The University of Virginia Art Museum has launched an online collection catalog.
Alumnus Pankaj Vir Gupta, a partner at the New Delhi based firm Vir.Mueller Architects, is writing a new "Urban Journal" series for the Wall Street Journal's "India Real Time" blog
Siva Vaidhyanathan's new book, "The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)," contains a number of arresting observations that will likely jolt many readers about their relationship to the world's dominant search engine.
A new Web-based tool called N-Print from the International Nitrogen Initiative, a global network of scientists, was recently released to help concerned citizens curb their contribution to the worldwide problem of nitrogen pollution. ... environmental scientist James N. Galloway, associate dean for the sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences ... in conjunction with Allison Leach, a staff research assistant at the University of Virginia and colleagues from the Netherlands and the University of Maryland, has launched this tool in an attempt to foster a greater understanding of nitrogen&rsquo...
... Matsa and co-author Amalia Miller of the University of Virginia and the RAND Corp. found that, while the effect of a higher percentage of women on the board resulted in a higher percentage of women in executive positions, it could take "multiple years," Matsa added.
... Arum and co-author Josipa Roksa, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, found that undergrads study only 13 hours per week, on average, or less than two hours per day in a typical semester. That’s half as much as their peers studied in the early 1960s.
...Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, said ...the prospect of retiring can seem threatening to faculty members' sense of themselves, and many want more than anything to keep an office or lab space on campus after they retire. "Retirement for faculty members is social death -- or, at least, they're afraid it will be," Sullivan said. ... "For most faculty members, getting a gold watch is not important," Sullivan said, "but leaving a legacy is."
The greater Charlottesville region is home to more than 17 percent of the state’s biotech companies, based on information from the Virginia Bioscience Directory. ... With much of this innovation sparked by the University of Virginia, the region is doing well in comparison with other parts of the state. But more could be accomplished. ...
Parke Muth
Dean of international admissions
Tri-Valley won't affect new Indian enrolment in US: Experts
Economic Times (India) / Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) / Mar. 7
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Changing his ways, Rogers helps lead GOP effort to cut spending
Miami Herald / McClatchy Newspapers / Mar. 5
Brad Wilcox
Sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project
Marriage ranks dwindle, but many couples still believe
San Jose Mercury News / McClatchy Newspapers / Mar. 6
By Grace-Marie Turner, Heather R. Higgins and Alex Cortes, a fourth-year student and executive director of Let Freedom Ring
We're already seeing ObamaCare's madness in its first year of implementation, which is why the American people continue to call for defunding, repealing and replacing it with more sensible reforms. Here are a few examples of the mayhem.
By R.K. Ramazani, professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs and a Middle East specialist
... The Obama administration would be well advised to make it clear to the Arab people and the outside world that it pursues an all-inclusive strategy in regard to peaceful political change in the Arab world, including the process of transition to democracy, regardless of religion, race, and gender.
By Peter Rodriguez, a Darden School associate dean for international affairs, and director of the Center for Global Initiatives
... The future of Iraq's economy can be bettered through greater commitments to economically productive institutions and by firms willing to invest wisely while the future remains highly uncertain.
By law student Andrew Peach and Richard Bonnie, the Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, and Professor of Public Policy and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy.
... In the final analysis, Obamacare's individual mandate may be imprudent, a product of haste, partisanship and political miscalculation, and a novel and expansive exercise of federal power. But however vociferous the objections may be, it is well within Congress' constitutional authority as understood by a firm majority of the Supreme Court, including Scalia.
A scientist at the University of Virginia has created a new web-based tool that measures your nitrogen footprint so you can take steps to reduce it. Jim Galloway is an environmental scientist and Associate Dean for the Sciences at UVA's College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The commission, being represented without charge by a lawyer with the University of Virginia Law School, has until Tuesday to file its opening brief with the high court. Oral arguments on the case are scheduled for April 27 in Washington.
His gentle nature and love for children long have made him a most welcome visitor to the University of Virginia's Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center, where he serves as a certified therapy dog.