The University of Virginia has declined a request to host President Obama for a campaign rally next week, complicating his planned tour of swing-state college campuses to court younger voters. The school cited the impact of a presidential visit on the university’s academic schedule and strained finances as reasons for turning Obama away.
Profile of College alumnus Mark Mobius (environmental sciences and biology) who has started EcoDiscovery Experience, a program for 5- to 7-year-olds, in Shelter Island, N.Y.
Democratic Jefferson County Circuit Judge Robert Vance Jr. [Law, ‘85] came off the bench and qualified for the chief justice race when a party committee stripped Harry Lyon of the nomination after a Facebook rant.
Paige Selenski, former field hockey superstar at Dallas High School, kicked off her season with the University of Virginia Cavaliers Sunday in a return to the valley - well, Happy Valley - to play Penn State. The Shavertown native missed Virginia's entire 2011 season due to Olympic training, but launched her senior campaign this weekend.
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Jennifer T. Wolstenholme, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and lead author of the report, she said that the researchers found behaviors in BPA-exposed mice and their descendants that may parallel autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit disorder in humans.
The artistic alchemy of ancient and modern Chinese masters will be presented in a major exhibit opening Friday at the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art.
With on-and-off rain all day, it didn't stop the smooth move-in for families, students or the greeters who were helping them at each dorm at the University of Virginia.
At Alumni Hall on Wednesday, University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan greeted over 400 new international students and their families. Joining in extending this welcome was Jeffrey W. Legro, Professor of Politics and Randolph P. Compton Professor in the Miller Center. Newly-appointed on 17 August, Professor Legro is now also the University vice Provost for Global Affairs.
Saturday morning, the bow-tie-clad dean of students, Allen Groves, was waiting to chauffer the president to residence halls where students were moving in. "Your chariot awaits," Groves joked, showing off the golf cart he had borrowed for the occasion.
Sean Higgins
Medical student
Learning Lessons From the Police
August 23 2012 / Newsplex
Higgins is participating in the 10-week Citizens Police Academy.
David A. Martin
Law professor
Immigration agents sue to stop Obama's non-deportation policy
Washington Times
/ Aug. 23
David A. Martin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who was a top lawyer at the former Immigration and Naturalization Service when the 1996 law was being written, said the agents' reading of the law might seem correct on its face, but the provision in question was intended to give agents more options, not tie their hands.
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Immigration Policy's New Sticking Point: Drivers' Licenses for the Undocumented
International Business Times / Aug. 23
"The deferr...
Houston beer distributor John L. Nau III told U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan that he paid Hill+Knowlton Strategies because "he believed this was a way he could help the university turn the page on recent events and refocus on the future."
Georgetown University received the most law school applicants, with 9,413 in 2011, followed by George Washington University, Columbia, University of Virginia, UCLA, and NYU.
The historic objects being displayed this fall in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, officials said. The Charlottesville 250th Anniversary Exhibit, sponsored by Special Collections and the university's Office of Community Relations, will open on Tuesday and run through Jan. 5.
More than 500 students, academics and crew will be on board when the MV Explorer makes its first visit to Ireland. The 180m (590ft) ship is run by a not-for-profit initiative, the Institute for Shipboard Education, in co-operation with the University of Virginia in the US.
Organizers of the Teaching with Technology Fair say the opportunities and tools technology offers can improve courses and change them dramatically. About 100 instructors attended.
The awards honor Virginia's most resilient businesses in areas that have high unemployment, poverty and low entrepreneurial activity. The competition is held by the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and is part of Darden's Initiative for Business in Society.