A recent study shows that acidity in Nelson and Amherst counties’ mountain streams has decreased since 2000 and the streams are now considered sustainable for brook trout. "This is very good news for Nelson County," said Rick Webb, a research scientist in the department of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and the project coordinator. The Virginia Trout Stream Sensitivity Study showed that the number of streams that are considered suitable for brook trout to breed and live in increased from 2000.
A longstanding brown cloud of pollution over the Indian Ocean is causing cyclones to intensify in that region, according to a new study published this month in the journal Nature and involving researchers from multiple institutions, including the University of Virginia.
Virginia, thanks to stingy defense and an offensive explosion by Mike Scott, Joe Harris and Malcolm Brogdon in the second half, shocked Michigan, 70-58, in front of a season-high crowd of 10,564 at John Paul Jones Arena.
The bicyclist involved in a head-on collision with a Jeep Nov. 14 has been discharged from ICU, where he was previously in critical condition, according to Charlottesville police Lt. Ronnie Roberts. The 20-year-old University of Virginia student suffered "orthopedic injuries as well as head trauma," Roberts said.
Some UVA law students believe women should be allowed to serve in ground combat roles. Four students and their professor are forming the grounds for a lawsuit to allow women to engage in direct ground warfare.
Area residents will attend a December forum that will focus on race relations. University of Virginia student Hunter Link is a member of "U-CARE," which stands for University Community Action for Racial Equality. Link says the group has researched what it calls the racial realities in Charlottesville.
The former Buddy's Restaurant near Emmet Street and University Avenue is being demolished. During the 1960s, many people protested in the restaurant, angry that the owner did not serve African-Americans. Recently, the restaurant has been used for the University of Virginia's Institute for Environmental Negotiation.
As a volunteer in rural Peru, University of Virginia student Joseph Linzon saw a problem. Residents needed electricity for cell phones, laptops and iPods, but they didn't have a ready source of power. As he traveled through remote villages on foot, the idea came to him: "As you walk you produce energy – kinetic energy, and I was thinking, 'How can I convert this kinetic energy, that's created with the swinging of a foot and charge a battery?' And that's what an inductive coil mechanism does. It's similar to a shake to charge flashlight." Back in Virginia, Linzon put a small bat...
On the heels of a regular season in which he helped transform a bottom-dwelling Virginia football program into a conference title contender, Mike London was named the ACC’s coach of the year Tuesday.
It is often said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. For a team of University of Virginia students and their Tibetan and Mongolian partners, discarded Soviet-era vodka bottles have become the beginnings of a greenhouse in central Asia.
A Hopi doll with painted headdress springs to life, spinning under my finger tips on a new iPad app from the University of Virginia Art Museum. The delightful app presents 19 different objects in 3D, to spin and zoom, providing an immediacy that rivals seeing an object in real life. In fact, it’s better in many ways than peering at an object through a protective case because the objects can be spun through a full 360°, view under bright lighting, at high resolution.
Henry Dick Sayer
1962 graduate of the School of architecture and former Cavalier baseball player
Henry Dick Sayer III, architect, civic leader
Philadelphia Inquirer / Nov. 29
Asher Dan Grunis
Earned a graduate degree from the School of Law
Who is Supreme Court Justice Asher Dan Grunis?
Jerusalem Post / Nov. 29
Travis McDonald
Received master's degree in architectural history, and is director of architectural restoration at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Lynchburg man recognized for guiding restoration of Poplar Forest
Lynchburg News & Advance / Nov. 28
Natalie Randolph
Former U.Va. track athlete who became the only female high school football coach in the country
Natalie Randolph has won over Coolidge High’s players by taking them to Turkey Bowl and focu...
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Opinion: The moral climate
National Post (Canada) / Nov. 29
James Ryan
Law professor
Summary Judgments: Brookings takes aim at the conservative legal movement and liberal jurisprudence
Thomson Reuters / Nov. 29
Robert C. Pianta
Dean of the Curry School of Education and director of U.Va.'s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning
Teaching Children Well: New Evidence-Based Approaches to Teacher Professional Development and Training
Center for American Progress / Nov. 29
James Madison University's board of visitors tapped the senior vice president of Rutgers University on Monday to become the school's sixth president, ending an 11-month search. Jonathan Alger was named to JMU's top post on Monday. He will replace JMU President Linwood Rose, who is retiring in June. Rose, who came to JMU as assistant director of residence halls in 1975, has been president since 1998.
A new procedure, called Transcatheter Aortic Valve replacement, gives patients wiith a heart defect called aortic stenosis hope for a new life. The UVa Medical Center is the only facility that offers the procedure in the state.
Patients with a low body mass index are at the highest risk of death following general or vascular surgery, according to an Archives of Surgery study. 
Individuals with a BMI less than 23.1 are twice as likely to die than patients with a BMI of 35.3 or higher, and had a 40 percent higher risk of death than patients with a BMI between 26.3 and 29.6, say researchers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
What happens to the brain as we age? That was the question Timothy A. Salthouse, Brown-Forman professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, investigated in a new study appearing in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. His findings advance psychologists' understanding of the complexities of the aging brain.