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Over the last two months, researchers from the Pew Research Center and The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia noted that historically Americans who were highly educated were less likely to marry or be religious, while those less educated favored the two practices. As times have changed, the attitudes towards marriage and religion have reversed.

Louis Auchincloss Law School graduate and author A Voice from Old New York Christian Science Monitor / Dec. 22 Will Shortz Law School graduate and crossword editor of The New York Times Interview With Will Shortz New York Times (blog) / Dec. 21

George Cohen Law professor Analysis: NY suit against Ernst & Young fills regulatory gap Reuters / Dec. 21 Ed Lengel Editor of the Papers of George Washington Project Charlottesville--Right Now: Ed Lengel Charlottesville Podcasting Network / Dec. 20 Larry Sabato Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics Obama: Do You Like Me Yet? NPR / Dec. 21 and Slow growth means 2 lost seats for N.Y. Newsday / Dec. 21 and Census: Both VA and WV Grew WHSV (W.Va. Associated Press) / Dec. 21 Jerry Stenger Director of the climatology office Snow still possible this weekend Richmond Times-Disp...

Siva Vaidhyanathan Professor of media studies and law    Vaidhyanathan recommends the book, "Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda" by Carolyn de la Pena.

Researchers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and King's College London found children who were more challenging at age 5 also required greater effort from their teacher at age 12.

Editorial on sociologist C. Bradford Wilcox's latest report from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values, "The State of our Unions."

In collaboration with the University of Virginia, Raytheon BBN Technologies will conduct a theoretical and experimental program of study investigating newly engineered quantum states of light to perform imaging with performance superior to conventional techniques.

Editorial discusses funding of Virginia state colleges and universities

West Virginian Rick Holston received a double lung transplant at U.Va. hospital last year.

History professor Brian Balogh, one of the "Backstory" American history guys, and Andrew Windham, executive producer of "Backstory" and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ Director of Media Programs, discuss the history of Christmas.

Article discusses U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan's Faculty Budget Advisory Committee.

Thomas Jones Former U.Va. football star The Kansas City Chiefs running back became the 25th player in NFL history to surpass the 10,000-yard rushing mark during a victory over the St. Louis Rams.

Robert Fatton Politics professor Haiti looks for a way out of election chaos McClatchy Network News / Dec. 20 James Davison Hunter Sociologist How The Religious Right Lost New Republic / Dec. 20 Jack Oakes Assistant dean for career development How Has the MBA Job Search Changed? Business Week / Dec. 20 Larry Sabato Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics VIRGINIA: Census unlikely to earn Va. another Congress seat Delmarva Now (Associated Press) / Dec. 21 Dr. Ronald Turner School of Medicine professor of pediatrics and cold expert Got a cold? Study says echinacea won't ...

Brad Wilcox of the National Marriage Project About Wilcox's study, “When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America.”

Areva worked in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Engineering & Research facility, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech to establish the digital control simulator in Bedford.

Renate Houts of Duke University, Avshalom Caspi and Terrie E. Moffitt of Duke, Robert C. Pianta of the University of Virginia and Louise Arseneault of King’s College London co-wrote the study, which showed that children who were more challenging at 5 years old required more teacher effort at age 12. The researchers also found that something genetic makes them that way.

U.Va.'s Partnership for Leaders in Education, a joint venture between the Curry School of Education and the Darden Graduate School for Business Administration, is working with the Richmond School Board to improve professional development within Richmond Public Schools.

A trio of legislators spoke to a crowd of University of Virginia employees.

The death on December 13 of U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who was President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, blew a gaping hole in the U.S. team heading up the civilian mission of the White House's strategy. ... State Department spokesman Philip Crowley announced the day after Holbrooke's death, on December 14, that one of his top deputies, Frank Ruggiero would step in as acting special envoy. ...Ruggiero earned a masters degree in Middle Eastern affairs from Washington, D.C.'s American University and is pursuing a Ph.D. in U.S. foreign policy in Asia from the Unive...