Rhodes Cook
A political analyst and contributing writer for the Center for Politics.
Some say "Draft Gov. McDonnell for President" fits the bill
WDBJ7.com | Jan. 4
Dewey Cornell
A psychologist and education professor
Police kill 8th-grader brandishing pellet gun at school
USA Today | Jan. 5
Yacov Haimes and his Ph.D. student
Haimes and his Ph.D. student developed a model for vulnerability assessment and risk management for natural disasters
'Chemical cybernetics' and the problem of climate change
‎Philippine Star | Jan. 5
Kyle Kondik
A political analyst with the Center for Pol...
By Joanne McGrath Cohoon, an associate professor in the department of Science, Technology and Society in the Engineering School
Especially at a time when unemployment is high and our economy is weak, we cannot afford to lose anyone with the technical skills to create a sustainable future, improve health, build our cyber and physical infrastructure, and enhance personal and societal security. A diverse set of minds needs to tackle those problems. But we are largely missing out on women's intelligence, creativity, and values in solving the problems we all face. Why is this so?
Area breast cancer patients will soon be able to receive their vital, life-saving treatments locally thanks to the partnership between Culpeper Regional Health System and the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. Two UVa Health System breast surgeons: Drs. David Brenin and Anneke Schroen, will start seeing patients at a new breast surgery clinic on Jan. 17 at the UVa Specialty Care-Culpeper facility, 541 Sunset Lane, suite 103. The UVa Specialty Care-Culpeper clinic opened in December 2009.
Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Pharmacy has announced it will open a satellite location this fall at the University of Virginia Medical Center. ... In anticipation of its deal with U.Va., the pharmacy school admitted 10 additional students to its incoming doctor of pharmacy class in 2010 and 2011. Ten students from each of those classes will spend their third and fourth years at the U.Va. campus after completing their first two years at VCU's MCV Campus in Richmond.
With the help of lawyers at the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia, Edgar and his mother have gone down several legal avenues trying to get his name off the registry. So far, nothing has worked, but Edgar says he's certain he won't be on the list forever, and that the truth will ultimately set him free entirely. "It's easy to get in trouble, hard to get out, basically," Edgar says. His next legal appeal, and next attempt to get his name off the registry, will be argued at Virginia Supreme Court on January 13th.
Nick Stewart is living out his dream of going to the University of Virginia, and that dream has led to him performing in front of a crowd of 80,000 people. Stewart, 21, of Horsepasture, is a senior at U.Va. He dreamed of attending the Charlottesville university since he was in second grade, but he never imagined what he would experience once he got there, he said. Those experiences all were thanks to the band, he added. Stewart plays trumpet in U.Va.’s marching band.
The Darden School of Business and its entrepreneurship programs are featured in this article.
In the last eight years, the University of Virginia raised about $2.6 billion in private giving. Given the state of the economy, the volatility of the stock market, and the low rates of giving during the past few years, most institutions would trumpet that kind of giving as an outstanding achievement. But for Virginia, the total is still $400 million short of the $3 billion goal the university said it would hit by Dec. 31 when it established the campaign in 2004. ... But unlike other institutions that had some room at the outset, administrators said the the ambition inherent in Virginia's goal...
Two Virginia schools – the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary – made the top four in Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine’s ranking of public colleges that provide "the best value." U.Va. was ranked third and William and Mary fourth.
He graduated from the School of Engineering with a post-graduate degree in 1930. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at The Church of the Epiphany, 8000 Hermitage Road, Richmond, Va. 23228. Interment private.
It’s not easy to parent a quarrelsome teenager. It's mentally exhausting. Unfortunately, talking back to Mom or Dad is part of being a teenager. As challenging as the back talk can be to parents, research from the University of Virginia suggests that it can be reeled in to actually benefit the teen in the long term. ... Psychologist Joseph P. Allen, who led the study, explained, “Parents reacted in a whole variety of ways. Some of them laughed uncomfortably; some rolled their eyes; and a number of them dove right in and said, ‘OK, let’s talk about this.’”
W. Bernard Carlson
A professor of science, technology and society, and a frequent chronicler of Bell
Alexander Graham Bell Dialed Up Huge Progress
Investor's Business Daily / Jan. 3
Jason Downer
A research associate professor of education and school readiness expert
Danville community gets involved in early childhood education
GoDanRiver.com / Jan. 4
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Ackerman Sees Net Picking President Candidate
Bloomberg / Jan. 4
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Iowa caucuses 2012
BBC News / Jan. 3
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Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum deadlock in Iowa
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Robert Siegel talks with Sidney Milkis, author of "Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy," about the U.S. presidential election of 1912 — when there was a viable third party on the ballot: the Bull Moose Party.
...The best of these ecosystems will be cities and towns that combine a university, an educated populace, a dynamic business community and the fastest broadband connections on earth. These will be the job factories of the future. The countries that thrive will be those that build more of these towns that make possible “high-performance knowledge exchange and generation,” explains Blair Levin, who runs the Aspen Institute’s Gig.U project, a consortium of 37 university communities [including U.Va.] working to promote private investment in next-generation ecosystems.
The University of Virginia scores high on a new list ranking the best public college values. UVA comes in third on the list. Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranks the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill first on the list, the University of Florida second and UVA third. Seven Virginia schools made the top 100 list.