The biennial Shann Palmer Poetry Contest, named for the late Shann Palmer, a poet and active James River Writers board member, received 210 poems this year, submitted by 62 poets. Here, we present this year’s winning poem, “How to Meditate,” by Fred Everett Maus, an associate professor of music at the University of Virginia.
If you want to know how bad your semiannual cold could be, check the bacteria living in your nose. New University of Virginia research suggests bacteria inside noses could indicate severity of symptoms caused by one of the most common types of cold virus.
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has found that lymphatic vessels surrounding the brain may play a crucial role in the development and progression of multiple sclerosis. The vessels may also play a key role in other neuro-inflammatory diseases and brain infections as well.
Highlighting how they differ both from each other and their opponent’s political parties, Democrat Leslie Cockburn and Republican Denver Riggleman spoke to a crowd of about 150 at the University of Virginia on Friday. Hosted by the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at Garrett Hall, the historic and small space was filled to the brim to hear the nominees for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District speak.
Supervisors on July 31 this year authorized the inclusion of WMATA’s nomination in the county’s 2018 Comprehensive Plan Amendment Work Program. Since then, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, which jointly own a pair of parcels near WMATA’s site, requested an amendment for the possible redevelopment of the universities’ Northern Virginia Center.
Some states have passed or are considering laws that define consent as a voluntary, affirmative and mutual agreement. Called affirmative consent, or "yes means yes," such policies sharply depart from past practices where the absence of a "no" counted as consent, whether or not a student was inebriated or passed out. A number of schools have affirmative consent policies, including the University of Virginia, according to End Rape on Campus, a victim advocacy group.
The University of Virginia has announced a $25 million gift from the Chris and Carrie Shumway Foundation in support of a new building and bioscience/business program.
(Video) Hope was on the University of Virginia’s Grounds on Sunday afternoon. A local artist created and led a tour to let people know about the work, by slaves, that went in to creating the University.
Antislavery and wartime abolition history is on view at UVA. Starting Tuesday, three documents from American history will be on display in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.
Now I don’t know much about my unconscious mind. (I mean, it’s unconscious, right?) So I called an expert on the subject: Tim Wilson, a UVA professor of psychology. Tim has some, well, mind-blowing insights about how your brain really works.
Harvard professor Mahzarin Banaji and her colleagues Brian Nosek at the University of Virginia and Anthony Greenwald at the University of Washington were recognized for their role in developing the concept of implicit bias, the idea that people unconsciously carry cultural beliefs and attitudes that influence whether we perceive different groups of people as “good” or “bad.”
It sounds all too familiar to historian Peter Norton, a professor at the University of Virginia who wrote "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City." The book covers a similar period of social turbulence when automobiles were first seen on city streets. "It's a new version of an old problem," Norton said. "It's the same clash between people who say 'we have to restrict these crazy drivers and their machines,' and people who say 'progress is about changing how we do things.'"
Saikrishna Prakash, the James Monroe Distinguished Professor and Miller Center Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia: “The process has been broken for awhile. For decades now, some judicial nominees have had to wait years for consideration by the Senate. The use of holds and blue slips were a source of interminable delays. Many worthy presidential nominees just gave up and withdrew from consideration. Judge Merrick Garland fell victim to that sorry bipartisan tradition of delaying tactics. For as long as I can remember certain nominees have been smeared in no-holds-barred, brass knuckles...
The University of Virginia School of Law says a man who was wrongfully convicted of raping a child has been released from prison. Darnell Phillips was sentenced to 100 years in prison for the 1990 rape of a child in Virginia Beach. He was paroled on Tuesday after serving 28 years of that sentence, about three years after new evidence was uncovered by the Innocence Project Clinic.
Earlier this year, Gov. Ralph Northam signed an executive order granting eight weeks of leave at full pay to state employees for the birth or adoption of a child. Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia announced recently they were expanding the policy to cover additional employees.
The big idea is to turn the old Hyosung tire plant into a mixed-use development that’ll house new residential and retail space. A pair of UVA architecture graduate students put together plans to turn the old 150,000-square-foot plant into a mixed-use housing and retail space.
History has proved time and time again that many family-owned businesses don’t survive being transferred from one generation to the next. A new report written in partnership with UVA’s Darden School of Business provides advice on cultivating human capital, financial capital and innovation across generations.
Acknowledging the roots of racism was a focal point of keynote speaker James Forman Jr. at a UVA-hosted event Thursday. Forman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Yale law professor, spoke to a crowd of hundreds at the Paramount Theater as a part of a UVA Law conference.
A crowd came out to the University of Virginia to learn about the expansion of Medicaid in Virginia and how that’ll affect people.
"The Kavanaugh accusations have put Republican men running for office in a tough spot. They’re now asked by every news outlet how they’ll vote, and this will be a clear litmus test on where they stand with respect for women," said Jen Lawless, a UVA professor of politics.