Jeffrey W. Legro
Professor of Politics
Multi-alignment the way forward: Legro
The Hindu / Mar. 8
Barbara Perry
A senior fellow and associate professor at the Miller Center
Obama tested by events outside his control
Associated Press / Mar. 13
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Candidates weigh family's privacy vs. political gain in campaigns
The Hill / Mar. 12
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Virginia's Anti-Abortion Debacle
Southern Political Report / Mar. 13
Brad Wilcox
Director of the National Marriage Project at U.Va. and author of "Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christiani...
...Sometime last year, while flat tax was the topic of discussion in several parts of the world, including the US, a study of 54 different countries by Shigehiro Oishi, a psychologist attached to the University of Virginia, found a direct co-relation between progressive tax policies and overall happiness.
By Eric Stern, co-chairman of the Critical Incident Analysis Group at U.Va., Gregory Saathoff, executive director of CIAG, and Brad Kieserman
... In a unique collaboration launched in September 2010, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Virginia worked closely with senior leaders and lawyers from FEMA to explore effective, and less effective, forms of collaboration between leaders and lawyers in crises. We called this initiative Advice in Crisis (AIC). Following more than 60 AIC interviews and numerous group discussions, a number of key findings emerged ...
... For three years, a pilot program tracked the reading ability of approximately 1,000 students at 20 New York City schools, following them from kindergarten through second grade. Half of the schools adopted a curriculum designed by the education theorist [and professor emeritus of education] E. D. Hirsch Jr.’s Core Knowledge Foundation. The other 10 used a variety of methods, but most fell under the definition of “balanced literacy”... The study found that second graders who were taught to read using the Core Knowledge program scored significantly higher on reading comprehe...
...SpermCheck Fertility promises to spot potential problems with male fertility in just about 10 minutes, potentially avoiding unneeded visits by women to the gynecologist or obstetrician, according to its owner and distributor, ContraVac Inc., a biotechnology start-up in Charlottesville, Va. The company says it offers men the same kind of quick test women have access to with pregnancy or ovulation tests. "There\'s now some gender equality on the family planning shelf," said John C. Herr, a University of Virginia cell biology professor who came up with the product\'s concept and help...
The Lunafest, hosted by the University of Virginia's School of Nursing, featured movies made by women and focused on women's topics. ...
No budget on the state level means big questions for how much money the University of Virginia will have to work with next year. The university is not letting that stop top administrators from moving forward with developing their budget.
For the first time in three years, there was some movement at the very top of the U.S. News Best Law Schools rankings. ... Along with Yale, Stanford, and Harvard, 11 institutions that historically claim the top spots in the U.S. News rankings are known as the top 14 (T14)... Some T14 schools shuffled: The University of California—Berkeley School of Law and the University of Virginia School of Law both moved up two spots to tie with the University of Pennsylvania Law School for 7th...
... For three years, a pilot program tracked the reading ability of approximately 1,000 students at 20 New York City schools, following them from kindergarten through second grade. Half of the schools adopted a curriculum designed by the education theorist [and professor emeritus of education] E. D. Hirsch Jr.’s Core Knowledge Foundation. The other 10 used a variety of methods, but most fell under the definition of “balanced literacy”... The study found that second graders who were taught to read using the Core Knowledge program scored significantly higher on reading comprehe...
... [Bennett Barbour's] lawyers at the University of Virginia’s Innocence Project filed paperwork last week to have the state formally declare him innocent. The trouble is that Barbour is one of only a handful who have enjoyed this vindication. ... University of Virginia law school professor Brandon Garrett (who has contributed to Slate) is an expert on wrongful convictions and DNA exoneration. His landmark study, Convicting the Innocent, scrutinized the cases of the first 250 people to be exonerated nation-wide by DNA testing. ... As he discovered in his own research, Barbour’s co...
Thanks to the ministrations of doctors at the University of Virginia, the tallest man in the world has stopped growing. “He’s done very, very well, fortunately,” said Dr. Jason Sheehan, a UVa brain surgeon who treated Sultan Kosen, the world record holder for height.
The University of Virginia made the NCAA men's basketball tournament as a No. 10 seed, and will open the tournament Friday against Florida.
... Founded in 2005 by University of Virginia graduates [Alexis] Ohanian and Steve Huffman, Reddit went from a list of submitted links to a purchase/spinoff by Condé Nast. Alexa, a Web information firm, ranks it as the No. 50 most popular website in the U.S.
... When the bell at Greenbrier [Elementary] rings, the children run from the school, along the Rivanna Trail, all the way to the Hearthwood center. ... The run is led by Thomas Connaughton, a teacher who is also an avid trail runner. University of Virginia cross country runners volunteer to help lead the groups of children on their treks.