Lauren Winfree
Medical student
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.
Novelist John Steinbeck toured combat areas of South Vietnam and traveled to the north of Thailand and into Laos between December 1966 and May 1967. The sixty-four-year-old Nobel Prize winner sent his experiences home in dispatches to Newsday that evoked the war on the ground. His war correspondence has been collected into "Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War," published this month from the University of Virginia Press.
Representatives from the University of Virginia's Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program are holding walk-in advising sessions this week at Piedmont Virginia Community College. ... The program is designed to help working adults finish their degrees.
The Cavalier Volkssporting Club of the University of Virginia will host the Monticello Volkswalk on April 15. Volksmarching is non-competitive fitness walking, in which marchers travel either 3.1 or 6.2 miles, which works out to 5 or 10 kilometers in the metric system, on an outdoor path. ... Participants must register by April 2.
Speaking of Syria's president, Pawlenty said, "He's a terrible thug, and in my view he should be indicted as a war criminal and brought to justice. ...
Topping the list is the University of Virginia School of Law, which rose 12% from its 2010-2011 yield to 51.9%.
By Neil Snyder, U.Va. professor emeritus
Since the Camp David Accords were signed in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the United States has been attempting to buy peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors, but the Arab Spring has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that that strategy is fatally flawed. ...
The University of Virginia School of Law tops the list of schools with the highest increases in yield, jumping 12 percent from its 2010-2011 yield to 51.9 percent.
Students from Argentina and Chile have a better understanding of American politics. The University of Virginia Center for Politics is hosting 30 teens from South America. UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato gave the teens a lesson on the importance of democracy. He says this global approach to learning is essential.
By Jonathan Haidt, U.Va. psychology professor
We humans have many varieties of religious experience. One of the most common is self-transcendence -- a feeling becoming part of something larger, grander and nobler. Most people experience this at least a few times in their lives. When the self thins out and melts away, it not only feels good but can be thrilling. It's as though our minds contain a secret staircase taking us from an ordinary life up to something sacred and deeply interconnected ... The big question is, Why do our minds contain such a staircase? I believe it's because there was a ...
Dipan Bowers
Research scientist at the Center for Applied Biomechanics
Breakfast with Ross Solly: Why female crash test dummies are now being used
ABC Online (blog) / March 27
Paul Gross
Professor emeritus of life sciences
Virginia aces science
Fredericksburg Freelance Star / March 27
Douglas Laycock
Law professor
Vindication for Challenger of Health Care Law
New York Times / March 26
Allen Lynch
Politics professor
Radio feature on Putin
WMRA Virginia Insight / March 29
Sara Neher
assistant dean for admissions, Darden School
As MBA Applicants, Business Majors Face an Uphill Battle
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A doctoral student at Harvard University will undertake research work in Pakistan under a fellowship recently established to honour the memory of a scholar of Pakistani origin... The fellowship is part of the Momina Cheema Foundation-Pakistan, which has also … started a scholarship programme at University of Virginia Law School for students interested in Islamic law and culture.
A select group high school students in Charlottesville and Albemarle County will attend an intergenerational course to learn more about other countries and their customs. The University of Virginia's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is examining how American foreign policy can be strengthened by understanding foreign cultures. OLLI offers educational opportunities for adults in the community.
We also want to congratulate another UVA music professor, Judith Shatin, who has been selected as a Virginia Women in History honoree. ...