A younger generation coming into its own politically is bringing to a close decades of rule by hard-line regimes in the Mideast, and that's a prospect the United States should welcome, says a University of Virginia expert on the region. "The main demand for the young is not Islam. It's for more openness, it's for more freedom, and it's for more democracy," said William Quandt, a U.Va. professor of government and foreign affairs who worked on the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt. ...
Richard L. Williams
Law, 1951
Perry Moore
U.Va., College of Arts & Sciences, English
... [Head U.Va. baseball coach Brian] O’Connor was among those that were excited to see positive results. “David’s situation shows his loyalty to this program, his dedication to get the University of Virginia degree,” the skipper said. ...
David Breneman
Newton and Rita Meyers Professor in Economics of Education
and Robert O'Neil
Law Professor emeritus, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and former U.Va. president
University model for UW autonomy
Break-off of Virginia schools in 2005 gets mixed reviews
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel / Feb. 20
Dewey Cornell
Education professor
Suicide turns attention to Fairfax discipline procedures
Washington Post / Feb. 20
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
What Was Mubarak Thinking? Inside the Mind of a Dictator
The Temasek Review / Feb. 19
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Will Anderson
U.Va. alumnus
Parachute landing itself in whirlwind of sweet success
Great Falls Tribune / Feb. 19
Joshua Darden
U.Va. alumnus and former rector of the University's Board of Visitors
Businessman receives rarely given philanthropist award
The Virginian-Pilot / Feb. 19
Kirk Lindgren
Physics and education alumnus
Service work stretches students
The Charleston Post and Courier / Feb. 21
40 teams formed by students of high schools across the commonwealth participated in the FIRST Tech Challenge, which was held in the University of Virginia. ...
... A new study from researchers at the University of Virginia found that teens in dog-owning families logged about 15 extra minutes of moderate-to-vigorous activity per week. ...
... Previous studies have shown that socioeconomic status has an influence on the expression of genes for mental ability across the life span, beginning at age 7. The UT research, in collaboration with the University of British Columbia and the University of Virginia, suggests that the interaction between genes and family income begins even earlier, effectively creating a performance gap between poor and wealthy children by the age of 2. ...
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Colgan, D-Prince William, is pushing a proposal that would use more than $500 million in general fund-supported bonds to finance construction and renovation projects on public buildings across the commonwealth. The plan includes money to renovate the historic Rotunda at the University of Virginia. ...
Catherine Brown owes her life to a fellow University of Virginia student, a middle school health class and a dummy. Now, Brown and her lifesaver are hoping to raise money and awareness on the need for all people to learn basic life-saving skills. They have raised more than $29,000 to buy 100 CPR mannequins and other equipment to make training available for more people. ...
The University of Virginia unveiled a powerful new microscope Friday, one
that will let its scientists chart exactly how atoms line up with one another. Officially designated a Titan scanning-transmission electron microscope, the machine is one of only 18 such instruments owned by universities nationwide. ...
Flash mobs assemble in public spaces to dance, protest or do battle with lightsabers. And at the University of Virginia, thanks to Laura Nelson, they gather to learn. Once or twice a week, students at the state's flagship public university collect in some idle classroom or lounge for a "flash seminar," an ad hoc performance of pedagogy. The time and place, professor and students are always different. But the goal never varies: "to find learning outside the classroom," said Nelson, 22, a senior from Westwood, Mass., who is majoring in political and social thought. "To f...
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan will be inaugurated in April with a week of activities that will include an interfaith vigil, an academic symposium and a scenic walk on the historic Grounds. The new presidents of Virginia State University, the University of Mary Washington and Longwood University plan inaugural celebrations this fall formally recognizing the turnover in leadership at four public schools last summer. Nearly two years into his presidency, no plans have been set for an inauguration of Virginia Commonwealth University President Michael Rao. ...
Brandon Garrett
Law professor
Forensics Under the Microscope
Newsweek / Feb. 17
Dr. Robert O'Connor
Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine
"They come well-equipped:" Rescue 57 faces funding crunch
Eastern Iowa Government / Feb. 18
Dr. Karen Rheuban
Director of the Center for Telehealth
Boucher recalled as region-builder
Martinsville Bulletin / Feb. 17
James E. Ryan
Law professor
Calvin C. Green, plaintiff in Va. desegregation case, dies at 79
Richmond Times-Dispatch / Feb. 18
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Experts: Chris Christi...
Kal Raustiala, a professor at UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, and Chris Sprigman, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, are experts in counterfeiting and intellectual property. They have been guest-blogging for us about copyright issues. This week, they write about a recent Jeff Koons controversy.
Wisconsin is looking to Virginia as a model for restructuring its university system, and UW officials have approached Gov. Scott Walker about becoming a more entrepreneurial and independent university with more authority to raise tuition. But ironically, Virginia itself is effectively putting its own restructuring plan on a two-year hiatus to reevaluate it. A commission appointed by Virginia’s Republican governor is recommending reversing some of the plan’s most significant changes.