The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced Thursday that loss of farmland to development appears to be slowing in the Commonwealth. … Farming and forestry combined remain Virginia’s number one industry, accounting for a total economic impact of $79 billion in 2006, according to a recent report conducted by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Policy at the University of Virginia.
Sentara Healthcare marked the 10-year anniversary of its eICU system, and the Riverside & University of Virginia Radiosurgery Center treated its 1,000th patient. … Riverside worked with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville to establish the Riverside facility, starting Gamma Knife treatments in June 2006 and Elekta Synergy S treatments in May 2007.
Francis Collins
Director of the U.S. National Institute of Health
Human Genome Project will live up to its potential: NIH director
Xinhua News Service / July 5
William D. Glover
Who received a electrical engineering master's degree
MHS To Enshrine Eight At Life Achievement Banquet
Wetzel Chronicle / July 7
Captain Richard K. Wood II
Who graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
Command Change At Big Navy: Woods Takes Over From Galbreaith
Pacific News Center / July 7
Elizabeth Brightwell
A rising sophomore
Portsmouth's Morris faces top seed in VSGA semis
The Virginian-Pilot / July 8
Joe Chard
A first-year MBA student at Darden
Bloomberg Businessweek / July 7
Books Are Here To Stay: Kindle And IPad Not Ready For College Classrooms
Brittany Kalkstein
A fourth-year student and lacrosse player
Karli Brentlinger Earns VaSID All-State Honors
Longwood University / July 7
Ann Beattie
Edgar Allan Poe Chair of the Department of English and Creative Writing
Anne Beattie 'Walks with Men'
Seacoastonline.com / July 8
Dr. William Brady
An emergency physician at the Medical Center
Know symptoms and steps to avoid heat stroke, dehydration
USA Today / July 7
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
BizDeansTalk - July 8
Darden Dean Robert F. Bruner's - "4th of July 2010: Independence From and To"
Ed Freeman
A Darden professor
Is Overpaying Pro Jocks a Good Idea
Squawk on the Street /CNBC / July 7
Kathleen Fuchs
An associate professor of clin...
The McCormick observatory has seen its fair share of weather highs and lows this year. The employees at the observatory spent much of the winter measuring record snow fall, and now they are measuring record heat. With four days already reaching at least 100 degrees at the observatory, the employees there think it's pretty exciting.
A month ago, the University of Virginia conducted an “energy reduction” drill designed to reduce electric loads on its power grid in case of a declaration of an “energy emergency.” Today, the drill became reality.
The state medical examiner's office says University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love was killed by blunt force injury to the head. Her death has been officially ruled a homicide.
William H. Lucy has examined America’s foreclosure epidemic in enormous detail and has arrived at this conclusion: Decades-old patterns of suburban growth and urban decline are now being reversed. “The years leading up to the 2008-2009 crises may be seen in retrospect as the last hurrah of the exurban extreme of the American dream,” says Lucy, a professor of urban and environmental planning at the University of Virginia. Increasingly, people with choices and financial resources want to live in cities.
The state medical examiner's office says a University of Virginia women's lacrosse player was killed by blunt force injury to her head.
Making sure your power stays on when the temperatures soar means cutting back on non-essential energy use. At the University of Virginia Wednesday it meant a grounds-wide effort to cut back. The university's energy and utilities department is leading the effort; it says it is working and it has the numbers to prove it.
Jeffrey Hopkins
Emeritus professor of religious studies who served as the Dalai Lama's translator from 1979 to 1989
A Glimpse into the Culture of a Faraway Land
Clarksville Online (Tenn.) / July 5
John Nemec
A religious studies professor who teaches about Hinduism
Hindu groups criticize Crozet statue maker
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 7
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
The Big Question: Should the RNC chairman stay or go?
The Hill (blog) / July 7
Peter A. Soderbergh
Parapsychology researcher, former professor of education and as...
Jackie Bradford came up through the ranks of NBC News and NBC's parent General Electric. She has been named the president and general manager of WRC, the NBC-owned station in Washington.
Bronislawa Pesarczyk Holden or "B" as her friends and family call her, accepted the Boston Post Cane and celebrated her 105th birthday at Our Town Pizza in Peterborough on Friday. ...It is a New England tradition to give the cane to the oldest living resident in the town. Along with that accomplishment, she has also lived in Peterborough for 97 years. She moved back to Peterborough when she married Peterborough native William Holden. World War II soon followed and they both did their part. William joined the Navy and “B,” after attending the University of Virginia to stud...
... Nearly 200 years ago, in 1819, these concerns prompted Thomas Jefferson to found the University of Virginia as a public institution. He believed that private institutions could be too influenced by dogma and the self-interests of benefactors. Public support of universities, he claimed, would bring the kind of widespread, broad-based citizen education necessary for free people to govern themselves. "A public institution," he wrote...
... Twenty top-priority schools have been selected for leadership training by staffers at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and Curry School of Education.
Part of Thomas Jefferson's original Academical Village at the University of Virginia is getting a makeover this summer. The roof over the lawn rooms between pavilions seven and nine is being redone.
Barricades no longer block the entrances to some of the Valley's rest areas, but there's still a lot of attention being paid to the issue of funding them. ...A council with ties to VDOT and the University of Virginia is also researching unique funding options that aren't being used. The group is looking at how ideas to save would mesh with state and federal laws related to the interstates.
... Still, the nebulosity, the stars, Sher 25 — altogether, this is an amazing object, and a magnificent picture. We may even have an early entry for my annual Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2010. Oh — this image was taken by my old grad advisor, Bob O’Connell [U.Va. astronomy professor]...