Virginia potentially lost more than $7.3 million in state income-tax revenue in one year on the diminished salaries of just one class of college dropouts, says a study critical of the nation's low degree-completion rates.

Lenard R. Berlanstein Professor of modern European cultural history French reporter witnesses Virginia execution Richmond Times-Dispatch / Aug. 21 Kevin Everson Art professor and filmmaker and Feedback: Places #6: Kevin Everson C-ville / Aug. 22 James Galloway Professor of environmental sciences EPA Science Advisory Board Urges Action on Nitrogen Pollution Science / Aug. 19 Jonathan Haidt Professor of psychology and author of "The Happiness Hypothesis" The difference between liberals and conservatives Bluffton News (S.C.) / Aug. 20 Edward D. Hess Professor of business administrat...

Kyle Kondik Political analyst, Center for Politics That price is oftentimes accessibility, to the general public and the press alike, Kondik says.

Samuel E. Bodily John Tyler Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School Bodily discusses proactive, ethical, multi-attribute risk analysis to avoid stalemates between entrenched, extreme views, using hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" to drill for natural gas as an example.

Study author Brad Wilcox told msnbc.com, “But what is surprising about this is that when it comes to religion as well as marriage, we find that the college educated are more conventional in their lifestyle than middle Americans.”

The study, which was to be presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Las Vegas, focused on whites because religiosity among blacks and Hispanics is less affected by education and income, the researchers said.

A report released last week by the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project found the break-up rate is 170 percent higher in households where unmarried partners have young children, compared with married households.

W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist in University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project, says the study is co-authored by 18 family scholars from leading institutions. "The divorce rate for married couples with children has returned almost to the levels we saw before the divorce revolution kicked in during the 1970s. Nevertheless, family instability is on the rise," Wilcox says.

Large numbers of less-educated white Americans are abandoning religious service attendance much faster than their counterparts with higher education. "Our study suggests that the less educated are dropping out of the American religious sector, similarly to the way in which they have dropped out of the American labor market," said senior author W. Bradford Wilcox from the University of Virginia.

Baby nerve cells do form in some parts of the brain, and University of Virginia research could harness that process to create new treatments for certain psychological problems and learning disabilities.

674 undergrads spent the summer aboard the MV Explorer traveling the Mediterranean and North Africa after departing from Nassau, Bahamas, on June 17. The nonprofit Semester at Sea program launched in 1963. It is sponsored by the University of Virginia, which gives sea-faring students credit for the courses they take aboard the 25,000-ton Explorer. Professors use each port of call as an extension of the classroom, taking students on field trips to museums and other experiences.

The work of Kevin Emerson, art professor and filmmaker, in his exhibit, "More Than That: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson," at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is reviewed.

The University of Virginia has formally welcomed its Class of 2015. President Teresa Sullivan provided advice Sunday about the importance of student safety.  Sullivan also greeted the newest group of Wahoo parents Saturday at Old Cabell Hall. Sullivan says this year's class includes many high school superstars. UVA has determined 91 percent of the entering students finished in the top 10 percent of their graduating high school class. 

Jonathan Moreno, a former U.Va. faculty member now at the University of Pennsylvania, writes about Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers' fascination with science.

Former University of Virginia women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan is one of three coaches chosen as this year's recipients for the Lapchick Character Award. Ryan won 739 games at U.Va., leading it to three Final Four appearances.