The University of Virginia's Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning received a federal grant to study the relationship between improving fine motor skills and a student's overall cognitive skills, particularly in math. Researchers think the quality and timing of fine motor skills development may affect the quality and timing of students' cognitive development.
A group of local children are adding a little color to their life and their parents are joining in on the experience as well. The University of Virginia hosts a Family Art Jam to bring creativity into homes.
A team of University of Virginia entrepreneurs is $20,000 richer on Saturday. The students won the 2nd annual Entrepreneurship Cup for a camera they developed to help doctors catch eye diseases in their patients before it's too late.
Federal stimulus money boosted work-study programs and plugged funding gaps at three colleges and universities in Lynchburg, while feeding millions of dollars into research at the region’s biggest universities, Virginia Tech and University of Virginia.
"Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press). A masterful researcher and writer, Chernow benefitted from an ever-expanding treasure trove of George Washington-iana at the Washington Papers project at the University of Virginia. He vividly portrays all the Washingtons: the young man, vain, ambitious and prone to overreaching; the general, struggling to keep his troops clothed and fed; the president, shouldering the weight of the new republic. This book would be a terrific gift to any lover of American history.
The winners are Anna Alekseyeva, Chicago; Caroline Barlow, the U.S. Naval Academy; Alice Baumgartner, Yale; Megan Braun, the University of California at Irvine; Tamma Carleton, Lewis and Clark College; Nicholas DiBerardino, Princeton; Jared Dunnmon, Duke University; Gabrielle Emanuel, Dartmouth College; Zachary Frankel, Harvard; Kathleen Hansen, Montana State University; Fagan Harris, Stanford; Mark Jia, Princeton; Daniel Lage, Harvard; Jennifer Lai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Andrew Lanham, Haverford College; Ye jin Kang, Rice University; Prerna Nadathur, Chicago; Laura Nelson, Un...
The latest assessment comes from University of Virginia economists John McLaren and Shushanik Hakobyan. They use 1990 and 2000 census data to try to tease out the effect of Nafta on communities whose businesses had strong trade ties with Mexico and on industries affected by Mexican competition
Other things equal, one would expect that faculty governance would be stronger at research universities than at teaching colleges, and Greene’s findings seem to back this up. They show that in 23 of the 198 Research I universities studied, instructional employment grew faster than administrative employment. It is revealing that many of these institutions were elite research universities such as Harvard, California Institute of Technology, Rice, Emory, Cornell, Chicago, Princeton, University of Michigan, and University of Virginia, where faculty governance is stronger than it is in the re...
Norman Mallory
Who earned master's and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear physics, completing his studies in 1952.
Norman Douglas (“Bud”) Mallory, 89, of Sun City Center, Florida (and formerly of Melbourne Beach, Florida) died November 11, 2010, at South Bay Hospital following a lengthy illness.
Dr. Stephen Borowitz,
professor of pediatrics
University of Virginia professor emeritus Daniel Meador yesterday sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, (D-Vt.) asserting that "In some important respects, the current membership is the least diverse in the Court’s history, a situation that is unhealthy for the governance of the country, both politically and jurisprudentially."
[T]he catastrophic housing slump has destroyed confidence, raised fears of more underwater mortgages and permanently crimped the suburban growth machine. And the slump may be reinforced in coming years by a massive age mismatch among housing sellers and buyers, reports University of Virginia demographer William J. Lucy.
The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told lawmakers that it is "ethically and legally wrong" for a religious group to consider religion in hiring when a job is funded with public money. … Douglas Laycock, a scholar on religious liberty at the University of Virginia, said the changes advocated by Lynn and others would tie the hands of religious groups. "It uses the power of the purse to coerce religious organizations to become less religious and more secular," he told lawmakers. "This committee should not...
UVA astronomers, with the help of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), have confirmed the discovery of a new star. According to UVA Today, this star is a cool brown dwarf star. These stars are characterized by a mass so small they are unable to burn hydrogen into helium, which leads them to burn out over time.
“Our findings highlight an intriguing potential link between two common and clinically important complications seen in patients with kidney transplants and with CKD: mineral and bone disorders and anemia,” said lead investigator Csaba P. Kovesdy, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Chief of Nephrology at Salem VA Medical Center in Salem, Va.
Money is a common source of conflict in many relationships and is often the cause of divorce. One would think that difficult economic times would increase quarrels over finances and ultimately lead to heightened divorce rates. In fact, the opposite is true. An article written by the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia indicated that from 2007 to 2008, divorce rates dropped from17.5 per 1,000 married women to 16.9 per 1,000 married women.
In the absence of computerized baseline testing, doctors diagnose concussions based on the existence of symptoms, said Dr. [Julian] Bailes [chairman of West Virginia University's department of neurosurgery and an adviser to the National Football League Players Association], meaning coaches and medical personnel need to take precautions when dealing with a possible concussion. Research from the Army and the University of Virginia has made progress toward a blood test that would identify a concussion with a pinprick, [Jon] Butler [executive director of Pop Warner] said.
Hinting at potentially more growth of the local intelligence community, the man who is overseeing the relocation of more than 800 Defense Intelligence Agency employees to Albemarle County said he expects the transition to be completed by March. … Roberts briefed city, county and University of Virginia officials at a meeting of the Planning and Coordination Council on Thursday.
In January, when Dr. Teresa Sullivan became the first woman selected to become president of the University of Virginia, expectations were that the noted sociology professor and provost and executive vice president for student affairs at the University of Michigan would ease into her job in bucolic Charlottesville. When she took over in August, however, the scene was anything but peaceful.