The University of Virginia Alumni Association announced the recipients of the seventh annual Jefferson Trust grants. The trust awarded 13 grants totaling $523,653.
Features video from the Miller Center of author and environmental historian Adam Rome of the University of Delaware talking about the origins of Earth Day in a 2009 podcast.
What [scientists] don’t know is how changes in human behavior and climate will impact the bay.
The University of Virginia came up with a computer simulation to answer those questions – but there are so many possible scenarios that it would take decades for the university to crunch all the numbers. Virginia scientists and engineers would like to forecast the environmental and economic effects of possible changes to agriculture, commerce and industry over the next twenty years for the nation’s largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay, and IBM says it’s willing to help.
A technology at the University of Virginia that’s getting worldwide attention has let doctors there ease a nonfatal but bothersome disease for more than a dozen people. The technology is focused ultrasound. The disease is essential tremor.
In her new book, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter — And How to Make the Most of Them Now, University of Virginia clinical psychologist Meg Jay argues that those first years of adulthood are the most important time in a young person's life.
The University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs today will introduce a report detailing practical ways to invest in transportation infrastructure. Miller Center Director and former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles and former U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta will present the report in Washington at 3 p.m. at the Rayburn House office building.
John Herbert "Tug" Coker III
2000 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, playing Basketball Hall-of-Famer Larry Bird in "Magic/Bird" on Broadway
Va.’s Tug Coker finally gets to wear a Celtics uniform — in ‘Magic/Bird’ on Broadway
Washington Post / April 20
Maurice Jones
Law School graduate
Maurice Jones Sworn In As HUD's Deputy Secretary
RealEstateRama / April 19
Alan Shephard
Received his Ph.D. in English from U.Va.' has been selected as president and vice chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal
Candidate for Concordia presidency says learning French is priority
Montreal Gazett...
Qian Cai
Director of the Demographics and Workforce Group at U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
As Asians Flock to Northern Virginia, Laws and Palates Collide
New York Times / April 19
Dewey Cornell
Youth violence researcher, clinical psychologist and professor in the Curry School of Education
Roundtable: Lessons Learned From Virginia Tech
Security InfoWatch / April 19
E.D. Hirsch
Professor emeritus of education and humanities
Talking pineapple question on state exam stumps ... everyone!
New York Daily News / April 19
Kyle Kondik
Analyst at U.Va.'s Center for Politics
Romne...
Residents of the Martha Jefferson neighborhood breathed a sigh of relief when the CFA Institute announced its decision to move into the site of the former hospital last year. Now, UVA is moving toward opening a Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) clinic in the building, bringing more diversity to the site and a new program to Charlottesville.
It's surgery without a knife, and a clinical trial at the University of Virginia Medical Center has found that it could be a new way of stopping tremors in patients with Parkinson's Disease.
IBM announced that its World Community Grid has partnered with the University of Virginia to launch the Computing for Sustainable Water Project. The Computing for Sustainable Water Project is an effort to simulate and forecast the environmental and economic effects of agricultural, commercial and industrial decisions over the next 20 years in and around the Chesapeake Bay, America's largest estuary. The World Community Grid is a kind of public supercomputer created and funded by IBM, who are providing the necessary computational power free of charge.
The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra will be concluding its concert season this weekend on a high note – with some low notes. The tuba will trade the brass section for the spotlight when principal tuba player Seth Cook serves as soloist for Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Concerto in F minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra.”
Dozens of job seekers showed up to the Charlottesville officer of the Virginia Workforce Center Thursday for an invitation-only job fair. U.Va. was one of the employers conducting interviews.
Students from the University of Virginia met Thursday evening at the Pavilion for a rally. It was followed by a march that ended with a vigil at the McIntire Amphitheater for the annual "Take Back the Night "program, aimed to help end violence against men and women on college campuses.
Students from the University of Virginia helped celebrate Earth Week by holding an Eco Fair on grounds. Students who attended the fair were able to learn about sustainability initiatives.
Thursday U.S. Senator Mark Warner remotely addressed the University of Virginia's fourth annual Venture Summit where he talked about his personal achievements in business and his efforts on Capitol Hill to turn ideas into businesses more efficiently.
Scientists know that an excess of nitrogen and phosphorous is damaging the Chesapeake Bay – and they know it’s coming from sewage treatment plants, farms and urban runoff. What they don’t know is how changes in human behavior and climate will impact the bay. The University of Virginia came up with a computer simulation to answer those questions – but there are so many possible scenarios that it would take decades for the university to crunch all the numbers.
Students at the University of Virginia found a creative and less expensive way to take aerial pictures. Faculty members with the Scholars' Lab hoisted the balloon outside of the Charles L. Brown Science and Engineering Library Thursday evening.
The University of Virginia launched its fourth Venture Summit on Thursday inside Old Cabell Hall on Central Grounds in an effort to connect faculty and students with venture capitalists and investment managers from around the country.