An international experience is wrapping up in Charlottesville as citizens fromAfghanistan have spent the past three weeks here and are ready to take all they've learned back to their country. Through the professional partnershipprogram of UVa's Center for Politics, this group of judges, defense attorneys, and teachers are absorbing all they can about how the U.S. functions. "They're learning about the importance of the rule of law, the importance of being civically engaged and not just letting other people make all the decisions," said Daman Irby, Director of Global Initiatives at the UVa Cent...
Retired Commonwealth Professor and the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought and Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the White Burkett Miller Center
William Lee Miller, a historian who explored the confluence of politics, religion and ethics and wrote an account of the congressional battle to end slavery, as well as books about Abraham Lincoln, died May 27 at a hospice in New York. He was 86.
An inmate whose death sentence was overturned will avoid the possibility of another one after brokering a deal in which he gets life in prison in exchange for admitting guilt in another killing. ... “From the commonwealth’s perspective, they can do something fairly remarkable, which is to undo a jury acquittal in a capital murder case and obtain a conviction in a case that would otherwise remain unsolved,” said University of Virginia law professor Matthew Engle, one of Andrews’ attorneys.
The debut of a new national database tracking who visits college health centers and why -- the first of its kind -- generated considerable interest ... at the annual convention of the American College Health Association. ... "College students represent a pretty critical subpopulation of Americans," said James C. Turner, a professor of internal medicine and executivedirector of the department of student health at the University of Virginia,which sponsors the project jointly with the Centers for Disease Control. "This concept of sharing private health information with a central health network is...
Daniel McDowell
Bankard Fund for Political Economy Predoctoral Fellow
Catherine Bauman
U.Va. alumna
Danville native heads to Africa to become education director of health clinic
WLSL.com / May 31
Stephen Malkmus
U.Va. alumnus
Happy Birthday, Stephen Malkmus! A Solo Salute to Other Indie Icons
Broward Palm Beach NewTimes blog / May 30
Beth Wilkinson
Law alumna
FTC hires U.S. legal all-star for Google antitrust probe
Reuters, The Globe and Mail / May 3
Rob Cross
William Stamps Farish Professor in Free Enterprise, Commerce School
The Most Productive Way For Execs To Leverage Social Networks
FastCompany.com / May 31
Jim Donovan
Adjunct professor of law
Goldman Sachs Exec Serves As Trusted Advisor To Romney
FinAlternatives.com / May 30
Brandon Garrett
Law professor
Wal-Mart Board Faces Angry Investors at Annual Meeting: Retail
Bloomberg BusinessWeek / May 31
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Opinion: Compromise is not a dirty word
Edmundson.com / May 30
Marcia Invernizzi
Curry School of Education professor
6-year-old is youngest to qual...
By Meg Jay, Curry School of Education clinical psychologist
It’s graduation time again, and about 2 million students will walk across a stage and pick up a college diploma. Then they will face terrifying statistics about employment, pressure to make their 20s the best years of their lives, and slogans that suggest that what you do right after college may not matter anyway. What not enough graduates are hearing, however, is that — recession or not — our 20s are life's developmental sweet spot. They matter. A lot. ...
An inaugural interactive workshop discussing historic and future sea level trends and their implications for Virginia's Eastern Shore is planned for June. ... Representatives from the University of Virginia Institute for EnvironmentalNegotiation, Wetlands Watch, and the Accomack-Northampton Planning DistrictCommission will provide presentations ...
Bonnie Gordon
Music professor
U.Va. Music professor Bonnie Gordon discusses what life at Jefferson's Monticello might have sounded like in the late 18th- to early 19th-centuries on the New Hampshire Public Radio program, "Word of Mouth."
The University of Virginia Medical Center has made Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of 100 great hospitals. ...
A new international study, published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, shows that seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and that, perunit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world's temperate and tropical forests. ...
William Lee Miller died in Manhattan on Tuesday at age 86. Miller taught at U.Va. from 1982 to 1999, when he retired as Commonwealth Professor and the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought, but continued his affiliation with the university as Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the Miller Center.
Virginia women's rowing team won its second NCAA championship.
Erica Lloyd
2002 Curry School alumna
Erica Lloyd, straight out of UVA’s Curry School of Education, became I Have a Dream Charlottesville’s coordinator in 2002.
Trip Davis
President of Darden School Foundation
Program CEOs Combine Book Knowledge and Business Savvy
Virginia Business / May 29
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director, Center for Politics
Texas voters clinch GOP nomination for Romney
Star-Telegram (Texas) / May 29
and
Election Battlegrounds: Was 2008 a Blip, or the Leading Edge of Change?
National Journal / May 29
and
New Poll Results Show Veterans Support Romney
WVIR NBC-29 / May 29
Daniel Willingham
Psychology professor and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?”
Includes video link to Willingham's science and education blog.
Michael Lenox
Darden professor
Lenox says "a huge opportunity exists for someone — an entrepreneurial venture, an established company — to innovate and scale cost-competitive clean energy."