Andrew Mulkeen
Law alumnus
L.A. puts new lawyers to work – free
The Daily Breeze / Feb. 21
Rock Stephens
Darden TEP graduate
Eastern Shore grower named winegrower of the year
The Daily Press blog / Feb. 21
James F. Childress
Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Religious Studies and professor of medical education
Wary (and Inevitable?) Embrace
Inside Higher Ed / Feb. 21
Harold Gould
Visiting scholar in the Center for South Asian Studies
A second Arab revolution - for a new social order
Sify News.com / Feb. 20
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Fundamental moral errors
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed by Gregory Rodriguez / Feb. 21
Ed Lengel
History professor and editor-in-chief of The Papers of George Washington
George Washington: Separating Man From Myth
NPR / Feb. 21
Larry Sabato
Professor of Politics and ...
Texas legislators are poised to pass a bill allowing college students and professors to carry guns on campus. ... If passed, the legislation would make Texas the second state to allow concealed weapons on college campuses, after Utah. Colorado allows colleges to decide for themselves. ... University of Texas President William Powers, who opposes the bill, warns that the combination of students, guns and parties on campus could lead to trouble. The average American college can expect a murder on campus once every 265 years, according to statistics from the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the...
This is the first time ODU and Hampton have competed in the prestigious [international Solar Decathlon] ... Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia entered the first contest in 2002; U.Va. finished second, Tech fifth. ...
Using the super-sharp radio "vision" of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured "yardstick" three times farther into the cosmos than ever before, an achievement with important implications for numerous areas of astrophysics, including determining the nature of Dark Energy, which constitutes 70 percent of the Universe. ... Previously, distances beyond our own Galaxy have been estimated through indirect methods. "Our direct, geometric measurements are independent of the assumptions and complications inherent in other techniques,&q...
The University of Virginia has received a $1.5 million state-of-the-art scanning-transmission electron microscope as a gift from Altria of Richmond. ... "The gift by Altria of this Titan transmission electron microscope distinguishes U.Va. as having a unique capability in the region," Phillip A. Parrish, U.Va. associate vice president for research, said. "It will be a major benefit to U.Va. researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, and in the School of Medicine. The Titan's capabilities make it very useful to researchers in ...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will give the keynote address in this symposium at the University of Virginia Law School. Appeals-court judges will speak, too. Justice Thomas's address will be at the Boar's Head Inn. Friday and next Saturday;
A new support system will soon be available for caregivers with loved ones suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Connections, a free eight-week in-home training program, was piloted through the University of Virginia and tested over a two-year period. Anyone is eligible to participate in the program regardless of the degree of dementia or Alzheimer’s they have. ...
... Washington did not seek the office. His ascendance to the presidency was a far cry from the prolonged and expensive campaigns of today. The nation's first president was, in fact, somewhat reluctant to take the seat, but “accepted the inevitability of his election as president,” as a University of Virginia account [http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/inaugural/index.html] put it. ...
Modern conceptions of the Civil War grossly underestimate the importance of political union as a motivator to the northern psyche, said Professor Gary W. Gallagher, speaking Monday at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. The 150th anniversary of the conflict’s start will be in April. ...
When it comes to the indoor season, the Virginia men’s tennis program continues to crush everything in its way. On Monday in Seattle, top-ranked UVa became the first school to ever win four straight ITA Indoor Team titles, obliterating third-ranked Tennessee, 4-0. ...
Presidents Day may be the one day out of the year that many Americans give more than a passing thought to the history of the U.S. presidency. But for preservationists, it's a subject they think about day in and day out. The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has been working for more than a decade to transcribe and digitize more than 5,000 hours of White House tapes dating from the administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Richard Nixon.
"Our job is to go through that material and try and make it useful and accessible to historians and students," says...
A younger generation coming into its own politically is bringing to a close decades of rule by hard-line regimes in the Mideast, and that's a prospect the United States should welcome, says a University of Virginia expert on the region. "The main demand for the young is not Islam. It's for more openness, it's for more freedom, and it's for more democracy," said William Quandt, a U.Va. professor of government and foreign affairs who worked on the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt. ...
Richard L. Williams
Law, 1951
Perry Moore
U.Va., College of Arts & Sciences, English
... [Head U.Va. baseball coach Brian] O’Connor was among those that were excited to see positive results. “David’s situation shows his loyalty to this program, his dedication to get the University of Virginia degree,” the skipper said. ...
David Breneman
Newton and Rita Meyers Professor in Economics of Education
and Robert O'Neil
Law Professor emeritus, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and former U.Va. president
University model for UW autonomy
Break-off of Virginia schools in 2005 gets mixed reviews
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel / Feb. 20
Dewey Cornell
Education professor
Suicide turns attention to Fairfax discipline procedures
Washington Post / Feb. 20
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
What Was Mubarak Thinking? Inside the Mind of a Dictator
The Temasek Review / Feb. 19
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Will Anderson
U.Va. alumnus
Parachute landing itself in whirlwind of sweet success
Great Falls Tribune / Feb. 19
Joshua Darden
U.Va. alumnus and former rector of the University's Board of Visitors
Businessman receives rarely given philanthropist award
The Virginian-Pilot / Feb. 19
Kirk Lindgren
Physics and education alumnus
Service work stretches students
The Charleston Post and Courier / Feb. 21