Sunday marks the one year anniversary of Morgan Harrington's tragic disappearance. The University of Virginia took time to remember and pay tribute to Harrington at the last place she was seen by anyone.
This week the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs published the recommendations resulting from last fall's David R. Goode National Transportation Policy Conference.
On Monday, the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute and the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs will share their findings on the ruling's effect on campaign financing, Michael Malbin, executive director said.
A bipartisan panel of transportation experts assembled by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and headed by former Transportation secretaries Norman Mineta and Sam Skinner just reported that the nation needs to spend $134 billion to $262 billion a year for 25 years to make its roads, rail systems and air transport world class.
University of Virginia students waking up to the smell of breakfast on Saturday as members of UVa's "Team Fox" serve up pancakes for a purpose. The annual "Pancakes for Parkinson's" breakfast on Grounds aims to raise awareness about Parkinson's disease.
In his Wall Street Journal op-ed, psychology professor Jonathan Haidt said,
"Because a generalized love of liberty doesn't distinguish tea partiers from other Americans, liberals have been free to speculate on the "real" motives behind the movement. ... But the passion of the tea-party movement is, in fact, a moral passion. It can be summarized in one word: not liberty, but karma."
Allison Pugh, assistant professor of sociology, and her research are the subject of a story in the Australian.
"There is a fair amount of research on job insecurity and the decline of the career and how we handle that, but not much on non-work consequences, on how insecurity at work shapes how we feel about home," says Pugh, who is on a one-year fellowship with the University of Sydney’s US Studies Centre. "I am trying to get these two unsettled spheres into the same analytical box."
After earning his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Richmond and his master's in materials science engineering from the University of Virginia -- and after a brief stint in the NFL -- he joined NASA in 1989.
Dana Robbins Schneider
1999 alumna of the College of Arts & Sciences and senior manager for projects at Jones Lang LaSalle
Rita Dove
Commonwealth Professor of English and poet
AMHA hosts street-naming ceremony in honor of civil rights activist, poet-educator
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Harry Harding
Dean of Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a top China specialist
Interview: Scholar accuses U.S. of hypocrisy on exchange rates
Xinhua News Agency / Oct. 15
Matthias Hild
Assistant professor at the Darden School of Business
L.A. Unified to issue its own 'value-added' ratings of district schools
CaliforniaWatch (blog) / Oct. 15
Kathryn Laughan
Nursing professor and domestic violence specialist
Woman U...
Vikram K. Jaswal, of the University of Virginia and his students, A. Carrington Croft, Alison R. Setia, and Caitlin A. Cole, asked whether three-year-olds are more trusting of information they are told than the same information conveyed to them without words.
The money is part of a larger grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education, according to a university news release. The entire grant — which totals $34 million — will fund the Virginia Initiative for Science Teaching and Achievement, or VISTA, a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics initiative headed by George Mason University. ... VISTA programs will take place at three partner universities: William and Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University and George Mason University. Three other Virginia public universities — University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and James...
A 20-year-old Roanoke woman who was last seen alive about a year ago at a concert at the University of Virginia will be remembered this weekend at the school.
Morgan Harrington disappeared Oct. 17, 2009, after leaving a Metallica concert. The Virginia Tech education major’s remains were found in January several miles away on an Albemarle County farm. No arrests have been made.
Harrington vanished after going to a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia.
The Dominion Foundation, the charitable arm of Dominion Virginia Power
The University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Business was among 16 colleges and universities awarded funds to support programs in business, engineering, conservation, environmental and technical studies. McIntire was awarded $40,000 for “Making Business Work,” a lecture-style class that provides an important foundation for understanding the basics of business and is designed for students without previous business courses. Students learn basic theory and skills in the areas of finance, accounting and mar...
According to a recent paper by the University of British Columbia's Elizabeth Dunn, Harvard University's Daniel Gilbert, and the University of Virginia's Timothy Wilson, the happiness you get from small and large purchases alike eventually fades. So go for frequent cheap thrills, not the rare budget breaker.
To find out whether kids are trusting in general or whether there is something special about verbal information, University of Virginia developmental psychologist Vikram Jaswal set up two experiments.
The technology innovations of the last 15 years have wreaked havoc on the media industry -- turning upside down the way we gather, distribute and consume information and entertainment. But from where I sit -- as CEO of Canoe Ventures, the company that is helping to lead the interactive transformation of cable television -- we're only just beginning to understand the implications of the digital media transformation sweeping across our nation.