Dr. John Buckman spent much of his life exploring the uncharted realms of the mind in order to help others. On Aug. 20, death ended his lifelong search for this knowledge.
Leading public universities regularly complain about the decline in the shares of their budgets that come from the state, even as regulation has not lessened. But being willing to give up those funds altogether is rare. The University of Virginia's business school did so, but has very much been considered an outlier.
Gerard Alexander
Political scientist
Volatile Political Climate Backdrop For US Elections
VOA News / Sept. 4
Richard Bonnie
Law professor and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
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Daniel Murrie, director of psychology at the institute
Insanity: Rare defense being used in Newport News homicide
Daily Press / Sept. 4
Gregory Fairchild
Associate professor of business administration, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Trailer company gets financing it needed
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Sept. 6
Robert Fatton
Political scientist
President Ren&eacu...
The proceeds of the run support breast cancer research at the University of Virginia.
"Soul mate" couples are often happy at first, because they have intense emotional and personal connections, said W. Bradford Wilcox, lead author of the article in the Sept. 1 issue of Social Science Research.
But their unions are at high risk for disenchantment and divorce because it's hard to sustain such intensity in a long-term relationship, he said.
... Timothy D. Wilson, a U.Va. professor of psychology, along with Elizabeth W. Dunn of the University of British Columbia and Harvard’s Daniel T. Gilbert, recently completed a research paper titled "If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right" for The Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Based on 2009 population estimates from the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center included in a recent report from Virginia Department of Legislative Services, Southside voting districts and other rural areas have decreased in population while metropolitan areas have grown.
The University of Virginia's endowment has recovered more than half of the $1.1 billion it lost because of the financial meltdown of fall 2008.
UVA Fourth-Year Saamia Noorali was born in Pakistan and spent much of her childhood there. She has created the Hoos for Pakistan Flood Relief group and hopes students will raise money to provide emergency care in Pakistan.
Daniel Willingham
Psychology professor and author of "Why Don't Students Like School?"
At Virginia, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Wake Forest, Boston College and Duke, athletic department officials said they speak to their student-athletes before each season to warn them about using social media, but no official policy is in place and there are no immediate plans to initiate one.
Roger Chevalier
Astronomy professor
'Lost years' end for backyard supernova
Nature / Sept. 2
George Gilliam
Assistant Director for Public Programs, Miller Center of Public Affairs
George Gilliam Updates Coy on the Miller Center
Charlottesville–Right Now / Aug. 31
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Top political analyst says GOP will capture House
Sacramento Bee / Sept. 3
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Slump could cost Dems control of the House
San Francisco Chronicle / Sept. 3
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Obama Unleashed: What will the president say to get Democrats excited for the coming campaign?
Slate / Sept.
Jason Hickel
Doctoral candidate and instructor, Department of Anthropology
... The new material tested at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is the first one ever found that exhibits properties of both of these regimes. A team of researchers from Osaka University, the University of Virginia, the Japanese Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tohoku University and the NIST NCNR used neutron diffraction to explore the novel material, known only by its chemical formula of YLBLCO.
The companies were picked from a dozen finalists for the first Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards presented by the Tayloe Murphy Center at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
Heather Warren
Associate professor of religious studies
Kids with Same-Sex Parents are All Right: A Conversation with Lisa Cholodenko
Research conducted by the University of Virginia revealed that family type was not significantly associated with parent reports of child adjustment, including children’s behavior problems and gender role development.
Brad Wilcox
Director of the National Marriage Project and sociologist