Watch the hazy, lovey-dovey TV ads around Valentine’s Day and you quickly learn that all it takes to win her heart is a looping hoop of designer gold festooned with diamonds and worth about three months' pay. The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia has a different take.
The architecture studios in Campbell Hall at the University of Virginia are filled with new ideas for Charlottesville's Belmont Bridge. Students and faculty are shaping cardboard, metal and plastic to create designs that look beyond mere replacement of the deteriorating structure.
The White House announced the recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medals today. Poet Rita Dove (an English professor at U.Va.) is the leading literary figure among the seven who will receive the National Medal of Arts.
Robert W. Daniel Jr.
1958 graduate of the University, former five-term Congressman
Former congressman Robert W. Daniel Jr. dies at 75
Petersburg Progress-Index / Feb. 10
Catharine Easterly
Law School graduate
Ex-Richmond resident becomes D.C. Court of Appeals judge
The Associated Press / Feb. 10
Asher Grunis
LLM graduate of the School of Law
Asher Grunis to Head Supreme Court
Arutz Sheva (Israel) / Feb. 10
John Kevan Peebles
Celebrated early 20th-century architect
Rooms with a view now open in Old Towne
Petersburg Progress-Index / Feb. 10
More than 100 public college students - including several from Charlottesville - joined Governor Bob McDonnell on the steps of the state Capitol Thursday. They brought along 10,000 signatures asking lawmakers to approve the governor\'s budget items aimed at reducing tuition rates.
Emily Mott
Fourth-year student in arts administration and nonprofit management and founder and co-director of Charlottesville Ballet
Interactive ballet at PVCC
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Jan. 10
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Commentary: Politics and the fast-thinking part of the mind
St. Louis Beacon / Feb. 10
Brian Moriarty
Director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics at U.Va.'s Darden School of Business
Was the Komen flip-flop ethical?
Business News Daily / Feb. 9
Larry J. Sabato
Politics professor and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Big bucks to stoke congressional races in Iowa
Des Moines (Iowa) Register / Feb. 10
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After sweep Tuesday, can Santorum compete in Arizona?
Des Moines (Iowa) Register / Feb. 10
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Mitch Daniels sees role in a G...
Neil Snyder
Ralph A. Beeton Professor Emeritus in the McIntire School of Commerce
Commentary: Ten Things to Consider Before Launching an Attack against Iran
American Thinker / Feb. 10
There's a lot of talk these days about how the Internet and social networking tools are influencing our political system. Of course, this is not the first time new technology has affected the trajectory of the country. One professor in Virginia is looking at how the introduction of television news coverage affected the Civil Rights Movement. In her new book, Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement, University of Virginia scholar Aniko Bodroghkozy says that television news networks came of age just as the civil rights movement was picking up steam.
United States General Services Administrator Martha Johnson told students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business that innovation means you cannot play it safe.
For all you romantics out there, here’s your soundtrack for Valentine’s Day. Soprano Jennifer Lynn Waters and tenor Gerard Powers will join the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra for “Bridges Across Generations,” a program of romantic music from Italian, French, Russian and Viennese opera. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at Cabell Hall Auditorium and at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Monticello High School.
The Pentagon unveiled plans Thursday to allow women to serve in thousands of military jobs closer to the front lines, reflecting the realities of the last decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.A group from the University of Virginia School of Law engaged in the Molly Pitcher Project, an effort to lift the ban on women in combat, said the Pentagon’s new measure does not go far enough.
The University of Virginia kicked off their eight-week recycling competition Thursday. RecycleMania matches over 500 universities against each other to measure how schools handle waste, with categories that range from total recycling to waste reduction.
Former UVa pitcher Danny Hultzen has pledged $100,000 to the University of Virginia baseball program for improvements to Davenport Field.
In celebration of Black History Month, Just Lyricz, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated and the University of Virginia\'s Office of African American Affairs held an open mic Thursday evening.
The Peace Corps says the University of Virginia is among the nation's top volunteer producing schools for 2012. Over 60 undergraduate alumni at UVA are serving overseas with the corps.
Tony Meola and Claudio Reyna
Former U.Va. and U.S. soccer stars who are candidates for the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame
Meola, Reyna should be Hall of Fame shoo-ins
Sporting News / Feb. 9
Anita Clayton
Psychiatry professor
Killing your sex life? / The strange side effects of happiness drugs
McGill Daily (Canada) / Feb. 9
Kyle Kondik
Political analyst at U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Pa. GOP voters quit Gingrich for Santorum
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review / Feb. 9
Douglas Laycock
Law professor and an expert on American religious liberty law
Catholic Texans Fight Contraception Mandate
Texas Tribune / Feb. 8
Barbara Perry
Senior fellow at U.Va.'s Miller Center
Presidents and Their Mistresses: Who Cares?
Discovery News / Feb. 8
Larry J. Sabato
Politics professor and director of U.Va....