When the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech football teams meet Nov. 26 at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Leslie Rocco and Kim Tarazona will have very different hopes for the outcome.
But that’s just a game. On a deeper level, Rocco (mother of UVa quarterback Michael Rocco) and Tarazona (whose son Logan Thomas plays the same key position for Tech) have discovered that they are actually teammates.
A Virginia Supreme Court ruling likely will prohibit liquor ads in the student newspapers at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia. State regulations bar advertising of beer, wine and mixed drinks in college student publications except in ads for restaurants. But the student newspapers at Tech and U.Va. claimed the restriction doesn't apply to them because at least half their readers are 21 or older.
A new study says that students die at rates much lower than same-aged people who are not in college, but the methodology is likely to have some health professionals questioning the results. "We have these very comprehensive and elaborate safety nets," said James C. Turner, the study's lead author and executive director of the University of Virginia student health center.
Ann Beattie
Professor of creative writing and literature
The Chain Smoker in the Closet
The Daily Beast / Nov. 7
Amato Evan
Professor of Environmental Science
Arabian cyclones intensified by South Asian pollution
Business Recorder / Nov 7
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Indian aerosol pollution stimulates tropical cyclones over Arabian Sea – because of monsoon disturbance
Bitsofscience.org / Nov. 6
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Pollution may be fueling unusual desert cyclones
Summit County Citizens Voice / Nov. 5
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Clean stoves could save lives and maybe the climate too
earthtimes.org / Nov. 6
Larry Sabato
Director Center for Politics
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The University of Virginia Health System offers extensive expertise in the treatment and management of diabetes. Among its offerings is a free support group for people living with the condition of diabetes.
Since 2006, the year before the recession began, the percentage of young men living with their parents has grown to 18.6 percent this year from 14.3 percent. Just 9.7 percent of women in that age group now live with their parents, up from 8.8 percent in 2006. "It's a way to save money and survive the hardship," said Qian Cai, director of the Demographics and Workforce Group at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Smile, you’re on Candid Camera! That seems to be the lesson of a new study by psychologists at the University of Virginia. They found that both male and female freshmen who smiled more intensely in their Facebook profile photos were not only more satisfied with their lives as freshmen, but also more satisfied with their lives several years later as seniors, even controlling for freshman-year life satisfaction and extroversion.
Henrico Sheriff's Lt. Lonnie Loyall, president of the Blue Knights chapter - an organization of current and retired law enforcement officers and two-wheeler enthusiasts - said the funds raised by the event support cancer research at the University of Virginia.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) on University of Virginia grounds hosted the festival to get people more excited about science.
One notable exception is the University of Virginia, where an aggressive financial aid strategy -- including meeting 100% of demonstrated need for students and capping the loan indebtedness of middle-income students -- has allowed the income category to grow.
University of Virginia officials have begun revamping the school's internal financial model, a move they hope will streamline the school in tough financial times. The core of the move is a decision to push budgeting authority down the school's organizational chart, putting more power in the hands of deans, making fewer budgeting decisions centrally. The new system is U.Va.'s version of what's called "resource-centered management" or "activity-based budgeting" at other schools.
Virginia’s top universities have partnered to pilot a video-telecommunications program that aims to better connect college students and researchers with each other, while reducing the cost of providing services for students.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell wants to help residents earn 100,000 higher education degrees over the next 15 years and, to that end, the state and four of its largest universities have partnered with Cisco to help make that a reality.
The Virginia Oil and Gas Association endowment will allow scholarships to be awarded to worthy and deserving students at UVa-Wise with preference given to applicants employed by the oil and gas industry, or dependents of those employed by the industry.
The journey from adolescence to college has long been a motif explored by the movies.
In ESPN's newest sport's documentary, "Elevate," the same motif is explored, but this time through the eyes of a group of Senegal teens as they hit the backboards hoping to gain a prestigious scholarship at one of America's premiere prep schools. The four people "Elevate" features go to SEEDS Academy, a school in Dakar, Senegal that gathers the best young players from across West Africa to take part in a strenuous program of academics and athletic training.
Nursing doctoral student Patty Wilson is dedicated to clinical work, research and teaching focused on helping African-American survivors of intimate partner violence.
Thanks to a Johnson & Johnson/American Association of Colleges of Nursing Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars Award – one of five given nationally – Wilson will be able to continue that pursuit.
Qian Cai
director of the Demographics and Workforce Group
No More Home Alone as Economy Drives Men to Live With Parents
Bloomberg / Nov 4
John Kattwinkel
consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics and professor of neonatology
Home Birth Summit Opens Dialogue on Improving Care
Medscape / Nov 4
Tony Tian-Ren Lin
Department of sociology (article reads sociologist of religion and academic researcher) which is best to use?
New Presbyterian fellowship welcomes conservatives
Reporterherald.com / Nov 4
Barbara Perry
senior fellow at Miller Center
In European crisis, Obama sees risks back hom...
Fred Singer
professor emeritus and director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project