... Lydia Mattice Brandt, a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia, is studying reproductions of Mount Vernon, which were built for no fewer than six major expositions and fairs. The choice of Mount Vernon, Brandt says, reflected a Southern desire to lay claim to the nation's founding father, reassert the South's fundamentally American identity and "embody both post-Confederate pride and an agreeable vision of a new South for a national audience."
Now that we've learned the murder of a Virginia Tech student has a possible connection to Northern Virginia, authorities have received 50 leads from Fairfax to the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has a rich history, but an often forgotten part of that history is slavery. Friday, the push is on to build a new memorial on grounds for slave laborers who had a big part in building UVA. It's a student-run effort to get the new memorial and they're asking for the public's input.
...On the other hand, Virginia enjoys a wealth of educational resources, such as the expertise housed at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and other highly regarded higher education institutions. Their leadership could prove extremely valuable as Virginia develops the charter school authorizing capabilities needed to ensure that charter schools live up to the excellence we will require of them.
Energy technology companies, universities, local governments and commercial property owners from Delaware to West Virginia have formed a team that is competing to land $130 million in federal funding for a regional green-building research center. ... More than a half-dozen university partners, including the University of Maryland, University of Virginia, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University, would drive research if Washington wins the award.
By R.K. Ramazani, coeditor of two books on Jefferson and the Edward R. Stettinius emeritus professor of government and foreign affairs
On July 4 we all celebrate not only the birthday of America but also an American-inspired universal moral principle — respect for world public opinion. This principle is rooted in the phrase “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind” of the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence. Therein, the founders endeavored to justify the causes of America’s separation from Britain before what they termed “a candid world.”...
A collection of about 135,000 documents belonging to George Washington and studied at the University of Virginia for more than four decades will be making its way to the home of the nation's first president as the centerpiece of a new library. ..."The completed library will eventually house the greatest collection of Washington's works held anywhere in the world," said Ted Crackel, editor in chief of the Papers of George Washington project at U.Va.
The University of Virginia has nearly finished its first extension of the Lawn — the historic core of the university — since the days of Thomas Jefferson. UVa is aiming to open by Aug. 1 a grassy, nearly 100-foot-wide terrace that spans Jefferson Park Avenue to connect New Cabell Hall with the South Lawn Project.
David Robinson
Lecturer in art history and intellectual guide to his sister, Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer prize-winning author
Absence of malice / Marilynne Robinson says it's time to end the phony war between science and religion.
The Australian / July 2
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Charlottesville–Right Now: Dr. Larry Sabato Talks Politics With Jay James
WINA’s "Charlottesville–Right Now!" / June 30
Lee Seung-heon
Physics Professor
Scientific debate around Cheonan findings heats up
Hankyoreh (Korea) / July 2
Dr. Robert Barry from UVa.'s Curry School of Education discusses the M3 Algebra Readiness Program with CBS19's Tiffani Sargent.
The US President Barack Obama has nominated Indian-American Nisha Desai Biswal as Assistant Administrator for Asia in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
By Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman, a law professor and copyright expert
... There is clearly a lot more to be said about creativity in the kitchen. But the key point is that culinary creativity is flourishing, and it doesn’t depend on copyright. Like fashion, food challenges our preconceptions about the economics of innovation—and perhaps should challenge our legal rules as well.
Virginia will see enrollment swell by 50,000 students in its public elementary, middle and high schools over the next five years, if predictions by University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service come true.
... Researchers at the University of Virginia studied the ShaToBu and found that wearers burned three to 18 percent extra calories. Dr. Perron says that's an average of about 200 calories a day, which could translate to several pounds a year.
... People are complaining of a sudden allergic reaction to beef, often times hard to miss because the reaction happens three to six hours later. A recent study by the University of Virginia found one common denominator in most cases was a tick bite. It's been dubbed the "alpha-gal allergy," after alpha-gal, a carbohydrate found in red meat.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s latest court filing in his effort to compel the University of Virginia to turn over documents related to the research activities of a climate change expert is "riddled with inaccuracies," a nonprofit science advocacy group said Thursday.