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Ed Moses Alumnus who was an undergraduate when he trained for the 2000 Summer Games London 2012: Ed Moses wants to make U.S. swim team, recapture glory of 2000 Games December 13 / Washington Post

Ashleigh Elser Graduate student in Graduate School of Arts & Sciences religious studies department The Facebook Problem December 14 / International Business Times

Robert Bruner Dean of the Darden School of Business HBS Preps 900 MBAs For A Massive Global Invasion Poets & Quants / December 15 Theodore Caplow Sociology professor, retired The Behavioral Economist's Guide to Buying Presents The Atlantic / December 14 Daniel Duke Professor in the Curry School of Education Fairfax officials use school's success to support return to shorter hours Washington Post / December 14 Kyle Kondik Political analyst at U.Va.'s Center for Politics Analyst: Cuccinelli lead in GOP race no surprise Augusta Free Press / December 14 and Perry needs strong showing in Repub...

Thanks to a unique partnership with University of Virginia student researchers, the proof is in this natural drain is paying off.

In recent years, some wealthy private universities, including Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, have increased aid to middle- and upper-middle income families and replaced loans with grants. Among public schools, the University of Virginia in 2005 began capping the total amount a student could borrow and promised grants for any remaining need, even for some eligible households in the $100,000-income range, officials said.

An international team of scientists yesterday, circulated the first beam of protons at nearly the speed of light around the 17-mile Hadron Collider, and in so doing, may have uncovered hints about the existence of mass in the universe. Charles Fishburne talked with team member and UVA Physics Professor Bradley Cox.

Students in University of Virginia professor Nisha Botchwey's Neighborhood Planning Workshop began to get third- and fourth-graders from Johnson Elementary School to think about urban planning and design principles.

University of Virginia officials are getting ready to comb through Gov. Bob McDonnell's latest proposal for higher education, budget plans that call for an additional $200 million for the sector over two years.

Maurice Jones Law alumnus Senate panel backs Pilot publisher for HUD post Newport News Daily Press / Nov. 14 Greg Menke Alumnus Medical Automation Systems sold to Alere Inc. Virginia Business / Dec. 14

Margaret Upton Certified family nurse practitioner The Nurse Practitioner WMRA Virginia Insight / Dec. 14 Mitchell Green Philosophy professor Why Asking Questions Might Not Be the Best Way to Teach Time magazine / Dec. 14 Dr. Steven DeKosky Dean, School of Medicine Good money, suspect medicine The Rebublic / Dec. 14 Larry Sabato Politics professor and director of U.Va..'s Center for Politics Optimism returns to Obama campaign as Republican race takes shape The Guardian / Dec. 13

"There’s been a retreat from marriage going on for awhile now," says Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.

ABC News’ “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” and the Miller Center at the University of Virginia are partnering for “The Great American Debates,” a series of debates on the key issues of the 2012 presidential campaign.

A Charlottesville company, Medical Automation Systems, has been bought by a Massachusetts-based health care technology company. MAS is one of an increasing number of biomedical companies created, researched, financed and grown in Central Virginia, as an offshoot of research and development being conducted at UVa. About 15 percent of Virginia’s biomedical/technology companies are in the Charlottesville area and the segment of the region’s economy is slowly growing to become an important community asset, area officials say.

Some University of Virginia fans got to Bryant Hall at 6:30 a.m. Monday to make sure they would be able to get their hands on tickets to watch the Cavaliers play in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.

The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has partnered with ABC News to hold a series of debates focused on key issues of the 2012 presidential campaign, officials announced Tuesday.

A team of scientists that includes a group from the University of Virginia may have seen a glimpse of a subatomic particle that, in theory, is the key to holding together everything from atoms to airplanes.

  Billie M. Millner Law alumnus Billie M. Millner (Newport News) Daily Press / Dec. 5 Mark J. Schlossberg Commerce, law alumnus A 'Renaissance Guy' of Organized Labor Washington Post / Dec. 10

Frank Rosenblatt Law alumnus Frank Rosenblatt returns to Iraq as a lawyer -- and a new father CNN / Dec. 11 Robert F. Turner Alumnus Commentary: The Sally Hemings myth Charlottesville Daily Progress / Dec. 13