Silver is known for its antibacterial qualities, and has thus found its way into water filters created at institutions such as Stanford and McGill universities. Given that these filters are often used in developing nations, however, it would be nice if they could also contribute to the local economy – instead of being just one more thing that’s brought in from outside. Well, that’s just the idea behind the University of Virginia’s PureMadi filters and MadiDrops.
In some ways, Joe Harris is a different person now than when he left Chelan for the University of Virginia three years ago. In other ways, he’s exactly the same.
(Press release) Former United States Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Rita Dove will deliver the keynote address at the University’s 168th commencement ceremony Monday, May 13.
Researchers have cataloged at least 101 rhinoviruses -- the viruses that cause most colds. At times, it seems there are almost as many myths surrounding all that sniffling and sneezing. "It's good to dispel these myths," says Dr. Jack M. Gwaltney Jr., a cold researcher and professor emeritus. Here are some myths as common as the common cold.
"A lot of people just don't know that a lot of things count as dating violence," said University of Virginia student Emily Renda, who leads a peer education group called Sexual Assault Facts and Education (known as SAFE) that helps spark conversations about sexual assault and dating violence. … Experts say this breakdown of control in intimate relationships can start as early as middle school. "We know that it's a very high number for young people. Between the ages of 16 and 24 are when young people are at the highest risk for being in an abusive relationship,&quo...
Hundreds came out for a discussion on national debt at the University of Virginia on Monday. Senator Mark Warner spoke about the country's debt crisis and how it would eventually affect everyone in the room.
Mortimer Caplin (a 1937 graduate of the University and former member of the Board of Visitors), the former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service who became the oldest director of a Standard & Poor’s 500 Index company, plans to step down from the board of Danaher Corp in May.
There are concrete downsides to following the president. The most obvious: no matter how charismatic a respondent may be, he or she is not the president. “There’s a tremendous handicap going in,” says veteran political watcher Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “You’re there in the room by yourself ... You don’t have all the pomp and circumstance. You don’t have a made-to-order stand-and-applause crowd and all the symbols of the Republic.”
“Pope Benedict was seen as more progressive during the 1960s, but then he backtracked,” said Gerald P. Fogarty, a Jesuit priest and professor of religious studies and history at the University of Virginia. “I have a lot of sympathy for the pope in not knowing exactly what to say; even his own followers were divided.”
Last year, the first-ever Tom Tom Founders Festival kicked off with a community pitch night that brought $1,000 to the audience's favorite business proposal. This year, the Festival, which celebrates and promotes local innovation, is starting out with a similar pitch night called "U.Pitch. C'ville Decides" when it kicks off on April 11– but the prizes are much bigger, thanks to a partnership with the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business, which is using the Festival's opening night as a way to celebrate the expansion of its business incubator progr...
UVa professor and clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell serves on the governor's task force. "I'm really pleased that the governor has adopted our recommendations to take a comprehensive approach, which is not just focused on what to do in the event of a crisis but really how to prevent acts of violence in our schools and keep our kids safe," said Cornell.
Because osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, is a progressive condition, eliminating risk factors early in life can provide benefits later on. “What starts as a joint strain can progress into arthritis as cartilage gradually wears away,” says Dr. Mark Miller, professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Virginia Health System.
Judson University Friday announced that Gene C. Crume, Jr., will be its seventh university president. Crume, who earned his Ph.D. in education with a minor concentration in organizational leadership from the University of Virginia, will join Judson as president-elect April 7, then, after a brief transition time, take on the role of president May 10.
The first public meeting that brought University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan and Rector Helen E. Dragas together since Dragas' contested reappointment confirmation was forward-looking and genial, as a subset of the Board of Visitors heard the first reports from working groups established to inform the draft of a new guiding document for the university.
The amount Johnson raised in the fourth quarter is not considered large for a U.S. senator, and especially for Johnson, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. “I’d say that he’s retiring and hoping that his son succeeds him,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Sabato referred to U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson, who is not a candidate, but who, in political circles, is viewed as a potential contender for the seat should his father retire.
Debra Saunders-White’s career has taken her from one of America’s giant computer corporations to two university administrations and ultimately to the U.S. Department of Education. All along, she has blended technology with the classroom. Now, N.C. Central University is counting on Saunders-White (who earned an undergraduate degree in history from U.Va.) to catapult the campus to the next level. On Friday, Saunders-White, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, was elected NCCU’s 11th chancellor by the UNC Board of Governors. She is the first woman to b...
Changes are coming to William & Mary’s Mason School of Business in the 2013-14 school year, when new fees will be introduced for undergraduates and the school will introduce an online Master of Business Administration degree program.
As a young man, Thomas G. Faulkner III listened and prayed and wondered. His grandfather, Tom Faulkner Sr., was an ordained Episcopal minister who spent his adult life in that role. His father, Tom Faulkner Jr., answered the same calling. Today, at 66, Faulkner can review a career spent on projects outside the church walls, but well within the confines of ministry. His is a relentless pursuit of quality, affordable housing for those in great need of it.
Kate Orff, whose New York landscape architecture firm was chosen last week to design Town Branch Commons, has made a name for herself by looking below the surface and beyond the conventional. (Orff earned a bachelor's degree in political and social thought from the University of Virginia.)
It is rare in Virginia for public officials to face removal, said Bob Gibson, executive director of the University of Virginia's Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. "It is not so rare in other states, but we have had the good fortune of mostly electing honest folks," Gibson said. The rarity likely explains why the law does not specify sex crimes as grounds to remove someone from office.