Minority students have a chance to conduct research during a summer program on the UVA Grounds. An effort called the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance is hosting its first Summer Research Program. Rising second-year and third-year college students from under-represented minorities are at UVA for eight weeks. The Virginia-North Carolina Alliance is dedicated to increasing the number of minority students who earn doctorate degrees and become professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Anne Beattie
Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Creative Writing
A Reliving of a Time of Fame
New York Times | June 7
Larry Sabato
Director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Anti-incumbent mood as 11 states pick candidates
Reuters | June 7
and
Incumbents Fight for Political Life, Newcomers Eyeing Victory in Tuesday Elections
Fox News | June 7
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Outsiders strive for upsets in US primaries
Financial Times | June 7
Doctor Jason Sheehan
Associate professor of neurological surgery
UVA Patient Gives Back With The Gift Of Music
WVIR- NBC-29 | June 7
C. Alphonso Smith
Taught at U.Va. during the early part...
Vinegar Hill will host a screening of Samson and Delilah: True Love tonight, a film about two aboriginal teenagers who steal a car to escape the isolated life of an Australian village—and all of its trappings, like boredom and rampant gasoline huffing. It won last year's Camera d'Or (that's the Golden Camera to you) at last year's Cannes Film Festival and boasts an all-too-impressive 100% on Rottentomatoes.com Tomatometer. In all, an excellent chance to put a real-time face to the work we've enjoyed at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.
Voters in ten states across the nation from Virginia to California go to the polls in primaries on Tuesday, but the real war worth watching will be in the west. ... This far out, however, it looks like they'll fall short of those goals. Republicans will pick up 32 House seats and seven in the Senate, according to the latest projections by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Jeff Sturek, Ph.D., from the University of Virginia, was lead author on the paper and Dr. Hedrick, who was a faculty member at the University of Virginia before joining the La Jolla Institute in late 2009, was senior author.
Baseball will be played this weekend at Davenport Field. The Cavaliers held off third-seeded St. John’s 5-3 in front of a sold-out crowd of 4,801. Next they will host Oklahoma next weekend in the NCAA Super Regional.
Want to get deep into the question of who lived around here in TJ’s time? Start digging.
Archaeology related to the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and William Short may shed light on a relatively unknown class of people. Artifacts from tenant farmers were found at Morven, the farm donated by philanthropist John Kluge to the UVA Foundation in 2001.
Dr. James Turner
Drector of student health
Just as he was delivering his opening speech to the annual meeting of the American College Health Association [in Philadelphia] last Wednesday, Jim Turner, the group’s president, got word that he was wanted at the White House that afternoon.
Lee Robertson
Who swam in the 2008 Olympic trials and for the University of Virginia
A 1950 graduate of U'VA.'s Medical School and co-founder of the Medical Family Practice Unit at the Health System.
In the early 1950's he became the Director of Personnel for the University of Virginia. He held that position until 1969.
In a presentation Thursday at the American College Health Association’s annual meeting, Edward P. Ehlinger, director and chief health officer of Boynton Health Service at the University of Minnesota, took aim at campus-based projects intended to cut down on binge and underage drinking.
Larry Sabato
Director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics
The Politics of the Oil Spill
CBS News | June 5
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Obama fails to shake off critics
Financial Times | June 5
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Factbox: Key political risks to watch in U.S. oil spill
Reuters | June 5, 2010
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GOP seeks fiscal edge
Albany Times Union | June 7
Sure, after this, the irrepressible St. John's baseball team very well could be in the heads of the illustrious one from the University of Virginia. ... "We can't press," U.Va. coach Brian O'Connor said after the fifth-seeded Cavs, with their stunning 6-5 loss, squandered their first chance to advance to the NCAA tournament's next stage. The second and last shot comes tonight, once more at their own Davenport Field.
Instead, the Red Storm of St. John's University touched down, and the thunderous bat of freshman Jeremy Baltz ruined a perfectly nice weekend for the Cavaliers. Now, what looked to be a done deal for Virginia suddenly has morphed into a single-game season. Virginia and St. John's will play the final game tonight in this regional of the NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The winner advances to the super regional. The loser has to be happy saying, "Well, we had a super season, except for that last game."
Half of all divorces take place in the first eight years of marriage, according to the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
Several dozen colleges have financial aid policies that meet the full demonstrated need of some or all students, including Georgetown, the University of Richmond and Washington and Lee University in the mid-Atlantic region, as well as the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia and William and Mary.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors increased tuition for in-state students by 9.9 percent, or $956, for next year, bringing the annual total to $10,628. Tuition for out-of-state students will increase by about 5 percent to $33,574.