As the University of Virginia moves services from the closing Kluge Children’s Rehabilitation Center to other parts of its medical center, it will stop providing care for certain pediatric patients ... The in-patient unit at Kluge will be closing sometime in early September, [Dr. James] Nataro said, in a move that’s designed to coincide with the expected opening of new beds in the North Wing of the Medical Center. ... Care for children 15 and older will head to the UVa-HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital at Fontaine Research Park, Nataro said. In the last year, there have been about 50 rehabi...
State funding will support efforts to commercialize research discoveries by three biotechnology firms affiliated with the University of Virginia, along with a UVa professor, the school announced this week. UVa engineering professor Eric Loth will receive $150,000 through the CIT's matching funds program to support the development of a engineering coating to protect structural building materials from the elements.
"What Kind of Love" is a world premiere musical at Creative Cauldron in Falls Church that explores the shadows of the possible relationship between Thomas Jefferson — a widower and third president of the United States — and Sally Hemings — an enslaved woman. In developing the work, Smithson and Thiessen were inspired when they viewed original documents, including some with Jefferson's musical annotations, at the Jefferson library at the University of Virginia.
This fall, the University of Virginia will offer a course called Documenting UVa’s Future: Oral History of the Ouster and Reinstatement, which will focus on recounting the summer’s controversy about the attempted removal of President Teresa A. Sullivan, according to a UVa news release. Students will interview members of the university community for a history project and explore policy issues in higher education. "It\'s a teachable moment, as people keep saying, and I think it\'s a teachable moment about higher education policy issues, about the relationship between democracy and education, an...
The AWFI (American Wood Finishing Institute) team has just returned to Riverstone from Haiti after assisting with the assembly and completion of the "Breathe House" in St. Marc, Haiti. The University Of Virginia School Of Architecture partnered with AWFI to engineer a surface coating and application process for the "Breathe House."
Central Virginia and the University of Virginia will be well represented in the 2012 London Olympic Games, which begin Friday. Athletes competing for the gold include: UVa field hockey players Paige Selenski and Michelle Vittese and UVa swimmer Lauren Perdue. The list also includes numerous alumni.
In a series of academic studies on cognitive aging, Timothy Salthouse, director of the University of Virginia Cognitive Aging Laboratory, tests mental functioning by asking respondents to perform tasks such as naming a synonym to a random word, detecting patterns or recalling a list of words. Coming up with a synonym is an example of a task that requires crystallized intelligence, or the ability to process a stimulus (the word) and relate it to an item in memory (the synonym). Tasks requiring processing and some knowledge or experience tend to peak in the late 50s. The other tasks require spe...
Robert Baird Cabell
A 1948 graduate of the Law School
Skip Burzumato
Assistant director of the National Marriage Project
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Mark Edmundson
A professor of English and author of "Why Read"
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James Davison Hunter
A professor of religion, culture and social theory
Trust-busting
Huffington Post (blog) | July 25
Kyle Kondik
House editor for the Center for Politics
How Do We Make Elections More Competitive?
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Dr. Marcus Martin
V.P. and Chief Officer f...
Public universities and colleges in the United States continue to struggle with state funding cuts and a slowly recovering economy, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said on Wednesday, adding the sector has a mixed outlook. ... Facing big budget holes in the wake of economic recession, many states slashed spending, including funding for higher education. ... The average credit rating for the 146 public universities S&P rates is A-plus with a stable outlook, with only three achieving AAA ratings on their debt -- University of Virginia, University of Texas System and University of Michigan, the...
Three environmental groups have graded Charlottesville as one of Virginia's "greenest" cities. The James River Association, Potomac Conservancy and friends of the Rappahannock released a review of Virginia's county and municipal ordinances to assess the use of sustainable development practices. ...The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University and the Center for Watershed Protection assisted in the review and assessment.
The way Virginians voted in the 2008 Presidential election could be a precursor to things to come. During that election Virginia turned from a red state to a blue state. New research from the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says despite a red history of Republican support, Virginia's political future is impacted by a few key demographic changes.
Engineers at the University of Virginia are designing and building a bio-inspired robot that's based on stingrays and manta rays. Batoid rays "are wonderful examples of optimal engineering by nature," explains Hilary Bart-Smith, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Rays are graceful swimmers, and can conserve energy by gliding for long distances.
Mantabot has a plastic body and silicone fins modeled directly on the cow-nosed ray — a cousin of manta rays and stingrays in the "batoid" ray fish family. Smaller or larger versions of the robot could swim effortlessly through the oceans as they run U.S. military reconnaissance missions or conduct scientific surveys of the underwater world. "We are studying a creature to understand how it is able to swim so beautifully, and we are hoping to improve upon it," said Hilary Bart-Smith, a mechanical and aerospace engineer at the University of Virginia. "We are learning from nature, but we also are...
Two local educators have been chosen for awards from the University of Virginia Curry School of Education Foundation, according to a news release from the university. Robert Grimesey, superintendent of Orange County Public Schools, is set to receive the 2012 Outstanding Superintendent Award. Sharon Varney-Mahieu of Louisa County High School was selected to receive the 2012 Outstanding High School Teacher Award. The awards are presented annually to graduates of Curry. Both awardees were selected from a pool of national nominees. The awards are set to be presented at a dinner Oct. 25.
What makes a book a book? For Michael F. Suarez, director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, a collection of texts on an e-reader doesn’t qualify in the fullest sense.
Political analysts may be holding their breath this fall, but it\'s Virginia that\'s turning blue. So says an expert on demographic trends in the Commonwealth. Dustin Cable works at the Weldon Cooper Center, where social scientists study population trends in Virginia. He\'s especially interested in partisan politics and sees two things that suggest the Commonwealth may be turning into a blue state. "We\'re looking at growing diversity and growth in Northern Virginia."
Batoid rays, such as stingrays and manta rays, are among nature's most elegant swimmers. They are fast, highly maneuverable, graceful, energy-efficient, can cruise, bird-like, for long distances in the deep, open ocean, and rest on the sea bottom. U.Va. researchers are designing an "autonomous underwater vehicle" that someday may surpass what nature has provided as a model. The vehicle has potential commercial and military applications, and could be used for undersea exploration and scientific research.
The Building Tomorrow Academy of Gita, about an hour outside of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, is an amazing example of what can be accomplished when local communities and international organizations work together toward innovative solutions to educational challenges. ... In the 2007-2008 school year, undergraduate architecture and engineering students at the University of Virginia’s Architecture Studio reCOVER and its Engineering in Context Capstone Design Program designed Gita’s seven classrooms, its library, its latrines, its office space and its outdoor play and learning space (includin...
The current project on which Bill T. Jones has settled is intriguing, one that will unfold for local audiences beginning Wednesday evening at 8 on the stage of the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. "Story/Time," a project Jones developed during a U.Va. residency, has Jones seated at a table in the middle of the playing area reading stories. ... Jones happened upon Ted Coffey, an associate professor of music at the University of Virginia, during a panel discussion on the role of chance in the creative process. Impressed with Coffey's understanding of the mid-20th-century av...