Christopher S. ‘Kit’ Bond
Law, 1960
Christopher S. "Kit" Bond, U.S. Senator for Missouri Receives Missouri Botanical Garden Award
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor / Aug. 24
Susan Gregg Gilmore
Undergraduate alumna
Book Review: The Improper Life Of Bezellia Grove (by Gilmore)
Basil & Spice.com / Aug. 23
Raymond Weeden
Curry School
With limited training, Teach for America recruits play expanding role in schools
The Washington Post / Aug. 23
Rich Collins
Lawrence Lewis Jr. Professor Emeritus and Founder, Institute for Environmental Negotiation
Water Demand Study Called Flawed
WINA 1070 AM / Aug. 24
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Opponents say review of water supply demand failed to account for conservation
Charlottesville Tomorrow / Aug. 24
Bankole Johnson
Chairman of psychiatric medicine
Economics of addiction and health reform
Smart Planet.com / Aug. 23
Kelli Pugh
Associate athletic trainer
CNN Health Minute: Athletic Trainers (video)
CNN.com / Aug. 23
Larry Sabato
Professor and director of the Center for Politics
Primary Day: John McCain looks safe; ...
... "Jefferson," a two-hour special that premieres at 8 tonight on the History Channel ... is more like a documentary that includes re-enactments of important events in his life. ... Virginians, who may feel they know all there is to know about the third president, will find new and interesting tidbits about him in "Jefferson." ...
... Yesterday, a 60-mile traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet expressway entered its ninth day, with some estimating the delays could stretch into the middle of next month ... an interesting paper from a few years back by IMF and University of Virginia academics has some interesting insights into what works and what doesn’t in terms of possible government intervention ... According to the paper on mass car ownership in emerging markets, penned by Marcos Chamon, Paolo Mauro, and Yohei Okawa (graduate A&S economics): ‘An increase in fuel taxes would seem a promising avenue to stem the in...
... Some new programs and classes available at DCC (Danville Community College) this year include an online associate degree program in e-commerce/marketing, an associate of science in engineering transfer degree through a partnership with the University of Virginia, new allied health programs, nanotechnology courses and new career study certificates in product design and development and polymer/plastics processing ...
The 2011 legislative session is still more than four months away but Virginia lawmakers are already preparing their bills. That includes a list of changes related to Virginia's protective order laws designed to extend domestic violence protections to more people. The General Assembly has been studying the issue of what is commonly called "restraining orders" for several years. But legislators stepped up their efforts in the wake of this year's violence at the University of Virginia ...
A ruling is expected within a week on a demand by Virginia’s attorney general that the University of Virginia release the research records of a well-known climate change researcher. ...
By Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology
Last week I criticized the Los Angeles Times for publishing a story that labeled teachers as “highly effective” or “poorest-performing” solely on the basis of a value-added model of student test scores. I mentioned that the reliability and validity of value-added models is controversial. Setting aside for a moment the need for a reliable and valid measure, what other considerations ought to come into play when thinking about teacher evaluation? ... First, an evaluation system ought to be motivated by one’s goals for sc...
By Religious Studies professors Paul Dafydd Jones and Charles Mathewes
... What we are proposing, then, is for President Obama to tell us about his religious identity, and to do so in ways that befit his office. Despite the degraded condition of our public debate about religion, he has the opportunity to give voice to our collective desire to speak more openly, and more honestly, about the faiths that make us who we are—and thus to make out of those many faiths one nation.
"UVA is an outstanding public university, perhaps the best public university in the nation."
Karin Look
Law School alumna
Doug Ford
Director, Immigration Law Clinic, Law School
5th candidates' views on 'anchor babies'
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Aug. 21
Larry Sabato
Professor and director of the Center for Politics
'Tea party' struggles on Democrats' turf
Washington Times / Aug. 22
Ariell Reshef
Assistant professor of economics
Number of the Week: Bankers Keep Getting Richer
The Wall Street Journal (Real Time Economics blog) / Aug. 21
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Professor of religious studies
Muslim school in Berkeley starts down ambitious road
Isaac Wood
Communications director, Center for Politics
5th Distric...
... Though he has one more year of high school remaining, [Denny] McCarthy already has accepted a scholarship offer to play for the University of Virginia. He insists he will play four years of college golf, then take whatever comes next. ...
... The Arizona case is not the only dispute in the news about state officials seeking access to private records of university researchers. The University of Virginia -- backed by the American Association of University Professors and other academic and civil liberties groups -- is trying to block a demand from Virginia's attorney general for information about a former professor who conducted climate change research. A judge in that case said Friday he would rule on the university's attempt to block the request within 10 days, The Washington Post reported.
... In a separate report, terrorism experts at George Washington University and the University of Virginia said: "In the absence of qualified Muslim religious services providers, inmates can become attracted to radical views and the politico-religious messages coming from other inmates." ...
The University of Virginia Art Museum held a festival dedicated to African culture Saturday, in celebration of their new exhibit "Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens." ...
... Phillips's three older sons are all Division I football players and Georgetown Preparatory School graduates. Colter is a sophomore at the University of Virginia, and Paul is a freshman at Indiana University. The schedules for the three college teams were included in the back of the funeral program with a message from the family encouraging people to attend their games. ...
The University of Virginia's South Lawn project is complete, just in time for the new school year.
Crews are getting ready to start some major utility work that will close lanes of traffic around Charlottesville and the University of Virginia Grounds this week.
The younger son of Tim Kaine and Anne Bright Holton is now a resident of the Grounds. Woody Kaine ... and his father, Virginia's 70th Governor ... stood outside Old Cabell Hall following welcoming remarks from UVA President Teresa Sullivan.