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Virginia is for Superstars When the Olympic field hockey competition begins later this week, there will be no question Paige Selenski is representing her country. ... But there\'s one other entity she\'ll be representing on the playing fields of London - the University of Virginia, where she\'s been a collegiate star since 2008. Selenski and teammate Michelle Vittese are the first field hockey Olympians in school history, and they\'re thrilled to be sharing an international adventure together. Citizens Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. | July 24 Anne Sun An economics major Anne in the fashion closet ...

Richard J. Bonnie A Law School professor and expert in the fields of criminal law and procedure, mental health and drug law, public health law and bioethics Supreme Court May Consider Constitutionality of Insanity Plea The New American | July 23  Skip Burzumato Assistant director of the National Marriage Project With fewer wedding bells ringing, marriage in America has evolved Sacramento Bee | July 24 Dewey Cornell A forensic clinical psychologist and an expert on youth violence How can we prevent mass killings like Aurora? Huffington Post | July 24 and Beyond gun control: Some say mass kill...

Five Virginia hospital systems have joined a national effort that aims to get mothers of newborns to breastfeed. The University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University health systems, along with Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Inova Loudoun Hospital in Leesburg and Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg are among 90 hospitals nationwide that are participating in Best Fed Beginnings, a national program that involves hospital health care employees encouraging breastfeeding in new mothers.

By Suzie McCarthy, a politics graduate student who is studying the impact of social media on political movements and was an organizing force behind the efforts to reinstate President Sullivan. ... While I believe that U-Va. is an exceptional university with an exceptional community of honor, our accomplishment need not be exceptional. Our movement demonstrates the power of social media when used in conjunction with traditional media. We successfully created a peaceful movement to mobilize students, alumni, friends, and family around the world in a way that would have been a pipe dream just a f...

Charlottesville radio station WTJU 91.1 FM is making some changes to its program. The radio station put into effect a new programming schedule last Monday. ... "[We are] trying to see ourselves not just as a radio station but as a community media center that's sort of a community organizing center; a community resource that also runs a radio station," said Nathan Moore, WTJU 91.1 General Manager.

A dozen major research universities, including Georgia Tech, Princeton, Duke, Johns Hopkins and the University of Virginia, announced plans last week to offer 100 free online courses that will enable millions worldwide to take the same classes as students at elite U.S. campuses. The announcement by Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford professors, represents a giant leap forward in the expanding inventory of what has become known as MOOCs — massive open online courses.

The Charlottesville Community Health Fair will take place Saturday at Washington Park. Several free health screenings will be offered. Dr. Marcus Martin of UVA says young athletes can also get a free sports physical. Pre-registration is required by calling 243-4311. There's also a pre-registration requirement for mammograms. That number to call is 243-4704. U.Va. is co-sponsoring the event.

By Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies and law and is the author of "The Googlization of Everything" Some important things happened today at Pennsylvania State University. A nurse treated a broken bone at the medical campus in Hershey. A student learned how to use differential equations in a classroom in Erie. In the Paterno Library, the center of the University Park campus in State College, a librarian helped a student do research for a history paper. Meanwhile, over in Indianapolis, NCAA President Mark Emmert announced punitive measures against Penn State’s football program ... ...

The Rare Book School at the University of Virginia brings some 300 librarians, conservators, scholars, dealers, collectors and random book-lovers together for weeklong intensive courses in an atmosphere that is an intense seminar on the book that attracts many who return year after year. The program brings an understanding of the materiality of the book back into literary studies is something that Michael Suarez, an Oxford-trained specialist in 18th-century British literature and a Jesuit priest who took over as the school’s director in 2009, speaks of with an almost missionary zeal.

...The problem is corporatization. Not only trustees, but also politicians and administrators have bought into the current ideological assumption that higher education may once again thrive if it only becomes more business-like.

Within moments of the first bursts of gunfire inside a suburban Denver movie theatre, the Reddit community was buzzing. ...Part community bulletin board, part worldwide crowd-driven info-machine, Reddit is a kind of Facebook or Twitter for news geeks. Unlike those popular social-media platforms, Reddit users eschew closed lists of "friends" or "followers" and post links, comments and news bits that are available to everyone in real time. As a result, Reddit can turn citizens into instant journalists... Reddit, headquartered in San Francisco, was founded in 2005 by two University of Virginia cl...

Richard Bonnie Law professor Supreme Court is asked to find that insanity defense is a constitutional right Washington Post / July 22 James W. Ceaser professor of politics A Letter from the Beach The Weekly Standard / July 21 Terry Rephann A regional economist at the  Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service Chronic unemployment: What is ahead? Martinsville Bulletin / July 22 Larry Sabato Director of the Center for Politics Obama says he could be "the first president in modern history to be outspent" PolitiFact / July 20 and Senate Dems breathing easier about elections Washington Examiner /...

By Raul O. Chao, assistant professor at the Darden School of Business. The big idea: A top-down research and development portfolio strategy can ensure that R&D projects implement your corporate strategy.

By W. Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project ... The retreat from marriage in America, a retreat that Roiphe seems keen to defend, has led to 'diverging destinies' for children from less-educated and college-educated homes. Children from poor and working-class homes are now doubly disadvantaged by their parents' economic meager resources and by the fact that their parents often break up. By contrast, children from more-educated and affluent homes are doubly advantaged by their parents' substantial economic resources and by the fact that their ...

... Scientists from the University of Virginia observed and made audio and video recordings of 150 13-year-olds arguing with their mothers. They then quizzed the teenagers three years later about their lives and experiences with drugs and alcohol. Teenagers who displayed confidence and used reason to back up their statements in the arguments were more likely to have refused both, the researchers found.

Redóitís the color of arousal, aggression, and...higher eBay bids? According to a new study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, the answer is yes. eBay items with a red background were found to receive higher bids, but the color had the opposite effect on negotiation-based sales, influencing consumers to make lower offers. ... Researchers Rajesh Bagchi of Virginia Tech and Amar Cheema of the University of Virginia then came up with three studies to test the effect of color on willingness-to-pay.

For this week's UVa Today Michelle Rupp spoke with Janet Turner-Giles about the University of Virginia's Super Temp Program.

Coursera, a startup built around the global classroom business model, announced new partnerships with an additional 12 universities, bringing the total to 16 major universities now offering in free, online courses. The larger span of universities now on board brings a range of information technology courses, from the fundamentals of algorthms to machine learning and security.