Robert Marchant O’Neil helped to create the current research-driven, student-centered environment at the University of Virginia in a short five-year tenure as its president before building the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression from a concept into an organization with national influence. O’Neil, 76, handed over the reins of the First Amendment-oriented advocacy center to assistant director Joshua Wheeler on May 1.
Quantum entanglement allows qubits to exhibit multiple states — enabling faster calculations than traditional bits, which can only exhibit one state at a time. … What’s needed to build on this work is a much bigger scale of entangled qubits. And that scale may be possible soon, thanks to some important work by physicist Olivier Pfister and his team at the University of Virginia.
Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett will be taking part in the upcoming player-selection process for the World University Games. Bennett, Arizona’s Sean Miller and VCU’s Shaka Smart will serve as the three “court coaches” during the tryout phase, set for next weekend at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Kevin Pujanauski won a scholarship with the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange to study abroad at a high school in Germany after he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in 2007…. [Kevin] came back speaking and writing German fluently. Now a student at the University of Virginia, Kevin returned to Germany between his freshman and sophomore years of college to intern in Berlin.
A State Council of Higher Education for Virginia report released Tuesday showed all the schools will exceed state requirements that nonresident tuition and mandatory education fees cover at least 100 percent of the average cost of their education. Out-of-state students at the University of Virginia top the list at 185 percent, followed by George Mason University, 164 percent; and the College of William and Mary, 161 percent.
This week, dozens of university presidents, students and education advocates are on the Hill to persuade lawmakers to protect Pell Grants. Monday has been designated as “Save Pell Day” by the Education Trust, a nonprofit focused on closing education achievement gaps.
Features Long Nguyen of McLean, who holds a master's degree in physics from the College of Arts & Sciences.
You might think about calling Lopez the thinking man's lefty, but you might want to think again. Lopez owns a psychology degree from the University of Virginia [2002]. He admits that sometimes throughout his pro career he has fallen victim to that insidious disease, overthinking.
Features Jackson Castleberry, 2009 Darden School of Business graduate, who now works for Google.
Tom Fitch
McIntire School associate dean for career services and employee relation
The Ethics of Unpaid Internships
U.S. News & World Report / July 19
Daniel Ortiz
Law professor
Homeless Have Right to Cast a Ballot
WVIR NBC29 / July 21
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama's Tricky Campaign Cash: Insider Fundraising Events and Wooing Wall Street
FoxNews.com / July 21
According to 2010 census data released this week, the share of married households in the state stands at 50.2 percent, its lowest level in decades. Article features Qian Cai, demographer at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, and Brad Wilcox, associate professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project.
If you are up for making politics fun, you are invited to join in with the team of analysts who've proven their knack for insightfulness with smiles and laughter included. [Features Bob Gibson, director of the Sorensen Institute.]
Cites research by Jonathan Haidt, professor of psychology.
Last week, University of Virginia professor Dewey Cornell — an authority on youth violence and school safety — completed a comprehensive report on the scope of bullying in Virginia's elementary, middle and high schools. Unfortunately, the results were predictable.
Candidates with far more life-threatening conditions have pressed on with their campaigns, and some have been elected. Here are some examples of politicians who dealt with serious (or reportedly serious) health issues during their presidential or vice presidential campaigns, with varying degrees of public awareness. [Features presidential biographies from the Miller Center.]
If America's debt is downgraded, a prime mover is likely to be David T. Beers, a longtime Standard & Poor's executive with a bushy mustache who is unapologetic about the impact of his company's decisions on governments' ability to borrow. [Beers holds a bachelor's degree in international relations.]
If you've ever wondered how the land lies in terms of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the United States, listen to our expert in this field. He's historian Professor Gerald Fogarty SJ from the University of Virginia, who brings us the first in a two part series which takes us from 1783 to 1951.
A raise that will show up in paychecks today will help some of the lowest-paid workers at the University of Virginia compensate for their increased pay-in to the Virginia Retirement System.
Dr. Michael T. Smith, assistant professor of history at McNeese State University, has just released a new book titled, “The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North.” The 256-page book was published by the University of Virginia Press.
Virginia has been producing wine grapes and wine for almost 400 years. Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia, is also known as America’s first distinguished viticulturist and the greatest patron of winemaking that this country has ever had.