Tanya Denckla Cobb Associate Director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation Demand For Locally Grown Food Increases NBC 29 News / Sept. 20 Lee Coppock Professor of economics Happy 5th Birthday Carpe Diem! Daily Markets / Sept. 20 Gertrude Fraser Vice provost for faculty recruitment and retention Top administrator for diversity and multicultural affairs to join provost's ... The Daily Tar Heel / Sept. 21 Brandon L. Garrett A professor of law at the School of Law who studies criminal procedure, civil rights, and wrongful convictions. Eyes on an Execution / The Troy Davis case shows h...

Medication helps many, but the University of Virginia, in partnership with the state and the private sector, is studying a whole new approach by using sound waves to zap abnormal cells in the brain and produce immediate improvements.  John Waterson is a retired professor of history who’s been battling essential tremor since he was in middle school.

A University of Virginia student reaches for the stars Tuesday night.  This is the first time someone from UVA has received the Astronaut Scholarship award. Hannah Meredith is a biomedical engineering major who hopes to obtain her Ph.D.  Tuesday, she was presented with the astronaut award by the sixth man to set foot on the moon - Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell.

When it comes to the environment, the University of Virginia says it's the little things you do that can make a big difference.  That is the basis for a new sustainability campaign on grounds.

A few professional schools elsewhere have already surrendered state funding -- like the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, which has been self-sufficient for almost a decade; so, too, its School of Law. The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State says it expects to be off the state dole by 2015.

In the wake of the announcement that ACC will add the University of Pittsburgh and Syracuse University to its roster, Teresa A. Sullivan, the University of Virginia’s president and a noted sports fan, shared a few thoughts.

Reed was born in Virginia in 1851. He missed fighting in the Civil War, because of his age, and was able to enroll in the University of Virginia School of Medicine immediately after the war, graduating, at age 17 in 1869 (he is still the youngest person to have received an MD from the University of Virginia Medical School).

U.Va. Law School graduate Lee Habeeb, speaking on behalf of Forward Rebels!, said the group had considered for more than a year starting an ad campaign to express its unhappiness. The first ad, headlined, "Are you tired of losing, Ole Miss fans?" appeared in Monday's Commercial Appeal on page C6.

After the meeting Daquan Romero had in November with University of Virginia president Dr. Teresa Sullivan, learning everything he needed to know to make the transition from defensive end to linebacker was much less stressful. Romero met with Sullivan to discuss why he was a viable candidate to bypass his final semester of high school at Phoebus High and enroll in college mid-year… It was the equivalent of a job interview.

Fredrick Hayden Professor of infectious diseases What Will the Next Influenza Pandemic Look Like? Scientific American, Sept. 19 Stephen S. Rich Director of the Center for Public Health Genomics Genetics offers new possibilities for diabetes management Endocrine Today, Sept. 20 Larry Sabato Commonwealth Professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics General Assembly fundraising down 17% from 2007 Richmond Times-Dispatch, Sept. 20 Patrick Tolan Director of the Youth-Nex Center New study suggests a positive side to peer pressure Today, Sept. 19

If the predictions of University of Virginia bioethicist John Arras are accurate, history will look kindly on our scientists, which can’t be said for many previous generations of U.S. researchers.  “I don’t think anything about the current state of research ethics would absolutely appall us 50 years from now,” said Arras. “We’re appalled by Tuskegee. We’re appalled by Willowbrook. But today we’re dealing with issues that are less clear.”

Construction of the University of Virginia’s $141 million Bill and Barry Battle Building has already begun to transform West Main Street. The multistory building will house the UVa children’s hospital.

After an inspection of the fireplaces in the Academical Village, cracks were discovered in the flues and chimneys in a majority of the 106 dorm rooms on the Lawn and Range. Mike Merriam is associate director for maintenance at UVA and said the deterioration could cause a fire.

With Newcomb Hall undergoing an $18 million renovation, UVA Dining Services came up with a student meal solution that falls decidedly outside of the lunchbox. Beginning this fall, on weekdays from 11am to 2pm, six trucks with names like Steak Me Home Tonight, Got Dumplings? and Nacho Panda—park around the UVA Amphitheater to offer students a variety of foods, from Asian-style dumplings to homemade doughnuts

The U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School at the University of Virginia is observing its 60th anniversary. A ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Oct. 4, with Teresa A. Sullivan, the university's president, and Army Judge Advocate General Lt. Gen. Dana K. Chipman to speak.

The UVA Patent Foundation has named Michael Straightiff as its new director. The news comes just days after President Barack Obama signed legislation that targets and reshapes the nation’s patent laws to make the process less burdensome.

The University of Virginia treated their employees to some healthy knowledge while at work Monday

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations conference at Stanford marked the launch—with a well-attended panel discussion and much conversation on social media—of the #Alt-Academy project, an open-access collection of essays, dialogues, and personal narratives on the subject of unconventional academic careers for scholars. The editor of #Alt-Academy, Bethany Nowviskie, is one of them: a non-tenure-track English Ph.D. serving as director of digital research and scholarship at the University of Virginia Library.

The Old Dominion University administration has drafted a regulation for consideration by the university’s governing Board of Visitors at its December meeting that would explicitly ban all guns, except those carried by police officers, from campus buildings and sports events.  In a July opinion requested by a state lawmaker, [Attorney General] Cuccinelli said a University of Virginia policy banning guns from campus does not apply to holders of concealed-weapon permits.

University student conduct codes vary from school to school nationwide - shaped by whether the institution is a state or religious college, the campus history, its institutional culture and the makeup of the student body. Some of the strictest sanctions in the country are in place at the University of Virginia, said Daniel Swinton, president of the Association of Student Conduct Administration. A number of violations at UVA result in automatic expulsion, "which tends to be a bit of a blunt instrument," Swinton said. Often, students withdraw from school before that happens.