Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will give the keynote address in this symposium at the University of Virginia Law School. Appeals-court judges will speak, too. Justice Thomas's address will be at the Boar's Head Inn. Friday and next Saturday;
A new support system will soon be available for caregivers with loved ones suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Connections, a free eight-week in-home training program, was piloted through the University of Virginia and tested over a two-year period. Anyone is eligible to participate in the program regardless of the degree of dementia or Alzheimer’s they have. ...
... Washington did not seek the office. His ascendance to the presidency was a far cry from the prolonged and expensive campaigns of today. The nation's first president was, in fact, somewhat reluctant to take the seat, but “accepted the inevitability of his election as president,” as a University of Virginia account [http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/inaugural/index.html] put it. ...
Modern conceptions of the Civil War grossly underestimate the importance of political union as a motivator to the northern psyche, said Professor Gary W. Gallagher, speaking Monday at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. The 150th anniversary of the conflict’s start will be in April. ...
When it comes to the indoor season, the Virginia men’s tennis program continues to crush everything in its way. On Monday in Seattle, top-ranked UVa became the first school to ever win four straight ITA Indoor Team titles, obliterating third-ranked Tennessee, 4-0. ...
Presidents Day may be the one day out of the year that many Americans give more than a passing thought to the history of the U.S. presidency. But for preservationists, it's a subject they think about day in and day out. The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has been working for more than a decade to transcribe and digitize more than 5,000 hours of White House tapes dating from the administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Richard Nixon.
"Our job is to go through that material and try and make it useful and accessible to historians and students," says...
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. ...