The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) announced today a panel session of globally renowned clinicians for the upcoming Wireless Health 2010 conference, where researchers from leading global institutions including MIT, the University of Edinburgh, UCLA, and the University of Virginia, will share research findings and explore significant advances in wireless health technologies with thought leaders from academia, medicine, government and industry. The conference is scheduled for Oct. 5-7, 2010 at Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines.
In an interview with DW, Philip Zelikow, [White Burkett Miller Professor of History] involved with reunification for the White House, talks about Germany's reduced role since reunification and the peculiar painting he received from an East German diplomat.
Biographer Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life is prompted by the "Papers of George Washington," a research project that has been ongoing at the University of Virginia since 1968.
The University of Virginia is holding information sessions to mark Cyber Security Awareness Month.
A group of University of Virginia researchers is working on a way to help you save a load of energy at home without making a bunch of upgrades. The research is about redirecting the energy you are not using, and aiming it at the spots in your home where you need it. The technology - a series of sensors - would show you your energy use when you are there, when you are out, and when you simply walk from room to room.
The University of Virginia dean of students sent a safety message to students Tuesday urging them to use caution after three recent attacks near campus. One female student was sexually assaulted, and authorities believe the same suspect attempted to assault another female student, wrote Allen Groves, associate vice president and dean of students. The third student, who was punched in the neck, was believed to have been attacked because of his sexual orientation, according to the message.
A student e-mailed University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan last week saying she and her sorority sisters didn't feel safe walking home after the bars closed at 2 a.m. She'll look into it, Sullivan said she told the student, but added some advice: "Not to sound like your mother or anything, but I don't think you should be walking alone at that time in the morning no matter how safe you feel," she said.
Sullivan spoke of her first two months on the job in an interview yesterday with members of the Richmond Times-Dispatch news and editorial staffs, and student safety was amo...
Tina Fey
U.Va. grad and soon-to-be- recipient of Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Stars set to honor Tina Fey in Mark Twain Prize ceremony at Kennedy Center
Washington Post / Sept. 29
Haley Stephens
Nursing student and regular blogger for the Wall Street Journal's "Hire Education" blog
A Year of ‘Last Firsts’
Wall Street Journal "Hire Education" blog / Sept. 29
Janelle Summerville
Grad student in psychology
Amid The Recession, Janelle Summerville Rocks Out
Huffington Post / Sept. 29
Joseph and Claudia Worrell Allen
Professors of psychology and authors of "Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How Can We Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old"
The confidence crisis of the 20-something son/ Why young men are getting lost entering the real world – and what parents can do to help
Chicago Tribune / Sept. 28
Bob Gibson
Executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
Engaging citizens focus of forum
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Sept. 29
Douglas Laycock
Law and religious studies professor
K-12 Implications Seen in Some Cases Befor...
In the 1930s, government officials moved hundreds of families from their homes to make way for what became Shenandoah National Park. ... More than 70 years later, the episode still offers lessons — so much so, it was a major topic during a three-day workshop for Virginia managers of natural resources. … The program was presented by the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute, which is part of a partnership of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, the Virginia Department of Forestry and the Vi...
University of Virginia students and members of the community will race this fall in memory of Yeardley Love. Friends of Love have established a Facebook group called Every Yard for Yeardley. The group has two goals. The first is to run the Richmond Marathon in her memory, and the second is to raise awareness about the One Love Foundation.
Some of the University of Virginia’s brightest thinkers now have a place to congregate that officials say would have made Thomas Jefferson proud. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation, a privately funded group whose mission is to attract and recruit the brightest undergraduate and graduate students to UVa, has moved into its office space on Clarke Court.