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.

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More than 200 people came to Charlottesville this week to talk about student athletes and drugs.  At this 20th annual conference, hosted by the University of Virginia, experts said steroids and other performance enhancing drugs are less of a problem, but … products sold legally, over the counter, are putting some student athletes on the sidelines.

The University of Virginia announced Monday that it had received more applications than ever: 23,942, a 6 percent increase. But the university is adding freshman seats in the fall, and that means a slightly more favorable admission rate.

"That interaction with a real object is a pretty profound experience. I had the opportunity, for example, to hold the Jefferson Bible in my hands; it was almost electric."

Gov. Bob McDonnell wants to punish Virginia Commonwealth University for what he calls an “unacceptable” tuition hike by the school’s Board of Visitors last spring.

While no American public "flagship" school has gone completely private, many states are incrementally giving those universities greater autonomy. For instance, Penn State is now designated as a "state-related" school in Pennsylvania, with considerable autonomy, and gets only 6 percent of its revenue from the state. And while UNC-Chapel Hill is limited to having only 18 percent of its students from other states, both the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia have more than double that percentage.

Gov. Robert McDonnell, Republican of Virginia, has proposed giving public colleges in his state at least an additional $50-million in state appropriations, a down payment on his plan to help colleges keep tuition in check and raise the proportion of Virginians with college credentials from 42 percent to 55 percent over the next 15 years.

[Rankings] actually can fool people into missing what is most important in distinguishing entities, whether individuals or institutions. For example, the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Virginia, tied for the second rank among public universities in recent U.S. News ratings, would provide very different experiences to undergraduates (as anyone who has visited UCLA and UVA likely would notice).

George M. Cochran Justice George Moffett Cochran, 98, husband of Lee (Stuart) Cochran of Staunton, died Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011, at his residence. … He graduated from the University of Virginia (B.A. 1934, LL.B 1936). As an alumnus, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Raven Society. He served as president of the University of Virginia Law School Alumni Association and as a trustee of its Law School Foundation.

Kenny Foster was nominated for membership in the Arlington County Republican Committee. Foster, who graduated from the University of Virginia in the spring, is the son of Dave and Martha Foster of Arlington.

James Rubright, Law School alumnus [Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.] exited bankruptcy proceedings this summer, and Rock-Tenn Chief Executive James Rubright pounced in December when Rock-Tenn advisers approached Smurfit. Discussions continued this month and negotiations were finalized over the weekend. … Smurfit exited bankruptcy proceedings this summer, and Rock-Tenn Chief Executive James Rubright pounced in December when Rock-Tenn advisers approached Smurfit.

Prior to his tenure in the Senate, Mr. Bayh, 55 years old, served two terms as the governor of Indiana. He holds an undergraduate business degree from Indiana University and a law degree from the University of Virginia.