U.Va. has reappointed Bob Bruner as dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Bruner began his tenure in August 2005, and his new term will last through July 2015.
By Elizabeth Gorman, associate professor of sociology, and Sarah Mosseri, Ph.D. candidate in sociology
On this Mother's Day it's worth noting that times have changed regarding working moms. In 1960, 27.6 percent of mothers were in the paid labor force. Today, approximately 71 percent of mothers work, and 73 percent of those employed mothers work full-time.
The University of Virginia Department of Environmental Sciences, through its Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center and the Virginia Coast Reserve Long Term Ecological Research Program build their outreach and education programs geared "at improving environmental literacy in Northampton County and throughout the Eastern Shore of Virginia," said Art Schwarzschild, site director for the center.
For this week's segment of UVa Today, Thomas Skalak of the Coulter Program joined CBS19's Tiffani Sargent to discuss the Endowment for Translational Research.
By Jonathan Haidt, professor of psychology
You can’t just scale up your ideas about morality at the individual level and apply them to groups and nations. If you do, you’ll miss all that was good, healthy and even altruistic about last week’s celebrations.
The meadows and woodlands of Morven looked especially lush and vibrant after a recent spring rain. Laura Voisin George, director of research at the 2,913-acre estate south of Charlottesville, stood on a favorite vantage point overlooking green fields. … The beauty was starkly evident, but it’s the invisible and yet to be found history of this place that drives George to learn more and more about it. … The late John W. Kluge had given Morven to the University of Virginia in 2001.
By Thomas Nachbar, law professor
It is impossible to argue that the killing of Osama Bin Laden was not "justifiable," or even "just," and I might even be inclined to accept it as a form of "justice." But to use that term to describe what happened last weekend in Abbottabad, Pakistan, is to invite confusion we cannot as a nation afford.
National Security Law Experts at the University of Virginia have confirmed that the killing of Osama bin Laden was legal. Charles Fishburne talks with the Director of the UVA Center for National Security Law, Professor John Norton Moore
Knoxville lawyer Sam F. Fowler Jr., a member of a family of Knoxville lawyers dating back to the early 1900s, died Thursday. He was 82. A graduate of the University of Tennessee and the University of Virginia law school, Mr. Fowler practiced law for nearly 60 years.
The Virginia men's basketball team announced on Thursday that the Atlantic Coast Conference has approved the medical hardship waiver request for Mike Scott, providing him another year of eligibility in 2011-12.
[Head tennis coach Brian] Boland's team, which currently is 29-0 and hasn't lost an Atlantic Coast Conference match in more than five years, has three starters from Fairfax County. And one of the top recruits in the country, Mitchell Frank, a senior at Annandale High School, is on the way next year.
Robert Bruner
Darden School of Business dean
Big Deals Are Back as U.S. Firms Seek Growth
Wall Street Journal / May 6
John Jeffries
Law professor
Challenges to health care law get appellate hearing Tuesday
USA Today / May 6
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and Director of the Center for Politics
Day of Prayer observed as always, with reverence and controversy
CNN (blog) / May 5
Scott Strayer
Associate professor of family medicine
Addiction to legal drugs
WNDU NBC16 (South Bend, Ind.) / May 5
Joseph Thorndike
Visiting history professor
This fact may not sit well: ...
College students may think themselves immortal, but they fall victim to addiction as easily as anyone else in society - in some cases, more easily. … “Part of it is getting a young person to understand . . . even they can find themselves inadvertently down a path that can lead to negative life consequences,” said Allen Groves, associate vice president and dean of students at the University of Virginia.
Many flower arrangers have been busy at the University of Virginia's Art Museum, as they work to prove the grounds around the museum can be just as artistic as what is inside.
Under the policy, sexual misconduct would become the umbrella term to include any unwelcome sexual behavior. The revision more precisely defines what constitutes assault, harassment and exploitation, including offenses such as cyberstalking, the recording of sexual images and the knowing transmission of a sexually transmitted infection.
On May 3, 2010, University of Virginia women's lacrosse player Yeardley Love was murdered. A year later, friends and family reflect on Love's legacy. (Video)
In his new book, ″The Googlization of Everything,″ [media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan] claims that Google′s users -- which is to say all of us -- don′t fully understand the terms of our relationship with the company. He argues that we pay for Google′s
Alleged rape victims at the University of Virginia would no longer be required to present “clear and convincing” evidence to prevail in the school’s judicial system under new rules proposed Thursday, one of the first products of a federal campaign to empower victims of sexual misconduct on campus.