WTJU, the University of Virginia's community radio station, was in turmoil two years ago, amid a staff revolt against a new general manager’s big plans for change. Now, under yet another general manager, the station is showing a healthy pocket book and growing listenership.
Another banner admissions year — and a new Early Action program — seems to be elevating the University of Virginia to a higher tier of selectivity, with numbers increasingly resembling those of the Ivy League. U.Va. returned to early admissions this year after a brief hiatus, allowing students to apply early and get a decision early on the condition that they not apply early to any other school.
Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler, a 1974 Law School graduate, is representing the United States in the arguments over whether the Obamacare law should be overturned if the insurance requirement is ruled unconstitutional. He is one of a handful of attorneys who have argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
U.Va. student Courtney Luckman ... started a Charlottesville chapter of the National Stuttering Association. Their goal is to help others feel as if they can speak freely like anyone else.
Jonathan Haidt
psychology professor
How evolution turned us into liberals and conservatives
Telegraph.co.uk (London) / Mar. 29
and
Why liberals need conservatives, and vice versa
Telegraph.co.uk (London) / Mar. 29
and
Editorial: Left/right divide widens in America
The Oklahoman Editorial / Mar. 29
Mary Margaret Frank
A Darden associate professor of business administration
Tea party challenges need for Albemarle tax bump as groups plead for more
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Mar. 28
Wayne Graham
Head of research and development in the Scholars' Lab, and author of a new guide to Faceboo...
... a study by economists at the University of Michigan and University of Virginia has found that approximately two-thirds of American women's wage gains from the 1960s to the 1990s was due to the ready availability of birth control pills...
... All of the money raised will go toward the work of Dr. Amir Jazaeri, Kirchner’s doctor, whose research at the University of Virginia Cancer Center focuses on the early detection and prevention of [ovarian] cancer, the ninth most common among women, according to the American Cancer Society.
... Another significant collection of indigenous works collected by Kluge has been housed at the University of Virginia as the Kluge-Ruhe Collection since 1997. ... The Virginia collection is seen as the best public collection of Aboriginal art in the US.
About a dozen restaurants on the corner at the University of Virginia are participating in a fundraising drive to help children at risk of abuse.
The University of Virginia Health System will move in to part of its competitor's former downtown Charlottesville hospital. UVA Health System is partnering with the Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) and Newport News-based Riverside Health System to open a PACE clinic in the first two floors of the old Martha Jefferson Hospital's Cardwell Center. ... PACE stands for Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Doctors and researchers at the University of Virginia are making breakthroughs that could improve chances of survival for people with pancreatic cancer. ...Researcher Kim Kelly and surgeon Todd Bauer discussed developments, including a new clinic for high-risk patients. ... Former UVA women\'s basketball coach Debbie Ryan joined the discussion to talk about her 12 years as a survivor.
Glioma is the most common and deadly kind of brain cancer. Each year, 10,000 Americans are diagnosed, and only half survive beyond a year. Only a quarter after two years. But research at the University of Virginia [by Dr. Benjamin "B.J." Purow] has led to the discovery of a toxic molecule which targets the disease and might also be used to target other cancers.
Baba Jamal Koram
U.Va. alumnus
The Storyman
The Record Delta / March 27
Carolyn Wickwire
MFA alumna
Carolyn Wickwire to Play Georgia O'Keeffe
TheaterJones / March 27
Tanya Denckla Cobb
Associate director for the Institute for Environmental Negotiation
Event discusses past, present and future of locally grown food
Charlottesville Tomorrow / March 28
Bob Harris
Darden professor
Private Equity and Entrepreneurs: Allies in Productivity (Opinion)
Entrepreneur.com / March 27
Dr. Karen Johnston
Departments of Neurology and Public Health Science
FDA Panel Considers the Future of Intracranial Stenting
Medscape News Today / March 27
Douglas Laycock
Law professor
Randy Barnett's Vindication
National Review Online / March 27
Ed Nordenschild
Strength and conditio...
Virginia's population is increasingly diverse. According to population statistics from the 2010 census, supplied by the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia, white males, ages 18 and over, now account for just 34.2 percent of Virginia's voting age population. So much for the long-held stereotype of an electorate dominated by "old white guys." ...
The outrage over the shooting death of a Florida teen brought hundreds out to protest Tuesday night on grounds at the University of Virginia. People marched at the rotunda carrying signs and candles.
... The Virginia Film Festival, in the midst of a three year run of unprecedented success, has announced the dates for its upcoming 25th Anniversary year. The 2012 Festival will take place from November 1-4, 2012. The Virginia Film Festival is presented by the University of Virginia's College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. ...
... The two library officers, Miss Cynthia Henewaa Kumah, Assistant Librarian of the University of Education Winneba and Madam Gifty Boakye of the University of Ghana Balme Library, Legon, Accra, as part of the program would have the opportunity of paying working visits to the various libraries of the University of Virginia (UVA) and the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library in Charlottesville. Madam Jane Penner of the UVA Library who welcomed the Ghana Librarians said the trip was made possible by the Center for International Studies at University of Virginia.