... Furthermore, about 11,751 new temporary jobs are expected during five years if Virginia and the federal government invest $804 million in farm runoff-control projects like planting trees and building fences along streams, according to a University of Virginia report.
In the wake of last summer’s exchange visit by two delegations of Afghan women, a group from Charlottesville recently traveled to Kabul. “It was definitely eye-opening,” said Daman Irby, director of operations at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “We learned a lot,” he said of the group, which returned home Dec. 17. ... The group spent about a week in Kabul, said Meg Heubeck, director of instruction at the Center for Politics.
Vietnamese-American professor of astronomy Trinh Xuan Thuan has just concluded a three-week lecture tour nationwide on the launch of the Vietnamese edition of his book The Dictionary of the Lover of the Sky and Stars. Le Quynh Anh spoke to the scientist, who won UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 2009, during his visit to Ha Noi.
By Dr. John B. Hanks, a surgeon who treats thyroid and adrenal issues at the U.Va. Health System.
... At the University of Virginia Health System, we take a multidisciplinary approach to treating thyroid cancer and other thyroid issues. Our physicians have significant experience and expertise in thyroid cases, and we work collaboratively to determine the best course of treatment for each patient.
By J. McGrath Cohoon, an associate professor in the department of Science, Technology and SocietyEspecially at a time when unemployment is high and our economy is weak, we cannot afford to lose anyone with the technical skills to create a sustainable future, improve health, build our cyber and physical infrastructure, and enhance personal and societal security.A diverse set of minds needs to tackle those problems. But we are largely missing out on women's intelligence, creativity and values in solving the problems we all face.Why is this so?Evidence continues to mount that capable women in...
Psychology professor Jonathan Haidt explains what the protest signs at Zuccotti Park say about the moral foundations of the Occupy Wall Street protestors.
... Schools have also begun issuing a Peer Support Survey, developed by the UVa Curry School of Education’s Youth Violence Project, to identify victims of bullying. The anonymous survey asks students to list peers they have seen victimized, Cornell said. School counselors then schedule follow-up meetings with children who receive multiple nominations.
Psychology professor Bethany Teachman created a new website that will help people learn more about their unconscious views on mental illness and will provide more data for study.
Since its founding in 2008, the RideForward program has given students the opportunity to convert conventional gasoline-powered cars into vehicles that run on electricity alone.
U.Va.'s Parking and Transportation has managed to reduce reliance on employee permit parking fees by creating a variety of new revenue streams, including selling parking spaces for special events like football games and concerts, installing additional parking meters on campus, offering a new occasional parker permit, leasing parking lot spaces when underutilized during holiday and summer breaks, and chartering buses.
Raymond C. Bice Jr., a longtime University of Virginia administrator and beloved psychology professor, died Thursday evening at the age of 93. Those who knew him described him as a dedicated educator and problem solver who was devoted to UVa, his family and friends.
Gregory Fairchild
Darden School of Business associate professor
Should an Employer Allow an Employee to Work on a Side Business?
‎Entrepreneur / Dec. 24
Jonathan Haidt
psychology professor
The Cognitive Primary
‎American Thinker / Dec. 26
James Davison Hunter
Sociology professor, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and author of "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World."
Commentary: At the crossroads of Christianity and journalism
‎Richmond Times Dispatch / Dec. 25
Kyle Kondik
Po...
Across the nation, a historic collapse in state funding for higher education threatens to diminish the stature of premier public universities and erode their mission as engines of upward social mobility. At the University of Virginia, state support has dwindled in two decades from 26 percent of the operating budget to 7 percent.
Virginia football coach Mike London will have one of his linemen play Santa Claus next week when bowl gifts are distributed in Atlanta. This week, the role is his. On Friday, for the second day in a row, the coach announced a substantial gift to the school, this one a $225,000 pledge towards the construction of an indoor practice facility.
You’ve probably never heard of Pattie Sellers. But Warren Buffett has. And so have Sheryl Sandberg, Oprah Winfrey and Indra Nooyi. It’s an enviable list, really. They’re among the many who’ve joined Sellers at the Most Powerful Women summit. ...Sellers is the brains behind Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women rankings and the heart behind this annual summit. ...Sellers arrived at Fortune in 1984, two years after graduating from the University of Virginia.
David B. Isbell, 82, a partner in the Washington law firm Covington & Burling, former president of the D.C. Bar Association and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia Law School for almost 50 years, died Dec. 7 at Montgomery Hospice in Rockville. ...Beginning in 1962, Mr. Isbell taught a seminar on civil liberties at the University of Virginia Law School. He described it to Virginia Law magazine as an examination of the tensions that sometimes arise between individual rights and other interests, both public and private. At his retirement in 2010, he was the law school’s ...
WHY YOU KNOW HER: Crute's first year at the University of Virginia turned tragic when she was paralyzed in a diving accident while on a spring-break trip to build latrines in Panama.
WHAT'S NEW: The Matoaca High School graduate has spent the past nine months trying to come to terms with her injury and deal not just with the changes to her body — she's paralyzed from the chest down — but with physical complications, such as debilitating nausea and anxiety that makes sleeping difficult. But Crute, 19, of Chester says she is becoming more comfortable in her new life. For starters, sh...
WHY YOU KNOW HER: An era ended at the University of Virginia when Debbie Ryan relinquished her role as women's basketball coach after 34 seasons and 736 victories. Ryan, widely regarded as one of her sport's more significant pioneers, led Virginia to three Final Fours and 28 NCAA tournament appearances. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008.
‎By Cammy Brothers, associate professor of architecture
Inventor, mechanical engineer, architect, hydrologist, anatomist of the body and brain—Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) could do all these things. But how did he make his daily bread? Fascination with his proto-scientific explorations have made his main professional endeavor of painting seem like a hobby. The exhibition now on view at the National Gallery, "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan," curated by Luke Syson, returns the focus to Leonardo's painting.