Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History
Virginia Pols Spearhead Movement for More States' Rights
December 20, 2010 / The Take Away on NPR
Jay Dicharry
Director of U.Va.'s SPEED Performance Clinic and the Motion Analysis Lab coordinator
Queens long-distance runner has captured 3 titles
December 19, 2010 / Charlotte Observer
Helen E. Dragas
Board of Visitors member and CEO of The Dragas Cos. in Virginia Beach
Dragas Cos. CEO picked for Dominion board
December 18, 2010 / Virginian-Pilot
Larry Sabato
Politics professor, director of ...
... Their argument is complemented by the University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter’s “To Change the World,” an often withering account of recent Christian attempts to influence American politics and society. Having popularized the term “culture war” two decades ago, Hunter now argues that the “war” footing has led American Christians into a cul-de-sac.
By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and author of "When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat From Marriage in Middle America."
Cohabitation is now an increasingly attractive option to many Americans — including middle-aged and older adults who have recently lost a spouse to divorce or death. We can debate about whether cohabitation is good for the adults involved, especially given the financial penalties often associated with marriage for low-income and older couples. But a growing body of social scientific evidence strong...
... Called “induced traffic,” this phenomenon has been discussed by transportation planners since at least Mike Demetsky’s 1971 work at the University of Virginia’s Center for Transportation Studies...
"Couples who attend religious services several times a month are 35% less likely to divorce," said W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project.
Donations to the state’s annual charity drive from the University of Virginia’s faculty and staff are continuing to lag behind last year’s contributions.
Special Collections Library has black-and-white images taken by Charlottesville photographer Rufus W. Holsinger.
...A project in Riverstone, Halifax County would be the largest research and development solar project in the United States. The University of Virginia will conduct the validation of the research.
Rolls-Royce reached across the state from its headquarters in Reston to create the Commonwealth Center for Aerospace Propulsion Systems with the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. The center will help develop next-generation, energy-saving propulsion systems and create nine new endowed professorships at the two schools in engineering and related fields.
A new CD of UVA composer Judith Shatin's chamber music performed by the Borup-Ernst Duo, Tower of the Eight Winds, has also been nominated for a Grammy.
Middle America is falling out of love with marriage, according to a recent study by a University of Virginia professor. W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project at UVa, said the new data show a shift in attitudes toward marriage and more people having children outside of wedlock.
...During 14 years of Virginia’s tough transition from segregated to desegregated public schools, the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education provided a quiet link for black and white teachers and others to get to know what minefields to avoid. The Consultative Resource Center for School Desegregation ran on federal grant money from 1967 to 1980 as a little publicized effort in how to bring people together.
Amori Yee Mikami
Assistant professor of psychology
Thurgood Marshall Fundamental investigating 'disparaging and inappropriate' Facebook page
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times / Dec. 17
Mikami, who has studied cyberbullying, said, "I do think where things may be different in the Facebook era is with the potential for the gossip to spread more quickly." Mikami said that if kids have supportive networks of friends in the real world, their online networks will reflect that.
Michael Rodemeyer
Engineering adjunct professor and biotechnology policy attorney
White House Urges Cautious Explorat...
Joseph J. Thorndike
Visiting scholar in history
What's the Estate Tax Supposed to Do, Anyway?
Huffington Post / Dec. 16
Thorndike, director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts, says, "the estate tax also has a second, more prosaic role: it redistributes the tax burden. By focusing on the lucky souls at the top of the economic ladder, it makes the tax system fairer and more progressive."
Leah Ward Sears, retired chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and a partner at the Atlanta office of Schiff Hardin LLP, wrote this editorial about the report, "When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America," that was released by the National Marriage Project, a nonpartisan initiative at the University of Virginia, directed by family scholar W. Bradford Wilcox.
A similar tack is working for the nonprofit Local Food Hub, which launched last year in Charlottesville. According to spokeswoman Emily Manley, spelling out informal contracts with the group's 40 farmers and its institutional clients, such as the University of Virginia Hospital, before the growing season was key to keeping the group in the black.
A look at just a few of the many recent university design-build projects that are giving architecture students across the country real-world lessons on how buildings get made, including ecoMOD, a design-build-evaluate partnership of the Schools of Architecture and Engineering.
On Thursday, Jenna Johnson hosted an online chat about undergraduate admissions with Greg Roberts, dean of admission at the University of Virginia, and Jill Medina, associate director of admissions for Oberlin College.