An international team of experts including U.Va. architectural historian Bernard Frischer is discovering exactly how the Arch of Titus originally looked in full color, and that could offer exciting clues about the hues of the long-lost objects.
An international scientific announcement is the crowning moment in the career of University of Virginia physics professor Bradley Cox.
UVA rising senior Lauren Perdue will be swimming for the U.S. Olympic team in London in just a few weeks. She was back in Charlottesville Thursday, getting in some training with UVA head coach Mark Bernardino in the Cavaliers' pool at the Aquatic and Fitness Center.
The Bahamas Red Cross Society is attempting to extend its services to the eastern end of Grand Bahama by establishing a satellite center in the area. Three nursing students from the University of Virginia are presently on the island doing the legwork for the organization and assessing the needs of residents out east.
A team from the University of Virginia has played a role in the discovery of a particle they believe holds the key to the origin of the universe. Charles Fishburne talked with Bradley Cox, a U.Va. physicist who was there when assembly began on the Hadron Collider and has led the university's team on site since 2009.
Chris Sanderson
Former Cavalier men's lacrosse standout
Chris Sanderson: A World Class Hero Loses Battle Against Cancer (commentary)
Bleacher Report / July 4
Adam Cristman
Former Cavalier soccer standout
Calling It a Career:
Galaxy Forward Cristman Retires
L.A. Soccer News / July 3
Di and Hac Dang
Engineering grads and online poker experts
Dang Brothers Win Online Poker in Spades
Voice of America / July 3
Sylven Landesberg
Former Cavalier basketball star
Hoops star Landesberg signs with Maccabi Tel Aviv
Times of Israel / July 5
Will Coleman, an alumnus of Woodberry Forest and the University of Virginia, has been named to the United States Olympic Eventing team and will compete in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
George Bloom
Professor of cell biology
Alzheimer's Trigger May Have Been Discovered
Voice of Russia "Capitol Correspondent" (radio interview) / July 4
Martin Davidson
Associate professor of leadership and organizational behavior at the Darden School
Why MBAs, and B-Schools, Need to Embrace Failure
Bloomberg BusinessWeek / July 2
Bernard Frischer
Architectural historian
In Praise of Ruins: What the Fallen Grandeur of Ancient Rome Teaches Us
The New Republic / July 3
Kyle Kondik
Political analyst at U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Repeal Obamacare? The Voters Will Decide
NewsMax / July 3
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There is no question that the Web will change the way people learn. And the increasing cost of a college is public policy problem we desperately need to solve. But the web is simply not about to end higher-ed as we know it.
Helicopter parents, impatient trustees, overworked professors, entitled athletics boosters and deeply partisan lawmakers with little cash to spare. It's enough to make people wonder why anyone would want the job of college president. Sure, the pay is pretty good, and the perks sizable. But when it comes to running the 21st century American university, the men and women in the president's office are increasingly on high alert that their stays at the top could prove short.
The University of Virginia won .646 percent of its intercollegiate athletic contests in 2011-12 to win the 34th annual Virginia Sports Information Director's Association Division I All-Sport championship. This is the Cavaliers 14th overall title, fifth straight and seventh in the last nine years.
Designing the ideal weekly schedule for WTJU is trickier than one might think, considering the task of balancing the station's four departments: folk, rock, jazz, and classical, while maintaining consistent programming from day to day. "One of our goals was to make it less of a patchwork," General Manager Nathan Moore said.
Emails released Monday by the University of Virginia illustrate how Rector Helen E. Dragas and other university officials scrambled to manage negative publicity following the sudden removal of popular President Teresa Sullivan.
Features U.Va. research into a side-effect of some tick bites that causes sufferers to become allergic to mammalian meat.
Virginia's small businesses may suggest an upward trend for the commonwealth's economy, according to a new study. The Tayloe Murphy Center at the University of Virginia works with small businesses in small cities and towns. The program has tracked 147 of these businesses and finds them doing quite well, according to Professor Gregory Fairchild, who heads the program.
If you are a parent, then you are 52 percent less likely to develop a cold than non-parents, according to research by U.Va.'s Ronald B. Turner and colleagues.
U.Va. astronomy professor Scott Ranson, described as "one of the top young radio astronomers in the world," discusses ALMA, a Chilean observatory that the University is partnered with.
Brad Cox, a physics professor at the University of Virginia and member of one of two independent teams that presented evidence of the discovery, gathered with colleagues on Grounds at 3 a.m. to celebrate the discovery of a new subatomic particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson, popularly known as the "God particle," which could help explain why all matter has mass and crack open a new realm of subatomic science.
Why did Jefferson choose three rights instead of, say, twelve? Jefferson was a skilled writer and his famous phrase reflects a rhetorical technique that can be traced to ancient Greece—a figure of speech using three words to express one idea.