Kimberley Dozier earned a master's degree in foreign affairs, specializing in the Middle East, from the University of Virginia in 1993.

Richard Bonnie Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law Could mental health system have prevented slaying? Daily Press, Newport News / Oct. 18 Ervin Jordan Research archivist at the University Library Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers Washington Post / Oct. 20 Larry Sabato Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics When political prognostication goes wrong Slate / Oct. 20 Isaac Wood Center for Politics Democrats Bracing for Republican Wave in 2010 Election US News & World Report / Oct. 19 William Wulf AT&T Professor ...

Little children are particularly trusting of things adults tell them, a University of Virginia researcher says. Vikram K. Jaswal says children are more trusting of information an adult tells them than the same information conveyed without words.

The 2010 Venture Awards will be formally presented Thursday at the University of Virginia Medical Center. The annual grants are dispersed through the UVa Hospital Auxiliary Inc.

"The Parking Lot Movie" is a documentary film about the University of Virginia Corner parking lot that follows a select group of attendants. It will be shown Tuesday night on PBS.

University of Virginia like a few other public universities runs honours programmes and awards scholarship money to internationals.

Along with the new facility, Beta-Pro will continue to run its GMP facility at the University of Virginia to supply diabetes researchers and transplant centres with clinical and transplantable human islets and other pancreatic biomaterials.

The candidates will debate again at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Danville. The Danville Register & Bee and the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia are sponsoring the debate. It will be broadcast live on WVIR in Charlottesville.

A report by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs challenges national leaders to begin thinking now about new funding mechanisms.

The State Arboretum’s 175 acres make up only a portion of the 712 acres that Graham Blandy donated to the University of Virginia in 1926. ... Research activity is particularly pronounced during the summer months with Blandy providing opportunities for 20-25 undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral researchers to conduct ecological research in residence.

For anyone who’s wondered just what the Founding Fathers were thinking, the University of Virginia Press and National Archives are hoping to help out.

Two paintings set to go on display at the University of Virginia are freshly restored and some surprises were uncovered during the process, according to U.Va. Art Museum Director and Curator Bruce Boucher.

Virginia’s public colleges and universities will be expected to enroll more in-state students, but they won’t face quotas to do so, Commission Chairman Thomas F. Farrell II of the governor’s higher-education reform commission told school presidents Tuesday.

The study, by researchers at Clarkson University, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business (Melissa Thomas-Hunt) and the May Group Family Fund, suggests that people assume minority candidates receive preferential treatment at more selective schools and discount their professional skills as a result.

Comments from Erika Hayes James, associate professor at the Darden School of Business and co-author of "Leading Under Pressure: From Surviving to Thriving Before, During and After a Crisis."

University of Virginia students Atlee Webber and Anna Karnaze ... The students are part of a growing club at UVa called Campus Kitchen that collects unused food from the university’s dining halls, as well as produce from the Local Food Hub, and cooks up meals for Charlottesville-area residents in need.

Eric Loth Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering CCEFP’s Focus on Wind Power Gaining Momentum Today's Energy Solutions / Oct. 19 Larry Sabato Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics In President Obama's Backyard, Tightening U.S. House Race a Bellwether ABC News / Oct. 18 and Tea party supporters expect right turn that sticks Ask America (Yahoo News) / Oct. 18

Willingham is a psychology professor and author of "Why Don't Students Like School?"