It's possible that law school students studying academic freedom will one day open their textbooks and find a picture of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. That probably wasn't the outcome he had in mind when he served a civil investigative demand, similar to a subpoena, on the University of Virginia, seeking thousands of documents and e-mails related to Michael Mann, a climate scientist who served on the faculty before taking a post at Penn State. But U.Va. attorneys seem determined to make the best of an irritating situation by turning it into a landmark constitutional case. ...
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Virginia will hold a daylong discussion about violence, violence prevention and campus safety in September. President Teresa A. Sullivan says the beginning of a new academic year is an opportunity to continue a discussion that began following the slaying of U.Va. lacrosse player Yeardley Love ...
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan on Thursday ordered "a thorough review" of the management of the school's acclaimed literary journal, following the suicide of a top editor last month. ...
Jason Freeman
Associate professor of neuropsychology
Universities turn to Wii Fit as way of examining concussions
Washington Post / Aug. 19
Seung-Hun Lee
A physicist
South Korean Probe Unlikely to Settle Dispute over Warship Sinking
TIME / Aug. 18
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Old news: Media organizations make political donations
NPR's Marketplace / Aug. 18
Isaac Wood
A political analyst for the Center for Politics
Perriello calls out Hurt in new ad
Danville Register & Bee (Va.) / Aug. 18
The Daily Telegraph brings welcome news — "Old age begins at 27 as mental powers start to decline, scientists find." It seems that the University of Virginia conducted mental acuity tests on 2,000 adults over the course of seven years. The results: Your steel-trap brain is at its best around the age of 22. By the time 27 rolls around, you've already begun to depreciate.
... According to The National Marriage Project based out of the University of Virginia, not only has the overall American marriage rate declined from 76.5 to 37.4 marriages per 1,000 unmarried women over the past four decades, there is a direct correlation between high unemployment and low marriage rates.
Thirteen of Cincinnati’s 16 low-performing “Elementary Initiative” schools have made significant academic progress, the district announced Monday. The Elementary Initiative, which was launched at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, called for a variety of interventions and supports for the district’s lowest performing schools, such as additional summer programs. The following school year, the district invested in turnaround training for its principals through the University of Virginia’s School Turnaround Specialist Program.
... Adams described that epiphany (albeit in the third person) in The Autobiography of Henry Adams, chosen by the Modern Library as the best nonfiction book of the 20th century. You can read the chapter entitled “Chicago (1893)” at the University of Virginia’s website.
Four groups have filed a legal brief in support of the University of Virginia's challenge to Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II's request for documents in a fraud investigation of a prominent climate researcher, Michael E. Mann, a former UVa professor.
... AU welcomed a 1,500-student freshman class last weekend with red, white and blue balloons, one of the first universities in the region to open for the fall term. ... Move-in day arrives this week at the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia, ... more than 90 percent of incoming freshmen at U-Va. ranked in the top 10 percent of their class, for the first time.
... "He has grown two inches in the last six months, so he's now eight-foot-four," said Dr. Jason Sheehan, an associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Virginia. Sheehan will perform a procedure on Kosen today that he says will stop him from growing any taller. The procedure, gamma knife radiosurgery, involves directing thin beams of radiation at Kosen's tumor. ... Guinness World Records paid for his travel expenses, and the University of Virginia is doing the procedure for free.
University of Virginia officials are hoping that a new hospital will allow them to tap into a specialized market. The new Transition Care Hospital is taking its first steps at Northridge, on U.S. 250 west of Charlottesville. ... The center is aimed at patients who will be in the hospital for at least 25 days.
Virginia College sounds like something your grandmother might say. Not Virginia Wesleyan College. Not Virginia State. Not the University of Virginia. Just Virginia College. Scroll through a list of the commonwealth's institutions of higher learning, and Virginia College is missing. That's because you're looking in the wrong place. ...
Dr. John Susac ... will appear on "Mystery Diagnosis" at 10 p.m. Monday, on the Discovery Health Channel. ... "Dr. Tiedeman at the University of Virginia called me about a young woman who he thought had this disease. She came down and saw me and she did have the Susac's Syndrome. There are two cases in Virginia right now. This was a case that went on for a long time. She saw many doctors, before coming down here in the spring," he said. ... The Virginia patient who Susac treated, and will be appearing with him on the "Mystery Diagnosis" show, is reportedly doing w...
Dr. Steven T. DeKosky
School of Medicine Dean
Lilly Stops Alzheimer's Drug Trials
New York Times / Aug. 17
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics and associate dean, graduate academic program
Wyclef Jean 'in hiding' after death threats over Haiti presidency bid
The Guardian.com / Aug. 18
Deborah Roach
Associate professor of biology
Cloning Has Terrible Trade-Offs: Self-cloning aspens may seem to have the secret to immortal life, but research shows cloning has its limits.
Discovery News / Aug. 18
Larry Sabato
Professor and director of Center for Politics
Behind emotional, exp...
A sizable crowd was in attendance for the spring meeting of the Albemarle County Historical Society on the evening of May 6, 1943.
Many of the people who crowded into the Albemarle County Courthouse were there to elect University of Virginia English professor Atcheson L. Hench - unanimously - to the position of president of the society.
But for many in the audience, the highlight of the evening involved the remembrances of an elderly man who recalled Charlottesville as it had been during the final two decades of the 19th century. When all the electing and procedural housekeeping had been taken...
It's still more than two months away, but organizers of the Virginia Film Festival have started the buzz-- sharing news of the first celebrity to attend in 2010. WVTF's Sandy Hausman was on hand for the big announcement in Charlottesville.
Since 1992, the local and family-owned Quail Cove Farms Inc. has strongly held its commitment to providing natural and organic food products to customers, despite having faced financial setbacks and a slow developing market along the way. ... As a result of the success, the business has been named as a finalist in this year's Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award, sponsored by the Tayloe Murphy Center at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.