Thuy Doan
She took up poker while attending U.Va.
Russell Steven JonesEarned a Master of Science degree in biomedical engineering
Richard Fileno DiGregorio
‎He earned his BS in mechanical engineering from U.Va.
Stephen Gallup
He earned a graduate degree from the University of Virginia and is the author of "What About the Boy? A Father's Pledge to His Disabled Son"
Virginia Book Notes
Richmond Times-Dispatch | Sept. 4
Ai-Xuan Le Holterman
A graduate of the School of Medicine
Thirty-six years after fleeing Vietnam, doctor finds herself in Peoria
Peoria Journal Star | Sept. 3
Katherine Leon
A U.Va. alumna
UVA Graduate Pushes for Research into SCADS
WVIR NBC-29 | Sept. 5
Rowan Moody and Shaun Moshasha
A third-year modern studies/English major and fourth-year student respectively
Ahmed Abbasi
An assistant professor of information technology
Tucson tech: UA team out to expose 'phishers'
Arizona Daily Star | Sept. 6
Bob Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
Learning the game of social media
Financial Times | Sept. 5
Benjamin Cohen
Assistant professor of science, technology and society
and
Paul Freedman
Associate professor of politics and senior scholar at the Pew Partnership for Civic Change
Choosing Food: What would life be like if broccoli grew on trees?
"Virginia Insight" on WVTF Public Radio |Sept. 1
Sara Rimm-Kaufman
An associate professor in...
... Morse runs U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Colleges guide, the oldest and best-known publication to rank America’s premier colleges. The annual release of the rankings, set for Sept. 13 this year, is a marquee event in higher education. Some call it the academic equivalent of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. ... “This is the prime fallacy of U.S. News: They think they’re measuring excellence, but they don’t have measures of excellence,” said Paul Glastris, editor of Washington Monthly, one of several publications that offer alternative...
The Obama administration is holding colleges' feet to the fire when it comes to how they handle reports of sexual violence and harassment. The tougher stance comes after federal officials saw problems at a number of schools that led some victims of sexual violence to feel revictimized by campus policies and procedures. ... At least 25 schools, ranging from Stanford University to the University of Virginia, have already changed some policies in response to the letter, say OCR officials.
The University of Virginia was already overhauling its policy when the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter suggesting changes nationwide. Susan Davis, Vice President for Student Affairs, says UVA will now require a lesser standard to bring charges against students accused of sexual misconduct. Since such cases often involve only two people, it’s hard to come up with clear and convincing evidence – the school’s original requirement. Now, victims need only offer a preponderance of evidence.
Below are the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson, one of the most important of our founding fathers. It seems in spite of these accomplishments, the Texas School Board voted to virtually eliminate him from the textbooks used by their school system. This is one of the most egregious of the changes they made in textbooks that they will use to "teach" their students. The main problem they found is that Jefferson was a proponent of the separation of church and state.
More than 3,000 women hit the ground running Saturday morning in Albemarle County to raise money for breast cancer research. Saturday morning's run was the 29th Charlottesville Women's Four Miler. Proceeds from the all female race provide free mammograms to women without insurance through the University of Virginia. The money also helps fund breast cancer research projects.
As 3,500 women begin stretching for the 29th annual Charlottesville Women’s Four Miler this morning, organizers are hoping for an all-time high in donations to fight breast cancer. ... The University of Virginia Cancer Center Breast Care Program will be the chief beneficiary of the race for the 19th consecutive year. All of the collections go toward efforts to fight breast cancer, including initiatives to help women detect breast cancer and survive it, as well as research aimed at combating the disease.
Complementary alternative medicine is increasing in popularity in Los Angeles. ... However, according to a new study published in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, both acupuncture and sham acupuncture produced similar results in these patients. Researchers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville attempted to determine whether true, as compared with sham, acupuncture normalizes pituitary gonadotropin hormones and increases the frequency of ovulation in women with PCOS.
Last week the former Home Secretary David Blunkett called for a new national youth volunteer programme to help tackle what he called a 'growing culture of irresponsibility' amongst young people following the recent riots. A new book by University of Virginia professor of psychology Dr Timothy Wilson has supported this call by highlighting evidence from the US that shows how engaging young people in voluntary work can have a marked impact on incidences of crime and anti social behavior.
Money raised from this weekend's Women's Four Miler will help fund groundbreaking breast cancer research at the University of Virginia Medical Center. Doctors and scientists in the program are trying to revolutionize how breast cancer is treated.
University of Virginia researchers have developed a revolutionary three-dimensional model that allows them to visualize how breast tissue grows in its earliest stages, giving them the closest look ever at the very beginnings of breast cancer.
In a post 9/11 world, the response to emergency situations has dramatically changed for those on the front lines. ... The area got a new central command center to take emergency calls and dispatch crews. The Emergency Communications Center (ECC) on Ivy Road opened in 2001. ... In 2004, the ECC got a $6 million federal grant to put toward a brand new $14 million radio system. Now police, fire and EMS crews in Charlottesville, Albemarle and the University of Virginia can all talk to each other and dispatchers during major events.
During a breakfast with the University of Virginia's Young Democrats, he (U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine) told them, there is no "magic bullet" to create jobs stating, "It's education that's ultimately the best economic development strategy. The more skills you have, the better your opportunity."
As vistas of suburban grocery stores gave way to exurban mansions and then hay farms during a ride to the University of Virginia early one summer morning, George Wu sat on a plush bus seat and faced two dozen students aboard the U-Va. Express. Nearly all were Chinese, and hardly any had set foot in Virginia before their plane landed at Dulles International Airport a few hours earlier. Wu knew they were nervous. Three years ago, he was in their place — a teenager far from home, unsure of his English, headed to the school in Charlottesville.