Also named in the study was (U.Va. grad) Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of the non-profit global venture capital Acumen Fund. Novogratz has 423,566 followers on Twitter, the highest among all CEOs.
A study  by University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox supports this view that the myth of the soul mate may indeed be harmful to America.
Profile of drama alumnus John Pitts, former scenic artist at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
More than 1,500 people have signed a petition started by a University of Virginia student calling for the state's general assembly to block the appointment of Helen Dragas to the school's Board of Visitors because of her role in the controversial ouster and reinstatement of the institution's president, Teresa Sullivan, this summer.
Over the next few weeks, Bloomberg Businessweek will publish the top 10 B-schools in each of the nine specialty areas, from diversity to leadership to entrepreneurship, culminating with publication of the entire specialty MBA ranking, including each of the 82 ranked schools. This week, it ranks the top business schools for ethics, and U.Va.'s Darden School of Business is rated second overall nationally.
In a New York Times OpEd, Mark Edmundson of the University of Virginia focused on the issue of quality, asking and answering his own question: "[C]an online education ever be education of the very best sort?"
The disappearance of marriage in “middle America” is tracking with the disappearance of the middle class in the same communities, and “strikes at the very heart of the American Dream,” scholars including U.Va. sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox said in a paper released Sunday.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the franchise's only Super Bowl victory, brought the 2002 players on the field at halftime of their game against Philadelphia on Dec. 9. There was just one exception: Ronde Barber, who hasn't missed a start since that Super Bowl season, remained in the locker room with the 2012 Bucs. He's still playing.
The appointment of conservative South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate is a “big plus” for the Grand Old Party, but will not be enough to stem the adverse demographic tide that has been hurting Republicans, according to national political expert Dr. Larry J. Sabato.
There’s no one right way for a college or university to write and enforce a sexual misconduct policy or to encourage victims to report sexual crimes, but there are what are considered “best practices” suggested by advocates. And a few colleges outside the Pioneer Valley have launched innovative programs and services to stop sexual violence. The University of Virginia has a Sexual Assault Leadership Council that consists of the three student peer education groups and a feminist group dedicated to ending sexual violence.
A University of Virginia student is speaking out after she says she was raped. Now, she's hoping her story will help other victims. 
The University of Virginia is looking for hundreds of volunteer drivers to get behind the virtual wheel. It's part of a plan to see if the program can be used one day as an alternative to in-car driving tests.
The two infamous proteins, amyloid-beta and tau, that characterize advanced Alzheimer's disease, start healthy neurons on the road to cell death long before the appearance of the deadly plaques and tangles by working together to reactivate the supposedly blocked cell cycle in brain cells, according to research presented on Dec. 17 at the American Society for Cell Biology's Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Working in a mouse model, George Bloom, PhD, of the University of Virginia reports that neurons in Alzheimer’s start dying because they break the first law of human neuronal saf...
Langton's Austin Pasztor has realized his dream of playing in the National Football League. Pasztor was signed to the active roster late last week by the Jacksonville Jaguars and was immediately named the starter at left guard for last Sunday's game against the Miami Dolphins. The 6-foot-8, 308-pound rookie lineman played the entire game Sunday, which ended in a 24-3 Miami victory.
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez plans to ask the legislature for $4.74 million in targeted funding for programs at low-performing schools, and $2.5 million of that would be used to train principals and district leaders through the University of Virginia’s program for education leadership. The program, a partnership between the university’s education college and business school, emphasizes using data to make decisions and bringing businesslike efficiency to school leadership. Las Cruces superintendent Stan Rounds called it a “game changer” in his district. 
(Commentary) “I have been described as an incrementalist.  It is true,” University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan said last June in response to concerns of the Board of Visitors that she wasn’t moving the campus to change fast enough. “Sweeping action may be gratifying and may create the aura of strong leadership, but its unintended consequences may lead to costs that are too high to bear.”  Many people have said many things about the state of American higher education in 2012, but none resonated more for me than those of President Sullivan.&...
"Turning our schools into fortresses is not going to solve the problem," said Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia professor who studies school safety and cautions against solutions too specific to the Connecticut case.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia and a frequent commentator on technology and education, believes that some of the new tools and innovations could indeed enhance teaching and learning—but that doing so will take serious research and money.
Siva Vaidhyanathan: As chair of the Media Studies department at UVA, Siva Vaidhyanathan reads plenty of news, but when the fit hit the shan at his own institution, he didn't hesitate to throw himself into the fray, getting out in front of the story with his own penned pieces on Slate.com in which he eviscerated the process by which Sullivan, for whom he had previously worked at the University of Texas, was fired.Helen Dragas: Whether she deserves it or not, UVA rector Helen Dragas emerged from the Teresa Sullivan firing debacle about as well liked as Cruella DaVille. 
6) Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong, by Brandon Garrett. This is a 2011 book, which I should have read last year and which I should have cited more this year in the stories I've written about the death penalty in America. If Smith's book about the Maharaj cases focuses upon a single case, Garrett's book zooms out the view to give the reader a sense of the scope of the problems in our justice systems. But he does so in a way which I find both earnest and charitable.