A panel of pundits and pollsters gathered at the University of Virginia for a Center for Politics event, Inside the 2012 Elections.
Schools with Supreme Court clinics now include Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Virginia and the University of Texas. ... "There's no other place in the legal curriculum where students are put up against the best people in the country on the most cutting-edge issues of law," said Dan Ortiz, a law professor at the University of Virginia and co-director of its clinic, which was involved in four cases before the court in the last year.
Americans, it seems, have never been more polarized about religion and politics. With minds made up and combat-ready, we have a hard time bridging the chasms that divide us. In The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, explains why. A moral perspective, he argues, is a feature of our evolutionary design.
A recent study from the University of Virginia suggests that when a school has a climate of bullying, it’s not just the targeted kids who suffer — the entire school lags academically.
The 2012 Virginia football schedule includes the first Thursday night game at Scott Stadium in six years.
Jeffrey Barth
Director, Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Institute
Weighing the effects of sports-related head injuries
Summit Daily.com / Feb. 29
David Breneman
economics professor
Not From My Wallet
Inside Higher Ed / Feb. 29
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Law professor
Supreme Court Case Could Change the Face of College Campuses
Annandale Patch / Feb. 29
Dewey Cornell
Education professor
Alleged Ohio school shooter: 'Die, all of you'
Hakaii Now / Feb. 28
Kyle Kondik
Politics professor
Democrats grow confident of House win
Financial Times / Feb. 28
David Martin
Law professor
Alabama's immigration...
Penn Law placed 56.93 percent of its 2011 graduates, or 156 of 274, at the nation’s 250 largest law firms. That percentage was the highest in the nation. U.Va. Law School was among the top.
We've ranked the top 50 law schools by the percentage of 2011 juris doctor graduates who took jobs at NLJ 250 firms, the nation's largest by headcount as identified by The National Law Journal's annual survey.
The University of Virginia has announced the 2012 recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, the highest external honors given by the Charlottesville school.
The University of Virginia has announced the 2012 recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, the highest external honors given by the Charlottesville school.
The University of Virginia Tuesday announced the recipients of the 2012 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in architecture, law and citizen leadership.
The University of Virginia will host an engineering open house from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 17 in Thornton Hall. More than 1,000 prospective students and family members attend the event each spring.
Yiorgos Allayannis is one of many superstar teachers at UVA-Darden, and his evolution shows how the school has made teaching an integral part of its culture.
The University Nursing School is holding a conference on the effects of violence in the home.
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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