Fundraising is up at UVA despite a down economy. Overall giving is up 35% over the previous fiscal year. UVA spokeswoman Carol Wood says donors realize that the University cannot rely totally on the state. Wood says the economy has pushed back the timeline for meeting the $3 billion campaign goal.  The campaign is now at $2.4 billion.
The University of Virginia has dedicated its new Hunter Smith Band Building as a way to usher in the Cavaliers' first football game of the year.  It's named for Albemarle County's Hunter Smith. Her husband, the late Carl Smith, was a past member of the UVA Board of Visitors and a major booster of Cavalier athletics.
Bullying in high school is not just a problem of individual torment: It is linked to lower academic achievement across the school. So concludes research that investigated student behavior in nearly 300 high schools in Virginia, including most of those in the Washington suburbs. The research shows that high school campuses with more reported bullying had lower passing rates on Virginia’s standardized tests. "Bullying had a schoolwide impact, and we were able to show it reduced the level of academic engagement and involvement in student activities among students as whole," said c...
University of Virginia professors and students sit around the conference discussing their latest trip. They were in Mpumalanga, South Africa, meeting with community health care providers who work closely with HIV and AIDS patients. The reason for the trip was to share new information and ideas about end of life care. "In these communities there is very little health care," said Cathy Campbell, a UVA professor and nurse. "There's really no formal palliative (end of life) care services, so it's important for us to support them and the work that they're doing."
Ferrell Mercer Earned his master’s degree in computer science from U.Va.
A.E. Dick Howard Law professor Different Accents in Law EzineMark.com Kyle Kondik Media relations coordinator at The Center for Politics DeMint's Influence on Display in Labor Day Event  / The Columbia forum will be the first with all of the GOP frontrunners since Perry joined the race. Patch.com | Sept. 2 Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik Director and media relations coordinator at The Center for Politics Handicapper: Nevada best hope for Dem pickup in 2012 Senate Las Vegas Review-Journal |Sept. 1 Larry Sabato Director of the Center for Politics Stakes Are High as Obama Prepares Economic ...
Football recruiting has become an arms race, and the University of Virginia has no interest in being left behind. The Cavaliers proved it Thursday by going public with a $13 million fundraising drive. The money will go toward the construction of an indoor practice field next to the McCue Center on the north edge of campus. It would be primarily for football, but could be used for other sports as well.
... Bill was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, or ACC, a rare, slow-growing cancer of the head and neck areas. ... Now at age 25, Bill wanted to tell his story in order to publicize the condition and encourage participation in the fifth annual fun run/walk, called Attack ACC on Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Hickory Creek Junction Forest Preserve in Mokena, Ill. ... The proceeds of the fundraiser go to the University of Virginia Cancer Center in Charlottesville, Va., which is the primary facility in the nation dedicated to ACC research. To date $67,500 has been donated to the center through ...
In a new study, researchers report that religious faith is actually strengthened by education. University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox reveals that it is the least-educated Americans who are more likely to turn their backs on religion. ... The study, based on the General Social Survey and the National Survey of Family Growth, is titled "No Money, No Honey, No Church: The Deinstitutionalization of Religious Life Among the White Working Class."
The researchers concluded: "Thus, the recent advances in understanding of neuronal Ras/Rap signaling provide a useful guide for developing novel treatments for mental diseases." R.L. Stornetta (professor of pharmacology) and colleagues, University of Virginia School of Medicine published their study in The Neuroscientist (Ras and Rap signaling in synaptic plasticity and mental disorders.
A team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) was awarded two grants totaling $1.75 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative of Semiconductor Research Corp. to create powerful, energy-efficient computer processors that can run an embedded system without requiring battery power. ... The team, led by researchers at the VCU School of Engineering, is working with colleagues from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of California at Riverside to translate its...
Fredericksburg, Va.-based Marstel-Day is a certified woman-owned, HUBZone small business concern that holds multiple federal prime contract vehicles. The company has additional offices in Oakland, Calif., and Alexandria, Va. Marstel-Day has received numerous awards for its green approach to environmental services including the 2010 Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award from the University of Virginia emphasizing green ethics and a commitment to maintaining business locations in areas of high unemployment and low income ...
Even before the school year began, Principal Jerre Moore knew she had made friends — and critics — at the academically troubled Hancock Elementary School. ... Moore ...  spent a week this summer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Management. They spent 16-hour days in classes, hearing lectures and discussing a multitude of nationwide school reform efforts. The sessions, funded by a federal grant, required each principal to produce a 90-day action plan to reverse the fortunes of his or her school.
Coles Run has more kick than black coffee. The state's most acidic river beats the acidity of java. But it is not the only acidic river in the area. Local streams are some of the most acidic in the state, according to data compiled for the just-completed Virginia Trout Stream Sensitivity Study. That means hard times for "brookies" — brook trout — and for the southern Valley's share of the $90 million trout fishermen spend in Virginia every year. [The study is conducted by U.Va.'s Department of Environmental Sciences and Trout Unlimited.]
The University of Virginia is unveiling its new band building this week. The Hunter Smith Band Building will be dedicated at a ceremony Friday afternoon in Charlottesville. University President Teresa Sullivan, UVa band director Bill Pease and other officials are scheduled to give remarks. The $12.7 million facility contains three levels of rehearsal halls, practice rooms, instrument and uniform storage and offices. It will house the University’s Cavalier Marching Band, which does not have a dedicated practice facility, as well as the men's and women's basketball bands, the bands for the...
Students from the University of Virginia’s School of Law helped to overturn the conviction of a Chantilly man who once faced the death penalty. ... “We’re elated and gratified,” said Deirdre Enright, director of investigation for the Innocence Project Clinic. “It’s rare to get relief in death penalty cases and rarer still to lay it at the feet of prosecutors.” ... The clinic worked with Wolfe’s pro bono attorneys to show prosecutors withheld evidence in Wolfe’s trial that could have exonerated him, the release said.
Dr. Amy R. Alson Psychiatrist and doctor of internal medicine and assistant professor, University of Virginia Medical School Disordered Eating "Virginia Insight" on WMRA Public Radio  | Aug. 29, 2011   Edwin Burton Professor of economics Burton Says Business-Friendly Laws Help Virginia WINA 1070 | Aug. 31 Jennifer Farrell U.Va. Art Museum curator of exhibitions Is This Rare Van Gogh Portrait for Real?, Independent Launches Attack on the "Banksy Deception," and More Must-Read Art News ARTINFO | Aug. 31  Josipa Roksa Professor of sociology and co-author of &q...
The event depends on volunteers, and the support of hospitals such as the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, the Norton Community Hospital in Norton and Mountain States Health Alliance, a hospital group based in Johnson City, Tenn. Mountain States sent its HeartCoach, a 40-foot-long RV outfitted with medical equipment, which is able to offer cardiovascular screenings. Hundreds of people helped at the Wise event, held on the weekend of July 22-24. “We work year round to make it happen,” Gardner says.
G. Thomas Battle A graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia School of Law W.Va. Chamber Inducts Inaugural Hall of Fame Class The State Journal | Aug. 31 Thomas Goetz A graduate of the University of Virginia with a masters of arts degree in American literature and is executive editor at Wired Magazine Adobe Museum of Digital Media Announces Two New Exhibitions MarketWatch | Sept. 1  Jeff Revoy A Darden Graduate School alum and chief product, marketing and strategy officer at iContact’s Why should I commit to email campaigns when I can use social marke...