Minnesota-based lawyer Jeff Anderson, who specializes in sex-abuse litigation, released a court deposition in New York on Tuesday with testimony from Janet Warren, a UVA psychiatry professor hired by the Boy Scouts to review its files. In her deposition, Warren said there were 7,819 individuals in the "ineligible files" as of January, as well as 12,254 victims. Warren joined in Wednesday's news briefing, describing the BSA's sex-abuse database as "cutting edge' and contending that the organization's rate of reported sex abuse was lower than in society as a whole.
Attorney Jeff Anderson released a January testimony from UVA professor Janet Warren, who had been contracted by the Boy Scouts for five years to pore over their “ineligible volunteer” or “perversion” files from 1946 through 2016. Her team identified 12,254 victims and 7,819 perpetrators in those documents.
The UVA Medical Center is getting the word out that use of e-cigarettes and JUULs risks nicotine addiction and exposure to carcinogens, heavy metals and dangerous chemicals. “There’s this misconception that they’re OK and they’re not a tobacco product, but they are,” Connie Clark, a tobacco treatment specialist, said to several health care providers Wednesday at a talk sponsored by the Teen Health Clinic.
The UVA Medical Center says doctors are seeing more and more teenagers turning to vaping or electronic cigarette smoking. Doctors want parents and kids to know that even if they think vaping looks cool, it can be dangerous.
A survey of 100 urban universities across America revealed that the overwhelming majority offer community-engaged coursework and have centralized offices dedicated to partnerships with their communities. According to research by Thriving Cities Lab at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, 90 percent of schools sampled offer community-engaged coursework for students and 95 percent have central offices that work intentionally on community collaborations.
Between 2011 and 2014, a new study says almost 70 percent of babies who died from sleep-related suffocation died due to soft bedding. A physician at the UVA Health System conducted the study, underscoring the message physicians have been telling new parents, which says babies should sleep only in cribs or bassinets that are free of blankets, toys and other potential hazards. "These results are very significant, because these deaths, clearly due to suffocation, were all preventable," said Dr. Fern Hauck.
Spring-semester final exams are approaching, but student anxiety is a year-round problem. We are in the middle of what experts are calling a mental health crisis on college campuses. James Madison University and the University of Virginia are seeing the effects.
An annual event at the University of Virginia is hoping to spark an interest in science at a young age. National Physics Day started at UVA over two decades ago, and organizers say the event is a way to bring lovers of science together.
The UVA Medical Center is on a major hiring blitz. The hospital's largest expansion ever means it needs more people to care for patients now.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Biden has better name recognition than the rest of the field, but cautioned that it was too early to predict winners. He also noted that Biden’s past presidential runs were dismal.
The Boy Scouts have kept files going back decades showing that nearly 8,000 volunteers have been excluded from the organization because they had been accused of sexually abusing children, according to a review by an expert on child sexual abuse. Janet Warren, a UVA professor, revealed the scope of the reported abuse when she testified as an expert witness in a trial involving allegations of child sexual abuse at a children’s theater in Minneapolis.
If Murphy decides to appoint a black woman, the list of candidates might include Norrinda Hayat, 41, is a Rutgers-Newark law professor and director of the Civil Justice Clinic. She is a former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, during the administration of President Barack Obama. Graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Law School.
Kyle Dargan is the author of “Anagnorisis” (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP). Four previous poetry collections were published by the University of Georgia Press. Kyle has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. His books have also been finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize. He is currently an associate professor of literature and assistant director of creative writing at American University. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Indiana University.
Failure to comply with a subpoena also could lead to Mnuchin being held in contempt of Congress, along with a court order of daily fines or even jail until he does comply, experts say. “To me the person who’s most vulnerable to this is Mnuchin because, of course, the statute directs Mnuchin to do something, so if he doesn’t comply then he’s the one in violation,” said George K. Yin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
The wording of the statute does not appear to offer discretion to the commissioner of the IRS to refuse Neal’s request. However, the situation amounts to “uncharted territory” given that there has not previously been an occasion where a request for tax returns under the little-used statute has been refused, according to George K. Yin, a UVA law professor who has testified on the topic before the Ways and Means Committee.
In early 2016, Kyle Kondik, an Ohio-born political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and the managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a closely read newsletter on national politics, published a book called “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President.” It was a dead-on, 100% correct examination of the many social, historical, demographic and ideological reasons why Ohio had been a bellwether state in presidential elections for such a long time.
Contrary to those who argue that Sanders creates fissures in Democratic ranks, UVA politics professor Larry Sabato argued that such divisions are unlikely to occur.
Over 12,000 Boy Scout members were allegedly sexually abused by troop leaders and volunteers, according to an expert who has been investigating the alleged abuse over the past five years. Dr. Janet Warren, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia’s medical school, testified as part of a January trial about child sex abuse at a Minnesota children's theater company. Her extensive investigation into the handling of sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts from 1944 through 2016 found that as many as 7,819 troop leaders and volunteers alleg...
The existence of the Boy Scout files – known as the "perversion files," listing scoutmasters or troop leaders accused of sexual abuse – has been known since a 2012 court case in the state of Oregon. But Anderson said a court case this year in Minnesota had revealed numbers of victims and perpetrators that were higher than previously known. He said the new figures came from an audit performed by Janet Warren of the University of Virginia, who has been working with the Boy Scouts of America. "She says there are over 12,000 victims identified in those files," Anderson said.
Almost 8,000 leaders in the Boy Scouts of America have been accused of sexually abusing children going back decades, according to records the organization has maintained. Janet Warren, a UVA professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, reviewed the records and testified in January about her findings in a trial involving allegations of child sexual abuse in a separate case, Jeff Anderson, a lawyer who works with sexual abuse victims, said at a press conference on Tuesday.