Ah, it’s commencement season. And just in case you don’t want to sit through an hours-long ceremony to gather inspiration, here are the highlights so far.
The U.S. appeals judges in Virginia assigned to review the cases are Diana Gribbon Motz, Andre Davis and James Wynn Jr. … Motz [is] a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia law school. … Wynn, a 1975 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earned degrees at Marquette University Law School and the University of Virginia Law School.
Web chat hosted by the Washington Post with Charles Kolb, president of the Committee for Economic Development and Law School graduate.
The Honorable J. Samuel "Sam" Johnston has been a well-known figure in Central Virginia courtrooms over the last three-and-a-half decades. Now, he wants to share some of the more comical moments he has witnessed in his 34 years as a judge. … Johnston is a graduate of the University of Alabama and graduated law school from the University of Virginia.
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics
Haitian diaspora allowed to vote
Agence France-Presse / May 10
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
The Reluctant Republican Can't-idates
NPR / May 10
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GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney plans to lay out health care proposal in Ann Arbor
Degtroit Free Press / May 11
Chris Sprigman
Professor of law
Why super-injunctions don't happen in US
BBC / May 10
Paul Walker
Associate professor in the McIntire School of Commerce
Enterprise Risk Management Gets Elevated – Again
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How do you live in this landscape? The house’s first answer to that question: Pay attention to the weather. That means designing for the climate (a key strategy that Sherman imparts to his students at UVA’s School of Architecture).
Molecular "motors" are at the root of most biological movement. They propel cell components, whole cells, and even our muscles on command. Barbara Imperiali and a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA), the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, USA), and the National Institutes of Health (USA) have now provided the motor protein myosin with an "on switch" that is activated by light.
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia will host a panel on WikiLeaks at 2 p.m. Thursday. Among the participants will be former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, who resigned in March after criticizing the military’s treatment of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the accused leaker of the WikiLeaks documents.
Sheila C. Johnson, a co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, will serve as the media group’s strategic adviser for multicultural and African-American initiatives, according to a company statement.
A Charlottesville biotech company has received $450,000 in investor funding to help bring to market the company’s first product, a kit to help physicians and medical personnel extract DNA from fecal matter. … Phthisis Diagnostics was founded in 2005 in association with the University of Virginia.
For those students looking to make moving out a little less burdensome, the fifth annual Sofa Shuffle allows them to drop off donations of furniture and other household items to The Salvation Army.
The end of year tradition is a way for students to get rid of furniture, books, clothing , food or anything else they cannot take home. Drop off locations are set up throughout grounds. This year several area charities, including Goodwill and the Habitat Store, will benefit from the donations.
The Virginia Department of Education will award a grant of nearly $275,000 to fund a new partnership between Charlottesville City Schools and the University of Virginia meant to provide better science training for the city’s 120 elementary-school teachers.
Colonial Williamsburg announced Tuesday it will be the premier sponsor for the Virginia Symphony Orchestra's upcoming season. … The opening concert, titled "Jefferson, in his Own Words," is created by University of Virginia professor and composer Judith Shatin.
Andy Thomson at the University of Virginia and Paul Andrews of Virginia Commonwealth, … imagined depression as a way of forcing the mind to focus on its problems. Although rumination feels terrible, it might make it easier for us to pay continuous attention to our dilemmas.
[E]ven surgery to insert a screw in his wrist has not slowed down [Steven] Proscia. The junior is the cleanup hitter for No. 1-ranked Virginia (43-5), leading the team in RBI (48), home runs (five) and stolen bases (11). He is hitting .351 with a .392 on-base percentage. Scouts expect the right-handed hitter to be drafted somewhere between the fourth and eighth rounds in next month’s First-Year Player Draft.
By Michael T. Snyder, McIntire alumnus
There are examples of "Americans gone wild" all over the nation. The things you are about to read about below are not just isolated incidents. … As the economy continues to crumble this trend is going to get even worse.
Features Nicole Farmer Hurd [GSAS '02] and her program, which has the primary goal of raising the rates of college enrollment and completion among low-income, first-generation-college, underrepresented high school students.
As a University of Virginia undergraduate, [Christoph] Herby [College '05] founded a small business, a Charlottesville rickshaw service -- more forward momentum -- but eventually sold the enterprise and moved to Africa to join the Peace Corps in 2008.
After months of sadness and a concerted, sometimes contentious effort to bring sorely needed safety reforms to elite open-water swimming, the friends, family and former teammates of the late Fran Crippen [College '06] gathered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this past weekend to honor him by doing what he lived for -- racing.