... the university founded by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia, has the same very low proportion of Pell Grant students amongst its students as Princeton, and actually a lower proportion than Yale (11 percent vs. 13 percent). With a multibillion-dollar endowment and large out-of-state enrollments, schools like the University of Michigan and UVA are more like private universities already than the public’s perception of a state university.
Room Key, a new online hotel search and booking firm backed by six of the world’s top hotel companies, has acquired Charlottesville-based firm hotelicopter. ...Hotelicopter was founded by Adam Healey and Charles Seilheimer. They met while studying at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and founded hotelicopter in 2006.
By Anushay Hossain
Last week, my husband and I made a trip down to Charlottesville to my alma mater, the University of Virginia, with our six month old daughter, Ava. ... As I strolled through the shadows of my twenties still hanging around the edges of the iconic pillars and columns of Jefferson’s village, a wave of nostalgia came over me, as it often does when I return to UVA, one of the few places I miss and long for even while I am there.
Richard J. Bonnie
Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law and author of 1999 book "The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States"
Chronicle Book Review: The Marijuana Conviction
Hawaii News Daily / Mar. 13
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs and a Haiti expert
Comment: America's subversion of Haiti's democracy continues
The Guardian / Mar. 13
John Quale
Associate professor of architecture and ecoMOD project director
Building skyscrapers at record speed
Marketplace on NPR / Mar. 12
... The study, by the International Healthcare Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia, finds that half of nurses experience blood exposure on their skin or in their eyes, nose, or mouth at least once a month when inserting a peripheral IV catheter.
... [Jessi] Witt and coauthors Sally A. Linkenauger of Max Planck Institute-Tubingen and Dennis R. Proffitt of the University of Virginia decided they should do a study on how to improve performance. For the experiment, the researchers used a well-known optical illusion. They set up a golf hole on a ramp and used a projector to shine a ring of circles around the hole. ... The putters sank more putts when the hole looked bigger-about 10 percent more.
... Before 1990, pay for the chief executives of financial firms were on par with those of chief executives of the largest traded companies, or even slightly lower. By 2005 the pay was roughly 250 percent bigger on average, said Ariell Reshef, a professor of economics at the University of Virginia.
... Furthermore, migraine sufferers who take birth control with estrogen have an increased stroke risk, according to research released by the University of Virginia. ... “It is strongly recommended that women with a personal or family history of migraine headaches should select non-estrogen methods of contraception,” according to the University of Virginia.
Democrat Timothy M. Kaine has a solid lead over Republican George Allen in the greater Charlottesville region, according to poll results released Tuesday by the University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research.
"The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt; Pantheon Books (419 pages, $28.95)
... That's just the sort of useful moral exercise Jonathan Haidt presents in "The Righteous Mind," his wide-ranging new book on the evolutionary basis of human morals and the difficulties people have in comprehending opposing political views. A psychologist at the University of Virginia in the progressive enclave of Charlottesville, Haidt was troubled that his profession routinely pathologizes conservatism, so he set out to try to understand conse...
A group of international scientists has constructed a 3D digital model of ancient Rome at the height of its development and population in an attempt to figure out what Rome looked like in 320 AD. Now anyone can tour the ancient city in a video version of the model. ... “The Rome Reborn project is the continuation of five centuries of research by scholars, architects and artists since the Renaissance who have attempted to restore the ruins of the ancient city with words, maps and images. Now, through hard work by our interdisciplinary team, we have realized their seemingly impossible drea...
The University’s YOUTH-NEX Center collaborated with American pop singer Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation last month to prevent youth bullying. Dewey Cornell, Education Prof. and YOUTH-NEX Program Director, attended the Foundation’s launch event and symposium Feb. 29 at Harvard University.
...The Innocence Project at the University of Virginia Law School has been working with him for more than a year, investigations director Deirdre Enright said. She and legal director Matthew Engle are in the midst of final preparations for a clemency request to Gov. Bob McDonnell. They said in a joint statement Tuesday that [longtime Culpeper Commonwealth’s Attorney Gary] Close’s resignation provides additional support for their efforts to clear [Eric Glen] Weakley’s name.
... "As he was growing taller and taller, he kept getting sicker and sicker," says Dr. Jason Sheehan, a neurosurgeon at the University of Virginia Health System, who also treated Kosen. "He had a very aggressive tumor involving the base of his skull and brain that was in a very difficult location to remove," he explains.
University of Virginia employees are taking critical steps to improve their health and wellness, and dieticians say those steps all start at home. A six-week course for dozens of university employees kicked off Tuesday. It's called "Hoo's Well Eats Well" and the goal is to get UVA staff and families to stay active and think more critically about what they're eating.
If you’re a runner and you can’t extend your hip well behind you on your stride, Jay Dicharry has bad news: You’re never going to be a great runner. Dicharry is the director of the Speed Performance Clinic and the Motion Analysis Lab Coordinator At The University Of Virginia.