"It creates a greater awareness for a problem that has been around for a while yet still remains an issue as we increasingly move to the Internet for everything -- online banking, online health initiatives and medical information," said lead author Ahmed Abbasi, a [University of Arizona] alumnus and professor of information technology at the University of Virginia.
Charlottesville neighborhoods have grown and the population has become more diverse in the past decade, according to a report by demographers at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Growing housing costs appear to be driving Charlottesville’s black population out of the city’s historically black neighborhoods, according to a new analysis of census data by researchers at the University of Virginia.
A coalition of 28 American universities [including the University of Virginia] is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks — with Internet service several hundred times faster than what is now commercially available — in the communities surrounding the participating colleges
Benjamin Ray, the director of the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive at the University of Virginia, said visualizing data helps you to analyze it. “The eye is a very good sorter of patterns,” he said.
William Faulkner will be forever linked to Mississippi, but he was also the first writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, arriving on that campus in 1957. … Very Short List today points to a trove of recordings from that period.
Features alumni Jim (College, economics) and P.J. (Engineering) Jonas and their family business, Goat Milk Stuff, in Indiana.
“It is a terrific honor to be elected chairman of the Crime Commission,” Bell [College 1988, Law 1995] said. “In past years, the Crime Commission has studied and ultimately endorsed crucial public safety bills, including the protective order reforms that became law on July 1st."
In Monday's opening round of the Connecticut Open, David Pastore, a rising second-year in the College and member of the men's golf team, fashioned four birdies, one eagle and one bogey into a 5-under-par 66 and a two-stroke lead.
Dr. Steven DeKosky
Dean of the School of Medicine
Alzheimer's: Early detection, risk factors are crucial
CNN / July 25
Kyle Kondik
Media relations coordinator of the Center for Politics
Governor stumps for Senate candidate
Free Lance Star / July 26
Douglas Laycock
Law professor
Commentary: Never, Never, Never Give Up
Christian Post / July 25
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Can any debt ceiling plan get through Congress?
Christian Science Monitor, via Alaska Dispatch / July 25
A general of Egypt’s ruling council denied the military’s interest in holding power beyond the country’s transition, at a Washington DC conference organized by an American think tank on Monday. [The conference was moderated by Bill Quandt, Edward R Stettinius Jr. Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs.]
[F]or a smaller set of Washington journalists, being featured on Drudge is a much more ho-hum occurrence. Call them the “last namers.” These writers’ work appears so frequently on the site that their surnames regularly make it into Drudge’s headlines. (The “last namers” of the past year include University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato.)
Allergies come in many forms... Hayfever and other reactions to pollen of course. Plus allergic response to food, medicine, pets... even insects. Guests: Dr. Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills, professor of medicine, allergy and clinical immunology, and head of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and Dr. Elizabeth "Libby" Kelly, research faculty member.
For her exhibit, “Contain,” currently on view in the Dean’s Gallery at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, artist K. Woods puts a new twist—literally and figuratively—on the disposable plastic grocery sack.
To avoid economic collapse, [Alexander] Hamilton proposed a series of financial reforms, including “assumption,” or having the federal government assume the states’ debts and commit to paying their full value. A national debt, he argued, was “the price of liberty” — a free nation was not free to walk away from its financial obligations. … The issue produced what Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson called “the most bitter & angry contests ever known in Congress.”
Microsoft researchers Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Sean James and Christian Belady, working with Jiakang Lu and Kamin Whitehouse at the University of Virginia, explain that the exhaust from a typical computer server is not hot enough to use for electricity generation. But servers’ exhaust typically runs between 104 and 122 degrees F, Gizmag points out, which is enough to heat up a home.
Scientific American spoke with Bankole Johnson, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Virginia (U.V.A.) School of Medicine. He is also the editor of the new text "Addiction Medicine," and has worked on the development of new pharmacological approaches to treating addiction.
The University of Virginia, like most public universities, maintains an open campus, meaning members of the public can come and go as they please. However, current university policy states that no person other than a law enforcement officer may possess or store a firearm or other weapon on campus. … [U]nder such a policy, the only people who would be prevented from possessing weapons are those with no intention of committing crimes in the first place. The effect is to create "defense-free" zones where criminals are free to roam with virtual impunity.
Among the leading institutions across the world teaching Sufi literature include the Department of Religious Studies at University of North Carolina, Persian Sufi Studies at George Washington University, Columbia University, Yale Department of Religious Studies, McGill University, University of California at Santa Barbra, University of Georgia, Carolina-Duke-Emory Institute, University of Texas at Austin and University of Virginia; just to name a few.
The parents of Momina Cheema [Law 2013], a 25-year-old Pakistani student who died in a road accident last month, announced establishment of a scholarship at the University of Virginia School of Law, her alma mater, to honour the memory of their daughter.