Richard Galyean, 54, came to work at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise in 2002, teaching music appreciation, music theory and serving as the band director. Today, thanks to his efforts, students can major in music.
Dr. Lloyd J. Kellam III has deep roots on the Shore through his family, lifelong friends, medical mentors and colleagues. He began his medical practice in 1987, and for the past 20 years has been the only cardiologist on the Eastern Shore. … Kellam received his medical degree from the University of Virginia …
Austinite Chase Heard and his college friends Andy Stepanian and Mason Brent have played in alternative country band Wrinkle Neck Mules for a more than a decade. They have stories of playing fraternity parties at the University of Virginia, where they met in the late 1990s. And then they have road stories from the time they toured Europe.… Last holiday season, they began a new venture together: starting a small Austin-based fashion label, Howler Bros. (www.howlerbros.com), of men's and women's selections inspired by surfing and fly-fishing.
Dr. Sheila Crowe
Professor of gastroenterology
Confirm Celiac Diagnosis by Biopsy Before Advising Gluten-Free Diet
Internal Medicine News / May 4
Bob Gibson
Director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
Corruption charges rare in Virginia
The Daily Press (Newport News / May 4
Mark Miller
Professor of orthopedic surgery
Joe Montana Suffers Joint Pain after All-Star NFL Career
ABC News / May 4
John Norton Moore and Robert F. Turner
Law School's Center for National Security Law
Was killing bin Laden legal?
Salon / May 4
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth professor of politics and ...
As a longtime critic of standardized testing, Alfie Kohn knows the score in his ideological battle with those who favor the exams as a way to hold students and teachers accountable. … Daniel Willingham, a University of Virginia professor who has been critical of Kohn in the past, said student assessment is “essential.’’ Willingham is the author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?’’
Scientists from Emory University and the Departments of Pharmacology and Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, examined daily diaries from parents who recorded sleep onset and awakening for 23 infants.... The results, in this month's issue of the journal Sleep, says growth spurts in a babies length followed increased sleeping and nap time and usually occurred within two days of the increased sleep.
While researchers have recognized that most symptoms of depression impede cognitive functioning, scholars such as Paul Andrews of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and Andy Thomson of the University of Virginia have proposed that depression may promote analytical reasoning and persistence -- that is, qualities useful in complex tasks.
The new national strategy for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay is better than the one used over the past 30 years, but is lacking in science, accounting and fairness, a study by the National Academy of Sciences concludes. … [The study was] prepared by nine scientists from across the country, including one from the University of Virginia.
One year after the tragic death of fourth-year student and lacrosse team member Yeardley Love -- allegedly at the hands of former boyfriend and fellow lacrosse player George Huguely -- the UVa community has tried to learn from her senseless passing, while also encouraging students to explore the deeper and sometimes difficult truths of one another.
A gift from Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evelyn McGee Colbert, will go to help underwrite the studies of fine-arts students at the University of Virginia, the university announced Wednesday.
Evelyn Colbert is a 1985 UVa graduate. Stephen Colbert is the facetiously right-wing host of a late-night talk show on Comedy Central.
Access to fresh, healthy food is an important thing for any community. A group of University of Virginia students is discussing just how Charlottesville stacks up when it comes to food accessibility.
The UVA Coulter Translational Research partnership—funded by a $10 million grant from Coulter, and matched by $10 million from UVA's endowments—makes the University "a global destination for biomedical innovation," says Vice President for Research Thomas Skalak
A Stephen Colbert Scholarship? Well, sort of. The University of Virginia recently received a donation from the famous comedian and his wife, Evelyn McGee Colbert, who graduated from the college in 1985. The College of Arts & Sciences is using the money to set up an Arts Scholars program for students studying studio art, dance, drama or music.
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology
The Obama Doctrine: Brilliance or Incompetency?
Oregon Catalyst / May 4
Robert Pianta
Curry School of Education
The Republican Budget War on Children
Bloomberg Business Week / May 3
Larry Sabato
Director of Center for Politics
Bin Laden looms over GOP's first presidential primary debate
The Hill / May 4
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O, yeah! You bet Bam is beaming
New York Post / May 4
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In wake of bin Laden death, Obama basks in glow
France 24 International News / May 4
Scott Strayer
Family Medicine Health Systems
Addiction Wars: Dangerous and Legal
ABC News 7 Denver / May 4
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The Beta Bridge near the university's fraternities and sororities has been painted in Love's memory.
Justin S. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues evaluated the effect of age on the incidence of complications and outcomes related to surgery in patients with scoliosis.
To honor the anniversary of Love's death, Glamour magazine is launching Tell Somebody, a campaign to help raise awareness of the often unreported incidence of relationship abuse, a phenomenon that kills four women a day in the United States alone.
Love's death prompted change in the state's protective order law. It now applies to couples who are dating or not married. A person can now get an order through general district court, instead of juvenile domestic relations court and the individual does not have to have a criminal warrant.