The latest 2010 survey of student satisfaction shows Virginia’s Darden School at the top, followed by Chicago’s Booth, MIT’s Sloan School, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and the Harvard Business School. … MBAs, given their age and their work experience, are discerning enough to make valuable judgments about graduate education.

The good news is that to increase enrollment, UVa plans to extend between 200 and 250 additional offers of admission in order to achieve an entering class of about 3,360 first year students—120 more than last year. While UVa is not the only college experiencing a significant rise in the number of applications received this year, few have announced plans to so aggressively expand undergraduate programs.

Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) will deliver the commencement address at the University of Virginia on May 22. U-Va.'s new president, Teresa Sullivan, made the selection from nominations forwarded by students and faculty.

On Tuesday afternoon, people who took part in the visit spoke about it. At the time, Wesley Harris was one of eight African American male students. He dined and walked the grounds with Dr. King and says it was one of the most profound events of his undergraduate career.

Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, set out to determine how expert entrepreneurs think, with the goal of transferring that knowledge to aspiring founders.

Edward G. Lengel Editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington In the Congressional Prayer Room at the Capitol there is a stained-glass window depicting George Washington on his knees, praying in the snow at Valley Forge. Similar images appeared on a 2-cent stamp in 1928 commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Valley Forge encampment, and on the 13-cent Christmas stamp in 1977. Despite those depictions, it is a story with "dubious origins," writes Edward G. Lengel in "Inventing George Washington," his account of the myths and legends that sprang up to breathe life i...

The speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at the University of Virginia on March 25, 1963, was not a pivotal moment in the overall civil rights struggle. However, nearly 50 years later, King’s visit still has people talking about what it means to Charlottesville and UVa.

Dover resident and UNH English Department lecturer Stephanie Harzewski will speak at the Dover Public Library on Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 7p.m. about her new book, Chick Lit and Postfeminism (University of Virginia Press, 2011).

Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia … found that half of the students surveyed did not take any classes requiring 20 pages of writing in their prior semester, and one-third did not take any courses requiring 40 pages of reading a week. The research has come in for some criticism. But a larger question is: Have colleges, in their efforts to keep graduation rates high and students happy, dumbed down their curriculums? If they have, who is to blame? What should parents and federal taxpayers do?

Four regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents are rotating onto the Fed's main policymaking group this week for the first meeting of 2011. … [Charles] Evans, 53, has been president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago since 2007. … Evans received a bachelor's in economics from the University of Virginia and a doctorate in economics from Carnegie-Melon University.

DoodyCalls, a national pet waste removal company, has expanded its services to help cat owners. For a weekly fee starting at $15, company employees will come to a client’s house and replace and clean out kitty litter boxes. … D’Aniello and his wife, Susan, both University of Virginia graduates, started DoodyCalls in 2000 in Northern Virginia. In just four years, they were able to start franchising the business across the country.

Mary Owen, the Buffalo Bills executive who has played a key role in its Buffalo-Toronto series, has been promoted by the team as its new executive vice president of strategic planning. … Owen [is] a graduate of the University of Virginia and resident of Royal Oak, Mich.

Football star Tiki Barber made an appearance at the Virginia General Assembly on Monday, part of the lineup of Virginia sports heroes honored with induction into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame this year.

Bob Gibson Executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Ledership General Assembly Update Virginia Insight, WMRA / Jan. 24 A.E. Dick Howard Professor of law Scalia appears at 'tea party' House meeting Los Angeles Times / Jan. 24 Russell Riley Presidential scholar at the Miller Center of Public Affairs To divided Congress and anxious country, Obama to devote State of the Union to economic vision Canadian Press / Jan. 25 Larry Sabato Commonwealth professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics Christie now has pro-life bona fides Bergen County Record / Jan. 25 Jef...

"Teaching is my secondary career, my number one career is as a jazz singer and touring artist. I teach 13 weeks a semester, about half the year. I teach at UVA and William & Mary. I have a few who aren’t UVA students, but most are."

By Barbara Perry Senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs How appropriate that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor sat next to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s intern-turned-hero, Daniel Hernandez, at the memorial service for those injured and killed in the Tucson shooting.

Features U.Va. Mindfulness Center, clinical trials and medical and technical innovations in the U.Va. Health System

A new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reviews research with infants and toddlers and finds that we aren’t born afraid of spiders and snakes, but we can learn these fears very quickly. … Vanessa LoBue of Rutgers University … cowrote the paper with David H. Rakison of Carnegie Mellon University and Judy S. DeLoache of the University of Virginia.

The University of Virginia has received a record number of applications for admission to the Class of 2015. As of Jan. 19, the university had received just under 24,000 applications. That's 6% higher than last year's total.

University of Virginia. As clean, elegant, and simple an MFA website as you're going to find.