Researchers Lori Kimball and Wynne Saffer spent more than three years searching for historic records that might contain information about the dozens of slaves owned by President James Monroe. They pored over records at the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, and the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library.
The first presidential candidate to face attack for his religious beliefs was Thomas Jefferson, in the campaign against incumbent John Adams in 1800. Northern clerics branded Jefferson not only a deist, but an “atheist,” a “heretic” and a “Jacobin” of the French Revolution.
With tuition prices continuing to climb and the economy stuck in neutral, families will increasingly demand more information on what they're buying. Like politicians elsewhere, Virginia lawmakers have heard such complaints from parents and decided to do something about it. Over the last two years, the state legislature has passed two bills that, beginning this spring, will give families access to a key component in answering the value-of-college question: median salaries for the graduates of hundreds of academic programs across every public institution and some private colleges in the state.
At 16, Britten enrolled at the University of Virginia to study physics, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1940. During World War II, he joined the Manhattan Project, where he attempted to use magnetic beam techniques to separate and purify isotopes of uranium.
The Virginia Tech Hokies and University of Virginia Cavaliers engaged in a rugged, chest-to-chest, all-out battle of bitter in-state rivals Tuesday night in Cassel Coliseum. … When it was over, the Cavaliers had reason to celebrate their 61-59 victory.
"Productivity measures across national economies have captivated the attention of policy makers and executives alike," writes Steven Kramer, who has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, with co-author Teresa Amabile. "Ultimately, though, the source of productivity is the individual knowledge workers who get things done every day. And the evidence is clear: People perform better when they’re happier."
Paul Cantor
Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English
Ay, caramba, The Simpsons turns 500
The Daily Maverick (Johannesburg, South Africa) / Feb. 22
Jonathan Haidt
Professor of psychology
Commentary: Sharing the spoils
The Economist / Feb. 21
Douglas Laycock
Professor of law
UT's race-conscious admission policy facing Supreme Court test
Austin American-Statesman / Feb. 21
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Supreme Court won't hear appeal of student's anti-Christian lawsuit
Orange County (Calif.) Register / Feb. 21
Terry Rephann
Research associate with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Pay, jobs on the rise
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Ruth Butterworth, a neonatal intensive care nurse on the nightshift at the University of Virginia, packs her punch to stay awake at work. She said, "Coffee for most people, Tab for me."
To help women in academia advance, elite universities should consider scrapping their generous paternity policies. That is the counterintuitive conclusion of a research paper published in the January issue of the Journal of Social, Evolutionary & Cultural Psychology [by Steven Rhoads of the University of Virginia and his son, Christopher Rhoads, of the University of Connecticut.]
According to a forthcoming study by David Law of Washington University in St. Louis and Mila Versteeg of the University of Virginia, new democracies are increasingly turning to the E.U.’s top-down model and rejecting the U.S. Constitution’s more bottom-up approach.
How could this be? In a series of important papers, Christopher Ruhm, an economist at the University of Virginia, has explored the reasons. It appears that while suicide rates rise during downturns, other types of fatalities, such as from motor-vehicle accidents, fall more. The surprising findings apply even to heart attacks.
Four to five billion people in the world don't have clean drinking water like we do in the United States. To help with the problem, University of Virginia students and faculty have developed a new kind of water filter to help provide clean drinking water for developing countries.
In honor of President’s Day I thought it might be fun to take a crack at listing the top 10 presidents most supportive of science. [The list, of course, includes Thomas Jefferson.]
No one tracks the number of such cases, but experts say disagreements between donors and institutions are not unusual. It is rare, however, that they spill into public view. … The University of Virginia is one school that has seen a rise in the number of restricted gifts it receives, a spokeswoman said.
February is National Heart Month, and CBS19’s Michelle Rupp, a six-year heart disease survivor herself, learned more about a new program at the University of Virginia Medical Center that focuses on keeping athletes’ hearts strong and healthy.
"With this new contract we're acknowledging the sustained level of success of our program and the contributions Coach Starsia has made across the board," said Virginia Athletic Director Craig Littlepage. "He is a Hall of Fame coach who has had a profound and positive impact on college lacrosse, college athletics, and the University community."
Rick Tatnall (College '79) is a man with a plan for everything — including a campaign to become mayor of Richmond. Tatnall, 54, of Church Hill, made it official last week that he will challenge Mayor Dwight C. Jones this year. A longtime community activist, Tatnall filed his statement of organization last week at the Richmond registrar's office.
Skip Burzumato
Assistant director of the National Marriage Project
Politifact: Steve Sweeney claims two-thirds of marriages end in divorce
Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger / Feb. 20
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
Who Could Be The First Latino President Of The United States?
President Carter, human rights champion, "provided Americans with an ideal model of post-presidential life," says the University of Virginia's Miller Center. His work as a mediator in international crises is legend. Another legend: Jimmy Carter and the Swamp Rabbit.
It took a little known art museum at the University of Virginia, working together with Jason Lawrence, an assistant professor at the same university and co-founder of the company Arqball, to present a convincing proof-of-concept for how 360° views like the ones we saw in The Elements might convey the magic of 3D objects in art museums' collections. The resulting app, appropriately if unimaginatively titled UVaM, is a delight.