Students in the schools of education and technology science at the University of Virginia showcased their designs Thursday for the next generation of web-based classroom tools. The Teaching with Technology Fair featured a wide array of the newest digital tools teachers can use to enhance classroom learning.
Such requirements are not universal, however. At the University of Virginia, the library’s special collections department explicitly disavows such restrictions, saying that since the library has an interest in “supporting research, teaching, scholarship, publication, and artistic production involving use of the Library’s Special Collections materials… it is not necessary to seek the Library’s permission as the owner of the physical work to publish or otherwise use public domain materials” from its collections. The Harvard Law Library does so as well (...
A big wedding celebration preceded by few romantic relationships for both the bride and the groom could be a positive sign that they will be happy together years down the road, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.
To improve your odds of a high-quality marriage, try not to have too many sexual partners before you meet “the one.” And when you do find him or her, consider inviting at least 150 people to your wedding.
White, straight women are much more likely to seek treatment for infertility than minority, bisexual or lesbian women, a new study finds. Researchers examined data gathered from nearly 20,000 American women, aged 21 to 44, who took part in polls in 2002 and 2006-2010, conducted as part of the National Survey of Family Growth study. ... "White, heterosexual women have apparently been the prime beneficiaries of the recent surge in medical infertility treatments," study author Bernadette Blanchfield, a doctoral student at the University of Virginia, said in a journal news release.
... Alpha-gal allergies are quite irregular compared to other food allergies in that they tend to be delayed, occur often in adults who weren’t previously allergic, and occur in response to a sugar as opposed to a protein. And of course, there is also the allergy’s most irregular aspect of all: it is caused by tick bites. ... Following the study’s publication, Dr. Scott Sicherer, allergist and associate editor of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, sat down with Dr. Scott Commins, study author and expert on alpha-gal allergy from the University of Virginia, to dis...
Dr. Ian Stevenson who was a Canadian-born US Psychiatrist and the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Virginia in 1957 had spent a large part of his professional life traveling the world, verifying, and documenting thousands of past life memory cases. He began his reincarnation research in 1960. Dr. Ian Stevenson once stated: “Reincarnation, at least as I conceive it, does not nullify what we know about evolution and genetics. It suggests, however, that there may be two streams of evolution — the biological one and a personal one — and ...
Jozie Palmer seems like any other happy 5-year-old girl. ... That's why her mother Renee Palmer said it was so difficult leaving her at the University of Virginia Medical Center for surgery to remove several arteriovenous malformations in her brain. After Jozie was diagnosed with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) in June of last year, an angiogram in December found the malformations, and Jozie had surgery on Jan. 13.... The left frontal lobe of the brain controls speech, memory and emotions and are all things that Palmer said could have been affected when neurosurgeon Dr. Kenneth...
By Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of the forthcoming book “Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game.”... The training of the body is directly related to the development of a fundamental aspect of the human psyche: what Plato, that pre-eminent teacher of teaching, called thymos. In English we don’t have a word for this concept, but it encompasses both bravery and the urge for glory. Perhaps the closest we have is “spiritedness,” as in “a spirited competitor.” Plato knew that thymos is a marvelous qu...
By Howard Hoege, a former Army officer who served in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division in 2003 and 2004. He is an assistant dean at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.In March 2003, American forces invaded Iraq. On April 3, 2003, Lt. Col. Chris Hughes, a battalion commander in the 101st Airborne Division, took a portion of his unit to visit the Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in Najaf.
Behbahani modernized the traditional Persian ghazal, a form of verse with structural similarities to the sonnet, expanding from themes of love, and the depiction of lovers, to human rights and human dignity, said Farzaneh Milani, who teaches Persian literature at the University of Virginia and has translated some of Behbahani’s poems. “Some of her most famous ghazals are about a woman gone mad with the loss of her son -- a soldier maimed in the Iran-Iraq war -- and a woman being stoned to death,” Milani said by phone. “How revolutionary it is to respect the form of a ly...
Same-sex couples in Virginia are facing another road block as the Supreme Court jumped in to delay the mandate lifting the ban on same-sex marriage. Now they have to figure out what's next. "The court is trying to figure out how to minimize the harm to all of the people involved between now and when the court finally decides without knowing how it decides," says Douglas Laycock, professor of Constitutional Law at UVa.