State and local police spent Saturday night searching for a Virginia Tech student missing since Oct. 17 but have turned up no major leads. State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said troopers and university police spent eight hours on foot in Charlottesville on Saturday night, passing out fliers with pictures of 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington of Roanoke. Harrington's photograph was also shown during the University of Virginia football game Saturday on the stadium's jumbotron. ...
Richard Evans
Darden professor
Do Mutual Funds Cheat on Returns?
Smartmoney.com / Oct. 23
David Germano
Associate professor of Buddhism and Tibetan studies
Score! Is Kate Hudson's Hotness Really Keeping A-Rod's Bat on Fire?
PopEater / Oct. 22
David Grissmer
Principal research scientist, Curry School of Education
In Defense of Children Behaving Badly
Newsweek / Oct. 22
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Bay State liberals shun Barack Obama's visit
Boston Herald / Oct. 23
Jerry Stenger
Research coordinator for the U.Va. Climatology Office
Colors of leaves...
Six Virginia schools made the National Science Foundation's rankings of the top 200 research universities in the nation. ... 70. University of Virginia, $257.65 million ...
... Depression can actually help people solve problems, said Paul Andrews, a post-doctoral research fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University and J. Anderson Thomson Jr., a clinical psychologist at University of Virginia. ... The two researchers published their findings in a recent issue of Psychological Review. ...
All colleges and graduate schools of education must do a better job of preparing future teachers for the classroom, Arne Duncan, secretary of education, said in a speech Thursday. ... Robinson had panned Duncan's October 9 speech at the University of Virginia, "A Call to Teaching," calling it a rehashing of “shopworn criticisms of teacher ...
“Ayn Rand and the World She Made” and “Goddess of the Market” are being published a week apart. ... [U.Va. history professor Jennifer] Burns gives a lucid account of how Rand set herself at odds with religious conservatism, how Rand-inspired libertarianism has shape-shifted, and even how Rand disciples of the 1970s adopted a hippie aspect to rival that of Students for a Democratic Society, confounding everyone, Rand included. ...
Today's “Talk is Cheap event at the University of Virginia will discuss that and the possible consequences of his controversial win. ...
... a Bollywood-style flick, plus several from filmmakers at James Madison University, Eastern Mennonite University and the University of Virginia. ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Creating an original organism required no bolt of lightning for a team of University of Virginia students [including Dan Tarjan and Thaddeus Webb]. But it did take buckets of ice, vials of bacteria and a FedEx delivery. ... U-Va.'s invention, dubbed an arsenic sponge by its creators, will vie for the grand prize -- an oversized silver Lego block -- with offerings from 102 other teams ...
Dr. James Turner
Director of Student Health and president of the American College Health Assoc.
[Turner's interview is at 1:26.]
Patrick Forrester
Master’s in mechanical and aerospace engineering
Reaching New Heights; Former Springfield resident Patrick Forrester has traveled to outer space three times as a NASA astronaut.
Springfield Connection / Oct. 21
Nancy Disharoon
Master’s at UVA
Acceptance, support key to new principal’s start
Mechanicsville Local / Oct. 21
Parachute: First graduation, then hit singles
The Flint Journal / Oct. 21
Parachute lead singer Will Anderson isn't shy about criticizing his own song. ... Parachute was opening for Kelly Clarkson. ... Produced by Chris Keup, John Shanks, ...
Jessica J. Connelly
Assistant professor of medicine
Possible Link Between Autism And Oxytocin Gene Via Non-DNA Sequence Mutation
ScienceDaily.com / Oct. 22
Dewey Cornell
Education professor and director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project
School violence defies stereotypes, experts warn
Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY) / Oct. 22
Karen Rheuban
Medical director of the Office of Telemedicine
Experts: Health Care Reform Should Do More To Boost Telemedicine
iHealthBeat / Oct. 21
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Former President George W. Bush to 'Get...
... According to the Urban Institute at the University of Virginia, a 10% "fat tax" could generate $522 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years. ...
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is today giving a talk in which he will denounce most teacher education colleges for offering "mediocre" training, and call for major reforms of those programs... Duncan will make these remarks at Teachers College of Columbia University, and his comments follow similar criticism in a recent speech at the University of Virginia [on Oct. 9]. In today's talk ... The key to reform, Duncan will say, is linking programs directly to the ability of graduates to achieve good outcomes with students they go on to teach.
... There are about 600 carpoolers in the free program. Most of them are employees at the University of Virginia, the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. ...
The University of Virginia has shared plans with the City of Charlottesville showing how it intends to transform its medical center complex into more of a “campus atmosphere” that enhances the experience of patients, visitors, and staff. ...
... “Social issues have really declined since their heyday about a decade ago,” said Isaac Wood, director of communications for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics ...
... Employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency will begin moving in January to the military’s Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility at Rivanna Station in Albemarle County, carrying more than 800 jobs with them from elsewhere ... DIA officials expect to work closely with area agencies and contractors, including researchers at the University of Virginia. ...