Robert Grainger Biology professor MASS. MARKET: Woods Hole lab reaches new milestone Falmouth Bulletin / Sept. 7 Allen W. Groves Dean of students Federal Judge Finds Former College President Personally Liable in Student-Conduct Case Chronicle of Higher Education (requires subscription) / Sept. 7 Larry Sabato Director of the Center for Politics Q+A-U.S. congressional midterm elections Reuters / Sept. 8 and Dem base told: Fear Tea Party The Hill / Sept. 8 and State Gains Would Give Redistricting Edge to G.O.P. New York Times / Sept. 7 Isaac Wood Political analyst at the Center for Politics ...

UVa’s application, unveiled over the Labor Day weekend, is free and can be run on iPhones, iPads or Ipod touches.

The first project, conducted by the University of Virginia Watershed Sustainability project, will model the effects of agricultural, commercial and industrial actions on the 64,000-square-mile Chesapeake Bay.

Robert Turner, director of the Center for National Security Law, comments on the case.

Academic studies have repeatedly confirmed Medicaid patients experience poorer health outcomes and higher infant mortality rates. In July a new report from the University of Virginia found even worse performance: surgical patients on Medicaid actually fare worse than the uninsured.

Dr. John Buckman spent much of his life exploring the uncharted realms of the mind in order to help others. On Aug. 20, death ended his lifelong search for this knowledge.

Leading public universities regularly complain about the decline in the shares of their budgets that come from the state, even as regulation has not lessened. But being willing to give up those funds altogether is rare. The University of Virginia's business school did so, but has very much been considered an outlier.

Gerard Alexander Political scientist Volatile Political Climate Backdrop For US Elections VOA News / Sept. 4 Richard Bonnie Law professor and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy and Daniel Murrie, director of psychology at the institute Insanity: Rare defense being used in Newport News homicide Daily Press / Sept. 4 Gregory Fairchild Associate professor of business administration, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration Trailer company gets financing it needed Charlottesville Daily Progress / Sept. 6 Robert Fatton Political scientist President Ren&eacu...

The proceeds of the run support breast cancer research at the University of Virginia.

"Soul mate" couples are often happy at first, because they have intense emotional and personal connections, said W. Bradford Wilcox, lead author of the article in the Sept. 1 issue of Social Science Research. But their unions are at high risk for disenchantment and divorce because it's hard to sustain such intensity in a long-term relationship, he said.

... Timothy D. Wilson, a U.Va. professor of psychology, along with Elizabeth W. Dunn of the University of British Columbia and Harvard’s Daniel T. Gilbert, recently completed a research paper titled "If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right" for The Journal of Consumer Psychology.

Based on 2009 population estimates from the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center included in a recent report from Virginia Department of Legislative Services, Southside voting districts and other rural areas have decreased in population while metropolitan areas have grown.

The University of Virginia's endowment has recovered more than half of the $1.1 billion it lost because of the financial meltdown of fall 2008.

UVA Fourth-Year Saamia Noorali was born in Pakistan and spent much of her childhood there. She has created the Hoos for Pakistan Flood Relief group and hopes students will raise money to provide emergency care in Pakistan.

Daniel Willingham Psychology professor and author of "Why Don't Students Like School?"

At Virginia, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Wake Forest, Boston College and Duke, athletic department officials said they speak to their student-athletes before each season to warn them about using social media, but no official policy is in place and there are no immediate plans to initiate one.