values sustain immigrant businesses in downturn
Richmond Times Dispatch / Mar. 15
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/local/article/IMMI15_20090314-193619/231794/
Bob Gibson
Executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
The Changing Face of Virginia Politi...
By Harold A. Gould, visiting scholar in the Center for South Asian Studies
There yet seems inadequate understanding of the complexities and the challenges confronting the Pakistan-Afghanistan region as the mainstream leadership in all camps, including the US, gropes to develop a strategic formula for keeping the jihadi wolves from the door - before they inundate Islamabad and Kabul, and indeed plunge the entire region, including India, into political chaos.
By Larry J. Sabato, a politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Every midterm year, the lion’s share of the attention seems to go to the U.S. Senate and House contests at the national level, even though the governorships are arguably more important. ...
...Dr. Brian H. Annex, chief of cardiovascular medicine at UVa, said the UVa Medical Center’s work with surrounding communities “is a critical part of our mission.” ...
In part four of our special series on graduating in a turbulent economic time, we are joined by Darden Professor Greg Fairchild, a Darden Class of 1992 alumnus.
...For its first half-century the [U.S. Military Academy] was the nation's foremost engineering school, and the only one until the Rensselaer School was founded still farther up the Hudson at Troy, New York, in 1824. (The University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science arrived in 1836, and MIT didn't show up until 1861.)
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Many schools offer relocation and job assistance for spouses. Virginia's Darden School even helps international students without work visas find volunteer work.
The Division of Music at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise wants to add community involvement to every music class it offers as part of six program goals to broaden overall community outreach.
The number of University of Virginia job postings on the academic side has dropped by nearly half in the last year as the school keeps positions unfilled in an effort to save money. But for those already employed, the downturn has spawned a new policy that could mean a chance to move up the career ladder.
English literature professor Brad Pasanek has created a leading metaphor database, geared toward the history of thought.
A Charlottesville elementary school got a mini-makeover Saturday, thanks to a community service group of students from the University of Virginia.