The Cavalier Volkssporting Club of the University of Virginia will host the Monticello Volkswalk on April 15. Volksmarching is non-competitive fitness walking, in which marchers travel either 3.1 or 6.2 miles, which works out to 5 or 10 kilometers in the metric system, on an outdoor path. ... Participants must register by April 2.
Speaking of Syria's president, Pawlenty said, "He's a terrible thug, and in my view he should be indicted as a war criminal and brought to justice. ...
Topping the list is the University of Virginia School of Law, which rose 12% from its 2010-2011 yield to 51.9%.
By Neil Snyder, U.Va. professor emeritus
Since the Camp David Accords were signed in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the United States has been attempting to buy peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors, but the Arab Spring has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that that strategy is fatally flawed. ...
The University of Virginia School of Law tops the list of schools with the highest increases in yield, jumping 12 percent from its 2010-2011 yield to 51.9 percent.
Students from Argentina and Chile have a better understanding of American politics. The University of Virginia Center for Politics is hosting 30 teens from South America. UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato gave the teens a lesson on the importance of democracy. He says this global approach to learning is essential.
By Jonathan Haidt, U.Va. psychology professor
We humans have many varieties of religious experience. One of the most common is self-transcendence -- a feeling becoming part of something larger, grander and nobler. Most people experience this at least a few times in their lives. When the self thins out and melts away, it not only feels good but can be thrilling. It's as though our minds contain a secret staircase taking us from an ordinary life up to something sacred and deeply interconnected ... The big question is, Why do our minds contain such a staircase? I believe it's because there was a ...
Dipan Bowers
Research scientist at the Center for Applied Biomechanics
Breakfast with Ross Solly: Why female crash test dummies are now being used
ABC Online (blog) / March 27
Paul Gross
Professor emeritus of life sciences
Virginia aces science
Fredericksburg Freelance Star / March 27
Douglas Laycock
Law professor
Vindication for Challenger of Health Care Law
New York Times / March 26
Allen Lynch
Politics professor
Radio feature on Putin
WMRA Virginia Insight / March 29
Sara Neher
assistant dean for admissions, Darden School
As MBA Applicants, Business Majors Face an Uphill Battle
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A doctoral student at Harvard University will undertake research work in Pakistan under a fellowship recently established to honour the memory of a scholar of Pakistani origin... The fellowship is part of the Momina Cheema Foundation-Pakistan, which has also … started a scholarship programme at University of Virginia Law School for students interested in Islamic law and culture.
A select group high school students in Charlottesville and Albemarle County will attend an intergenerational course to learn more about other countries and their customs. The University of Virginia's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is examining how American foreign policy can be strengthened by understanding foreign cultures. OLLI offers educational opportunities for adults in the community.
We also want to congratulate another UVA music professor, Judith Shatin, who has been selected as a Virginia Women in History honoree. ...
It started with an aria. Shortly after arriving at UVA five years ago, music professor Bonnie Gordon was searching for a score to “Cara Sposa” from George Frideric Handel’s opera Rinaldo. Thomas Jefferson’s own copy of the aria, it turned out, was sitting nearby in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. There was only one problem. “I didn’t have enough credentials to actually look at the music,” said Gordon. That lack of access may have thrown a wrench into her research at the time, but it led to a much larger project, which ...
... The collaboration proposed by IMPACT “will require additional time and coordination between local organizations, resulting in delays that may be unworkable in this quickly evolving and changing field,” wrote R. Edward Howell, vice-president and CEO of the UVa Medical Center, in a letter to IMPACT. He also noted that the center has spoken with PVCC and National College to explore ways to provide training for local residents. “We hope to build on the momentum of those conversations and in the coming months to create effective training programs for our community,” Howe...
While most state employees have gone without an increase to their base pay since December 2007, some universities have tapped institutional reserves to boost salaries for targeted faculty members. ... The University of Virginia maintains a $6.26 million pool from non-tax funds for salary increases, which this year average $7,375, the university said. That pool includes funds from unrestricted endowment income, gifts, grants and tuition. UVa awarded bonuses to 78 faculty members that totaled $948,235. ...
... With Virginia’s faculty salaries lagging by national standards, university presidents lobbied hard this legislative session to warn lawmakers that another year without a state pay increase jeopardizes the staffs they have built.
“We had heard from about every college president that that was their No. 1 goal,” said Del. M. Kirkland Cox, R-Colonial Heights.
Virginia is at a historical low in the goal set by the General Assembly to raise salaries for faculty at public universities to the 60th percentile of their peer institutions nationally. Those salary averages systemwide ...
Help is now available online for children struggling with a frustrating soiling disorder known as encopresis. Created by researchers at the University of Virginia Health System, the “online intervention” at UCanPoopToo.com offers children with encopresis an individually tailored, multi-week training program designed to help them overcome this problem. ...
... The findings shed light on which infants may be mature enough to leave the NICU, showing that postnatal age seems to be an indicator of maturity, but birth weight or gestational age at birth are not. The article ... appears in the current edition of the Journal of Applied Physiology, published by the American Physiological Society. ... The researchers collected data from the bedside monitors of 1,202 infants cared for in the University of Virginia NICU from January 2009 to June 2011.
... A 2007 study, by Russell A. Barkley of the Medical University of South Carolina and Daniel J. Cox of the University of Virginia Health System, concluded that young drivers with ADHD are two to four times as likely as those without the condition to have an accident, meaning that they are at a higher risk of wrecking the car than an adult who is legally drunk. Researchers say that many teenagers with attention or other learning problems can become good drivers, but not easily or quickly, and that some will be better off not driving till they are older - or not at all. ...