Elena Weissman
A third year history student who spent a semester in Israel
AFrame Digital aims at communicating in real-time a user’s location and movement data to cloud-based signaling and controlling devices by using a wireless care monitor platform that looks like a wrist watch. The leading reason for injury-based visits to emergency rooms in the USA has been attributed to falls. Accidental deaths of people aged 65 and above have also been attributed to falls. ... Further study on gait detection will be supported by Dr John Lach, an associate professor at the University of Virginia and the Vinson Hall Retirement Community located in McLean, Virginia.
The University of Texas ranks among the best and most efficient public universities when it comes to graduating students in six years, but still must help them get their degrees faster, according to a school report released Thursday. ... Among public schools nationally, the highest six-year graduation rate is 93 percent at the University of Virginia.
A new health and wellness center and renovations to the Greear Gymnasium at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise will be paid for with an $8.3 million donation – the largest in the college’s history. The money was pledged by Southwest Virginia natives Richard and Leslie Gilliam. ... It will be used for a new health and wellness center and renovations of nearly 6,000 square feet of the gym to house the Healthy Appalachia Institute at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
In a new study of women with polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, there was no difference in ovulation or hormone levels in those who got real versus sham acupuncture treatments. Women in both groups saw an improvement in hormones related to pregnancy and ovulation, and tended to have more periods after going to the study sessions than before. ... "Whether there's actually some physiological benefit from a sham acupuncture treatment, I don't know," said study author Lisa Pastore, from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The report indicates that Albemarle County and the University of Virginia are region’s leading employers in the past 10 years with 24.9 percent increase in jobs since 2000, while Charlottesville’s employment dropped 8.6 percent since 2000, a loss of 3,248 jobs.
Robert McWhorter
Law alumnus
A walk down football memory lane
The Herald-Gazette / Aug. 31
Jason Odell Williams
College of Arts & Sciences, drama
Rep Stage's 'Or' looks at barrier-breaking Sixties — 1660s, that is
The Baltimore Sun / Sept. 1
John Arras
Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of Bioethics Minor Program
Panel Hears Grim Details of Venereal Disease Tests
New York Times / Aug. 30
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Panel Blasts Ethics, Science of 1940s Guatemala Studies
Science Insider / Aug. 30
and
Bioethics commission rules Guatemalan STD research unethical
BioEdge.org / Aug. 31
Dr. Daniel Cox
Professor of behavioral medicine and a Curry School Youth-Nex Center fellow
Discusses study that uses virtual reality driving simulators to train and evaluate the driving skills of teens with Asperger's and high-functioning autism
WINA...
In 2006 and 2007, it seemed like every wealthy college and university was announcing a record-breaking fund-raising campaign that would bring its research and education endeavors to new heights. Major research universities talked about bringing in $3 billion or $4 billion, much of it in "mega-gifts." That talk quieted down in 2008, when the economic downturn began, and the past few years have not seen the kinds of pre-recession goals that used to make headlines. ... [However] the past year has been a good one for many institutions ... Cornell University, the University of Virginia, a...
... Six-year graduation rates at Virginia's public schools range from 34.5 percent at Norfolk State University to 92.7 percent for the University of Virginia, according to a report by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia based on the 2004 freshman cohort. The rate for VCU was 50.4 percent; Virginia State University, 41.3 percent; Old Dominion University, 49.5 percent; George Mason University, 63.4 percent; Longwood University, 58.6 percent; Virginia Tech, 79.9 percent; and the College of William and Mary, 89.7 percent.
When it comes to handling customer complaints, consumer-behavior findings support the notion that you only have one chance to make a good first impression. If you respond quickly to address an initial complaint, your customer stays remains likely to make future purchases from you. In fact, a prompt, thorough resolution of the problem often leads to the customer becoming even more likely to come back to buy more. Researchers at the University of Virginia found that if a customer again encounters the same sort of problem, repurchase intentions drop sharply.
Graduate students in the “hard” sciences who teach in addition to engaging in research greatly improve their research skills compared with graduate students who undertook research alone, according to a new study, reports the New York Times. The study, published last week in the journal Science, found that “teaching experience can contribute substantially to the improvement of essential research skills.” Researchers on the study came from the University of Virginia, the University of South Carolina, the University of Texas at Austin and Zayed University, in the United Ar...
By Joseph J. Thorndike director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts and a visiting scholar in history at U.Va.
Two weeks ago, Warren E. Buffett called for raising taxes on wealth. In honor of Labor Day, let's consider a different question: should we lower taxes on work? ...
In the first session of day three of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Meeting, the discussion continued on the collectiondevelopment in the area of born-digital papers, and the management of born-digital assets. ... [U.Va.'s Gretchen] Geugen introduced the project. “The AIMS project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, represents a co-operative strategy among four partner institutions, to energize collection development in the area of born-digital papers, and to empower librarians and archivists in the management of born-digital assets. The four partners in the proj...
The University of Virginia Art Museum has tapped scholar and curator Jennifer Farrell, who has a long history of working at institutionsthroughout New York and New England, to be its new curator of exhibitions.
By W. Bradford Wilcox, associate professor of sociology, director of the National Marriage Project and lead author of the report "Why Marriage Matters: 30 Conclusions from the Social Sciences."
Judging by the relationship status of the current occupants ofGracie Mansion in New York City and the Governor’s Mansion in New York, cohabitation is enjoying unprecedented acceptance among American adults. Indeed, the number of cohabiting couples in the United States has grown 14-fold since 1970. Millions of adults seem to enjoy the freedom and flexibility that cohabitation affords them...
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday that it received $41.7 million in new fundraising commitments in the last fiscal year for its College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, up by almost half from the year before. Eugene Schutt, the college’s associate dean for development, attributed the philanthropy to donor loyalty and belief in the vision of the college’s dean, Meredith Woo.
Charlie Clarkson
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Environmental Sciences
Amy R. Alson
Psychiatrist and doctor of internal medicine, assistant professor, School of Medicine, and clinical staff member at the Student Health Center
Disordered Eating
WMRA Virginia Insight / Aug. 29
LeAnn Buntrock
Executive Director of the Darden/Curry PLE
Low-Graded Schools Earn Better Marks
The Columbus Dispatch / Aug. 29
Greg Fairchild
Executive director of Darden’s Tayloe Murphy Center
Walmart’s Check-Cashing Success Draws Notice From Bankers
Seeking Alpha / Aug. 28
Gary Gallagher
History professor
Looking back: Civil War memorabilia to be digitally p...
Before Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he wrote his own epitaph. Did he mention any of his political offices? No. Jefferson wanted only three accomplishments listed on his gravestone: author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, and author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. In the latter effort, Jefferson was influenced by the ideas and experiences of a Baptist community he met while living at Monticello in the 1770s.