... Paige Selenski (field hockey) -- The University of Virginia midfielder took last year off from school to prepare full-time and will return to Charlottesville in the fall. This is her first Olympic Games.
Katya Bachrouche (swimming) -- The former Virginia All-American and 2011 graduate will swim for Lebanon, the homeland of her father. The 6-foot Bachrouche was raised in Michigan.
Matt McLean (swimming) -- The two-time ACC swimmer of the year at Virginia was added to the team to participate in the 800 free relay. The 6-foot-6 Sterling native is a 2007 graduate of Potomac Falls.
Lauren Perdu...
Hank Banner
Baseball coach at U.Va.-Wise
A Hunt for Split-Ticket Voters in a Tight Virginia Senate Race
New York Times / July 20
Brandon L. Garrett
A law professor and the author of "Convicting the Innocent," a book that includes a study of eyewitness misidentifications
New Jersey Court Issues Guidance for Juries About Reliability of Eyewitnesses
New York Times / July 20
Kyle Kondik
A political analyst for the Center for Politics
Lopsided Fundraising In Virginia's Gubernatorial Primary
WAMU / July 19
Douglas Laycock
A law professor who has argued religious liberty cases before the U.S. Supr...
By Mark Edmundson, a professor of English and author of "Why Read?"
...A truly memorable college class, even a large one, is a collaboration between teacher and students. It's a one-time-only event. Learning at its best is a collective enterprise, something we've known since Socrates. You can get knowledge from an Internet course if you're highly motivated to learn. But in real courses the students and teachers come together and create an immediate and vital community of learning.
... Students, faculty and staff of the University of Virginia's College at Wise, as well as many community supporters, gathered Thursday afternoon for the groundbreaking of the Winston Ely Health and Wellness Center.
... I present the Top 10 Most Attractive Schools (and yes, this is based solely on the hot men):
...2. The University of Virginia: Super fit Southern gentlemen. Need I say more?
...What can we learn from UVA? When we neglect the need to be collaborative and communicative with the wide variety of stakeholders, something bad is going to happen. In contrast, when we collaborate and communicate thoroughly with the multitude of stakeholder groups, we are more likely to progress farther and faster with less stress and strain.
Scratch a chief financial officer and you'll find, under the surface, a bit of a social scientist, at least when it comes to consumer spending habits. At least, this was the idea behind a CFO roundtable at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business on July 13. The apparent lack of enthusiasm for spending among baby boomers, in particular, and the resulting inclination of CFOs to keep a tight rein on the corporate pursestrings -- holding back on hiring and investments until consumers start to open their wallets, were top of mind for corporate managers as they discussed the economy.
Despite the 'existential threat' involving online education at the University of Virginia, Mr. Jefferson's school certainly seems to be at the forefront of the debate.
A dozen major research universities including Georgia Tech, Princeton, Duke, Johns Hopkins and the University of Virginia announced plans this week to offer 100 free online courses that will enable millions worldwide to take the same classes as students at elite U.S. campuses.
"We\'ve never been aware of a tick giving rise to a form of allergy before," said Dr. Thomas Platts- Mills, an allergist at the University of Virginia. Dr. Platts Mills and his colleagues reportedly discovered the allergy. He says the reaction occurs after a person gets bitten by ticks and then eats red meat.
Invited to any weddings lately? Grab the opportunity to attend before they become a rare occasion. At least that's what scholars such as Charles Martel, computer science professor at U.C. Davis, suspect after carefully analyzing data prepared by the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project on U.S. marriage rates since 1960.
... Researchers and an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia reported in the Nature Geoscience last May that conserving and restoring seagrass meadows may reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon stores, while also delivering key ecosystem services to coastal communities.
... The [School Improvement Grant] program... has shown promising indications of having helped some low-achieving schools boost performance -- a point U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made in March. And University of Virginia researcher Thomas Dee found California's SIG-funded schools did indeed improve test scores at a better rate than campuses with nearly identical demographics that did not receive the extra federal dollars.
While waiting for exam results, or the outcome of a job interview, many of us might catch ourselves bargaining with the universe; in return for exam or job success we promise to become better citizens, kinder to our friends etc. ... Now researchers from Chicago Booth and the University of Virginia have examined this phenomenon a little more closely.
...Export crops can guzzle vast amounts of water, leaving local people short of water for themselves. A new study examines the virtual transfer of water associated with the global trade in food products, and reveals an astronomical increase in virtual water movement over the last 30 years. ... To better understand this trade in virtual water, Paolo D'Odorico from the University of Virginia, US, and his colleagues reconstructed 23 years of global trade data for 309 crops and animal products. For each product they estimated the virtual water consumed and then totted up the transfers of virtual w...
...The study, published in the Journal of Consumer Research, reveals that buyers are subliminally influenced by hues, and will pay more in a bidding war if the page's background is red, as opposed to a less vivid hue. Rajesh Bagchi of Virginia Tech and Amar Cheema of the University of Virginia asked study participants to pretend they were buying a Nintendo Wii on eBay.
The University of Virginia Faculty Senate released a report this week compiling efforts in online education across the university's 11 schools as well as the College at Wise. ... The task force, made up of 53 faculty and staff from across the university and the College at Wise, sampled nearly 200 individual online education efforts, including everything from supplemental materials to online degree programs.
By Frank Armstrong, founder and principal of Investor Solutions, a Miami-based NAPFA fee-only registered investment adviser with more than $550 million of assets under management.
... At the University of Virginia we had a very simple honor code: A gentleman neither lies, cheats, nor steals, nor tolerates anyone that does. These guys are three times losers under that code. Do you really want them to continue business as usual on Wall Street?
Kyle Kondik
An expert on U.S. House races at the Center for Politics
Can Gallego’s fundraising prowess overcome Rodriguez’s lead in Texas runoff?
Houston Chronicle (blog) / July 18
Russell Riley
Chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program
Expert: Christie's 'Larger-Than-Life' Personality Problem For Romney
CBS DC Local / July 18
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Romney Looks To Capitalize On Relationship With Netanyahu
CBS DC Local / July 18
Geoffrey Skelley
A political analyst with the Center for Politics
Latest Pew Poll: Minor Shift Among GOP Voters Over ...
...Peter Norton, a technology historian at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, says America did eventually welcome the automobile. But it was not an instant love affair. In fact, he says, cars were initially greeted in cities with hostility and militaristic language.