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... Katharine Maus, James Branch Cabell Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Virginia, will present "The Properties of Friendship in The Merchant of Venice."

... a local doctor's drug discovery -- combined with the an entrepreneurial strategy by an up-and-coming office affiliated with the University of Virginia -- may change the outlook for patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. ... The UVA Patent Foundation, headquartered in the Lewis & Clark Building downtown, is among the most highly ranked university affiliated patent foundations in the country for its success commercializing faculty research.

The commonwealth of Virginia was first among states in average retention rate of first-year students -- 86 percent -- while spending less than 15 other states on state-funded grants. First of the first was the University of Virginia, where 97 percent of new students returned for their second year. ... It's not as easy as the University of Virginia makes it look. UVa's ranking as No. 1 in the state is due to more than the genius of admissions staff.

Jefferson's anticlericalism is reflected in his University of Virginia having no school of theology and not even a chapel.

The space agency says Leland Melvin has been selected as NASA's new associate administrator for education. Melvin joined NASA in 1989 as an aerospace research engineer at Langley Research Center in Hampton. Melvin received degrees from the University of Richmond and the University of Virginia.

Ann Beattie Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Creative Writing Novelist revisits classic Beattie turf Calgary Herald / Oct. 14 Dr. Sheila E. Crowe Professor of internal medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology in the Health System Gluten Sensitivity Baffles Celiac Disease Specialists Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News / Oct. 12 Jason Druzgal Assistant professor of radiology MRI may be diagnostic tool for autism Deseret News (Salt Lake City) / Oct. 13 Jonathan Haidt Psychology professor Veteran’s Day is Turning Into a Reciprocal Chain of Kindness WooEB News / Oct. 13 Erika Hayes...

By Robert F. Turner, law professor and associate director of the Center for National Security Law, served twice in Vietnam as an Army officer. "High-tech forensic audio analysis last week of a recently discovered audiotape of the May 4, 1970, anti-Vietnam War protest at Kent State University may shed new light on the genesis of the tragedy that shut down colleges and universities across America."

By Jason Hickel, doctoral student in anthropology "The past few years have seen a dramatic uptick in American diplomatic efforts in Africa, which has coincided with a decisive shift in political rhetoric about the continent. At first glance this might seem like a positive development, reflecting a more progressive attitude toward what has long been considered an unimportant global backwater. But a closer look reveals that American diplomacy in Africa is less about serving the good of African people than it is about securing the interests of private American capital."

By Darden Professor Edward Hess

... an application the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing is submitting to the U.S. Department of Commerce for an Economic Development Administration grant of about $4 million. The center, to be located on the Rolls-Royce campus, is one of two technology research facilities set to be created by a partnership among the British aerospace manufacturer, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.

student learning. Thus, the administration’s choice of this reliable and widely used teacher rating scale, developed by researchers at the University of Virginia, will provide the most important measure of quality. [Bob Pianta and CASTL]

Like other Washington biographers, Chernow has benefited from his subject's "compulsion to record his everyday life." Scholars are still sifting through the results: Chernow made extensive use of the Washington Papers, a project at the University of Virginia dedicated to compiling everything ever written by and about George Washington. This collection has expanded from 39 volumes in the 1930s to "sixty volumes of letters and diaries and still counting," Chernow writes.

The human cellular sciences company now manages extensive laboratory facilities in the University of Virginia Research Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.

... The University of Virginia’s 4.9 percent yield in July was the previous low yield, and the prior lowest spread at 94-1/2 basis points.

... The Wikipedia analogy struck one observer as silly. Universities are nothing like an encyclopedia, and Wikipedia is nothing like a university, argued Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia.

HemoSonics, a company founded on technology developed at the University of Virginia, is developing technology to rapidly assess patients’ blood for abnormal clotting characteristics. ... The U.Va. Patent Foundation has filed two international patent applications on this technology, which it licensed to HemoSonics for further development and commercialisation.

The University of Virginia honored Karen Van Lengen, former dean of the School of Architecture, with its Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award on Wednesday. ... Sponsored by UVa’s Women’s Center, the award is named for the late Elizabeth Zintl, who served as former President John T. Casteen III’s chief of staff until her death in 1997. Van Lengen was among the first female deans at the university. She led the architecture school from 1999 to 2009, and university officials credit her with solidifying the school’s place as an eminent institution for the comprehensive study and...

Randall Winston, Jennifer Jones and Renee Pean Masters of architecture students, who won first place in the student category of the Cleantech Competition to re-imagine a new, mixed-use future for a 2,000-acre development zone on the eastern edge of downtown Los Angeles.

By ANDREA LARSON AND MARK MEIER This summer, BP leaked several million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and other oil spills fouled the waters of Michigan, China, and India. Meanwhile, Virginia Del. Robert D. Orrock Sr., R-Caroline, dismissed plans to clean up the Chesapeake Bay by saying, "We may have to accept a little more pollution." A little more pollution guarantees a little more profit; that logic is dangerously obsolete. Sustainability and profitability are not mutually exclusive. When pursued in tandem, they can save money, stimulate innovation, and spur long-te...