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Vanessa Orco A master’s degree candidate at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a summer intern at the Institute of the Americas New Hope for Brazil Ethanol June 24 / Latin Business Chronicle John Reutter Second-year student in the College of Arts & Sciences Students study water near Coles Hill: Virginia Uranium interns include local students June 26 / GoDanRiver.com Tyler Wilson Baseball pitcher NCAA committee to study tweaking tournament June 24 / Westport News (Conn.) – Associated Press

Richard Bonnie A law professor and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy Loughner to be forcibly drugged, lawyers say CBS News / June 27 Kyle Kondik Political analyst, Center for Politics Sideline player could emerge as GOP 'superhero Pittsburgh Tribune-Review / June 26 Josipa Roksa An assistant professor of sociology CEPEDA: Despite new trend, most teens shouldn't skip college Sacramento Bee / June 26 Larry Sabato A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics Bachmann's candidacy seen as a boon for Obama, Romney Minnesota Public Radio / June 27 and I...

Ron Wilcox A professor of business administration at the Darden School

Gary A. Ballinger An assistant professor of organizational behavior in the McIntire School of Commerce

The two University of Virginia academics that pioneered the method, whom Bielby cited extensively in his own study, issued a statement calling the evidence "unreliable" and "an insufficient basis for the class certification determination."

Researchers for the U.S. and Virginia transportation departments and the University of Virginia found in 2007 that cameras significantly lowered intersection crashes overall but significantly raised the incidence of rear-end collisions and concluded that they should be "implemented on a case-by-case basis and only after a careful review of the crash patterns."

At the 33,000-square-foot facility located underneath a parking lot at the university’s Fontaine Research Park, it’s easy to see why carefully designed biotech facilities can be so expensive to build, yet so crucial to successful research.

A text a day to keep diabetes at bay, that's the goal of a new University of Virginia Health System program to find out if a daily reminder can help diabetes patients.

The Charlottesville Running Company and the University of Virginia Research Park presented a check to the Wounded Warrior Foundation for $76,500 this week. It's the result of money raised when more than 1,000 took part in the Wounded Warrior 5K Race on June 4.

A $165,000 grant to the Miller Center Foundation at the University of Virginia will fund development of a program that gives people access to the history of the state's laws, tells which legislators supported which laws, where they got campaign contributions and how statutes have been interpreted in court. The program is set for completion late next year.

EdTrust singles out several public flagships and elite schools for remarkably low net prices to needy students, including the University of Virginia. It's not among the top five, however, because the number of low-income students is smaller than the numbers at the other schools.

The summer issue has an interview with Sharon Celsor-Hughes, docent coordinator of the U.Va. museum, about an innovative program, "Eyes on Art," for people with Alzheimer's disease.

To Robby Andrews, it was "mission accomplished." The University of Virginia sophomore, already a two-time NCAA champion, advanced to the semifinals of the men's 800 meters at the USA National Track and Field Championships, with a comfortable 1:48.60 performance Thursday at Hayward Field.

Kyle Kondik Political analyst, Center for Politics Romney tags Obama on economy, job losses Pittsburgh Tribune-Review / June 24 Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills Director of the asthma and allergy disease center UPDATE 2-U.S. advisers back Shire drug for rare disease  Reuters / June 23 Larry Sabato Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics Reid fundraises for Democratic super PAC The Hill / June 23 and Obama takes flak for tapping emergency oil reserves Reuters / June 23 and Pennsylvania matters in 2012 Oval Office race Morning Call (Penn.) / June 23

The UVA School of Medicine is taking applications for its "Mini-Med School" this fall.  The course is open to almost anyone high-school age or older.  During the seven- week program, UVa faculty members and current med students lead the group in a wide range of topics in medical education. Mini-Med School is free and the application deadline is July 27th.

Last week, the Federal Education Budget Project, Ed Money Watch's parent initiative, announced the launch of a new version of its website. The new site includes four years of higher education data on federal financing, demographics, outcomes, and financial aid use for every state and institution in the country. ... This will take us to a page that displays all of the public, four year institutions that have graduation rates within 10 percent of UC Berkeley’s 90 percent graduation rate in 2009. In this case, 23 institutions have similar graduation rates, ranging from 81 percent at Univers...

The University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University medical schools are in many ways the “research engines” that make Charlottesville and Richmond well-suited for biotechnology enterprises.

The 35th Annual Conference on the Law of the Sea and Ocean Policy in Bali on June 23 was held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia in collaboration with the Center for Oceans Law and Policy Conference, University of Virginia, USA.