According to the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project’s latest report, if you make over $50,000 annually, haven’t had children or gotten pregnant before marriage, if your parents are still together, and if you go to church, your chances of a successful marriage are significantly better. Even having just one of these qualities will lower the chances of divorce.
The room reportedly inhabited by Edgar Allan Poe when he was a student at the University of Virginia is getting a makeover, thanks to a $15,000 grant won by the Raven Society, the group created over 100 years ago to celebrate the author's time at UVA .
Students at the University of Virginia join young people at the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center to study Russian literature. Russia offers a rich literary tradition. Its novelists, poets and playwrights address issues that individuals in confinement often confront — or should.
Scientists helped resolve longstanding controversies about the effect of platinum cluster size on some emissions-reducing reactions in automobile catalysts.
Dr. Hui Li, assistant professor of pathology at the UVa Cancer Center , was one of 13 scientists nationwide to receive a Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) innovative research grant.
James J. Coleman
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
UIUC’s Coleman receives SPIE Technology Achievement Award
Semiconductor Today /April 27
Rita Dove
Professor Creative Writing
Writers' conference returns for 10th year: Early registration ends Friday
HomerNews.com / April 27
Jonathan Haidt
Professor of Social Psychology
Liberalism's Bumper Sticker Problem
The Republic / April 28
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Super Deep Thinker Obama To Release Birth Certificate Today (Now Released)
Stop the ACLU / April 27
James Davison Hunter
Professor of Sociology
The war between the whites
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The recording and transcript – included in the new volumes of L.B.J. tapes published by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs – are further evidence that nothing much ever really changes in Washington. In the conversation, the president notes sourly that the word from Capitol Hill is that all Republicans are going to oppose the debt limit request.
In the new study, the Wisconsin researchers, collaborating with groups from the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis., focused their attention on Peter and Paul lakes, two isolated and undeveloped lakes in northern Wisconsin. Peter is a six-acre lake whose biota were manipulated for the study and nearby Paul served as a control.
Cincinnati Public Schools is working on several initiatives to improve the success rate of its more than 33,000 students. It poured federal stimulus dollars into its 16 worst-performing elementary schools for tutoring, teacher training and a Fifth Quarter summer program. It partnered with the University of Virginia to train teachers to use data to help students improve their test scores.
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) has announced details of a major project with the University of Virginia Centre for Public Health Genomics. In a groundbreaking study, Professor Stephen Rich, Director of the centre, will utilise OGT’s Genefficiency™ aCGH microarray screening service to investigate the relationship between genome structural variation and susceptibility to type 1 (T1) diabetes.
U.S. Senator Alan Simpson spoke Wednesday at a forum on the debt sponsored by the Center for Politics. In Simpson’s view, neither party is taking the nation’s fiscal challenges particularly seriously, as both seem more interested in scoring political points against the other than they are in finding practical solutions.
An honor society that bears the name of one of Edgar Allan Poe's major works is planning to renovate the room where the renowned poet and mystery writer lived during his short stint as a student at the University of Virginia. The Raven Society won a $15,500 grant from an endowment established by the U.Va. Alumni Association to refurbish Poe's room at 13 West Range.
George Cohen
Law professor
Lawyers question firm's decision to ditch gay marriage case
Atlanta Journal Constitution / April 27
Saras Sarasvathy
Darden professor
Do entrepreneurs think differently?
Chartered Management Institute / April 26
Rick Webb
Environmental Sciences senior research scientist
Off Shore Wind Farm Leasing Could Begin This Year
Leesburg Today / April 26
David E. Patton
Law alumnus
David E. Patton Named Federal Public Defender
New York Times (blog) / April 26
Samantha Parent Walravens
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumna (Literature & Women's Studies)
New Book Tells REAL Stories of Motherhood, Career & Work-Life Balance
The Sacramento Bee / April 26
... Seeking a template to understand the enigmatic president, I consulted three leading academics in the fields of psychology and behavior. With their help, I put Obama on the couch and came away with a reasonably coherent diagnosis: There’s too much going on in the poor guy’s head.
“What distinguishes Obama particularly is the depth and carefulness of his thinking, which renders him somewhat unfit for politics,” said Jonathan Haidt, a professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia. “He is a brilliant social and political analyst, which makes it hard...
I very much liked the suggested point-counterpoint opinion pieces on the front of the Outlook section in today’s Washington Post. Actually it was not so much a debate ... but rather a one-two-punch critique of the rhetoric used on both sides. First, University of Virginia history professor Sophia Rosenfeld warns that the GOP’s talk of “common sense” when it comes to fiscal responsibility really has little to do with striving for “common good” type strategies. Her central thesis (emphasis added): Once democracy is established and consolidated, common sense is...
It's not your imagination: College students really are getting younger. A lot younger. This summer, kids as young as 4 will head for summer programs on college campuses – the latest trend for cash-strapped schools and for parents eager to give Junior an academic push. ... Applications doubled for the summer engineering programs for elementary and middle school programs at North Carolina State University ... So far, the Georgia Institute of Technology has received about 550 applications – the highest ever – for the 375 seats it can fill ... At the University of Virginia, aroun...
By Philip Zelikow, history professor
The revolution in Syria is well under way. The revolution in Libya struggles on. The Middle East is alight, yet most of America’s military commitment, and the political attention associated with it, remains in Afghanistan. Every day that the US worries about events such as the escape of hundreds of painstakingly detained insurgents from an Afghan jail is a day in which America loses the power of initiative elsewhere. ...
... In our analysis of starting salaries earned per annual tuition dollar spent, the state schools fare much better, averaging $4.97 vs. $1.64 for the private schools. What's more, there are state schools where graduates earn just as much as those at private schools, but pay far less for the privilege. Four schools on the list have median salaries of $60,000. The University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce (McIntire Undergraduate Business Profile) and the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business (Ross Undergraduate Business Profile) each charge in-state residents less than $12...
The number of organ donors is declining in the United States ... On Monday, the University of Virginia Medical Center held a donor drive to raise awareness for the registry and ... reduce the wait time for people who need it most. According to LifeNet Health, nationwide, 110,000 people are waiting for donor organs and in Virginia alone, 2,800 people are waiting. "We have people who die waiting for organ transplants, sometimes they never get to the point where there is an organ for them that would match them correctly," said Melissa Donovan, a transplant coordinator at UVA Medic...