Farzaneh Milani
Professor of Persian Studies and Studies in Women and Gender
Persian New Year 2012: Artist Breathes New Life Into Nowruz
Huffington Post / March 20
Ammasi Periasamy
Research professor of biology
Five Indian Americans Elected New SPIE Fellows
India West / March 19
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Politics Is a Good Thing
Huffington Post / March 20
and
Is Romney's fate Kristol clear?
Politico.com / March 21
and
Romney sets sights on Obama after Illinois win
Times of India / March 21
Daniel Willingham
Psychology professor
When Do You Beli...
Frederick Schauer
Law professor
Schauer has posted "The Political Risks (If Any) of Breaking the Law" in The Journal of Legal Analysis, forthcoming, on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
... The winery is a good example—a thousand acres in Charlottesville, which is one of the great areas of the world, right next to the University of Virginia.
Last week, ATL received our 4,000th response to the ATL School & Firm Insider Survey. Approximately half of our respondents are current law students, and in the wake of the U.S. News rankings release and the resultant hullabaloo, we thought it would be interesting to compare how the vaunted T14 stack up based on our own survey feedback. U.Va. Law School is included in the categories.
Out of 124 undergraduate business programs ranked, Emory came in at No. 5 this year, down two places from the 2011 ranking. The top schools this year were University of Notre Dame (1), University of Virginia (2), Cornell University (3) and the University of Pennsylvania (4).
Following Mendoza in the ranking is the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce in Charlottesville, where 90 percent of business students have internship experience.
The event kicks off on Wednesday, March 21 and will run until Sunday, March 25.
A study by David S. Law of Washington University School of Law and Mila Versteeg, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, set to be released in June in The New York University Law Review, suggests other countries nowadays are, not surprisingly, beginning to find the U.S. Constitution less appealing than they once did, as the time comes to revise their own national charters.
Officials at the University of Virginia are hoping that a new space and a new program will spur cross-disciplinary solutions to the problems of the day. The new OpenGrounds initiative, founded and directed by architecture professor William Sherman, will be housed in the new OpenGrounds Studio, located in the Corner Building on West Main Street.
Many of the nation's most popular public universities don't set tuition until April or May, or even June or July, because they don’t know how much money they will be receiving from their states. ... Towson University and the University of Virginia gamely offer up estimates of next year's expenses, although their tuition, too, remains to be set.
Katie Couric
Alumna, 1979
Best Addresses
Washington Post / March 20
Sean Patrick Maloney
Alumnus
Sean Maloney Running for Congress
Gay City News / March 19
Randall Shepard
Alumnus who earned master’s degree in 1995 from the School of Law
Indiana\'s retiring chief justice celebrated: Shepard\'s tenure is longest in U.S.
Courier-Journal (Ind.) / March 20
J. Harvie Wilkinson
Alumnus, U.Va. School of Law
Against Interpretation: ‘Cosmic Constitutional Theory,’ by J. Harvie Wilkinson III
New York Times / March 18
Robin Petroze
General surgery resident at the School of Medicine
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Virginia receives failing grade on government integrity
Richmond Times-Dispatch / March 20
and
Sabato: Brokered GOP Convention Would Be Press Disaster
Newsmax.com / March 20
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Why Illinois primary could finally give Mitt Romney momentum
Christian Science Monitor / March 19
A new study by University of Notre Dame biologist Michael Pfrender and a team of researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno; Utah State University; and the University of Virginia suggests that snakes from different regions of the world have evolved a similar, remarkable resistance to a deadly neurotoxin.
In a somewhat related field, the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Virginia at ISSCC presented a paper on a 19uW battery-less energy harvesting chip for body area sensors. Conventional wireless sensors are powered from a battery. In contrast, the two universities propose a chip “powered by energy harvested from human body heat using a thermoelectric generator (TEG).”
A forthcoming study by University of Virginia\'s Darden School of Business looked at borrowers who obtained loans from nonprofit, nonbank community development financial institutions. The study found that borrowers who received business technical assistance were 40% more successful than those who did not.