Kim M. Keenan
Law School alumna
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People selected Kim M. Keenan, past president of the National Bar Association, for the position of General Counsel of the Association.
Leanna Blevins
Associate director of the New College Institute
For her doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Virginia, Blevins researched access to public higher education for rural populations and is now getting a chance to put what she studied into practice.
Book discusses gardening and farming of first four American presidents.
R.K. Ramazani
Professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs
Gerald Baliles
Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs
Mulroney offers Harper tip on how to get security-perimeter deal with U.S.
Globe and Mail (Canada) / Feb. 11
Andrew Block
Director of the Law School's Child Advocacy Clinic
Non-resident students vexing Chesapeake schools officials
Virginian-Pilot / Feb. 13
Gerald Fogarty
Religious Studies professor
Lateran Pacts: a bird's eye view
Vatican Radio / Feb. 11
Brandon Garrett
Law professor
How innocent people end up behind bars
Wichita Eagle / Feb. 13
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
What Was Mubarak Thinking? Inside the Mind of...
Today also culminates a weeklong campaign by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia called National Marriage Week USA. The initiative, according to its website, seeks to provide research on the health of marriages in America, analysis of social and cultural forces affecting marriage, and ways to increase marriage quality and stability.
A survey released last week by The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia found that despite considerable stress caused by the Great Recession, there is a silver lining: 29 percent of couples report a deeper commitment to their spouse; 38 percent of those surveyed said they had postponed or abandoned plans to divorce.
Erin Whitchurch and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard recruited a group of women, all students at UVA, for a study that found they were most attracted to the men whose feelings remained unknown. They found these mystery men even more attractive than men who openly declared their attraction.
Data was collected from 618 adolescents and their parents by researchers from the University of Virginia. They discovered teens from dog-owning families had higher levels of movement, recording up to 15 minutes more of moderate to vigorous exercise a week.
Researchers at the University of Virginia surveyed 618 pairs of adolescents and their parents living in the Minneapolis area about the number of dogs in the home and how much time they spent physically active.
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Virginia has determined the structure of the protein package that delivers the genetic material of the human immunodeficiency virus to human cells.
The University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service predicts that elementary enrollment in Lynchburg will increase to 4,441 students by fall 2014.
James A. Coan, assistant professor of psychology, talks about his research on couples.
Conservatives believe they won at least a tiny beachhead in a sea of academic liberalism. With help from the Leadership Institute, similar courses are now offered at American University and the University of Virginia.
In the past decade, thousands of people chose to settle in the Shenandoah Valley and drive to Charlottesville and other distant places for work each morning, including 1,800 to the University of Virginia, according to officials and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Hundreds of high school students and their robots took over the University of Virginia on Saturday. The first Tech Challenge brought together more than 40 robotics teams from across the commonwealth.
Article mentions the business incubator at Darden.
At Darden, the case-writing powerhouse at the University of Virginia, plans are afoot to move away from the PDF format in which cases are distributed electronically, to XML, which enables documents to be output into different formats.