Echoing our cover story of last month, Army Captain Damon Armeni wonders how the U.S. military will fare if it and society continue to drift apart. Armeni, now finishing his Masters in foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, served three combat tours in Iraq. He writes, in an article entitled "A Question of Legitimacy," in Small Wars Journal:
by Ronald T. Wilcox, a professor at the Darden School of Business
...Not long ago we studied the patterns of financial success, and the predictors of that success, of students who had graduated from the Darden School about 25 years earlier. ...What predicted financial success? ... Intelligence and success in school were linked in an interesting way to financial success. Individuals who were highly intelligent but did not perform well in the graduate school classroom were among the least likely to be financially successful. ...Likewise, if we observed two very strong students and one stud...
By Brian Balogh, a professor of history
The following paper is in opposition to the resolution, "There's Too Much Government in My Life" debated on "This Week" on Sunday, Dec. 18. ...a quick history quiz reveals that we are debating the wrong question. That is because the common ground that Americans have historically occupied is akin to a traffic circle located at the intersection of government, the market, and civil society. Whether citizens have arrived via State Street, Market Street, or United Way, they have consistently reached their destination safely and swiftly by...
The kids are all right. When Books Behind Bars recently moved its stock to a new storefront, it had its inventory boxed up for moving. But to get back in the game of sending dictionaries and other book to Virginia jails and prisons, it needed help. ...Enter the members of Alpha Phi Omega at the University of Virginia. ...Alpha Phi Omega is a national service fraternity, the Theta Chapter of which is grounded on the Grounds. Members perform more than 2,000 hours of service each semester at the university, in the community and across Central Virginia.
...The University of Virginia National Marriage Project also recently conducted a study on generosity, which revealed that spending time recognizing and thinking about the goodness around us actually rewires us for more happiness, less stress and better health.
...Research being carried out elsewhere using 3-D printing systems has also produced tantalizing results. At the University of Virginia, mechanical and aeronautical engineering professor David Sheffler helped students design a replica Rolls-Royce jet engine made of plastic using a 3-D printer. The students' model engine runs on compressed air instead of jet fuel, but the underlying science is the same. In fact, the replica's turbofan jet runs at the same idle speed as the real engine, according to Popular Mechanics.
...University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett, author of the 2011 book "Convicting the Innocent," reviewed 250 cases of people who were exonerated by DNA evidence. Garrett found that suspects confessed in detail to crimes they didn’t commit in 40 of those cases. None of the interrogations in those cases was recorded in its entirety, Garrett says.
...New research shows that teens like Kimberly who are able to express themselves to their moms are better able to resist peer pressure and say no to drugs and alcohol. The findings appear in Child Development. Researchers interviewed more than 150 teens and their parents about substance use and abuse, daily interactions, and relationships with friends. The teens who were able to hold their own in discussions with their moms particularly about grades, money, rules, and friends were better prepared to stand up to their peers, the study showed. “Parents who can have the right kind of discu...
In November, a student team led by Professor Anne Coughlin of the University of Virginia Law School announced that they are going to challenge the combat exclusion policies of the military. Dubbed the Molly Pitcher Project, the objective is to “educate the public, the courts, whoever necessary that women have been engaged in protecting the homeland in combat roles for a very long time…”
...when Poets and Quants sought to select its first Dean of the Year honor, there was no shortage of worthy candidates. ...But it was the understated Robert Bruner who rose to the top of the list. Why? As the chairman of a task force on the globalization of management, he brought much clarity and focus to one of the most pressing issues facing business schools today. ... Bruner has dramatically rebuilt the base of Darden's applicants so that there are now eight applicants for each available seat. He restored the hiring of top faculty, having brought aboard more than one in four of the school&r...
Rakesh Chawla
Mississippi native who graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce and the Wharton School
Albemarle family of 4, U.Va. grad killed in plane crash
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Dec. 20
"Many of his colleagues that worked with him at Greenhill and many of his fellow alums are obviously very distraught and upset by what's happened," said Dean Carl Zeithaml of the U.Va. McIntire School of Commerce.
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Greenhill Says 2 Executives Died in Plane Crash
New York Times / Dec. 20
Virginia athletics director Craig Littlepage announced Tuesday (Dec. 20) that Bryan Fetzer, the top assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Harvard the past two years, has been named the Cavaliers’ director of track and field/cross country.
Ronald G. Dimberg
Associate professor, Corcoran Department of History
Kim Jong Il is Dead--What Next?
Human Events / Dec. 20
Vigen Guroian
Professor of religious studies
Armenian women still have average of 8 and as high as 20 abortions in lifetime
LifeSiteNews / Dec. 20
Jody Kielbasa
Executive director of the Virginia Film Festival
Jody Kielbasa
Charlottesville Right Now / Dec. 20
Kyle Kondik
Political analyst, Center for Politics
Democrats line up to challenge Republican Rep. Farenthold, Democratic incumbent Hinojosa
Houston Chronicle / Dec. 20
Dr. Scott Sanoff
Assistant professor...
For the first time, a website is being launched to measure hidden attitudes and associations related to mental health, while informing visitors of their own attitudes toward the mentally ill. The website is being created by Project Implicit Mental Health, a research project for behavioral sciences spearheaded by faculty from Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington. Bethany Teachman is the principal investigator of the site and an associate professor of psychology in UVa’s College of Arts & Sciences.
Colvin Wang
Second-year student
High school students GIVE through tutoring
Fairfax Times / Dec. 20
University of Virginia sophomore Colvin Wang, 19, was at Sunday's tutoring session in Annandale. Wang was among the Thomas Jefferson students to start the group Study Buddies, which eventually became GIVE.
Together, the top eight public universities (arguably, Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, the College of William and Mary, Georgia Tech and either UC San Diego or Davis) educate many times more students than the eight members of the Ivy League.