The simple answer to the question of how the University of Virginia's baseball team has risen to ¬– and maintained – a No. 1 national ranking this season: The Cavaliers' roster features as many as 10 players who are likely to be selected in the Major League Baseball draft in June.
Gubernatorial candidate Pete V. Domenici Jr., an Albuquerque native and veteran attorney, is gathering petition signatures to land a spot on the June 1 Republican primary ballot. … The graduate of Our Lady of Fatima School, the University of Virginia and the University of New Mexico School of Law has been in private practice in Albuquerque for nearly 25 years.
Russell Bloodworth of Boyle Investment Co. was instrumental in saving a huge white oak tree in 1972 when the old Ridgeway Country Club property was developed. … Bloodworth is executive vice president of Boyle Investment Co., where he has worked since graduating with a degree in architecture from the University of Virginia in 1968.
Herman Schwartz, professor of politics at the University of Virginia and author of "Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble."
Over two decades have passed since Allan Bloom's famous polemic, "The Closing of the American Mind," shook up the American academy. The time is ripe for another shakeup. Enter James Davison Hunter, whose latest contribution, "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World" (Oxford), promises to shake up American Christianity. … Hunter, professor of religion, culture, and social theory at the University of Virginia, is author of "Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America and The Death of Character: On the Mora...
Kenneth Greer
Professor of dermatology
Doctors and dentists can face complaints about pushing cosmetic treatments
Washington Post / May 18
Amori Mikami
Assistant professor of psychology
Teenage social media butterflies may not be such a bad idea
Los Angeles Times / May 18
Larry Sabato
Professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics
Demise of the Dinosaurs In Congress
FoxNews.com / May 17
Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology
Sharon Begley, science editor at Newsweek, doesn’t have anything nice to say about education research. In a recent article, she refers to it as "second-class science" and "so flimsy as to be a national scandal." I agree that there is a problem, but I don’t think she’s diagnosed it correctly.
Farzeneh Milani, professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and cultures
"My name is Farzaneh Milani. I teach at the University of Virginia. And I have been there for a quarter-of-a-century. My area of specialization is women writers in Iran.
I have also had the great and distinct pleasure to be the translator of Simin Behbahani, Iran's foremost poet alive, with my colleague Kaveh Safa."
The presence of certain biomarkers may help neurosurgeons distinguish which patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) will benefit from shunting the cerebral ventricles from those who will not. … Researchers led by Sebastian Koga, MD, senior neurosurgery resident at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, propose that NPH is a tau protein disorder that is along the same spectrum as Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Study co-author Manuel Lerdau, a University of Virginia professor of environmental sciences and biology: "This increase in ozone completely overcomes the reductions in ozone realized from automobile pollution control legislation."
The Union of Concerned Scientists today released a letter it said has been signed by 800 scientists and professors in Virginia urging [Virginia Attorney General Ken] Cuccinelli (R) to drop his efforts to collect documents about [climate scientist Michael] Mann. …Most – 296 – come from Mann's former colleagues at the University of Virginia.
A team of researchers from Stony Brook University in New York, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Harvard University in Boston created a model to estimate how air pollution in the southeastern states might be affected by increased nitric oxide produced with the help of kudzu.
University of Virginia graduates, families and faculty members will wear some 25,000 white ribbons at this weekend’s commencement ceremony as a sign of their pledge to reject violence.
O’Neil, who now directs the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, and Casteen, who will address the graduating class this Sunday and will officially retire on August 1, evince mutual respect and quiet collegiality. In many ways, Casteen’s UVA is an entirely different institution to what it was in O’Neil’s day, and that’s where O’Neil started the one-hour conversation.
Review of "Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania," by Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, Franklin Toker. University of Virginia Press.
Beverly Jane Loo, who served as Executive Director of McGraw-Hill's General Books Division and went on to establish several innovative publishing programs at the University of Virginia, George Washington University, and the Library of Congress, died unexpectedly on Friday, March 26, 2010, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
One key reason why M.B.A. programs are adding the GRE as a testing option is it enables them to broaden their applicant pool and get more potential students to consider going to B-school. … These are the top-ranked M.B.A. programs from the 2011 edition of our America's Best Business Schools rankings that are now currently accepting the GRE: … 13. University of Virginia (Darden)
This spring, some colleges in the Washington region have assembled waiting lists that rival the size of their incoming freshman classes, a measure of their uncertainty at a volatile time in higher education.
"She's out there with us when we're playing," sophomore attack Steele Stanwick said.
The Cavs played their first game without midfielder George Huguely, who remains at Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of Love, a defender on the women's team and his onetime girlfriend. After two weeks of holding its collective breath, the men's team at long last exhaled in this first round NCAA tournament game at Klockner Stadium. Fittingly, UVa.'s Shamel Bratton scored the first goal: He wears No. 1, too.
The University of Virginia has concluded that lacrosse coach Dom Starsia was not aware of the gravity of a February 2009 incident in which lacrosse player George Huguely punched a sleeping teammate whom he had heard kissed Yeardley Love.