A Smithsonian museum is restoring the Jefferson Bible, a unique volume the third president cut and pasted himself -- omitting lots of theology -- from portions of the New Testament.
Denise Laughlin Stewart
Who has a master's degree in playwriting
Denise Laughlin Stewart, originally from Mooresville, is a woman who loves stories—listening to them and telling them. Her new one-woman show, “Dirty Barbie and Other Girlhood Tales,” will make its world premiere at Lee Street Theatre in Salisbury, March 23-26 at 7:30 p.m.
[Chris] Henrich is 32-2 this season and the fifth seed in the 174-pound weight class. He finished third at the same weight last year and is now the Cavaliers' only two-time All-America, their all-time winningest wrestler at 133-18, and if all goes as planned Saturday night, the school's first national champion.
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
The lessons of globalisation
The Economist / March 16
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics
Aristide expected to return to Haiti in days after seven years in exile
Miami Herald / March 16
W. Reed Johnson
Professor emeritus of nuclear engineering
Politics determine nuclear roadmap: experts
MarketWatch / March 16
Douglas Laycock
Professor of law
Debating the Display of Ten Commandments in Public Schools and Buildings
Voice of America / March 16
Brad Wilcox
Associate professor of sociology
Christians question divorce statist...
University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says that would be an even race hinging on President Obama's popularity in the commonwealth.
The University of Virginia (UVA) is planning a 2012 launch of its Hy-V (high five) hypersonic engine demonstrator on a two-stage sounding rocket out of the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
[Michael] Suarez told a Virginia Festival of the Book audience on Wednesday that digitizing books may preserve linguistic codes, but that other aspects of a book disappear.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan will be formally installed next month as the eighth president of the state’s flagship university.
Long before most students drag themselves out of their beds this morning, the University of Virginia football players will have completed a workout. Coach Mike London opens spring practice today with a new start time for daily practices – 6 a.m.
No. 6 Virginia is off to a great start again, sporting a 16-1 record, having just swept a three-game weekend series at No. 4 Clemson. But the game the Cavaliers are playing this year in no way resembles what they did last year. And the fans and players know it. And there is one big reason why — the bat. … The new standards placed on college bats were to make them more like their wooden counterparts, and tone down the velocity of the ball off the bat.
Alphabet Management LLC, a New York-based hedge fund that uses options to bet on the volatility of stocks and other assets, promoted Nelson Saiers to chief investment officer eight months after he joined the firm. … He earned his doctorate in math from the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, at 23.
Features Griffith, a graduate in political and social thought, who will become director of Washington University's John C. Danforth Center for Religion & Politics in July
Karin Agness, College '06, Law '09, founder of Network of Enlightened Women
The Marines aren’t the only ones looking for a few good men. So is the Network of Enlightened Women. Specifically, it wants a few good gentlemen. The conservative college women’s organization has tapped March, the month that celebrates women’s history, for its annual Gentlemen’s Showcase, an online popularity contest that culls the testosterone-infused, scraggly bearded herd roaming most college campuses looking for a few “keepers.”
Essay by Hannah Silver, third-year undergraduate architecture student, a finalist in Nicholas Kristof's competition, Win-a-Trip.
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics
Manigat campaigns on her own terms for Haiti presidency
McClatchy Newspapers / March 15
Charlotte Patterson
Professor of psychology
Gay families more accepted than single moms
msnbc.com / March 16
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
Being 1st to jump into 2012 race may benefit Pawlenty
St. Cloud (Minn.) Times / March 16
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Obama takes cautious approach on Libya no-fly zone
Reuters / March 15
Features Charles Kromkowski, visiting lecturer in the Department of Politics, whose students are taking part in a statewide competition in redistricting.
Features an article in the Journal of the American College of Radiologists by Jeff Goldsmith, associate professor of public health sciences.
Eisenberg… has taught at the University of Virginia in the fall term since 1994. She was named a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow in 2009.
A study published in the journal Psychological Science said: “When people first meet, it may be that popular dating advice is correct – keeping people in the dark about how much we like them will increase how much they think about us and will pique their interest.” The researchers – Erin Whitchurch and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University – analysed 47 female undergraduates.
… [T]he only changes in the [US News & World Report] top 10 from a year earlier: University of Michigan Law School jumped up two spots to No. 7, the University of California, Berkeley School of Law slid two notches to No. 9., while the University of Virginia School of Law moved up one spot to tie for No. 9.