The first thing we're taught to do when we get in a car is buckle up. Now, a University of Virginia team of researchers has received more than $2 million in federal grant money to study how elderly drivers react differently in a crash.
Strength comes from others who are strong, new University of Virginia football coach Mike London told a crowd of children attending Charlottesville Community Church’s sports camp Thursday. London spoke to a crowd of 70 children and their families about the importance of surrounding young people with positive role models and how it makes everyone stronger.
With the increased awareness of green construction practices, there is a growing acceptance of the environmental advantages of the modular construction process. A recent research project led by the University of Virginia and Yale University seems to confirm this position.
Data drives policy. Or, at least, it should. In recent months there have been several studies suggesting that children raised by same-sex couples are certainly no worse off (and in some ways are arguably better off) than children raised by heterosexual couples.
A proposal to increase the size of the University of Virginia’s Fontaine Research Park by 310,000 square feet has moved one step closer to reality. The Albemarle County Planning Commission on Tuesday recommended approval for a rezoning.
Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia rank high among state schools nationwide when it comes to how much graduates get paid. Payscale.com ranked hundreds of state schools across the country. Virginia Tech is number ten and Uva comes in at number eleven.
Designs unveiled yesterday for a $60 million institute named for the late senator Edward M. Kennedy show a simple, angular building that will sit in the shadow of its iconic neighbor and big brother, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. A digital library and oral history archives will house electronic copies of Kennedy’s official papers and other members of the Senate and audio recordings of interviews by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate today unveiled renderings for its approximately $60 million site, which is expected to break ground in Dorchester, Mass. this fall…. It will house the Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, which was done with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and includes interviews with 200 people and more than 60 hours of taped interviews with Kennedy.
Depending on your politics, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II’s “fraud investigation” involving the climate-change research of the former University of Virginia assistant professor Michael Mann is either a witch hunt or a long-overdue assault on the Ivory Tower.
The University of Virginia's eighth president has already started moving into her new residence at the historic Carr's Hill mansion on grounds. Teresa Sullivan officially moves in this weekend.
Moving vans are on their way to grounds this week. At the University of Virginia, President Casteen has moved out and President-elect Teresa Sullivan is on her way in. Before she rolls into town, the university gave a sneak peek inside the president's residence, Carr's Hill.
Michael Knight
English and creative writing
Micaela Connery
DoSomething award finalist Micaela Connery celebrates every student’s abilities onstage and off with Unified Theater. Connery finished her degree in Service, Community and Social Policy at the University of Virginia in 2009.
Tim "the Clown" Cunningham
Local Nurse Spreads Laughter with Clowns Without Borders
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Alexander Jech
Lecturer in Political Philosophy, Policy and Law
Pornography and women
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Edward G. Lengel
Senior editor of The Papers of George Washington, associate professor of history and author of "To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918"
History Workshop In Staunton
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Larry J. Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
The Big Question: Is it smart for Dems to use Bush in '10 campaign?
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Erika James
Bank of America Associate Research Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School and co-author of the 2010 book, Leading Under Pressure
Improvements, for example, may come from replacing the PIN photodetectors in the receiver chip with the high-speed avalanche photodetectors that Intel developed in conjunction with Joe Campbell of the University of Virginia and John Bowers of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
... In Lake Malawi, for example, Matthew Arnegard of Cornell University and Bruce Carlson of the University of Virginia observed packs of up to ten mormyrids hunt together for smaller fishes for days at a time. The fishes sent out crackles of electricity to each other to stay in close touch as they roamed for prey.
The Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti along with partners MADRE, TransAfrica Forum, and the law schools of the University of Minnesota and the University of Virginia released "Our Bodies are Still Trembling: Haitian Women's Fight Against Rape," the first report of its kind to focus exclusively on the crisis of violence against Haitian women and girls that has emerged in the aftermath of the earthquake.
A recent research project led by the University of Virginia and Yale University ... states that the researcher team’s aim was to evaluate two methods of building construction in the United States, conventional construction and modular/off-site construction and attempt to determine which is more environmentally preferred. The analysis showed that impacts from off-site construction were generally lower than those from on-site construction.