When, 11 years ago, DNA evidence convinced most experts that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings, many people talked about what the discovery said about Jefferson. Yet few seemed all that interested in what it said about the young girl he owned. Annette Gordon-Reed was one of those few. Her 1997 book, 'Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy' (University of Virginia Press), examined how historians throughout the decades consistently discounted the rumored relationship, ignoring the oral testimony of black descendants.
Kristen Meletti
Biking cross-country to raise funds and awareness for the American Cancer Society
From UVA Grounds to the the stage at Jeopardy, David Hudson tested his wits against some of the smartest young adults in the country. Before you can see how he did in Friday's Kids Week Reunion episode, NBC29's Annie Scholz caught up with the third year UVA student.
Richard J. Bonnie
Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
Legal limbo in 1981 Tampa officer's killing may be near end
St. Petersburg Times / Tampabay.com / Sept. 20
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/article820082.ece
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business and co-author of "The Panic of 1907"
The Great Depression of 2008? Not quite
Reuters / Sept. 19
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN1952961620080919?sp=true
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Will Bush become the new Hoover?
Politico / Sept. 19
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13632.html
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Expert warns market s...
Fifteen local and state law enforcement supervisors from across Virginia returned to work after graduating Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, from the National Criminal Justice Command College. The NCJCC training program is co-sponsored by the University of Virginia's School of Continuing and Professional Studies and the Virginia State Police.
Colonial Williamsburg and a branch of the University of Virginia will receive nearly $1 million in federal aid to help develop digital recreations of buildings in the historic former state capital, U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st District, announced last week.
... Fraternities and sororities came together on Grounds Saturday for the Third Annual Mid-Autumns Festival to have fun and raise money. Students sold tickets to benefit a charity that builds schools in Africa.
By Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr, Darden's dean and director of corporate innovation programs, respectively, and co-authors of "The Panic of 1907"
... At the heart of every crisis is the problem of information asymmetry - some players in the market always know more than others about the value of their assets. Despite mandated regulatory reporting, it is difficult, if not impossible, for financial decision-makers to know with clarity what is going on. A financial crisis, therefore, is a discovery process by which we learn who is holding the bad assets, how bad the assets really are, and whe...
Can a debate make or break a candidacy? You bet. With this year's first presidential debate on Friday, here's a look at goofs and gaffes of face-offs past, taken from interviews with senior campaign officials conducted by the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. The excerpts were selected by program chairman Russell L. Riley.
A worldwide community art project where people use postcards to anonymously share their closest-kept secrets has found admirers among University of Virginia students. And last week, secrets collected from around Grounds went on display in the run up to next month's visit by PostSecret creator Frank Warren.
... After news broke about the demise of Lehman and Merrill, administrators at U-Va.'s Darden School of Business called a meeting with students who had interned at the two firms to hash out new game plans for the job hunt. "The tenor could have been quite morose, but was not," said Jack Oakes, director of Darden's career development center. "It was more about, 'All right, how do I move forward?' "
U.Va. Employees Show Support for the Community
The 17th annual United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area's Laurence E. Richardson Day of Caring, held Sept. 17, drew more than 1,200 University of Virginia employees, who joined about 1,500 of their neighbors from area businesses and agencies, in setting aside their regular jobs for a day -- or just a few hours -- to work for the common good.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6487
New Film Prompts Youth to Ponder Constitutional Reform
More than 200 local middle and high school students, joined by 138 eighth-graders from Martinsville, V...
Cliff Usher
Recent graduate in Spanish, and singer songwriter in Birdlips, whose well-received first recording, "Cardboard Wings," was financed partially by a grant from U.Va.'s Independent Student Arts Project Fund
... At the beginning of the school year at the University of Virginia, Jessie White, 21, was registering students to vote. "I have seen a lot of enthusiasm in a lot of the first year students coming in for orientation sessions here at school, and they seem really excited," White said. ... Political analyst Larry Sabato predicts high voter turnout among young people in November. "They are going to equal their percentage of the population and I think that is remarkable," Sabato said. "They had been well below the percentage of the population at least since that early period when young people got...
Bill Bergen
An assistant dean at the School of Law
Bill Bergen on The Siege of Petersburg
Charlottesville Podcasting Network / Sept. 18
http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2008/09/18/bill-bergen-on-the-siege-of-petersburg/
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Swing states: Virginia / Of pigs and polls
The Economist / Sept. 18
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12263124
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Presidential Race Tightens, Moves to Familiar Battlegrounds
ABC News / Sept. 18
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5830500&page=1
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Sizing up ...
By Michael Nelson, a nonresident senior fellow at the Miller Center and a former editor of The Washington Monthly
... [Geraldine] Ferraro's thin credentials-less than three terms in the House of Representatives, with no foreign policy experience-gradually impressed themselves on many who were initially excited by the novelty of her selection. ... Reagan carried 49 states, including Ferraro's home state of New York, and won 56 percent of the women's vote, up 10 points from his first election in 1980. Will John McCain pay a similar price for his equally surprising choice of the almost-as-inexper...
... The campaign ties Berkeley with the University of Virginia as the most ambitious at a public university...
...[Melissa] Crespo, who graduated from UVa in 2005, was invited back to direct the opening play of 2008-2009 drama season. 'It's definitely a dream come true,' she said, 'because I am able to direct and be in the drama department and I don't have to go to class. ... Crespo will be on hand when her cast stages Neil LaBute's 'Some Girl(s)' in the Helms Theatre on Thursday night.