... Wesley [Krueger] is considering studying pre–law or business and is in the process of applying to the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, Miami University (Ohio), and Yale University....
... Published accounts say he studied at several institutions of higher learning, including Yale, Harvard, Hampton, Howard and the University of Virginia. ...
The truth about Columbus middle schools is brutal. ... it's a certainty that you're not in a school with an A grade from the state. One has a B, but about 71 percent of middle schools earned D or F ratings. ... [the district's interim chief academic officer and deputy superintendent] sent the middle-grade principals to a school-turnaround boot camp at the University of Virginia in October to start learning how to lead an overhaul. ...
A select group of students at the University of Virginia School of Law will have a chance to focus their attention more on public service ... Jim Ryan, a law professor who proposed the program, said he believes this is the first time there is a program dedicated to public service at the law school. ...
The University of Virginia has opened a new window on one of the most troubling and complex events in American judicial history. We're talking about the Salem Witch Trials. ... It's the work of UVa religion professor Benjamin Ray. ...
... Virginia’s institutions of higher education have won competitive grants including $40 million to the University of Virginia, $35 million to Virginia Commonwealth University and $24 million to Virginia Tech to date.
It's easy to imagine political analyst Larry J. Sabato a few days from now, in his second-floor home office at the University of Virginia ... he was invited to live in Pavilion IV six years ago ... Sabato says he wants "to soak up every minute" of the time he's allotted in the pavilion ...
Daniel L. Duke
Professor of educational leadership
Chicago School Closings Found to Yield Few Gains
Education Week / Oct. 29
Thomas L. Hafemeister
Law professor
Should You Lose Custody for Being Obese?
Momlogic.com (part of Warner Bros. Women’s Digital Network) / Oct. 29
E.D. Hirsch
Professor emeritus
Dreams of Better Schools
The New York Review of Books / Oct. 29
Robert Jones
Physics professor
Helium atoms get the ride of their life
physicsworld.com / Oct. 29
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
First Click -- Virginia
Washington Post (blog) / Oct....
The University of Virginia has been selected as one of 16 sites for the first two rounds of the 2011 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. ...
A company in Charlottesville, Virginia, along with researchers from the University of Virginia are working on the Blade Runner 5000, a vertical wind turbine that is smaller, cheaper and more efficient than traditional turbines. The final version is expected to stand 150 feet tall, measure 15 feet in diameter and cost an estimated $150,000. ...
University of Virginia researcher Ira Hall has received a five-year New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health — one of 55 such awards for "highly innovative research" that NIH granted in 2009 ... Hall plans to use the award, worth $2.3 million in fiscal year 2009, to explore the role of genomic structural variation in evolution and disease in mammals. ...
A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves — cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor. ... There might be justification for trying these drugs now in certain patients not doing well on any other treatment, said Dr. Ronald Turner of the University of Virginia, a prominent virologist who had no role in the new study. ...
... That’s the question the Project Implicit bias tests aims to find out ... The ... test comes from Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington, and was designed to both find hidden racism, and to raise awareness of how even among the best of people, racism can often be hidden below the surface. ...
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Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences
Mashable.com (blog)/ Oct. 29
... Joseph Allen, professor of psychology and director of clinical training at the University of Virginia ... and his wife, Claudia Worrell Allen, are coauthors of a new book called “Escaping the Endless Adolescence.’’... When Allen asked some of his undergraduates what made them think they were growing up, they said “failures and screw-ups.’’ ... “What young people need is the chance to struggle with challenges. We need to let them be adults.’’
A University of Virginia sociologist says married couples who worship together are 35 percent less likely to divorce, and tend to be better parents as well. W. Bradford Wilcox says research has found that religion helps parenting by establishing norms of virtuous behavior and by placing families in networks of like-minded adults. ...
Students receive college credits through the University of Virginia. Courses that Yehlik received instruction in included -- behavioral science ...
Nurses at the University of Virginia Medical Center are distributing $12000 worth of supplies to teens. The nurses spent Thursday morning packing up 600 teen care kits with shampoo, body wash, tooth paste and other hygiene products. The care kits are being donated to 22 community outreach groups in Charlottesville and the surrounding counties. ...
... At the University of Virginia, you can visit Poe's dormitory room at 13 West Range. It holds artifacts like the quill pen Poe might have used. His top hat and green coat are part of the Poe legacy the university has maintained. ...
Virginia State Police investigators were following up on new leads Thursday in the search for a missing 20-year-old Virginia Tech student. The student, Morgan D. Harrington, disappeared Oct. 17 after stepping outside the John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia during a Metallica ...
The University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs is getting closer to the American power base by opening a Washington office to better connect with national leaders and alumni. ... “Our work has made a real difference, both for our nation’s history and its future,” said Gerald L. Baliles, Miller Center director and former Virginia governor. “My hope is that our new location in Washington will allow us to make more of a difference.” ...