Daniel McDowell
Doctoral Student International
Gregory Fairchild
Professor Darden School of Business
PDCCC looking for student success stories
Tidewater News / April 29
Terry Rephann
Professor of Economics
Rising gas prices are hurting consumers and businesses
Richmond Times Dispatch / April 29
Larry Sabato
Director of Center for Politics
Unions Refocus Energy on State Campaigns
New American / April 28
Jerry Stenger
Climatologist
Storm punctures tranquil Swoope
The News Virginian / April 29
Patrick Tolan
Director Youth-Nex
Letting teen drink under parent's watch backfires
MSNBC / April 29
Brad Wilcox
Di...
by Nana Last, associate professor of architecture
Last reviewed Hunter’s video art work on exhibit in Houston, Texas.
Researchers from the University of Washington, University of Virginia and Temple University have recently shown that students suffer academic and behavioral problems when they work more than 20 hours a week.
According to Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor, the Supreme Court shifted the definition of religious freedom after 1990, with the Oregon Employment Division v. Smith case, in which a drug rehabilitation organization fired two employees for ingesting peyote as part of their Native American Church ritual.
According to the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project’s latest report, if you make over $50,000 annually, haven’t had children or gotten pregnant before marriage, if your parents are still together, and if you go to church, your chances of a successful marriage are significantly better. Even having just one of these qualities will lower the chances of divorce.
The room reportedly inhabited by Edgar Allan Poe when he was a student at the University of Virginia is getting a makeover, thanks to a $15,000 grant won by the Raven Society, the group created over 100 years ago to celebrate the author's time at UVA .
Students at the University of Virginia join young people at the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center to study Russian literature. Russia offers a rich literary tradition. Its novelists, poets and playwrights address issues that individuals in confinement often confront — or should.
Scientists helped resolve longstanding controversies about the effect of platinum cluster size on some emissions-reducing reactions in automobile catalysts.
Dr. Hui Li, assistant professor of pathology at the UVa Cancer Center , was one of 13 scientists nationwide to receive a Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) innovative research grant.
James J. Coleman
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
UIUC’s Coleman receives SPIE Technology Achievement Award
Semiconductor Today /April 27
Rita Dove
Professor Creative Writing
Writers' conference returns for 10th year: Early registration ends Friday
HomerNews.com / April 27
Jonathan Haidt
Professor of Social Psychology
Liberalism's Bumper Sticker Problem
The Republic / April 28
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Super Deep Thinker Obama To Release Birth Certificate Today (Now Released)
Stop the ACLU / April 27
James Davison Hunter
Professor of Sociology
The war between the whites
Press D...
The recording and transcript – included in the new volumes of L.B.J. tapes published by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs – are further evidence that nothing much ever really changes in Washington. In the conversation, the president notes sourly that the word from Capitol Hill is that all Republicans are going to oppose the debt limit request.
In the new study, the Wisconsin researchers, collaborating with groups from the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis., focused their attention on Peter and Paul lakes, two isolated and undeveloped lakes in northern Wisconsin. Peter is a six-acre lake whose biota were manipulated for the study and nearby Paul served as a control.
Cincinnati Public Schools is working on several initiatives to improve the success rate of its more than 33,000 students. It poured federal stimulus dollars into its 16 worst-performing elementary schools for tutoring, teacher training and a Fifth Quarter summer program. It partnered with the University of Virginia to train teachers to use data to help students improve their test scores.
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) has announced details of a major project with the University of Virginia Centre for Public Health Genomics. In a groundbreaking study, Professor Stephen Rich, Director of the centre, will utilise OGT’s Genefficiency™ aCGH microarray screening service to investigate the relationship between genome structural variation and susceptibility to type 1 (T1) diabetes.
U.S. Senator Alan Simpson spoke Wednesday at a forum on the debt sponsored by the Center for Politics. In Simpson’s view, neither party is taking the nation’s fiscal challenges particularly seriously, as both seem more interested in scoring political points against the other than they are in finding practical solutions.
An honor society that bears the name of one of Edgar Allan Poe's major works is planning to renovate the room where the renowned poet and mystery writer lived during his short stint as a student at the University of Virginia. The Raven Society won a $15,500 grant from an endowment established by the U.Va. Alumni Association to refurbish Poe's room at 13 West Range.
George Cohen
Law professor
Lawyers question firm's decision to ditch gay marriage case
Atlanta Journal Constitution / April 27
Saras Sarasvathy
Darden professor
Do entrepreneurs think differently?
Chartered Management Institute / April 26
Rick Webb
Environmental Sciences senior research scientist
Off Shore Wind Farm Leasing Could Begin This Year
Leesburg Today / April 26
David E. Patton
Law alumnus
David E. Patton Named Federal Public Defender
New York Times (blog) / April 26
Samantha Parent Walravens
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumna (Literature & Women's Studies)
New Book Tells REAL Stories of Motherhood, Career & Work-Life Balance
The Sacramento Bee / April 26
... Seeking a template to understand the enigmatic president, I consulted three leading academics in the fields of psychology and behavior. With their help, I put Obama on the couch and came away with a reasonably coherent diagnosis: There’s too much going on in the poor guy’s head.
“What distinguishes Obama particularly is the depth and carefulness of his thinking, which renders him somewhat unfit for politics,” said Jonathan Haidt, a professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia. “He is a brilliant social and political analyst, which makes it hard...