A new study, just published last week in the Journal of Population Economics, finds that delaying motherhood may be a good move, at least financially. The study, “The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path,” by Amalia R. Miller of the University of Virginia, found that postponing motherhood led to substantial earnings gains for women—some 9% per year of delay, or an increase in wages of 3% annually and a jump in work hours of about 6%. The effect was largest for college-educated women and those in white-collar jobs.
Lowell Weicker Jr. is thinking outside the box. Weicker's U.S. Senate papers are part of a new permanent library collection that opens Wednesday at the University of Virginia where the Republican-turned-independent founder of A Connecticut Party received his law degree. They occupy 2,033 cardboard boxes -- that's 911 linear feet.
Myron Steele
A Law School alumnus
Dr. Nathan Fountain
Professor in the Department of Neurology
FDA Committee Rejects Expanded Indication for Rasagiline
Medscape News | Oct. 17
Parke Muth
Senior assistant dean and director of international admission
The safe, predictable essay will be DOA
The Charlotte Observer | Oct. 18
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Obama basks in Southern hospitality on bus tour
Associated Press | Oct. 18, 2011
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Why Occupy Wall Street and Democratic pols aren't exactly pals
‎Christian Science Monitor | Oct. 18
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Virginia to Decide Obama's Fate in 2012
‎NewsMax.com |...
What do marriage and family have to do with economic growth? A lot, in fact. According to a new international report, there are multiple links between a strong economy and marriage and family. The Sustainable Demographic Dividend—put together by the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, and other universities throughout the world—highlights these links and argues that "the long-term fortunes of the modern economy rise and fall with the family."
Because of the fragile economy, divorce in the US is also undergoing a different dynamic. Aside from fighting on who gets the kids, another issue is 'who pays the debt?'. And it has affected women more than men. A study by University of Virginia's National Marriage Project show that for the past four years, divorce rates have followed the ups and downs of the US economy.
Some students at the University of Virginia are roughing it in the great outdoors this week for a good cause. Sunday night was their first under the stars for Sleep Out for the Homeless. It's an annual fundraiser. This year, the event benefits The Haven at First and Market in Charlottesville. The Haven provides the homeless with resources.
Many parents will soon hear from their pediatricians that bumper pads should not be used in cribs because babies can suffocate against or be strangled by the popular bedding product. The American Academy of Pediatrics set the guideline for its physicians as part of updated policies to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.
Dr. Fern R. Hauck, a member of the academy's SIDS task force and a professor of family medicine, is quoted in the article.
Douglas Laycock, the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law who represented Hosanna Tabor before the high court in Hosanna Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is extensively quoted.
John T. Broderick Jr.
A law school alumnus and dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law
UNH Law Dean Broderick to be honored
Seacoastonline.com | Oct. 17
William J. Stuntz
A Law School alumnus and author "The Collapse of American Criminal Justice"
The Rule of Law Is Broken
The Chronicle of Higher Education | Oct. 16
The campus culture largely embraces poker. Last November, engineering students at the University of Maryland hosted their fourth annual Casino Night, an evening of card-playing and networking. A student charity at the University of Virginia holds annual “Hold ‘em for Hunger” tournaments.
A project started by two University of Virginia grad students studying architecture is wrapping up its first fall season bringing local, organic fish from the pond to the pan. It's called C'Ville Community-Supported Fishery, or CSF, and you can catch them twice a month at the Charlottesville City Market.
Eve Privman an Eric Ness
Medical students
Gerald Baliles
Former Virginia governor, now director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs
Baliles recalls his efforts to recruit Dorsey for NCI
Martinsville Bulletin | Oct. 16
Brian Balogh
history professor and co-host of BackStory with the American History Guys which airs on NPR and Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics
Need to Know: The politics of resentment, from the tea party to Occupy Wall Street
PBS | Oct. 14
Robin Dripps and Lucia Phinney
Professor and lecturer in the School of ARchitecture respectively
Flat-out fast: Pursuing speed record on salt flats
Charlot...
No wonder that beauty, as word as well as subject and phenomenon, has been and remains utterly compelling to poets. "What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth," wrote John Keats in a letter to Benjamin Bailey in 1817—Keats who also ended "Ode to a Grecian Urn" with the famous, enigmatic lines, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Byron, Baudelaire, Dickinson, Hopkins, and Emerson come immediately to mind as poets who have considered the various roles of beauty in our lives and imagination...
Lisa Russ Spaar, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, won this year's Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry. She is the author of seven books of poetry and won the Library of Virginia's poetry prize in 2009 for "Satin Cash." The Weinstein Prize, established in 2005, is awarded each year to a poet with strong connections to central Virginia.
For almost two centuries, a sprawling English yew tree sheltered the grave of Edgar Allan Poe's mother at historic St. John's Church on Church Hill. ... Over time, whatever markings there were for her grave disappeared, and the precise location of her final resting place became unknown until The Raven Society of the University of Virginia determined that she had been buried within a few feet of the yew tree. The Raven Society, which maintains the heritage of Edgar Allan Poe's work, erected a handsome memorial marker on the spot in 1927.
By Betty Shotton, a U.Va. alumna and author of "Liftoff Leadership"
When I arrived at the University of Virginia in the fall of 1970, I was naively unaware of the challenges I would face as part of the first class of women admitted to this traditional, all male, southern university. ... Thirty-five years later at a reunion of “the firsts”, I was gratified to hear the Dean of Admissions from that time say that they purposefully choose women who wouldn’t open doors, but women who would knock down doors. That was in fact what we unconsciously had to do as we rede...
The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business is being recognized globally for excellence in education. The Economist magazine ranked Darden the fourth best overall MBA program, not just in the United States, but in the world. Folks at the Darden School are buzzing about this news. Not only did they take a spot in the top five MBA programs in the world, but they ranked first in the world for education experience.