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The University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. Located in Charlottesville, Virginia, it is a public university with strong alumni support. U.Va. is top-ranked among public universities and all national universities, public and private. The University of Virginia Health System is a nationally renowned academic medical center.
The University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. Located in Charlottesville, Virginia, it is a public university with strong alumni support. U.Va. is top-ranked among public universities and all national universities, public and private. The University of Virginia Health System is a nationally renowned academic medical center.
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College grads, 30 isn't the new 20
It's graduation time again, and according to the National Center for Education Statistics, about 1.78 million students will walk across a stage and pick up a college diploma. Then they will face terrifying statistics about employment, pressure to make...
Tags: Graduation, Colleges and Universities
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'Art of Fielding's' Chad Harbach learns art of dealing with a hit
NEW YORK—There are author success stories. There's winning the lottery. And then there's Chad Harbach. A long-suffering, often-starving MFA graduate, Harbach spent much of his 20s and 30s working temp jobs so he could write a novel, sometimes...
Tags: Herman Melville, Baseball, Jonathan Franzen, College Sports, Anxiety
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Robert R. Beezer dies at 83; judge on 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Robert R. Beezer, a federal judge on the nation's busiest court for the last 28 years and author of landmark decisions on judicial authority, digital media sharing and capital punishment, has died of lung cancer. He was 83.
Beezer's death Friday at a...Tags: Laws, Lawyers, Lung Cancer, Bankruptcy, File Sharing
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Roy Britten dies at 92; Caltech biologist was DNA, gene pioneer
Roy J. Britten, a Caltech biologist who discovered that the mammalian genome includes large quantities of repetitive DNA sequences that do not serve as blueprints for genes, has died. He was 92.
Britten, who had pancreatic cancer, died Jan. 21 at his...Tags: Science and Technology, Paleontology, Health, Chemicals, Applied Physics
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The college learning debate
Jonathan Zimmerman's Jan. 31 Op-Ed article on colleges' inability to measure student learning prompted Viggo P. Hansen, a professor emeritus at Cal State Northridge, to write:
"The question should not be whether students are learning but rather what they...Tags: Education, New York University, Teaching and Learning, Technology, Students
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National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medals announced
Jacket CopyThe White House announced the recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medals today. Poet Rita Dove (above) is the leading literary figure among the seven who will receive the National Medal of Arts, joining actor...... -
Judge restricts release of emails among climate scientists
GreenspaceMann, now a professor at Penn State University, is best known for his contributions to the so-called hockey stick graph that has been at the center of warnings that Earth's temperature rise has been precipitous and historically unprecedented. It has... -
Gregory Rodriguez: The war between the whites
The fourth-grade teacher in Virginia who performed a mock slave auction in her classroom April 1 — with the white kids pretending to buy and sell the black kids — was duly chastised by school officials for her racial insensitivity. Given...Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Rape, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Elizabeth Edwards dies at 61; wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards, a forceful political wife who became a bestselling author writing about her battle with cancer but whose marriage to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards unraveled because of his infidelity, died Tuesday. She was 61....Tags: Rielle Hunter, Elizabeth Edwards, PTA, Health and Medical Professionals, Defense
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Federal judge, a bystander, among the dead
U.S. District Judge John M. Roll, who was killed in the Tucson shooting rampage, appeared to have been an innocent bystander Saturday, but was the target of death threats in 2009 when he emerged as a central figure in Arizona's bitter disputes over...Tags: Crimes, Pima County, Lawyers, Judges, Immigration
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Is USC really a better school than UCLA? Join the debate
L.A. NOWFor the first time since U.S. News & World Report began its annual rankings of colleges in 1983, USC topped UCLA in the magazine's latest listing. USC tied with Carnegie Mellon for 23rd among national universities this year; UCLA stands...... -
UCLA's Anderson School wants to end reliance on state funding
L.A. NOWUCLA’s Anderson School of Management is seeking to end any reliance on state funds under a controversial proposal that would be the first such shift to self-sufficiency in the cash-strapped UC system and could provide a model for other programs......
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