Three local companies rooted in research conducted at the University of Virginia have been named by a national organization as among the country’s top university-related businesses created based on federally funded research. The Science Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of 50 public and private research universities, featured Adenosine, ContraVac Inc. and Directed Vapor Technologies in an article describing ways in which federal funds lead to innovation and jobs. ...
... The Texas flood “is a potential analogue for what we see on Mars,” says Alan D. Howard, a geomorphologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville who has studied the geology of Mars. The majority of bedrock on the Red Planet ... is basalt deposited by lava flows ... “It doesn’t take millions of years to create an impressive channel,” Howard notes. “Flowing liquid can do a lot of work in a short period of time.”
... While the Norris' have not come up with a name yet, they already have plans for her. They have season tickets for the University of Virginia and hope she will be a Cavaliers fan. ...
The coolest project approved, in my opinion: $35,000 for a bike-sharing program at the University of Virginia, called "Ubikes."
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership hosts national and local stars at its annual conference Tuesday and Wednesday at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. ...
On a quest to find a new project for the University of Virginia School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, clinic director and law professor Deena Hurwitz headed to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in early May with a delegation of lawyers to research gender-based violence. ...
On Saturday, Alicia Garza was one of a dozen Albemarle High School juniors to attend the first Jamie Escalante Leadership Camp at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. For many, including the bubbly 16-year-old, it was the first time anyone from their family had stepped foot inside a college classroom. ...“It gives the local high school students from working-class backgrounds a national peer network, which will initiate them into conversations about college that they may never hear at their home,” said Paul Harper, director of Darden&...
... In fact, children most likely to spend a lot of time on social media sites are not the least well-adjusted but the healthiest psychologically, suggests an early, but accumulating, body of research. ... Adolescents are largely using social networking sites to keep in touch with friends they already know, not to converse with strangers, says the author of that research, University of Virginia psychologist Amori Yee Mikami.
Thanks to new technology from the University of Virginia, men will have a more accurate and affordable way to test their sperm count from the comfort and privacy of their own homes. ... This test, dubbed SpermCheck Fertility, received approval from the Food and Drug Administration in May and will be available online in July, and in pharmacies later in the year. "One of the impediments to male fertility testing is that men are reluctant to go to the doctor or to deal with the whole question of their fertility," says John Herr, inventor of the test and professor of cell biology at the ...
Over the years, Timothy Salthouse has tested more than 8,000 people in his lab at the University of Virginia, assessing their memories, problem-solving skills, and other mental functions to see how the brain fares with age. The results have been predictably dismal: after age 25 or so, it’s pretty much all downhill. ... But something bothered Salthouse about the results ...
Law alumnus Stephen W. Haynie, a supervisory assistant U.S. attorney in the Norfolk office, will coordinate the new "defense procurement fraud initiative" for Hampton Roads.
By Billie-Jo Grant, a Curry doctoral student
Robert Emery
Psychology professor
Op-ed: Divorce, No-Fault Style
New York Times (Op-Ed by Stephanie Coontz) / June 16
Paul Freedman
Politics professor
Gulf oil leak video could haunt Obama
Associated Press / June 18
Ed Freeman
Darden professor
Trust Across America
Voice America (radio) / June 16
Amalia R. Miller
Economics professor
Pay Gap Trap / Women do earn less than men. But how much less? And why?
BBC Radio 4's More or Less / June 18
Robert O'Connor
Professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine
ER visits for pain reliever abuse up 111% in 4 years
USA Today / June 17
"The U.S. is where the MBA was invented and, to some extent to establish a footprint in this market, is an additional means of legitimizing a school's brand and stature globally," says Darden School Dean Robert Bruner, who also chairs the Globalization of Management Education Task Force of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, one of the leading business school accreditation agencies. ...
By W. Bradford Wilcox and David Lapp
... Of the recession's job losses, 75 percent have been among men -- the majority among working-class men. Some economists now call it the "mancession." ... What's the solution? One of the biggest things we could do is to create a culture that affirms the great worth of fatherhood. ... While it's easy for working-class men to slip under the radar screen, the integrity of families and communities all across America depends on us taking note of their declining fortunes.
... This Fifth Avenue duplex was once home to Mrs. Henry J. Taylor, an artist who also served on the advisory board of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. ... A portion of the sale [of the duplex] will go to the University of Virginia ...
U.Va. professor Richard Bonnie was among nine legal experts asked by NYT's editors if there is an alternative to social host laws. Bonnie, who chaired a study on underage drinking for the National Academy of Sciences, “Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility,” said: "There is very little research on the effectiveness of social host laws, and what evidence exists is conflicting."
By W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project at U.Va.
...A new study paints a troubling portrait of children conceived by single mothers who chose insemination. Young adults with maverick moms and donor dads report a sense of confusion, loss and distress about their origins and identity, and about their inability to relate to their biological father and to his kin.
... John Casteen, the 20-year president of U-Va., is ... a passionate supporter of community college transfers. He began working toward increasing community college transfer enrollment in the 1970s, when he was dean of admissions at U-Va. He has been a leading voice in opening up the transfer process in Virginia, helping to create a national model of access. ... he leaves U-Va. this summer to serve on the governing board of the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education, a group that raises scholarship funds. (Q&A with Casteen about the history and future of community college transfer...
Jeff Allen
Alumnus
60 artists will create for 60 minutes at Everson Museum of Art fundraiser
The Post-Standard / Syracuse.com / June 17
Mike Pettine Jr.
Alumnus
Father's Day: Mike Pettine Sr. and Jr.
Philadelphia Daily News / June 17
Chris and Brogann Sanderson
Alumni
Pennington couple Chris and Brogann Sanderson continue to fight against the odds
Pennington Post / June 1