Scaffolding has been installed at the University of Virginia's Rotunda so that roofers and masons from Facilities Management can examine several roof sections. It is expected to remain up until August.
The University of Virginia's Curry School of Education has received a federal Institute of Education Sciences grant to evaluate WINGS, which serves about 460 Charleston, S.C., children in four after-school programs.
Molecular and cell biologists at the University of Virginia Health System have discovered new information about how the Ebola virus works that could eventually lead to new drug treatments for the deadly virus.
The channel’s first 2011 college soccer broadcast will feature the University of Virginia women versus their ACC rivals from the University of North Carolina at 3:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, Sept. 25.
Jonathan Haidt
Professor of Psychology
Moral-Psychological Underpinnings of Political Dispute
Town Hall /July 6
Erik Hewlett
Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Research Aims to Boost Pertussis Control
The Journal of the American Medical Association / July 6
John C. Rowlingson
Professor of anesthesiology
Findings Support Less Cautious Stance On Catheter Removal
Anesthesiology News / July 2011
Larry Sabato
Director Center for Politics
Unions Wedded To -- But Wary Of -- Obama In 2012
Fox News / July 5
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Rick Perry's Death Penalty Stance May Be A Tough Sell Nationally
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People with concealed carry permits are not subject to a University of Virginia policy prohibiting individuals from bringing guns into school facilities without permission, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli recently concluded in legal advice to a legislator.
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia seeks a host of national stature for its Forum Program, a television broadcast carried on PBS throughout the country and archived for on-demand viewing at www.millercenter.org.
Charlottesville's elected leaders have given Leonard Sandridge a symbolic key to the city. City Councilors honored the retired Executive Vice-President of UVA Tuesday evening.
Joe Giovanelli spends two hours every Saturday playing the piano for patients and visitors at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
Matthew Olsen, who holds a bachelor's degree
The White House said Friday that President Obama would nominate Matthew Olsen, general counsel for the National Security Agency and previously a longtime Justice Department official, to be the nation’s next counterterrorism chief.
Sarah Berry, 2011 graduate, was recently named a Knowles Science Teaching Fellowship winner. It's is given to those teaching math and science. Across the country, 36 were awarded grants, Berry was one of ten chosen in the biology category. The award comes
Chelsea Shine
U.Va. women's basketball team
Cordel L. Faulk, admissions director for the School of Law has been appointed to Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors by Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Susan Clapp
Demographer for the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Hispanic candidates increase, along with Latino population
The Richmond Times Dispatch / July 5
Brandon Garrett
Professor of Law
A Murder, 7 Convictions And Many Question Marks
WBEZ / July 5
Jonathan Haidt
Professor of Psychology
US fiscal crisis is a morality play
Financial Times / July 5
A.E. Dick Howard
Professor of Law
Roberts Supreme Court’s Partisan Split Shows New Justices Are Predictable
Bloomberg / July 1
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Debt-limit chicken
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By R.K. Ramazani, Edward R. Stettinius Emeritus Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs
In celebrating our independence on July, 4 we would feel even more patriotic if we realized that the American Declaration of Independence has universal significance. I would like to suggest, for example, that it inspired the Arab struggle for independence in the past and is now influencing the revolutionary uprisings for freedom and democracy that are sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East.
By Edward L. Flippen, who will be a lecturer in the Law School in the fall
As war continues in Libya, civil unrest spreads in the Middle East, the world reels from Japan's earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters, and banks and governments in the European Union scramble to control the debt crisis in Greece, it is an understatement to say things are "shaky." Contributing to the "shakiness" is the knowledge that the U.S. demand for oil continues to grow while any progress on a U.S. energy policy remains where it has been for decades — nowhere.
There’s more to mountains than its magnificent form. To find out more through resource and knowledge sharing, Karen Lang one of 220 scholars from more than 150 universities are in Thimphu participating and presenting papers at the Mountains in the Religions of South and Southeast Asia: Places, Culture and Power conference.
The annual report by the the National Marriage Project on the health of marriage and family life, affirmed that more than three-quarters of Americans still believe marriage is "important" and that more than 70 percent of adults under age 30 desire to marry someday.
Dr. Scott P. Commins, an assistant professor of medicine and an expert on allergies and immunology, is part of a team overseeing several tick-bite meat-allergy studies at U.Va. Commins and his mentor, Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, have co-authored several published papers on the topic since 2009. The latest paper, published in the May issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical.
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued opinions in two cases that were argued within an hour of each other by two teachers from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Professor Daniel Ortiz and instructor Mark Stancil are involved with the law school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Although they argued the cases on the same March morning, the opinions in their cases were issued weeks apart.