Virginia is seeking to boost its profile as a state for bioscience research with the creation of a tax-exempt corporation. Designed to foster collaborative scientific research innovation by providing a new program for public/private partnerships with Virginia universities, the Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corp. will be funded at $5 million for 2013-14 from the state’s general fund. Five schools, including the University of Virginia, will put in a $50,000 cash contribution in each of the first and second years.
U.S . Sen. Mark Warner, D-Alexandria, is scheduled to speak on the national debt at noon Monday at the University of Virginia's Newcomb Ballroom . The event is part of a nationwide campaign called Up to Us seeking to engage students and policymakers to take action on the debt.
“It has been a hallmark of populism on both the right and left,” says Sophia Rosenfeld, a historian at the University of Virginia and author of “Common Sense: A Political History.” “It was used to argue for abolition and also for slavery, for women’s suffrage and against women’s suffrage.”
Even a quick conversation can help you better handle pain, according to a study at the University of Virginia.
A new semester kicked off Monday for students who are a bit older, and wiser, than average. More than 80 people gathered at the Senior Center for the first day of the course, "Isn't it Romantic.” The film class is part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, offered through the University of Virginia.
Despite poor investment returns for college endowments nationally, the University of Virginia’s endowment grew slightly last year, according to a new report.
University of Virginia law professor Darryl Brown said judges typically follow a jury's sentencing recommendation. He said it is not uncommon for manslaughter charges to receive "well below" the 10-year maximum.
The extent to which the Google deal brings revenue to the media in France remains to be seen. It is also not certain whether it will act as a precedent elsewhere. But Google cannot solve all the problems of the newspaper industry, according to Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of “The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)” – a professor of media studies in the University of Virginia.
The former Martha Jefferson Hospital campus stands to get another shot in the arm in the coming weeks. HemoShear, a Charlottesville biotech company that helps drug manufacturers more accurately simulate human environments, said Jan. 22 it plans to become the site’s next tenant. The company was founded in 2008 to bring to market an invention by U.Va. professors Brett Blackman and Brian Wamhoff: a man-made vascular system that recreates conditions in the human body, offering a proving ground for drugs and other medical technologies.
The Princeton Review Tuesday is announcing its 2013 Best Value Colleges. The University of Virginia leads among public schools, and William & Mary makes the top four.
A University of Virginia economics professor is reacting to several alarming trends. Ed Burton has found a growing list of states where the employee retirement systems have been underfunded.
(Guest post by Darden School Professor Robert Carraway) In a previous posting, I discussed the relationship between Big Data and Small Bets (Experiments). In this posting, I will dig more into this first challenge; Jeanne Liedtka, my colleague at U.Va.’s Darden School of Business, will join me in a subsequent posting to consider in more detail the second. Again, my advice appears counterintuitive.
You can ante up for classical, pony up for jazz, lay it down for blues and kick it for bluegrass, or you can give it up for WTJU and cover it all. Since 1957, three years before the invention of dirt, the University of Virginia-supported, multi-formatted, volunteer-oriented radio station has been giving Central Virginians not just what they want, but what they should hear.
(Commentary) Josh Bowers, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a former public defender, believes that grand juries would be more useful if we relied on them more explicitly for this deeper kind of judgment, and recast them as a sort of grass-roots branch of government “that serves to reshape the rough edges of the law in a decidedly populist fashion.”
It wasn't until after former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright took office that the Czechoslovakian-born Episcopalian learned that her family was Jewish and that more than 20 of them had died in the Holocaust. The revelation gave rise to a memoir examining a tumultuous time in her country's history, and her family's experiences of it -- a journey that she will share at 6 p.m. Monday at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.
University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock tells us that any insurance company offering a policy to a Catholic university or hospital knows it will have to cover the cost of providing contraceptives to employees. The premiums it charges will reflect that cost.
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, assistant professor of Urdu and South Asian literature) Unpredictably, Ahmed Ali’s birth centenary year (2010) ignited more than cursory interest in his work. The peculiar thing about such celebrations is the particularity of choices. Who gets selected for the fanfare is often pushed more by political exigencies than love and respect for the creative writer.
Bradford Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociologist and Director of the National Marriage Project, questions even real-time happiness. NMP's 2011 annual report offers evidence that married people, with or without children, have significantly less depression than singles, with or without children. Wilcox and his colleagues also found that both married and married with children scored much better on depression measures than did singles of either variety.
The storms have passed at the University of Virginia but not the clouds. Resolved is the question about who will lead, but lingering are larger questions about the future of the institution in an era when public higher education is under siege.
Wendy Phelps, a graduate student in the urban and environmental planning program at the University of Virginia, attended the meeting and worked with Poncy on a semester-long study of the corridor. “The community members’ concerns were split into two categories: street improvements and neighborhood improvements, such as signage and landscaping,” Phelps said. “[In the study], we tried to focus on street and safety concerns.”