The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has launched a blog that aims to provide historical context to the 2012 presidential election.
The statesman who helped broker a peace in Northern Ireland will be among the recipients of this years Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. The medals are the highest external honors bestowed by the University of Virginia. UVa does not give out honorary degrees.
Researchers at the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University have received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue the search for new methods of fighting tumors deep in the brain.
Dewey G. Cornell
Director, Virginia Youth Violence Project
February has brought spate of school shootings
ABC2 / Feb. 28
Douglas Laycock
Law professor
Supreme Court avoids talking about God in school
Deseret News / Feb.25
Michael Lenox
Business professor
Pushing Free Online Learning in a New Direction
Bloomberg Businessweek / Feb. 27
Douglas Laycock
Law professor
Affirmative action attacked again
The Western Courier / Feb. 24
Larry Sabato
Politics professor
Opinion: Swing State Voters Oppose ObamaCare
Wall Street Journal Video / Feb. 27
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Cliffhanger Michigan Primary Holds Key to GOP No...
On the night after President Obama delivered his State of the Union address, his regional field director and youth vote director for Charlottesville stood at the front of a 150-seat lecture hall at the University of Virginia, sharing re-election plans with 20 members of the University Democrats.
‘‘I’m going to retire from this game,’’ mutters UVA junior Jarmere Jenkins. He roots around behind the heavy curtains hanging in front of the wall behind Court 7 at the Boyd Tinsley Tennis Center, the Boar’s Head Sports Club’s cavernous indoor tennis facility, searching for a stray ball and collecting his thoughts.
The National Law Journal has your guide. The publication ranked the top 50 law schools based on the percentage of graduates who took jobs at the country’s biggest 250 firms by headcount. Harvard topped the list of the most alumni promoted to partner in 2011, with 47. University of Virginia School of Law was next, with 35.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals will hold oral arguments at the University of Virginia (UVA) Law School Caplin Auditorium on March 23, 2012. A Fourth Circuit panel holds an appellate argument session at the University every three years.
Stanford University started the first Supreme Court clinic for students in 2004 and is still involved in the most cases. But schools with clinics now include Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Virginia and the University of Texas. In the past three years, clinics report that students have been involved in about 1 out of every 6 cases argued before the court. This week, students are participating in two of the court’s cases.
Nicole Poltash and Reginald Benbow, cordial and welcoming, are tied to deeply rooted traditions, legacies some would say, as residents of the Lawn at the University of Virginia.
A momentous reunion is happening at the University of Virginia. No, we’re not talking about alumni returning to town to relive their glory days. This goes back much further than even Mr. Jefferson himself—all the way to 14th century Italy, when painter Bartolo di Fredi took up his brush to create an altarpiece for a church in his native city of Siena. As he applied his tempera and gold leaf, he surely didn’t imagine that half a century later parts of his painting would scatter across the globe, nor that they would be reunited for “The Adoration of the Magi by Bartolo di...
The Virginia women\'s basketball team won its third game in a row to end the regular season on a strong note, downing Florida State on the road, 66-57. The Cavs will be the sixth seed in the ACC Tournament.
Jody Kielbasa
Director, Virginia Film Festival
Wake-Up Call: The 2012 Oscar Show
WNRN / Feb. 26
Maurie McInnis
Art professor and associate dean
Black History Month: Painting told slavery story
Richmond Times-Dispatch / Feb. 27
Larry J. Sabato
Politics professor and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Getting Name Recognition the Hard Way
The New York Times / Feb 25
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For McDonnell, spotlight turns harsh in abortion debate
GoDanRiver.com / Feb. 26
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Virginia: State Senate Votes Today on Controversial Anti-Abortion Bill
Southern Political Report Feb. 27
Jim Tucker
Psychiatry professo...
Wise might seem the last place you’d expect to mourn a scientist, a neurobiologist, in fact, and a leader in public higher education. But on Wise’s main commercial street earlier this month, the electronic message-board read simply: "Chancellor David Prior, 1943-2012. We will miss you."
Bob Pianta
Curry School dean
Commentary: Good question, wanting answer
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Feb. 26
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Editorial: What is the Right Way to evaluate a Teacher?
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Feb. 26
Students can listen to video lectures – which are not for credit – and interact on message boards with instructors from top business schools, such as Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business.
The University of Virginia Children's Hospital joined forces with the Children's Miracle Network to sponsor UVA's 14th Annual Dance Marathon.
An interesting paradox: With just a few shifts in emphasis, the conclusions of a new study about parental leave in academia can be made to sound like a blow for fairness to women – the view of its authors – or ”an insult to women everywhere … worthy of a 19th-century screed” – the view of an irate letter-writer who read about it in a University of Virginia publication.
Cancer treatment drugs developed by two Charlottesville-based biotech firms are set to begin clinical trials in a few weeks. Dr. Michael Weber of U.Va.’s Cancer Center said, "There really are two major components to this. One of them is getting not only closer, but faster and shorter relationships between U.Va. research and the private sector, and the other aspect of it is taking our discoveries out into the community."