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The Huffington Post asked the Princeton Review to shares its list of the 16 colleges in its flagship book, "The Best 376 Colleges" (published August 2011) that earned a 99 -– the highest possible score -- on the Company's unique "Admissions Selectivity Rating." U.Va. made the list.

Stefan Hirniak Alumnus His early success eventually earned him a scholarship to the University of Virginia, where, under heard coach Mark Bernardino’s tutelage, Hirniak learned a philosophy of physical domination.

Eryn Brennan Alumna Brennan's 223: County planner turns historic image-finder The Hook / March 14 Austin Smith Alumnus Austin Smith awarded creative writing fellowship at Stanford Journal-Standard (Ill.) / March 14 Debbie L. Sydow Alumna, U.Va.'s College at Wise New Richard Bland College president named Richmond Times-Dispatch / March 15

Steven W. Evans Evans worked in the telecommunications department at the University of Virginia, as a systems administrator.

Daniel McDowell Bankard Fund for Political Economy Predoctoral Fellow and doctoral candidate in international relations China is poised to take another significant step in promoting the yuan’s use in global trade settlement by extending yuan-denominated loans to the other BRICS nations: Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa.

Jonathan Haidt Professor of psychology Subtle schism Economic Times (India) / March 15 and blogcritics / March 14 The Truth About Liberal Bias in Academia Kyle Kondik Political analyst, Center for Politics Experts Say Gingrich Unlikely to Drop Out Now U.S. News & World Report / March 14 Craig Littlepage Athletics director Littlepage, at senior center, bemoans distractions of college athletics Charlottesville Daily Progress / March 14 Barbara Perry Scholar of the American presidency at the Miller Center Bloomberg News/ March 14 U.S. Health-Care Ruling Seen Politicized and Obama tested by eve...

In a landmark study published last year, sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa used the test to measure collegiate learning in the nation. Using data drawn from a sampling of colleges, they shook the academic world with a finding that 36 percent of students made no significant learning gains from freshman to senior year.

A new study shows ice cream could have the same effect on some folks as cocaine. Dr. Erik Gunderson of the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences explained, "They\'re trying to hone in on parts of the brain that are associated with reward. This is the same reward that\'s involved with different drugs of abuse."

Nurses still face a high risk of blood exposure while inserting peripheral IV catheters, according to a recent study from the International Healthcare Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia.

The study, by Martha J. Bailey and Brad Hershbein, of the University of Michigan, and Amalia R. Miller, of the University of Virginia, took advantage of a "natural experiment" in the 1970s: States lowered their age of consent, for getting the pill without parental permission, from 21 to 18 during that decade—but did so at different times.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin Law professor and author of 2011 book on the civil rights movement, "Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement" Anne F. Hyde, Daniel T. Rodgers and Tomiko Brown-Nagin have been revealed as the three winners this year of the coveted Bancroft Prize for history.

Around 800 students and staff of Semester at Sea (SAS), a shipboard programme for studying abroad, anchored in Kochi as part of their 105-day academic voyage around the world on their campus, MV Explorer, on Monday. ... Administered by Virginia-based Institute for Shipboard Education and sponsored by University of Virginia the student vessel will depart for their next destination on Saturday.

The University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, formed in 2007, was listed in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013 graduate and professional school rankings. The school ranked No. 46 among schools of public affairs. Several other UVa programs were included in the rankings for their category, including the School of Law, which rose from No. 9 to No. 7 in this year’s report.

... the university founded by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia, has the same very low proportion of Pell Grant students amongst its students as Princeton, and actually a lower proportion than Yale (11 percent vs. 13 percent). With a multibillion-dollar endowment and large out-of-state enrollments, schools like the University of Michigan and UVA are more like private universities already than the public’s perception of a state university.

Room Key, a new online hotel search and booking firm backed by six of the world’s top hotel companies, has acquired Charlottesville-based firm hotelicopter. ...Hotelicopter was founded by Adam Healey and Charles Seilheimer. They met while studying at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and founded hotelicopter in 2006.

By Anushay Hossain Last week, my husband and I made a trip down to Charlottesville to my alma mater, the University of Virginia, with our six month old daughter, Ava. ... As I strolled through the shadows of my twenties still hanging around the edges of the  iconic pillars and columns of Jefferson’s village, a wave of nostalgia came over me, as it often does when I return to UVA, one of the few places I miss and long for even while I am there.

Richard J. Bonnie Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law and author of 1999 book "The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States" Chronicle Book Review: The Marijuana Conviction Hawaii News Daily / Mar. 13 Robert Fatton Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs and a Haiti expert Comment: America's subversion of Haiti's democracy continues The Guardian / Mar. 13 John Quale Associate professor of architecture and ecoMOD project director Building skyscrapers at record speed Marketplace on NPR / Mar. 12

... The study, by the International Healthcare Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia, finds that half of nurses experience blood exposure on their skin or in their eyes, nose, or mouth at least once a month when inserting a peripheral IV catheter.

... [Jessi] Witt and coauthors Sally A. Linkenauger of Max Planck Institute-Tubingen and Dennis R. Proffitt of the University of Virginia decided they should do a study on how to improve performance. For the experiment, the researchers used a well-known optical illusion. They set up a golf hole on a ramp and used a projector to shine a ring of circles around the hole. ... The putters sank more putts when the hole looked bigger-about 10 percent more.