University of Virginia officials agreed Friday to try to cut the school’s greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2025. The cuts, which are measured in tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent, will be based on 2009 figures, the university’s Board of Visitors was told at a Friday meeting.
Chief Facilities Officer Don Sundgren said that the program will require university community members to aim higher than past efforts. ...
The University of Virginia's Tayloe Murphy Center, housed at U.Va's Darden School of Business, has seen "a lot of different iterations" in nearly half a century, including providing demographic studies to the state, said Gregory Fairchild, its executive director. Now its focus, Fairchild said, is "helping grow jobs in low-income communities."
Breast-feeding is already known to provide a slew of benefits to mother and baby, and now one more positive can be added to the list: it reduces the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, a new study says. "There's lots of reasons that breast-feeding is the best form of feeding infants," said study researcher Dr. Fern Hauck of the University of Virginia. "This study provides even further reason to breast-feed."
Roger Chevalier
Astronomy professor
Shattered Expectations: Ultrabright Supernovae Defy Explanation
Scientific American / June 8
Josipa Roksa
Assistant professor of sociology
College just isn't what it used to be
The Daily Progress / June 9
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director, Center for Politics
Voter ID bill easily passes House
Charlotte Observer / June 10
and
Gingrich's loss could be Perry's campaign
Houston Chronicle / June 10
Jerry Stenger
State climatologist
Farmers lament as drought grips Eastern Shore
The Virginian-Pilot / June 10
Robert Turner
Law professor and co-founder...
Andy Chairisi
College of Arts & Sciences, East Asian Studies and design art alumnus
China: The New Assertiveness
Forbes.com / June 9
Mike McCormick
Alumnus
Mike McCormick joins his father in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
Daily Press / June 9
Emily Melville
College of Arts & Sciences biology alumna
Sharp Elegance: Emily Melville's timeless designs
Bohemian.com / June 8
Almost 23,000 people in Virginia are living with HIV today, thirty years after the first cases popped up. ... According to the Virginia Department of Health there are more than 300 people living with HIV in Charlottesville and Albemarle County ... Between 2004 and 2008 there were more than 5,000 new infections reported in Virginia. ... But there have been major advancements. University of Virginia researchers recently revealed the entire outer structure of the virus and other research shows early medication can be extremely important.
Former basketball and baseball coach Howard “Hank” Allen has left a legacy at Langston High School. Not only did he coach his teams to hundreds of wins, but he also coached his players in life. ... in 1969 Allen was recruited by the University of Virginia to join the staff of the U.Va. Desegregation Center and later became an assistant professor there and earned his doctorate. During his entire 13 years at Langston only one of his student-athletes failed to graduate. At the age of 91, Allen still lives in Charlottesville and is planning on attending Saturday’s gym dedication.
Akron Public Schools announced a two-year training program for principals at eight schools whose low test scores haven't budged despite the usual remedies.
The University of Virginia's business and education schools developed the program to help principals, teachers and central office administrators make changes faster with less red tape.
Some fourth and fifth grade students in Albemarle County will end their school year today with a better understanding in engineering. A pilot program through UVA's Curry School of Education provided equipment and software to teach the elementary kids how to design and build a skate board park. ... This project is called Fab@School. The Curry School created the program as a way to integrate digital fabrication into an elementary school's curriculum. Willy Kjellstrom is a doctoral student in the Curry School's Information Technology program and worked on the project with some elementary school s...
... The PreK-3 movement ... wants to revolutionize early education through an ambitious list of connected initiatives, including universal access to free public preschool, mandatory full-day kindergarten and a curriculum that is seamlessly connected from preschool to third grade. Increasing parental involvement is also a major focus. But some educators and experts have questioned how feasible and replicable the agenda is ... And critics and advocates alike have acknowledged that evidence supporting the collective reforms is scarce. ... "There are a lot of reasons why it should work, and w...
The University of Virginia’s marquee financial aid program, AccessUVa, is up for review and could face significant changes because of the large cost it entails. UVa’s Board of Visitors ordered the question studied at a meeting Thursday.
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Thursday approved the purchase by the UVa Medical Center of a private physician practice — Hematology Oncology Patient Enterprises, or HOPE. ... the practice is expected to bring in $35 million or so in additional revenues and incur $2 million to $3 million less than that in expenses. The acquisition will help the Medical Center become a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. There are currently no centers with such designation operating in Virginia ... The practice will retain the same doctors and locatio...
The University of Virginia Children's Hospital is taking a big step forward. The hospital broke ground Thursday on a new project it calls a resource of health and healing for all families in need.
It is a huge step forward. The new Barry & Bill Battle Building is the result of years of planning and consultation with everyone from physicians and healthcare professionals to children and families.
Dewey Cornell
Education professor
Fairfax may reexamine forced school transfers in discipline cases
The Washington Post / June 8
Jerry Stenger
State climatologist
Wednesday's heat sets a record
The Daily Progress / June 8
Rebecca Tippett
U.Va. Demographer, Cooper Center Demographics & Workforce Unit
New Virginia Map
WVTF Public Radio / June 8
Isaac Wood
Center for Politics media relations coordinator
Redistricting Alters Candidates’ Battleground
Springfield Connection / June 8
Albert H. Small
Engineering alumnus
He calls it the UnCollege movement.
Nineteen-year-old Dale Stephens is urging his peers to rethink the need for college, arguing that they can get more out of pursuing real-world skills than completing homework assignments and studying for exams.
... Stephens is part of a small but growing chorus of entrepreneurs, free thinkers and former students who are questioning the value of higher education. The attack is coming from multiple directions: those who say college costs far more than it should; those who say students learn far less than they should; and those who argue the graduation rates ar...
John Harrison
Law professor
... "The statute would be inconsistent with the Constitution because it would seek to exercise through legislation the power to appoint an officer of the United States, a power that may be exercised only by the president, a head of a department or a court of law," Harrison said.
You could say that getting hit by a green 1967 Chevy Nova was one of the
worst things to ever happen to Carol Stanley. You could also say that it was
one of the most fortuitous. Back in 1983, Stanley was crossing a street in
Philadelphia when she was struck by the car. ... Miraculously, Stanley¹s
injuries weren¹t life-threatening ... Stanley wound up receiving $3,000 from
the driver of the Chevy, which she promptly used as the seed money for a new
business. It¹s one that¹s still going strong today.
Stanley, a Charlottesville resident who has worked as the registrar at the
U...
Major League Baseball teams had a close eye on the Virginia Cavaliers this season. On day two of the MLB Draft Tuesday, the Mariners also selected Cavalier catcher John Hicks. The junior went in the fourth round, 123rd overall.